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Fri 12 Feb, 2021 American Art, Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
[ONLINE] Meyer Schapiro: Thinking between Art and the 20t...
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Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) was a dazzling midcentury entrepôt of ideas, bridging the worlds of artists and intellectuals in ways that are truly incomparable. Just as he impressed Noam Chomsky, beseeched Walter Benjamin, and critiqued Martin Heidegger, so too did he mentor Robert Motherwell, assist Barnett Newman, and inspire Fernand Léger.…
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Wed 16 Oct, 2019 American Art, Research Forum
Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment
On the night of July 9, 1776, a crowd emboldened by a public reading of the Declaration of Independence pulled a huge equestrian statue of King George III from its pedestal in lower Manhattan. A British officer conveyed the decapitated head to London, intending to demonstrate the rebels’ defiance, and…
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Wed 29 May, 2019 American Art, Group Work: Contemporary Art and Feminism, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
UN/COMMON RITUAL
This event focuses on Barbara McCullough’s pioneering short film Water Ritual 1: An Urban Rite of Purification (1979) including a screening of the film. Rizvana Bradley (History of Art and African-American Studies, Yale University) will give a presentation on the work, introducing its themes and ideas. This will be followed…
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Sat 10 Nov, 2018 American Art, Research Forum, Workshop
Archives and American Art: a workshop
This workshop will be the first event to launch a 3-year project funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art designed to develop knowledge of the archival resources relating to American art in British collections and to encourage and support research that makes use of them in all periods, and…
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Mon 8 Oct, 2018 American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
The Photographic Relic
Whittled wooden spoons, crude baking dishes, artillery shells, and soup bones form a strange, altar-like arrangement. Collected by Clara Barton from the notorious Confederate prison camp immediately after the American Civil War, these objects were then photographed by Mathew Brady’s studio. Widely circulated at the time, Relics of Andersonville Prison…
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Mon 23 Apr, 2018 American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
‘Lee Lozano: Not Working’
On the occasion of the launch of the book Lee Lozano: Not Working by Jo Applin (Yale University Press), please join us for a conversation between the author and Mignon Nixon, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at UCL. The discussion will explore Lee Lozano’s work in the context of 1960s social…
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Wed 30 May, 2018 American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
The Price of Salt: Lesbian Community and Navajo Sovereign...
Louise Siddons (Ph.D. Stanford University) is an associate professor of art history at Oklahoma State University, where she teaches courses in American and Native American visual and material culture. From 2002-2007 she was a curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; she also taught at San Francisco State…
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Mon 19 Mar, 2018 American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Leon Golub and Cy Twombly’s Vietnam: Towards an Aesthetic...
In this talk Jon Bird reflects upon the figuring of a historical event – the Vietnam War – in the work of two artists, Leon Golub and Cy Twombly, one figurative, the other abstract. However, as Bird will argue, these designations break down upon examination of the broader question of what…
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Mon 30 Apr, 2018 American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Reddish-Orangish Purple Blue Black: Anne Truitt and Color
What is the color of a memory? Of history? The American sculptor Anne Truitt is well known for the nuanced colors of her works. Beginning in the early 1960s, Truitt honed her sense of color in concert with a unique understanding of and relationship to the intrusion of personal and historical memory on…
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Mon 29 Jan, 2018 American Art, Research Forum, Sackler Lecture series
The King’s Two Bodies
‘The King’s Two Bodies’ considers a cast-metal replica of the building where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April 1968. An object intended for manual as much as visual apprehension, the replica compels a return to a discrete past moment as though this were the prologue to a set…
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Mon 16 Oct, 2017 American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
George Caleb Bingham’s River Paintings: Facingness ...
This talk is concerned with how the river paintings of the important painter of the American West, George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), face us and how this fact implies an ethics of looking. I argue that the facingness of Bingham’s paintings is a way of affirming both their own aesthetic status…
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Mon 4 Dec, 2017 American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Imaging Slavery and Imagining Freedom in the African Atla...
This talk will explore the drawings, paintings, prints, and sculpture created by African American, African Caribbean, and Black British women and men, enslaved and free, living and working across the Black Diaspora over the centuries. Living and dying against a white racist backdrop that sought to destroy Black bodies and souls, they generated alternative art-making…
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Mon 13 Mar, 2017 American Art, Research Seminars
Cy Twombly’s Mediterranean Passages
In the wake of her book, Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016), Mary Jacobus will explore the use of quotations in one of Twombly’s major paintings. The American painter Cy Twombly (1928-2011) lived in Rome from the 1950s onward. Despite his continuing links to the US, he described himself…
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Mon 27 Feb, 2017 American Art, Research Seminars
Imagery, Allegory and Intention in Robert Rauschenberg...
In the spring of 1958 Robert Rauschenberg embarked upon the long labour of making one illustration for each of the thirty-four cantos of Dante’s Inferno, the first canticle of the great 14th century allegory, The Divine Comedy. The project was finally completed in November 1960 and displayed in New York the following…
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Mon 30 Jan, 2017 American Art, Research Seminars
Cute Slums and Intimate Tenements: Jerome Myers’ and John...
In the early years of the twentieth century Jerome Myers made paintings of pinafored children outside homely brownstones and called to mind nineteenth-century genre paintings of barefoot boys that, with their imposed upon mien, fit recent theorisations of cute as a minor aesthetic category. John Sloan’s economic circumstance meant that…
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Thu 1 Dec, 2016 American Art, Film screening, Panel Discussion
Close to the Knives: Art, Activism, and HIV/AIDS
Silence = Death (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1990) documents the early impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City, and maps the ways in which cultural production and queer activism became closely intertwined. Featuring interviews with Allen Ginsberg, David Wojnarowicz, and Keith Haring, it offers a window into a distinct…
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Mon 12 Dec, 2016 American Art
Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Bea...
During the Great War, trenches exposed combatants’ faces to sniper fire and flying shrapnel. In previous wars such wounds would have proven fatal. Now, with improved medical and transport services, the wounded could be saved–but not necessarily their faces as well. Crudely patched-together and sent back to the front, or…
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Mon 21 Nov, 2016 American Art
Le Rouge et le Noir: Anglo-American Artists and Les XX
During the late nineteenth century, American artists keenly felt their peripheral and provincial status in the capitals of Europe. Yet they were welcomed with unusual enthusiasm by the internationalist Cercle des XX in Brussels, as well as by Belgian art critics. This talk will examine the Anglo-American participation in the…
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Mon 31 Oct, 2016 American Art
‘Where Black Is Too Beautiful’ Gordon Parks’s Atmospheres...
‘I want a continuity of beautiful pictures and beautiful movement,’ Gordon Parks is quoted as saying about his first feature-length film, The Learning Tree (1969), in a Time magazine piece entitled ‘Where Black Is Too Beautiful.’ Reviewing the chromatically vibrant and lush visual language Parks uses to tell his autobiographical…
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Mon 10 Oct, 2016 American Art, Film screening, Research Seminars
Call Her Applebroog: A Film by Beth B
CALL HER APPLEBROOG is a deeply personal portrait about Ida Applebroog, a painter, sculptor and filmmaker whose work often explores the themes of gender, sexual identity, violence and politics shot by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B. Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her…
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