American Art in a Global Context: Crossing the Seas
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Symposium: "American Art in a Global Context" Friday, September 29, 2006 Session II: Crossing the Seas Moderator: Michael Hatt, Yale Center for British Art Presenters: Kevin Muller, San Francisco Art Institute, "Queen Anne and the 'Four Indian Kings': A Transatlantic Dialogue" Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University, "Copley's Cargo" Margaretta M. Lovell, University of California, Berkeley, "Trophy Heads: The Public Use of Portrait Painting in the Late Eighteenth Century" This three-day symposium looked at American art in a global context—from circum-Atlantic migrations in the eighteenth century to European training and travel in the late nineteenth century; from the export of U.S. culture and media in the twentieth century to the impact of immigration and globalization on the nation's visual arts in the new millennium. For more information: http://www.americanart.si.edu/research/symposia/2006/.
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1 hr 29 min 26 sec
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