Dawn O’Dell | The Politics of Personhood in A.E. van Braam Houchgeest’s China Memoir
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- School of Art & Design Visitors Committee, Samuel Kress Foundation, & more
- Location
- Siebel Center for Design, Classroom 1002, 1208 S. 4th St, Champaign, IL, 61820
- Date
- Oct 21, 2022 1:30 pm
- Contact
- Krannert Art Museum
- kam-info@illinois.edu
- Views
- 18
This talk explores van Braam’s self-fashioning through his collaboration with two unnamed Guangzhou artists and the French émigré printer and defender of race-based slavery, M.L.E. Moreau de Saint-Méry. The illustrated memoir these men produced places van Braam’s textual narrative within an expansive visual environment of Chinese landscape paintings and other works of Asian art.