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Speakers

Prof Ari Heinrich (Director of the Gallery at the Australian Centre on China in the World), Dr Maddie Hewitson (University of Birmingham), and Dr Keren Hammerschlag (Director, Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU)

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From the Realist canvases of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic experiments of James McNeill Whistler, The Chosen Race confronts the complex negotiations of whiteness that played out across British art of the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of racial supremacy, difference, and indeterminacy in paintings produced in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag explores the many ways Victorian painters engaged with racial ideas at the height of British imperial dominance. While at times these painters reinforced racial hierarchies, at other times they problematized them, revealing race to be a fundamentally unstable organizing principle by which to build an empire and classify its subjects. 

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Keren Rosa Hammerschlag is the Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University. She is the author of Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection (Ashgate, 2015).

This event is supported by the ANU School of Art and Design.