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Thomas W. Laqueur — The Dog’s Gaze: A Visual History
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- Maison Française, East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University
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- Free
Thomas Laqueur explores dogs in art and what they reveal about human lives. The historian is the son of German-Jewish refugees.
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- In person
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- Maison Française, East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027, Manhattan
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- Maison Française at Columbia University
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About this event
Why do dogs appear so often in art, and what do those images reveal about us? In this Eugene Sheffer Distinguished Lecture, historian Thomas W. Laqueur draws on The Dog’s Gaze: A Visual History to explore dogs as companions, witnesses, hunting partners and figures of remembrance. Moving across the Western visual tradition, he considers how artists use canine presences to tell human stories and shape the way we wish to be remembered.
German, Austrian or Swiss connection
Laqueur is the son of German-Jewish refugees. In his own account of his family history, his parents fled to Istanbul in 1938, where he was born in 1945; the family moved to the United States in 1950. His connection is German-Jewish family heritage, not a German birthplace or a claim about present citizenship.
Admission: Free and open to the public, with registration through the organizer. Registration does not guarantee a seat; arrive early for first-come, first-served seating.
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German-Jewish heritage — speaker Thomas Laqueur is the son of German-Jewish refugees