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Schemel Forum Luncheon - Annie Cohen-Solal: Magicians of the Earth

Monday, 27 October, 2014

ANNIE COHEN-SOLAL, PhD
Writer and Professor of American studies at the Université de Caen

Magicians of the Earth, A Legendary Exhibition in Paris and its Global Implications

In 1989 the exhibition, Magicians of the Earth, was presented in Paris at three prestigious sites.  With its massive size and unusual goal it initiated considerable debate in France and around the world but in the end was seen as a landmark exhibition. For the first time contemporary non-Western artists from the “invisible cultures,” e.g.  Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, were invited to show their art in Western institutions along with local artists. A quarter of a century later Cohen-Solal  assesses the value of the exhibition as an example of post-colonial Europe and a 21st century approach to understanding and appreciating "the other.”

Annie Cohen-Solal is a cultural historian, general curator of the exhibitions, Magiciens de la Terre 2014 and special advisor to the President of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Free to Schemel Forum Members & University of Scranton Faculty, Staff and Students.

RSVPs requested.

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