Art History

The Art History Program proudly announces the publication of Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image by  Professor Susan Merriam, Ashgate, 2012.

Book reading with introduction by
Professor Marina van Zuylen,
Monday, March 19, 2012
5:30 pm  Finberg House

Primordial, Isabel De Obaldia

Primordial:
Paintings and Sculpture by
Isabel De Obaldia
http://www.moafl.org/exhibits/deobaldia.html

Sept. 25, 2011-May 27, 2012

Essay by Susan Aberth:
Emissaries from the Primordial Realms: The Presence of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art in the Work of Isabel De Obaldia

Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist

Eugene Ludins, Self Portrait with Pipe, 1928-31, Private Collection

Curated by Susana Torruella Leval

February 11 — July 12, 2012

Catalog includes an essay by
Tom Wolf, Art History, Bard College

Opening Reception:
Friday, February 10, 2012, 5-7 pm

Prof. Tom Wolf will give a talk entitled “Isami Doi and Asian American Artists in New York Between the World Wars” at the Arts and Humanities Conference sponsored by the University of Hawaii, Monday, January 10, 2011.

Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, has published in the Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, November/December 2011 issue, “Xu Yong’s This Face,” an article about  Xu Young’s latest works marking his continued concern for the plight of prostitutes in China.

Xu Yong, This Face (detail)

Prof. Noah Chasin, Art History, participated in a panel discussion after the premier of the film “Urbanized” at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Prof. Noah Chasin joined in a conversation at McNally-Jackson Books in NYC on the subject of Anthony Vidler’s recently published volume of essays, “The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays.”  More info:

http://archleague.org/2011/07/talking-booksthe-scenes-of-the-street-and-other-essays/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26872699@N08/sets/72157627140587698/detail/

Downtown Detroit as seen in documentary "Urbanized."

Also, Noah Chasin is featured in Gary Hustwit’s new film, Urbanized, which just opened at the IFC Theater in NYC. It is the third in his design trilogy that also includes the cult favorites Helvetica and Objectified. Hustwit will be on campus to do a screening of the new film later in the semester. Check it out:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/gary-hustwits-urbanized-review.htmlhttp://www.villagevoice.com/2011-10-26/film/urbanized-film-review/http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/film/2135649/review-urbanized
http://urbanizedfilm.com/

Zhu Jiuyuang

The opening of “In God We Trust: Chinese Christian Contemporary Art” in the Woods on Wednesday, September 1st with a lecture by curator Patricia Karetzky, was amazing. Please click on the link to see images from the event and please visit the show now until September 30, 2011 in the Woods Studio.

In God We Trust Chinese Contemporary Christian Art

Gao Yuan

Co-curated by Patricia Karetzky and Daozi, essay by Wang Yun

September 1-30, 2011
The Woods

Lecture by Patricia Karetzky, Thursday, September 1, 2011,
5:00 pm
Opening Reception to follow.

Curated by Tom Wolf, Bard College
June 11- October 10, 2011

The Cat That Jumped Out of the Story, n.d. pastel. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, early 1930s. collection of Alexander Bacon Brook.

WAAM: Woodstock Artists Association Museum
28 Tinker Street
Woodstock, New York 12498
845-679-2940. www.woodstockart.org

The exhibition Cats & Caricatures takes as its theme two of the richest subjects explored by renowned artist and illustrator Peggy Bacon (1898-1987): her skill at drawing and exaggerating the characteristic facial features of friends, artists, entertainers, and politicians and her fascination with cats as visual subjects rich in movement, variety and expression.