Venue: Arts West, Arts West
Presenters: Professor David Hansen
This lecture takes an exploratory, speculative tour around physiognomies of politics and sensibility, class and race in Britain and Australia, from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
It considers the relationship between the coastal profile, the silhouette and the phrenology head; between the theodolite, the pointing machine and the craniometer; between the contour map, the cameo and the death mask.
It also ventures into the topology of portraiture, the geometries through which portraits and maps are presented: both quadrilateral frames and grids and oval or circular medallions.
By presenting materials which are functionally and materially diverse but which are clearly related in appearance and time and place of origin, this lecture will suggest that the public and popular cultures of the British imperium spread a wider and weirder net that is conventionally supposed.
Professor David Hansen has worked as a regional gallery director, a state museum curator and an art auction house researcher and specialist; in 2014 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at the Australian National University.
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7399-skin-and-bone-surface-and-sunstance-in-anglo-colonial-portraiture
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