THE MENDICANT REVOLUTION 

Lecture Series on the International Spread of the Mendicant Orders

"The Franciscans' Ministry in England (1240-1299)"

Michael Robson
St Edmunds College, Cambridge, UK

Monday, February 1, 5:00 PM
East Duke Building, Room 108

Sponsors: Center for International Studies, Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

NASHER MUSEUM OF ART

Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature
February 4 - May 16, 2010

Steve Bell, Yellow Cake Road, 2004. Watercolor paper, pen, ink and watercolor, 9" x 12". Appeared in The Guardian, January 21, 2004.

The exhibition will explore the significance and impact of political caricature by comparing images from the past-canonical works by Daumier and his contemporaries featuring French king Louis-Philippe (1830-1848)-with work produced much more recently, during the tenure of U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (1993-2008). The exhibition will highlight the development of graphic satire as a significant journalistic medium, explore its strengths and limitations as a catalyst for debate, and investigate caricature's prospective place within emerging Web-based media, as traditional print journalism adapts to new technological forms.

The exhibition is organized by the Nasher Museum at Duke, with guest curator Neil McWilliam, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Art and Art History in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. The exhibition is on view at the Nasher Museum from February 4 through May 16, 2010. At the Nasher Museum the exhibition is supported by Duke University's Provost's Common Fund.

Exhibition Opening and Lecture

5:30 PM Cash Bar
6:00 PM Lecture by Chris Lamb

Kevin KAL Kallaugher, Florida, 2000. Pen, brush and India ink, 16 x 20 inches, appeared in The Economist, July 17, 2004.

"Drawing Fire: Editorial Cartoonists, the Bush Administration, and the Iraq War"

Chris Lamb
Professor of Communications
College of Charleston

Chris Lamb is the author of Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States.

Reception to follow.

EAST DUKE CORRIDOR GALLERY INSTALLATION

Merrill Shatzman, ART poem, 24" x 30", digital print.

A new multimedia installation by artists Raquel Salvatella de Prada and Merrill Shatzman (Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies) and poet Deborah Pope (Department of English) is on view in the East Duke Building Corridor Gallery on Duke's East Campus.

Supported by a Council for the Arts Collaboration Development Grant and the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, this multi-faceted project displays the collaborative work of these Duke professors in exploring the interactive relationship between original visual artwork with original creative text. The installation features the poetry of Pope, the letterforms and digital prints of Shatzman, and the animation of Salvatella de Prada, highlighting the potential of digital media in translating the written word. 

Raquel Salvatella de Prada, stlll frame from Art poem video.

The resulting exhibition, ART, reflects the artists' own interactive, interdisciplinary, individual, and collective dynamic, aspiring to simultaneously enact and celebrate the essence and process of creating itself:  Art in all its rhythms of paradox, play, persistence, its rough turns and joys; its restless circling, transcendent moments of ephemeral poise, and ceaseless seeking.

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Two Grants Fund "Visualizing San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples"

Two Duke undergraduates, Umberto Plaja, (Trinity '10) and Laura Favel (Trinity '09), under the direction of Prof. Caroline Bruzelius, Anne M. Cogan Professor of Art History, will create a model of the major phases of construction of the important historic site of San Lorenzo Maggiore in the center of Naples. The project is funded in part by the Trent Foundation and by an Undergraduate Research Grant.

This remarkable church, one of the major Gothic monuments in Naples, was built over the ancient Roman market of Neapolis.  The construction of an Early Christian church in the 6th century, C.E. transformed this commercial and civic zone of the city into one of the major religious sites in the city.

Graduate Student Speaks at College Art Association Conference

Gino Severini, Blue Dancer, 1912, oil and sequins. Mattioli Collection, Milan.

Zoe Marie Jones is presenting "A Transnational Bohemia in Paris:  Integrating the Italian Artist, 1906-1914" as part of the session, Strangers in Paradise: Immigrant Artistic Communities in Modern Paris, at the annual conference of the College Art Association this month.

Book by Alumnus Published by Phaidon

Art and Electronic Media by Edward Shanken  (Ph.D, '01) is the freshest title in the Themes and Movements series published by Phaidon Press. Shenken currently teaches in the New Media area at the University of Amsterdam.

This highly anticipated book demonstrates the formidable history of artistic uses of electronic media, a history that parallels the growing pervasiveness of technology in all facets of life. Over two hundred artists and institutions from more than thirty countries are represented. The centrality of artists as theorists and critics is refected in the focus on artists' writings. The goal is to enable the rich genealogy of art and electronic media to be understood and seen-literally and figuratively-as central to the histories of art and visual culture.

"It is a superb work of scholarship, marked by clarity, subtlety, and comprehensive vision. Art and Electronic Media does us all a great service. More than any other publication that I know of, it will bring our field of practice into the mainstream of art." - Roy Ascott

THE MENDICANT REVOLUTION 

Lecture Series on the International Spread of the Mendicant Orders

Monday, February 15, 5:00 PM
East Duke Building, Room 108

"How to be a Minority: Raymond de Penyafort's Letter to the Dominicans and Franciscans in Tunis (1235)"
John Tolan
Université de Nantes, France

Monday, April 12, 5:00 PM
East Duke Building, Room 108

"Visual Preaching in the New World"
Jaime Lara
Yale Divinity School & Yale Institute of Sacred Music

Sponsors: Center for International Studies, Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

NASHER MUSEUM OF ART

Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature
February 4 - May 16, 2010

Nicholas Garland, America's Nightmare - after Fuseli, 2006. Pen, ink and watercolor. Appeared in Daily Telegraph, February 16, 2006. Courtesy of the artist.

Lectures and Film Series

Wednesday, Feb. 17, 7:00 PM             
Roundtable Discussion: "The Press: Balance, Bias, and the Freedom of Speech." Panelists include Jay Hamilton, David Paletz, and Robert Entman (George Washington University)

Thursday, Feb. 18, 7:00 PM    
Film: "Journeys with George" (Alexandra Pelosi and Aaron Lubarsky, 2002)

Thursday, Mar. 4, 5:30/6:00 PM
First Thursday: Neil McWilliam gives a gallery talk about the exhibition; cash bar opens at 5:30 PM; gallery talk 6:00 PM

Thursday, Mar. 4, 7:00 PM              
Film: "This Film is Not Yet Rated" (Kirby Dick, 2006)

Thursday, Mar. 18, 4:00 PM        
Lecture: Peter Kuper, artist in the exhibition, will speak on "Revolutions and Art," followed by a book signing. Sponsored by the Dept. of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.

Thursday, Mar. 18, 7:00 PM        
Film: "Shut Up and Sing" (Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck, 2006)

Wednesday,  Apr. 14, 7:00 PM              
Roundtable Discussion: "Satire and New Media." Panelists include Ken Rogerson, James Boyle, Geoffrey Baym (UNC-G), and Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher

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