Channel: Getty Museum

Category: Education

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Description: Focusing on a 2,500-year-old Etruscan bronze statuette, antiquities curator Claire Lyons and Sarah Derbew, assistant professor of classics at Stanford University, consider depictions of Black Africans in Classical art and literature. They confront simplistic modern assumptions about race and servitude and investigate how meanings shift when images of Blackness migrate between cultures and across time. This was program was presented via Zoom on Thursday, September 2, 2021. getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3343.html Learn more about upcoming Art Break programs: getty.edu/museum/programs/lectures/art_break Watch available Art Break programs: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLij2XTFgmBSRmKgNobWpS91SAFPefJN9M Subscribe to the Getty Museum YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/gettymuseum?sub_confirmation=1 #GettyMuseum #ArtBreak #ClassicalArt