About the Program
What does "Classical art” mean in contemporary America? How do the classical aesthetics of public monuments or popular culture relate to the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome?
Join Dr. Verity Platt, Professor of Classics and Art History at Cornell University, as she examines the ways in which responses to classical art by contemporary artists and thinkers can inform us about the current debates around negotiating the values of the past, whether relating to white supremacy, idealized bodies, or monumentality. The talk will also consider how contemporary receptions of classicism can explore the vitality and playfulness of classical forms, now made more accessible to many through digital technologies such as 3-D scanning and printing.
About the Speaker
A prominent scholar in Greek and Roman art history and co-curator of Cornell University’s collection of plaster casts, Professor Verity Platt co-organized the Sculpture Shoppe at the Ithaca Mall project, which brought classical art and contemporary responses into an unexpected context to draw the public into conversations about the history, uncertainties, and instability of the “Western canon.” Her research spans ancient theories of the image, the history and theory of media, the historiography and reception of ancient art, and the environmental humanities. She earned her Ph.D. in classics from Oxford University, and is the author of an op-ed in Scientific American, "Why People Are Toppling Monuments to Racism," and the forthcoming publication, Epistemic Objects: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text.
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This program is offered through the annual Nancy S. & Peter O. Brown Guest Lectureship in the Art & Architecture of Ancient Civilizations.