The Getty Center

Collecting Forum II:
The Wunderkammer and
Its Contemporary Resonances

Malcolm Baker, Mark Meadow, Karen Lang,
and Joanna Roche

April 7, 2005, 4:00 p.m.

The Getty Center
Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles
http://www.getty.edu

The Getty Research Institute's Project for the Study of Collecting and
Provenance (PSCP) invites anyone with an interest in the history of
collecting to participate in this continuing series of forums that
explore a range of topics in the field. This forum in the series focuses
on the many contemporary resonances of the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of
curiosities. At the very time when a new interest arose in these early
exhibitions that contained far more than "art," familiar categories
within artistic production were being challenged in related ways.

Organized by Malcolm Baker, professor of art history at the University
of Southern California, the forum features brief presentations by
specially invited guests whose perspectives provide a starting point for
open discussion with the forum audience, intended to be informal and
lively. This installment of the forum welcomes Mark Meadow, associate
professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara;
Karen Lang, assistant professor of art history at the University of
Southern California; and Joanna Roche, assistant professor in the art
department at California State University, Fullerton.

The PSCP works closely with the USC-Getty Program for the History of
Collecting and Display, a graduate program directed by Malcolm Baker,
who acts as an honorary special advisor to the PSCP.

Read more about the Getty's PSCP:
www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/provenance_index/pscp.html

Read more about USC's Program for the History of Collecting and Display
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/Art_History/baker.htm

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