Sunday, November 30, 2014

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 2014

Nicholas Thomas: A Critique of the Natural Artefact, anthropology, art and museology
City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square
Wed 10 December, 6PM | Free

Hosted by Art History, Victoria University of Wellington in partnership with City Gallery Wellington

Nicolas Thomas, Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK, presents a lecture on the interpretation of indigenous art in anthropology and art history.
Thomas is the author of Oceanic Art (1995), Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook (2003) and Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010), for which he was awarded the Wolfson History Prize.

The lecture will be followed by refreshments and the launch of Thomas’s Body Art.

Buy your copy and get it signed by the author.

Numbers are limited. To secure your seat please email art-history@vuw.ac.nz with Gordon H. Brown in the subject line.


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