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Object Lesson: Landscapes through the Lens of Laura Gilpin
Among the foremost American photographers of the 20th century, Laura Gilpin made landscapes that varied from evocative, fog-shrouded views of Garden of the Gods in her hometown of Colorado Springs to sharp and structured scenes of the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá, in addition to a considered body of portraiture of Native communities of the Southwest. In this Object Lesson, join Curator Micah Messenheimer to explore how Gilpin both drew on and broke from tradition to present a deeply human landscape through the lens of her camera.
August, 4th 2022, 7:00pm
Finding Pictures: Latina/Latino Graphic Art & Artists
Please join us for a visual exploration of dynamic contemporary artist prints, posters, and drawings from the Library’s collections. Hispanic Reading Room reference librarian Maria Daniela Thurber and Prints & Photographs Division curator Katherine Blood will feature the newly-digitized and catalogued Mission Gráfica/La Raza Graphics collection and artist prints and posters from such collectives as Dignidad Rebelde and Self Help Graphics. They will also share works created by a variety of artists including Barbara Carrasco, Enrique Chagoya, Rupert Garcia, Ester Hernandez, Michael Menchaca, Victor Ochoa, Artemio Rodriguez, Favianna Rodriguez, Jessica Sabogal, Mario Torero, and Ernesto Montejano Yereno. Search techniques will be highlighted along with related online resources including research guides and the Library’s La Biblioteca podcast.
August 9th 2022, 12 noon
August, 17th 2022, 3:00pm
Swann Fellow Lectures
Monica Hahn – Harlequins of Empire: Staging Native Identity in British Imperial Art circa 1776
Swann Fellow, Dr. Monica Anke Hahn, assistant professor of art history at the Community College of Philadelphia, presents works from the British Cartoon Prints collection with Jamaicans as their subject – the enslaved people from Africa and their descendants, the white planters who enslaved them, and the “creole” descendants of planters, born on the island. Made by British artists, these representations reflect contemporary racialized attitudes toward slavery, the transatlantic trade, and plantation life in Jamaica. At the same time, many reveal the intricate and often unstable relationships of power and authority during British colonial rule. This talk will demonstrate that the representation of Jamaicans in the late eighteenth century can convey an underlying British anxiety about identity, colonization, and the imperial project itself. This event will be recorded.
Dining Room A, 6th floor James Madison Building
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022, noon
Ramey Mize – Imperial Projections: “Witnessing” the War of 1898 in American Visual Culture
Swann Fellow, Ramey Mize, will describe her research into the ways that technologies of violence, vision, and image-making intersected with the Battles of Santiago and San Juan Hill in the War of 1898. Firsthand sketches by William Glackens reflect a dissonance between the eyewitness claims of artists and the calculated erasure of Cuba’s Liberation Army. Sent to the Cuban front by McClure’s Magazine, Glackens chronicled the movement and exploits of U.S. troops from Tampa to Santiago. Almost none of his published drawings depicted Cuba’s Liberation Army. This omission served U.S. imperial interests and is a hallmark of related works by artists like Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington as well as U.S. visual culture more broadly. Drawn largely from the Library of Congress’s collection, these works offer insights into the persistent obfuscation of Cuba as wartime events were reenacted and recast across mediums. This event will be recorded.
Monday, August 15th, 2022, 5:00 pm