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Past Perfected: Antiquity and its Reinventions will explore how antiquity and its legacy have been displayed, represented, and imagined throughout the world and up to the present day. Conference venues at three major L.A. museums (Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, and the newly refurbished Getty Villa) and at the University of Southern California provide a catalyst for examining how gardens, villas, and works of art have stimulated responses ranging from aesthetic contemplation to eroticized desire. In four sessions, two tours, and related activities, the conference will focus on “the classical” as a site of fascination and fantasy where the past is presented and represented, studied and staged, consumed and contested.
A Conference Organized by The National Committee for the History of Art
Los Angeles, April 6-10, 2006
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