Exhibition on view through August 10
Art Now: Recent Acquisitions in Photography and Film/Video
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Overbrook Gallery
Museum of Art Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Saturday and Sunday, Noon to 5:00 P.M.
For the past eight years, the Project in Contemporary Photography and Film/Video has offered students the opportunity to help select works of art for the Museum collection. During the spring, Art Now installations feature videos by Tracy Moffett, Jacco Olivier, and the Swiss team of Fischli and Weiss, along with photographs by Roger Ballen, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others.
ART 0160 Studio Art II: Sculpture, Painting, Video
ART 0310 Painting
ART 0320 Volume, Scale and Concept in Sculpture
ART 0328 Color Photography
ART 0332 Special Topics in Studio Art: Beyond the (Silk) Screen
FMMC 0131 Film History: 1945 to Present
FMMC 0135 Sight and Sound I
FMMC 0241 French Cinema
FMMC/AMST 0242 Film Comedy
FMMC 0246 Media Technology and Cultural Change
FMMC/AMST 0275 Theories of Popular Culture
FMMC/HARC 0340 Film and Modernism
FMMC/ENAM 0341 Screenwriting Workshop II
FMMC 0346 Special Topics in Media Production
HARC 0218 History of Photography
Exhibition on view through April 20
Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery
Museum of Art Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M, Saturday and Sunday, Noon to 5:00 P.M.
A landscape has been described as “a mindful creation that frames a view of the world.” The 78 images in this extraordinary exhibition include daguerreotypes of Niagara Falls, photographs of Civil War battlefields, and spectacular views of expanding railroad lines and the vast American West. All created in the last half of the nineteenth century, by artists like Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Eadweard Muybridge, William Henry Jackson, and Carlton E. Watkins, the works were selected from more than 10,000 American landscape images in the collection of the George Eastman House. Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection and its tour were organized by George Eastman House. Free
ENVS 0215 Nature's Meanings
GEOG 0218 Cultural Geography
GEOG 0419 Seminar in Historical Geography: Visualizing the Past
HARC 0218 History of Photography
HIST 0364 Civil War and Reconstruction: 1845–1890
February 28, Thursday
The Invention of Printing and the Middlebury College Hyakuman-to and Dharani
4:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
The invention of printing in China around the Fifth Century of the Common Era was one of the greatest advances in the history of civilization, allowing information to be disseminated on an unprecedented scale. Colin Mackenzie, Robert P. Youngman Curator of Asian Art, gives a slide lecture that explores the early history of printing in East Asia and the significance of the hyakuman-to and Dharani, one of the world’s earliest extant printed texts. Free
CHNS 0103 Beginning Chinese
CHNS 0202 Intermediate Chinese
HARC 0103 Introduction to Asian Art
February 12, Tuesday
Truth and its Consequences: Photography’s Burden of Fact
4:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
In this slide lecture, Professor of History of Art and Architecture Kirsten Hoving examines selected photographs from the Museum exhibition Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House in terms of the recording function of photography. She pays special attention to the Civil War work of Alexander Gardner and the images created by Carleton Watkins in the Yosemite Valley to pose questions about the nature and function of photography. Free
ENVS 0215 Nature's Meanings
GEOG 0218 Cultural Geography
GEOG 0419 Seminar in Historical Geography: Visualizing the Past
HARC 0218 History of Photography
HIST 0364 Civil War and Reconstruction: 1845–1890
April 10, Thursday
Print the Legend: Photography, the West, and the American Imagination
4:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of American Studies and History at Amherst College, gives an illustrated slide lecture that examines how nineteenth-century photographs both reflected and helped to shape the nation’s understanding of the far West. Although photographs offered many Americans their first glimpse of a distant place, they often proved less persuasive than more dramatic and imaginative kinds of pictures. Free
ENAM/AMST 0206 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ENAM/ENVS 0215 Nature's Meanings
ENAM/AMST 0280 Routes: Migrations and American Literatures
GEOG 0218 Cultural Geography
GEOG 0419 Seminar in Historical Geography: Visualizing the Past
HARC 0218 History of Photography