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African Art and the Modernist Eye at the Art Institute in Chicago

2/18, 6-7 p.m. Price Auditorium Free 500 Ways of Looking at Modern Did you know that the art institute is free in February? Take the opportunity to learn more about Sub-Sahara Africa (Zambia is located there) and interaction with modern artists. Inspired by a modernist fascination with the "primitive," the first half of the 20th century saw a developing aesthetic appreciation for objects from sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, which formerly were dismissed as mere curiosities or classified as ethnographica. In this lecture Christa Clarke of Newark Museum considers the influence of modernism in shaping Western perceptions of African art, as reflected in exhibition display as well as the formation of institutional and private collections in the United States. Fang; Gabon. Reliquary Figure (Nlo Bieri), Late 19th/early 20th century. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus. http://www.artic.edu/aic/calendar/event?EventID=6725&Month=02_2010&Day=18