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Image: Carved and painted wooden head, Southern Nigeria, Height 38 cm. Collected by Northcote W. Thomas, 1910, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Z 25889
Talk
Perspectives: 'Artist: Unknown'
5 Sep 2019
Event times
1.15pm (30 mins)
Cost of entry
FREE, booking recommended
Address
- Castle Street
- Cambridge
- CB3 0AQ
- United Kingdom
A short talk by historian Dr Carol Atack (University of Oxford) responding to the 'Artist: Unknown' exhibition.
About
Taking inspiration from the Artist: Unknown exhibition, Dr Carol Atack, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Anachronism and Antiquity project and Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, will give a short talk in the Ede Room.
FREE, booking recommended
Please come to the information desk on arrival to Kettle’s Yard.
About Artist: Unknown
From the ancient to the contemporary – whether in a museum, book or auction house – the way we engage with art has revolved around the cult of the individual. But what happens when we don’t know who made something?
Artist: Unknown takes this question as its focus, bringing together for the first time an extraordinary selection of anonymous art and artefacts from the University of Cambridge’s renowned museums and collections.
