Professor John Lopez will participate in The Early Science
Worshop this Friday, May 17. John and his fellow panelists
Daniela Bleichmar, Renee Raphael and Andres Resendez will speak
address “Innovation, Communication and empire: Knowledge and
Technology in the Early Modern Spanish World.” John’s talk is
entitled “The Desague’s Watermark: Image Making, Urban Planning,
and Environmental Rupture at Viceregal Mexico City.”
Professor John Lopez will discuss “Tenochtitlan in
Sixteenth-Century Native Pictorials” at the Hemispheric Institute
of the Americas on Tuesday, May 21 from 12-1:30 pm in 3201 Hart
Hall.
John’s talk will highlight his research examining the study of
indigenous pictorials, which not only suggests different
epistemes at work from the European counterpart, but equally as
important, they inscribe, in picture, the underlying conceptions
on Tenochtitlan, its geographic setting, and its most iconic
feature: water.
The relationship between art and the Enlightenment is polemical.
Enlightenment philosophical ideals centered on precepts of
reason, self, society, perfection and beauty, among others. Yet,
study of painting of this period demonstrates that art was not
only rational and orderly, but also wildly hubristic,
overambitious, and even went as far as rejecting tenets of the
Enlightenment.
The UC Davis Department of Art and Art History’s Art Studio
Visiting Artist Lecture series brings artists, writers and
curators to campus. All presentations are free and take place at
4:30 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of
Art.
Join us for lunch and a conversation with professionals working
in a number of visual arts-related fields as we discuss a variety
of career paths open to Art and Art History students.
