Yearly Archives: 2019

Inka Rocks & Roads: A Visual Culture of Connectivity

Carolyn Dean
Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
University of California, Santa Cruz

Drawing on her research of Inka material and performance culture both before and after the Spanish Invasion of the Andes. Dean’s work focuses on Inka stonework and its significance given the Andean understanding of rock as sentient and potentially animate.

Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas & Society and the Departments of Anthropology and Art History.

Wednesday, February 27 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm

College Building South, 114

 

Surrealism at Play
2019, DUKE UNIVERSITY Press
Susan Laxton, author

In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism. Whether through exquisite-corpse drawings, Man Ray’s rayographs, or Joan Miró’s visual puns, surrealists became adept at developing techniques and processes designed to guarantee aleatory outcomes. In embracing chance as the means to produce unforeseeable ends, they shifted emphasis from final product to process, challenging the disciplinary structures of industrial modernism. As Laxton demonstrates, play became a primary method through which surrealism refashioned artistic practice, everyday experience, and the nature of subjectivity.

 

The Art History Association’s

Graduate School Talk

February 6  at 5pm

Graduate Student Lounge ARTS 328

Come learn about graduate school requirements, work, and tips with Cynthia Neri.

Camilla Querin at the Getty Graduate Symposium

Art History Doctoral Candidate, Camilla Querin, presented at the Getty Graduate Symposium on January 26, 2019. The Getty Graduate Symposium comprises art history graduate students from California research universities: Stanford, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC and USC. The students have been elected by faculty at their respective departments to represent their institutions. Each student gives a 20 minute talk followed by Q&A. Camilla’s talk was “Dialectics of Maladragem: When Arts Transform the Outcast into a Hero.”

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Getty Graduate Symposium

GETTY CENTER

Saturday, January 26, 2019, from 9 am – 6 pm

Museum Lecture Hall

Free | Advance ticket required: https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_2445.html

The Getty Research Institute hosts the first annual Getty Graduate Symposium, showcasing the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions, the symposium will include nine individual presentations, panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors, and question-and-answer sessions with the audience.

Participating universities include Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Riverside; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Santa Cruz; and the University of Southern California.

Participants

Dan Abbe, University of California, Los Angeles
Laura diZerega, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sharrissa Iqbal, University of California, Irvine
Yiqing Li, University of California, San Diego
LuLing Osofsky, University of California, Santa Cruz
Camilla Querin, University of California, Riverside
Ambra Spinelli, University of Southern California
Patricia J. Yu, University of California Berkeley
Yechen Zhao, Stanford University

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