Lisa Trever: Moche Mural Art and the Pursuit of Archaeo Art History
@ University of Chicago Department of Art History
5540 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 5PM - 7PM
Lisa Trever is the Lisa and Bernard Selz Associate Professor in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology at Columbia University. She taught previously in the Department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Trever’s research examines the arts and visual cultures of ancient and early modern South America in cross-disciplinary perspective, drawing on methods and theories of art history, history, archaeology, and social anthropology. She holds a PhD in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University, a masters degree in Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a bachelor’s degree in Archaeological Studies from Yale University.
Trever is the lead author of the 2017 book The Archaeology of Mural Painting at Pañamarca, Peru. Presently she is completing the manuscript of a second book entitled Image Encounters: Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History. She is also co-editing the volume Arte antes de la Historia: Para una historia del arte andino antiguo to be published in Lima. The subjects of her articles range broadly in time from Pre-Columbian art and archaeology to colonial Peruvian illustration, to 19 century photography and contemporary folklore.
Audience Q&A and reception to follow.
Free
Presented by the Department of Art History as part of the 2018/19 Smart Lecture series supported by the Smart Family Foundation
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