Embroidery Sampler Added to Joel Snyder Materials Collection
The Visual Resources Center is excited to announce the newest addition to the Joel Snyder Materials Collection
African American Artistic Resistance in the Civil War South
This virtual reading group session, co-sponsored by the Slavery and Visual Culture project at the Neubauer Collegium and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, will consider the role of African Americans as producers and viewers of art as well as in artistic resista
VMPEA: Meng Zhao
Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers, as one of the most exquisite examples of shinü hua (“paintings of elite women”), grants a glimpse of sheer sensuality of palace beauties in medieval China. The extraordinary limpidity of female imagery manifested in this work obscures intriguingly the question regarding the crafting and aestheticization of womanly beauty, which has curiously received little scholarly attention. This paper contextualizes the eighth-century praxis of painting court ladies through the lens of the coding of tactual experiences in medieval feminine space.
RAVE: Reconnecting Metadata: Race, Labor, and the Corporate Body through the History of the Eastman Kodak Company
In April 1967, protesters from Rochester, New York, all along the east coast, and at least as far west as Chicago gathered outside of Eastman-Kodak’s annual shareholder meeting to demonstrate against the company’s racialized hiring practices. Despite the increasing diversity of Rochester--the company town where Kodak had been based since 1880--most of Kodak’s employees were white.
Fiona Greenland with Christine Mehring
The University of Chicago Press’s “By the Book” series, in partnership with the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, presents an event featuring Fiona Greenland, author of Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy, in conversation with Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor in the Department of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago and adjunct curator at the University’s Smart Museum.
PAN: The Avant-Garde Point of View with Dr. Max Koss
Art historian and alumnus Dr. Max Koss will present this lecture on the aesthetic and history of Berlin’s art and literary journal PAN with the Driehaus Museum. He also appeared last September during the episode of Live From the Drawing Room: The Art of Entertaining to introduce The Chap-Book and the development of poster art in the late 1800s.
Wu Hung Receives Accolades for Recent Publication
Congratulations to Wu Hung (Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College and Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art) for being awarded two prizes in January, 2021 for his new book, First Class: Teaching Chinese Art History at Harvard University and the University of Chicago (Hunan Art Press 2020, in Chinese).
RAVE: Rowanne Dean
Please join us for a presentation by Rowanne Dean (Art History PhD Student). She will be presenting her QP titled “Long-Memoried Images: A Celtic Revival Shrine for the Irish Free State.”
Luke Fidler (Art History Ph.D. Candidate) will offer a response.
Speaking of Art: Zsofi Valyi-Nagy
Speaking of Art. Co-coordinator Zsofi Valyi-Nagy presenting (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) presenting Herstory or mine? Writing feminist histories of art with self-mythologies in mind.
Speaking of Art: Saadia Mirza
Saadia Mirza (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology) presenting A Phenomenology of Iceberg Collisions: Investigating Sound-Image mapping. There is no pre-circulated paper. Saadia will present excerpts of sound and image from two works that deal with the topic of remote sensing in collaboration with archaeologists, glaciologists, and geophysicists. (Please use headphones to enjoy the sound fully).