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Tuesday, November 3 at 4:00pm - Blake Stimson, "Photography an...
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Tuesday, October 27 at 4:00pm - Diana Strazdes, Some New Ameri...
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Tuesday, October 20 at 4:00pm - Orientation Session for Prospe...
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Tuesday, October 13 at 4:00pm - Laura Hutchison, "Temporality ...
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Saturday, October 3 at 4:55pm - Victoria Sheridan, “Men of Vir...
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Tuesday, May 5 at 4:10pm - Jonathan D. Katz, "Art, Eros a...
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Tuesday, March 3 at 4:10pm - Katharine Burnett Sitting at t...
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Tuesday, February 17 at 4:10pm - Dianne Sachko Macleaod, "How A...
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Tuesday, February 10 at 4:10pm - Ludovico Geymonat, "A Plan for...
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Art History, UCDavis Lecture Series Talk tomorrow: Blake Stimson, "Photography and Ontology
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American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth has fitted the medieval Louvre with his most recent installation, Ni apparence ni illusion (Neither Appearance Nor Illusion). Illuminating the Louvre’s subterranean, ...
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I'm HomeSusan Dix Lyons wasn't born or raised in Northern California, but now that she lives here there's one thought every time she returns from a trip. I'm home.
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Blake Stimson and co-editor
Alexander Alberro will publish Institutional Critique: An Anthology
of Artist's Writings this month with MIT
Press. Helen Molesworth, Head of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, describes the book's subject:
“these artists and critics have rejoiced in anti-authoritarian strategies,
a...nd, with a profound sense of love and possibility, have
bravely suggested that the idea of art, far from being timeless,
demands and deserves to be renewed and reimagined over time and
space." Claire Bishop, leading international critic, says: “This will
be essential reading for, and generative of further criticism by,
artists, curators, and art historians invested in the legacy of this
practice."
Art History, UCDavis Blake Stimson's 2006 MIT Press book, The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation, was published this summer in Spanish translation by Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, under the title El eje del mundo; Fotografía y nación. From the publisher, “El eje del mundo analiza un excepcional esfuerzo porencontrar una so...lución cultural a la tensión geopolítica del momento talcomo se desarrolló en tres ambiciosos proyectos fotográficos: la exposición The Familyof Man; el influyente libro de Robert Frank, Los americanos; y el registro tipológico de la arquitectura industrial de Bernd y Hilla Becher.”
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Temporality in Form: Elements of Michelangelo’s Theory on Human Proportion in Three of his Early Sculptures
Michelangelo’s human figures have thus far been studied through on one of three approaches: proportion, anatomy, or posture. A study of his use of proportion commonly begins with a comparison to Polykleitos, or di...scussion of how Michelangelo differs from the ancient master. A study of the hyper-muscular anatomy often results in a legitimizing of his scientific knowledge or unproductive anecdotes about his own personal preoccupation with the male figure. A study of the various postures frequently culminates in a predictably iconographical reading of emotions made manifest in form. All three approaches to Michelangelo’s figures have both strengths and weaknesses. Although the artist’s human figures may generally be categorized as bearing exaggerated proportions of a monumental scale and unrealistic features, it is the constant inconsistencies that define Michelangelo’s idiosyncratic approach. I will argue that three of the artist’s earliest sculptural renderings of the nude male form, as seen in his Bacchus, Christ of the Pietà, and David, stand as evidence of a much broader interest in human emotion through an extension of rational human proportions and features.
"Elements of Michelangelo’s Theory on Human Proportion in Three of his Early Sculptures"
Time:4:55PM Saturday, October 3rd
Location:Art 210D
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"Photography and Ontology"
Photography has two distinctly appealing properties. On the one had, it has mechanically-enhanced artistic powers: it can capture a moment, or orchestrate an intricate arrangement, or populate an empty frame with the blink of an eye. We might call this its vertical or qualitative axis, and plo...t any given photograph according to its degree of artistic success according to whatever criteria we might choose--exhibitions, say, or reviews, or individual judgment of its mastery. On the other hand, photography has mechanically and electronically-accelerated powers of distribution like computers and promises something like a factory in every pocket or handbag. We might refer to this as its horizontal, or quantitative axis, plotting the spread of photographicization by the picture, say, or camera, or megapixel, or ISO sensitivity. Both of these properties makes its own claim to universality, to ontology, to the meaning of being, one idealist, the other materialist, one metaphorical, the other metonymical. Because of its uniquely ingrained connection with art and its broad appeal as non-art, photography's ontology is defined to an exceptional extent by a dynamic tension between the one and the all. This presentation will explore some of the sociopolitical effects and opportunities arising from that distinctive tension.
Time:4:00PM Tuesday, October 27th
Location:Art 210D
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“Some New American Donatello: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the Farragut Monument"
With his first, hard-won public commission in 1878, Augustus Saint-Gaudens overturned some of the most deeply rooted American sculptural conventions and set himself apart as new type of artist by invoking the example of the early Florentine... Renaissance. On its completion, the monument to Admiral David Farragut became an artistic landmark. It not only created the young sculptor’s national reputation, it established new principles of Realism for American art.
Time:4:00PM Tuesday, October 20th
Location:Art 210D
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Attention all students! Are you interested in a major or minor in Art History? Are you interested in an internship in Art History? Are you interested in studying Art History in a foreign country? Professor Lynn Roller will be hosting this informational event for students interested in learning more about the Art History Program. Refreshments will be provided.
Time:4:00PM Tuesday, October 13th
Location:Art 210D
