"The Twentieth-Century Dandy as Cultural Provocateur: Yinka Shonibare,
MBE and the Diary of a Victorian Dandy."
Courtney Martin, Yale University
Monday January 28th, Noon, Art Building, Classroom II
On Monday January 28th the Art Department is hosting Courtney Martin.
Ms. Martin, an Oberlin graduate (class of '96), is currently a
doctoral candidate at Yale University, where she is writing her
dissertation on the black British arts movement of the 1970s and 80s.
Some of you may have met her already, as she was a guest professor for
Professors Mathews and Cara in last spring's London program. She is
visiting Oberlin as a candidate for a Dissertation Fellowship from the
Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges; if she
receives it, she will be here next year, writing her dissertation and
teaching one course in the fall. At noon on Monday she will give a
lecture titled "The Twentieth-Century Dandy as Cultural Provocateur:
Yinka Shonibare, MBE and the Diary of a Victorian Dandy." The lecture
will take place in classroom II of the Art Building. To see some of
Shonibare's work, see
http://www.yinka-shonibare.co.uk/
http://www.stephenfriedman.com
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2004/shonibare.shtm
Students will also have the the chance to speak with her at 2:30 in
the Art Department's Seminar room.
