Curator’s Talk by Mark A. Cheetham on Oct 4
October 2, 2017
Curator’s Talk by Mark A. Cheetham
Getting Some Distance on Likening
McMaster Museum of Art
Wednesday, October 4 from 12:30 – 1:20 p.m.
Admission is Free. All are welcome.
Join us this week as Professor Cheetham leads a talk and tour of the exhibition Struck by Likening: The Power & Discontents of Artworld Analogies.
The exhibition explores analogies of the artworld, commonplace declarations such as “Tom Thomson is the Van Gogh of Canada” and Norval Morrisseau is “the Picasso of the North” and the many issues raised by such comparisons.
Works of art in the exhibition are drawn from the historical, modern and contemporary collection of the McMaster Museum of Art, and loans from the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Museum London and the Corkin Gallery.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Dr. Mark A. Cheetham is a professor of art history at the University of Toronto. He has received national and international awards and authored numerous books and essays on modern and contemporary art: Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the ‘60s will be published by Penn State University Press in early 2018.
Professor Cheetham gratefully acknowledges the research support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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