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Intimate Looking in Sculpture

From Auguste Renoir to Niki de Saint Phalle
Wednesday
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 5:45pm

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Gülru Cakmak, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Gülru Cakmak, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Gülru Cakmak, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Gülru Çakmak, guest curator of A Very Long Engagement: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives, will discuss the fifteen pieces in the exhibition. The talk will provide an overview of different moments and modes in French, English, and American sculpture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and highlight the influences, conversations, and competitions among the artists and pieces showcased in the exhibition.

 

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Sir Albert Gilbert (British, 1854-1934), Offering to Hymen (detail), 1884-86
July 29, 2017 to May 27, 2018
A Very Long Engagement

Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives

Presenting more than a dozen statuettes from the Museum’s collection, this exhibition invites viewers to experience a century of European and American sculpture, dating from 1890 to 1990. The works have been selected and researched by Dr. Gülru Çakmak and her students in the seminar “Modernizing...

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