Art History Radio Hour with Cora Gilroy-Ware
An Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, Cora Gilroy-Ware received her PhD from the University of York, writing a thesis looking at the classical nude in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century British art. Her research resulted in Bodies of Nature: Classical Pleasure 1780-1840, an exhibition at Tate Britain of paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings centred on Bacchanalian imagery. Her first book, The Classical Body in Romantic Britain, was published in April 2020 by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with Yale University Press. She is currently at work on a second book project on adaptations of Greco-Roman art, particularly marble sculpture, among artists of African and indigenous American descent. As an artist herself, Cora is also interested in projects that integrate theory and practice. For example, she has recently edited a book on behalf of the contemporary artist Isaac Julien, centred on Lessons of the Hour, Julien’s filmic portrait of the African American freedom fighter Frederick Douglass.
Date: 20 October 2021, 17:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue: On Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Cora Gilroy-Ware (Oxford)
Organising department: Department of History of Art
Organiser contact email address: admin@hoa.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Art History Radio Hour - Michaelmas Term 2021
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: admin@hoa.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark