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Kanazawa University Institute for Cultural Resources of Ancient Civilizations is pleased to invite Dr. Ashley Arico, Curator of the Art Institute of Chicago, to give a special lecture on Egyptology. Please come to the special lecture!
Kanazawa University Special lecture on Egyptology 2024-2
The Art Institute of Chicago's Ancient Egyptian Collection" + "On Ancient Egyptian Statues from the Levant region"
?日 時 2024年11月8日（金）16時30分～18時00分
?会 場 金沢大学人間社会第１講義棟101教室
?参加費 無料
?参加方法 申し込み不要 ※直接会場へお越しください。
?言 語 英語
?主 催 金沢大学古代文明?文化資源学研究所
?講 師 Dr. Ashley Arico（シカゴ美術館学芸員）
?発表要旨
Curating Ancient Egypt at the Art Institute of Chicago
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With Amelia Edward's gift of a ushabti in 1890, the Art Institute of Chicago became the first museum in the city to start a collection of This talk will explore how the collection has been displayed over the last 130 years, revealing some of the collection Particular focus will be placed on the new permanent gallery of the arts of ancient Egyptian Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, which opened to the public in 2022.
Moving Images: Studies in Egyptian Statuary in the Levant
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For the ancient Egyptians statues were not lifeless objects, but rather active participants in the world around them. Illustrated by a series of case studies, this lecture will reconstruct the diverse histories of a selection of such statues. Illustrated by a series of case studies, this lecture will reconstruct the diverse histories of a selection of such statues drawing from the large corpus of Egyptian statues discovered in the Levant.
Biography
Ashley Arico joined the Art Institute of Chicago in July 2017 as the museum's first full-time specialist in the arts of ancient Egypt; she is currently associate curator of ancient Egyptian art, Arts of Africa. Ashley holds an MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, where her research focused on Egyptian statuary as evidence for interconnections in the ancient world. She previously held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the At the Art Institute, she launched a successful "Egyptian Art Pop-up Talk At the Art Institute, she launched a successful "Egyptian Art Pop-up Talk" series and curated a new arts of ancient Egypt gallery, which opened in 2022. Her current research focuses on the intersection of art and writing production in late 1st millennium BCE Egypt.
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Contact
Institute for Cultural Resources of Ancient Civilizations Professor Nozomu Kawai
E-mail: nozomu.Kawai@staff.Kanazawa-u.ac.jp
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