Research Seminar

In 1925, the Brazilian-born artist Vicente do Rego Monteiro published a remarkable illustrated book of poems about Paris, Quelques visages de Paris (A few faces/views of Paris). The project emerged from the author’s own experience of travelling to the French capital, but in it Rego Monteiro also engaged the topic of translation on a thematic level. The book’s recent reception – namely, as paradigmatic of modern transatlantic encounters between Latin America and Europe – offers occasion to investigate the state of the field, raising important methodological and theoretical questions for art history: What is at stake when we subsume images under such larger narratives, when they become illustrations of larger conceptual or historiographical agendas? And what are the alternatives to identitarian and geopolitical approaches? How might we consider the poetic experience in a transcultural framework? Indeed, what would it mean to think of transculturality as a form of geopoetics, favouring opacity over any attempt at transparency?

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Online attendance via https://vimeo.com/event/5017613.