5:30 pm | 4/18/2023 | 308A Doe Library
Dr. Lisa Pieraccini: History of Art Lecturer, Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology Affiliate Faculty; Program Coordinator for the M. Del Chiaro Center for Ancient Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; President of the AIA San Francisco Society
This paper seeks to shed light on issues of indigeneity and decolonization between the Etruscans and Native Americans. By looking at the artwork of Italian artist, Giovanni Gorgone Pelaya, common paradigms emerge between these chronologically and regionally different peoples. In this transhistorical and global assessment of Pelaya’s work, Etruscan and Native American issues connect in fascinating and symbolic ways. Pelaya’s prints appear to express how colonizing infrastructures of the old world developed into super colonial powers in the new world. His prints offer a provocative entry into larger discussions of colonialism and decolonization not only in America, but also ancient Italy.