The Department of Art History and Art will host the annual Olszewski Lecture in Art History Thursday, Nov. 21, at 5 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A.
Dana Leibsohn, the Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art History at Smith College, will present “Wax, Paper, Scissors: Loss and Recuperation in Colonial Latin America.”
It is one thing to search out colonial creations and the histories they can reveal; it’s another when those creations surface in ways that were neither predicted nor predictable. Wax, Paper, Scissors focuses on unexpected survivals from colonial Latin America—blocks of wax from colonial shipwrecks, Catholic prints, sculptures of Christ and Indigenous codices.