Art History Faculty Lecture | Professor Emerita Alisa Luxenberg

“Manet’s Woman With a Cigarette: On Raciolinguistics, Violence, and Melancholy”

Join us for our Art History Faculty Lecture Series. Professor Emerita Alisa Luxenberg presents “Manet’s Woman With a Cigarette: On Raciolinguistics, Violence, and Melancholy” on February 10th. This lecture will take place at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in room N100 at 5:30 pm.

Lecture Details

This largely neglected canvas by Edouard Manet will be critically examined through its long-standing interpretation as a “gypsy” and other ethnophaulic terms, newly proposed sources in Mexican illustration and European photography, and illuminating relationships with his other works, notably the Execution of Maximilian paintings.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Alisa Luxenberg, Professor Emerita of Art History, retired from UGA in July 2022. Her most recent research projects include an exhibition and catalogue of masonic materials from the Special Collections Libraries at UGA, on view from January to July 2023, and an essay for the exhibition catalogue Imaged and Imagined: Representations of Spain in Prints (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo), forthcoming in Japanese and English editions.