Conversations on Art in Ireland Lecture Series
Conversations on Art in Ireland 2009
In March and April the School of Art History & Cultural Policy welcomed Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor Wolfgang Sonne, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Dortmund as part of the Conversations on Art in Ireland lecture series. This exciting lecture series brings leading international scholars to speak on Irish topics and works of art in Irish collections in the School’s undergraduate & postgraduate lecture modules.
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby who specializes in eighteenth- through early twentieth-century French art and visual and material culture particularly in relation to colonial politics, focussed on two paintings by eighteenth-century Irish artists in the National Gallery of Ireland. She discussed Charles Jervas’ portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu whose letters from Turkey are particularly celebrated and vivid observations of Eastern life, and in examining Thomas Hickey’s An Indian Lady and related works she questioned eighteenth-century colonial constructions of the Indian woman.
Wolfgang Sonne, author of Representing the State: Capital City Planning in the Early Twentieth Century an examination of the city planning and politics in Washington D.C., Berlin, Canberra and New Dehli , delivered two lectures exploring firstly the planning recommendations and designs for Dublin in the Abercrombie Report of 1922, and secondly more recent architectural and urban design plans for Dublin, in particular the work of Group 91 Architects, author of the Temple Bar architectural framework plan.
Conversations on Art in Ireland 2008
In April 2008 the School of Art History & Cultural Policy welcomed two visiting lecturers as part of the inaugural Conversation on Art in Ireland series. Darielle Mason, Stella Kramrisch Curator of South Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, delivered a pair of lectures on Rajput painting, drawing in particular on examples from the outstanding collection in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. The second guest lecturer was Arindam Dutta, Associate Professor of Architectural History at MIT, who spoke on on the Hindu iconography in Harry Clarke's stained-glass window, The Eve of St Agnes.1924, [Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane].
