Event Details - Inhabited Landscapes, Bougault's Algeria (Art History Lecture)

Inhabited Landscapes: Bougault's Algeria
Speaker: Ana-Joel Falcón-Wiebe

This lecture series talk is based on the exhibition Inhabited Landscapes: Bougault's Algeria coming to the Tang Teaching Museum and Art gallery on February 18, 2017.  It focuses on Alexandre Bougault's late 19th- and early 20th-century panoramic photographs of Algerian landscape as a platform for a vast array of interactions and as a stage for the enactment of concepts of loss, identity, desire, change, and power in the context of tourism, which frames the creation and circulation of the photographs. By weaving French-Algerian music and poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries this exhibition creates an immersive, experiential and compelling exploration of the power of inter-cultural exchange and identity in times of uneasy contact between peoples. 

Ana-Joel Falcón-Wiebe earned her PhD in Art History in 2014 from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Her dissertation traces the impact of 17th century Spanish painting in the work of Théodule Augustin Ribot and analyses the trends in collecting Spanish paintings during the second half of the 19th century in France.  She has curated exhibitions at the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery (2008), collaborated with the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for the exhibitions Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome and Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome (2010), with the Musée du Louvre in Paris in the publication of Dessins bolonais du XVIIe siècle (2013), with the Brooklyn Museum for the exhibition Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World (2015), and is curating Inhabited Landscapes: Bougault's Algeria at the Tang Museum. She has taught at colleges and universities in Canada, France, and the United States. Dr. Falcón-Wiebe is currently working on a publication that delineates the role of Ribot in Fantin-Latour's Hommage à Delacroix. She is interested in the development of transnational cultural networks and cross-cultural exchange during the nineteenth-century.