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Lenin’s Shadow in Hanoi and Other Responses to Monuments by Contemporary Vietnamese Artists in the Age of Decoloniality

  • Northern Illinois University - Peters Campus Life Building Room 100 545 Lucinda Avenue DeKalb, IL, 60115 United States (map)

Organizer: Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University

Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL

Description:

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Nora Taylor, Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Professor Taylor will discuss the different ways Vietnamese artists have responded to monuments that represent racism and imperialism in light of changing historical memory in the post-colonial era.

About the Speaker:

Nora Annesley Taylor is the Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art (Hawaii 2004 and Singapore 2009) and the co-editor of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: An Anthology (Cornell SEAP 2012) as well as numerous essays on Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian and Vietnamese Art. In 2013, she was the recipient of a John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She is currently co-editing with Pamela Corey, Contemporary Art from Vietnam: A Critical Reader forthcoming from the Nguyen Art Foundation in Ho Chi Minh City.

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