[HouTango-L] Tango: The Art History of Love, Museum of Fine Arts lecture, July 14

[A. Lester Buck III]

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Friday Afternoon Lecture  	
July 14, 2006 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
at the Caroline Wiess Law Building

Tango: The Art History of Love

Tango was the fabulous dance of the past hundred years. From its
fusion of European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences to
its representations in Hollywood and dramatizations in dance halls
throughout the world, the tango evolved as brilliant choreography
and also as text, music, art, and philosophy of life.

In his passionately argued new book, Tango: The Art History of
Love, world-renowned art historian Robert Farris Thompson, Colonel
John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University,
"addresses his subject [as] part anthropologist, part art critic,
part musicologist, part student of religion and philosophy, and
enthusiastic partisan," wrote The New York Times, showing how
the tango combines artistry and ancestry to make an art form of
the body in motion.

Tango: The Art History of Love is available in the MFAH Retail
Shop. A book signing follows the lecture.

Related Exhibition: Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary
Argentine Photography