CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH
31st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series
WHEN: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 9 AM–3 PM
WHERE:Paul Robeson Campus Center on the Newark campus of Rutgers University, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.
TICKETS: FREE
For further details call 973.353.3891.
The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience presents the 31st annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, one of New Jersey's oldest and most highly esteemed Black History Month events.
Speaker: Deborah Willis, Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging, New York University, and curator of the exhibition Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (see details below). Presented by the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience.
Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present
WHEN: February 2—April 28, 2011
WHERE: The Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark
Posing Beauty explores the ways in which African American beauty has been represented in the media in both historical and contemporary contexts. In three thematic sections, "Constructing a Pose," "Body and Images," and "Modeling Beauty and Beauty Contests." This exhibition examines contemporary understandings of beauty by framing the notion of aesthetics, race, class and gender within art, popular culture, and political contexts. Posing Beauty features approximately 100 works drawn from public and private collections and will be accompanied by a book by the curator of the exhibition, Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography and Imaging Department at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
- Constructing a Pose considers the interplay between the historical and the contemporary, between selfrepresentation and imposed representation, and the relationship between subject and photographer.
- Body and Images questions the ways in which our contemporary understanding of beauty has been constructed and framed through the body.
- Modeling Beauty and Beauty Contests invites a deeper reading of beauty, its impact on mass culture and individuals and how the display of beauty affects the ways in which we see and interpret the world and ourselves.
The exhibition has been organized by Curatorial Assistance, Inc. and is accompanied by a catalogue published by W.W. Norton & Company Inc.
Group Tours: Guided Viewing for Groups of ten or more must be arranged in advance. Call 973.596.6613 to reserve.
