ISAW Workshop: Digital Approaches to Art History
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This workshop uses the prompt of a newly started digital project to consider how large scale narratives and individual objects can be integrated into curriculums and into classroom experiences. The project is Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure, currently browseable at https://gaerhf.org.
GAERHF - as it's known - starts with the broad premise that we as a species - as a group - have been looking at ourselves for a long time and have been making images of ourselves for a long time. The phenomenon is pervasive enough so that representing it in digital form and encouraging exploration via a website supports an art history that allows for many narratives to be present at the same time. Many cultures made images of the human figure. Sometimes those cultures were in dialog with others, thereby creating narratives of mutual influence. But that is not always the case. Regardless of degrees of contact, GAERHF can be a tool for recognizing complexity and sophistication in many pre-modern societies.Key Speaker: Sebastian Heath
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
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ISAW is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, which aims to encourage particularly the study of the economic, religious, political and cultural connections between ancient civilizations. It offers both doctoral and postdoctoral programs, with the aim of training a new generation of scholars who will enter the global academic community and become intellectual leaders.
