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S u s a n A b e r t h
Leonora Carrington, Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
Hardback | October 2004| $60.00 | ISBN: 0 85331 908 1 | 160 pages | 120 color illustrations. A Lund Humphries Book
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This is the first book to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). Carrington burst onto the Surrealist scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-yearold débutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was immediately championed by André Breton, who responded enthusiastically to her fantastical, dark and satirical writing style and her interest in fairy tales and the occult. Her stories were included in Surrealist publications, and her paintings in Surrealist exhibitions.
After the dramas and tragic separations of the Second World War, Carrington ended up in the 1940s as part of the circle of Surrealist Euopean émigrés living in Mexico City. Close friends with Luis Bunuel, Benjamin Péret, Octavio Paz and a host of both expatriate Surrealists and Mexican modernists. Carrington was at the center of Mexican cultural life, while still maintaining her European connections.
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art provides a facinating overview of this intriguing artist's rich body of work. The author considers Carrington's preoccupation with alchemy and the occult, and explores the influence of indigenous Mexican culture and beliefs on her production.
Lectures:
"LOUISE BOURGEOIS", DIA: BEACON - Gallery Talks Summer 2004
"Women Surrealists in Mexico" Latin American Studies Program, SUNY New Paltz, October 21, 2004, 7:00 pm
"19th Century Latin American Art" Christie' Education, New York City, November 10, 2004, 10:00 am
"Leonora Carrington", Art History Department of the University of Texas, Corpus Christi, November 22, 2004
"Divine Interventions: Ex-Voto Traditions in Latin America", SUNY Buffalo, March 2, 2006
"LOUISE BOURGEOIS", DIA: BEACON - Gallery Talks Summer 2008
L a u r i e D a h l b e r g, Chair
Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors
Cloth | January 2005 | $65.00 / £42.95 | ISBN: 0-691-11879-5 208 pp. | 11 x 9 3/4 | 80 duotones. 20 halftones.
Advance Press: "The most complete account of Regnault to date, this book will add tremendously to our knowledge about an important figure in early photography. But even more important is the expanded view Dahlberg creates of the invention in its historical time. The writing is excellent; you really feel a personality guiding you through the material with enthusiasm. Readers concerned with art history, cultural studies, and the history of industrialization in nineteenth-century France will find much to interest them here."--Nancy Keeler, independent scholar
"Dahlberg has produced an engaging and clearly argued biography that centers on the uniqueness of the individual--all the while demonstrating the reactions of this individual to a tumultuous and complex era. Through Regnault, the reader sees that many photographers were either wealthy or prominent professionals, and may observe how political tumult from the 1840s to the 1870s combined with the unstoppable advance of technology affected the actions and worldviews of people in positions of influence, from the royals to the middle-classes."--Mary Warner Marien, Syracuse University, author of Photography: A Cultural History
J e a n F r e n c h, Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History
Lectures:
“Charity and Ideology at Saint-Denis: The Parable of Lazarus and Dives” (invited paper). “Saint-Denis Revisited,” conference sponsored by the Index of Christian Art and the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University (October 24-25, 2003).
"Charity and Ideology at Saint-Denis: The Parable of Lazarus and Dives" Bard Faculty Seminar Series, Fall 2004
P a t r i c i a K a r e t z k y, Oskar Munsterberg Lecturer in Art History
Book:
Guan Yin Buddhist Deity of Compassion in China, Images of Asia, Oxford University Press, 2004
Exhibitions with catalogues:
2004 “Who Am I: Chinese and Chinese American Female Artists” 456 Gallery, Chinese American Arts Council November 2004
2004 “Heart Prints: Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy” Bard College , Student Center Annandale , October 2004
Articles:
"Millennialist Themes in the Northern Wei Grottoes in Qingyang and Jingchuan County , Eastern Gansu ,” Oriental Art Vol. XLIX. No. 4 (2003-2004):40-47.
“Laizi Beijing de siwei nyu yishujya” (Four Female Contemporary Artists from Beijing Shijye Yishu (World Art) 2004 no.2:19-23
S u s a n M e r r i a m
Lectures:
"How Miracle Images are Made: Iconoclastic Critiques and Archieropoeta in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Flanders" Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium, Miami, Fla. February 2004
"Trompe l'oeil and the Devotional Image: the Collection and Display of Flemish Garland Paintings" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 2004
"The Garland Pictures' Two Receptions in Italy and Flanders" Domestic and Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, November 2004
D i a n a M i n s k y
Classical Architecture Lecture Series at Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Summer 2004.
J u l i a R o s e n b a u m
Co-organized "Distinction and Identity: Bourgeois Culture in 19th Century America", a conference held in October 2003 at Harvard University, and presented a paper on public sculpture.
"The Power of Nomenclature and the Contradictions of American Impressionism", a talk given at CAA's 94th Annual Conference in Boston, February 22-25, 2006.
Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
T o m W o l f
Chelsea Gallery Tour, May 6, 2006. A tour of selected galleries in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, led by Tom Wolf of Bard's Art History Program.
Maverick Celebration 2006! Hervey White's Colony of the Arts, 1905-1944, co-curated by Tom Wolf, August 5 - November 5, 2006, WAAM Museum, 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, New York.