Conversation XI: Pomp Up the Jam: Splendor, Performance, & Pageantry in Art

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Conversation XI: Pomp Up the Jam: Splendor, Performance, & Pageantry in Art
Conversation XI: Pomp Up the Jam: Splendor, Performance, & Pageantry in Art
Spencer Museum of Art Interns 2010–2011, curator
20/21 Gallery, Process Space, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Pomp (n.)
1.stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence.
2.ostentatious display, esp. of dignity or importance.
3.pomps, pompous displays, actions, or things: The official was accompanied by all the pomps of his high position.
4.a stately or splendid procession; pageant.

Pomp up the Jam: Splendor, Pageantry, and Performance in Art explores the various ways that rituals, parades, and other displays of magnificence are visually constructed, as well as the roles that artworks play in their enactment. It also examines how performances can inform the identities of groups and individuals. The exhibition gathers together an engaging variety of objects from the Museum’s permanent collection, including historic prints, glittering parade armor, elaborate ceremonial vestments, video, photography, and vivid contemporary artworks. Pomp, pageantry, and splendor can have a broad range of socio-cultural meanings and take on many different forms. Artworks that record this pomp and performance through the eyes of both participants and spectators also serve to transform events, people, and objects from the mundane into the splendid.

The exhibition organizers are the 2010–2011 Spencer Museum student interns: Denise Giannino, Jordan Jacobson, Chassica Kirchhoff, Meredith Moore, Ellen Raimond, Sarah C. Schroeder, Natalie Svacina, and Amanda Wright.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Feng Yan (born 1963), Tire and Red Carpet
Feng Yan (born 1963)
2006
Yoshu Nobuyasu, The Emperor's Triumphant Return
Yoshu Nobuyasu
1895, Meiji period (1868–1912)
unrecorded Abelam artist, bapa tagwa (helmet mask)
unrecorded Abelam artist
1850s–1969
unrecorded Maranao artist, payong-a-olan (embroidered parasol)
unrecorded Maranao artist
late 1800s–1959
unrecorded Ekiti or Igbomina artist, epa mask
unrecorded Ekiti or Igbomina artist
circa 1962
Hayley Lever (1876–1958), Flags of the Allies
Hayley Lever (1876–1958)
1917
Thomas J. Fitzsimmons; Associated Press Newsphoto Service, V-E Day in New York
Thomas J. Fitzsimmons; Associated Press Newsphoto Service
1945
Yellow Dragon flag
1889–1912
李元霸 Li Yuanba
late 1800s–1982
典韦 Dian Wei
late 1800s–1982

Events

August 26, 2011
Activity
4:00–6:00PM
Front Lawn, Gallery 405
September 10, 2011
Activity
2:00–4:00PM
Gallery 317 Central Court, Gallery 405, Front Lawn

Resources

Documents