Visual Arts Panel

Visual Arts Panel

Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Alison Chapman, Krishnan Venkatesh, and David Carl on April 3, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “What is a portrait? The English word comes from the Latin word protrahere, ‘to draw forth,’ ‘to drag forward,’ ‘to bring to light,’ ‘to produce for inspection,’ while the main component trahere comes from an Indo-European root -tragh—that is cognate with our words tract, traction, trawl, drag, track, trace. What does a portrait draw or drag forth?—a human being, a self?—and what are those? In books, we can see how writers like Chaucer or Montaigne ‘portray’ individual people with words that can capture a distinctive interiority—but how can paint or a photographic image do that? Does a portrait have to have eyes, or even a face?—indeed, are there any portraits without human figures? In this panel discussion, three tutors (Alison Chapman, David Carl, and Krishnan Venkatesh) will attempt to approach these questions by talking us through a small selection of pictures.”

Santa Fe, NM

2026-04-03

Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online.

sound

mp3

English

SF_ChapmanA_et_al_Visual_Arts_Panel_2026-04-03

M4A

01:17:38