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Contact: Ann O’Brien, Olson Gallery
(815) 753-4521
February 21, 2005
Yale art professor to speak at NIU
on ‘The Maya Body’
DeKalb — What constitutes perfection in human appearance? What are the models for the ideal man and woman?
Yale University art professor Mary Miller will speak Wednesday, March 2, at Northern Illinois University on the nature of human representation among first-millennium Maya.
The lecture will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room 100 of the Visual Arts Building (Jack Arends Hall). For more information, call (815) 753-8366.
Miller, who is the Vincent Scully Professor of the Department of the History of Art and the Master of Saybrook College, will consider the relationship of pictorial representation and the development of narrative in Maya art of the period, particularly as it takes place on painted ceramic vessels and 8th century sculpture and monumental painting.
Particularly spectacular developments, such as the portraiture of Palenque and the elaborate mural paintings of Bonampak, also will be considered.
Miller most recently served as the guest curator for “The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya,” a highly acclaimed exhibition of Maya art that took place in 2004 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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