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MillerComm Lecture Series

Tango: The Art History of Love

Saturday, September 13th, 2003
Robert Farris Thompson
3:00 pm

Room 62, Krannert Art Museum
500 East Peabody Drive
Champaign

Event Description

Using slides, music, video and live drumming, Robert Farris Thompson presents a performance/lecture on African and European sounds, moves, and action brought to exquisite fusion in the rise of the world tradition called tango.

Hosted by: Art History Program

In conjunction with:  Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Art Museum, Lorado Taft Lecture Fund, Rohlen Visiting Artist Fund, School of Art and Design

Robert Farris Thompson

Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University