In the third installment of a series of lectures on Modern art, art historian Vanessa Badré will discuss the influence of the Far East on the Far West (European modernists). She will explore the cultural and artistic exchanges affected by commercial trade in the 18th and 19th centuries between the east and the west --- and how they are manifested in the modern works of the 20th century. Educated in both law and art history (graduate degree from La Sorbonne), French scholar Va