Mary Miller to Lecture on Pre-Columbian Art at NGABy STAN PARCHIN
April 5, 2010
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| Mary Miller. Photograph provided by National Gallery of Art. |
Mary Miller, dean of Yale College and Sterling Professor of History of Art, presents
Art and Representation in the Ancient New World, the 59th A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts series at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A world-renowned scholar of Maya art and civilization, Miller examines the evolution of the field of pre-Columbian art over the last four decades in five lectures:
April 18: The Shifting Now of the Pre-Columbian Past;
April 25: Seeing Time, Hearing Time, Placing Time;
May 2: The Body of Perfection, the Perfection of the Body;
May 9: Representation and Imitation; and
May 16: Envisioning a New World.
All presentations take place on Sundays at 2:00 P.M. in the NGA's East Building Auditorium. They are free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
Dr. Miller takes as her starting point the works of art themselves, questions inherent in them and the results of modern study and historiography. In this way, her series explains how the body of pre-Columbian art helps one to understand grand principles that transcend cultural boundaries.
Professor Mary Miller curated the special exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (2004-05). A Guggenheim Fellowship winner and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the author of The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (1986), The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art (with Linda Schele, 1986), The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion (with Karl Taube, 1993), Maya Art and Architecture (1999), Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (2004) and The Aztec Calendar Stone (with Khristaan D. Villela, 2010). Miller is completing her archaeological project to document and reconstruct the Maya wall paintings at Bonampak, Mexico.