Presenter: Stephen D. Houston, Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University
When: Friday, Feb. 6, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Where: UMKC, Miller Nichols Learning Center auditorium, room 151
Colors alone or in combination had profound meaning for the ancestral Maya. They also had a history of use and a rich vocabulary to describe their many nuances. This talk explores a world where color invoked perceptions of materials, directions, and the bold palette of a natural or built setting.
Stephen D. Houston, a specialist in Maya civilization, serves as Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University and Chair of the Senior Fellows, Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks. A MacArthur Fellow, Houston gave the 72nd Andrew W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art and was awarded, by the President of Guatemala, the Order of the Quetzal in the grade of Grand Cross, that country’s highest honor. He is also lead author on a standard book about Maya color, Veiled Brightness: A History of Maya Color (U of Texas Press, 2009).
This lecture is organized in conjunction with a two-day symposium on the theme of "Painted Worlds: Color and Culture in Mesoamerican Art." The schedule can be found here: https://go.umkc.edu/painted-worlds
The UMKC Trustees and School of Humanities and Social Sciences are proud to introduce the Marilyn T. and Byron C. Shutz Lecture Series. This annual series hosts lectures, seminars and workshops in fields such as creative writing, literature and art history.
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