The Clark – Imagining Other Worlds, Munch’s Multiverse with Prof. Pat Berman

In association with our exhibit, 'Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth', the Clark Art Institute has hosted a lecture by Wellesley College Art History Professor Pat Berman. The lecture was presented in the Clark’s auditorium on August 19, 2023. Through his visual art and his writings, Munch offered speculation about alternative worlds, those that animate the tangible world on Earth as well as forces in the larger universe. In an era in which science fiction matured as a genre, a variety of radiant energies were studied by astronomers, and mediumistic communication had entered popular belief, Munch's "trembling earth" was suspended in a web of otherworldliness. Art historian and Professor of Art History at Wellesley College Pat Berman takes us on a tour of these imaginary worlds.

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The Clark – Edvard Munch, Trembling Earth Opening Lecture

Jay A. Clarke, Rothman Family Curator, Art Institute of Chicago, introduces Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth, the first exhibition in the United States to reveal how Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944) animated nature to convey meaning.

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The Clark – Ancient and Modern ‘Body Worlds’ with Kathryn Howley

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Kathryn Howley (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU / Beinecke Fellow) argues that the bodily preoccupation of ancient Egyptian art is one reason why it has proven unusually appealing to modern audiences, ever since the beginnings of modern Egyptology in Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in 1798.

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The Clark – Sehwan’s Noise Fields Of Women’s Densities, Intensities, Entanglements, and Cacophonies

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Shundana Yusaf (University of Utah / The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellow) explores the dynamic exchange between listeners, sound, and space in the tomb of Lal Shabaz Marwandi. Located in Sehwan, Pakistan, the tomb of Lal Shahbaz Marwandi is the most cacophonous shrine in South Asia.

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The Clark – Invisible Hands with Margaret S. Graves

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Margaret S. Graves (Indiana University / Florence Gould Foundation Fellow) discusses craft skills in the Middle East. These skills are usually portrayed as dying out in the nineteenth century, but were in fact redirected toward a new market generated by the colonial project: the faking, forging, and fictionalizing of antiquities, especially ceramics.

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