Homepage | Faculty | PhD Program | Undergraduates | VRC | Announcements | Contacts JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER EXHIBITION Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency September 17 – November 29, 2009 The exhibition, Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency, opens with a reception on September 17 at 5:00 PM in the Franklin Center Gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and runs through November 29, 2009. Kristine Stiles, professor of art, art history, and visual studies, curated the exhibition from her extensive archive of art, artists’ letters, documents, posters, and ephemera. A 48-page full-color catalog designed by Molly Renda and featuring an essay by Professor Stiles accompanies the exhibition. In her essay, Stiles writes that, “for over fifty years, Jean Toche has made art from the position of moral and ethical indignation, expressed openly and without reservation against political corruption, social hypocrisy, and human rights abuses throughout the world.” As witnessed in the current show, Toche has lost nothing of his ability to employ art to explore and express critical understandings of global decision-making and social and political acts, especially by the United States. All works in this exhibition are from the year 2004 and focus on the administration of George W. Bush. New Administrative Assistant in AAHVS Art, Art History & Visual Studies welcomes Aaron Weaver as our new Director of Undergraduate Studies assistant/departmental administrative assistant. Not new to Duke, Aaron previously worked in the Duke Development Office in Campaign Strategic Planning. As Hans van Miegroet, chair of the department, noted, “Needless to say that his experience with corporate finance, strategic planning, accounts payable, and data analysis, among others, will tremendously benefit our [increasingly complex administrative] operation.” Faculty Publication on Printmaking Bill Fick, visiting assistant professor of the practice of visual arts, has coauthored with UNC-Chapel Hill professor Beth Grabowski a new survey book on printmaking. Printmaking - A Complete Guide to Materials and Process covers both fundamental techniques and current practices used in the contemporary print studio. In addition to technical information, the book explores the processes and functions of print media that inform the very strategy of art making. Works illustrated in the book offer innovative examples from across the globe that position prints at the cutting edge of contemporary art.   The book is published by Laurence King in the United Kingdom and Prentice Hall in the United States. A French version has been published by Eyrolles, Manuel complet de gravure, and a Spanish version by Blume, El Grabado y la Impresión - Guía Completa de Técnicas, Materiales y Procesos. WIRED! New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials Students from the WIRED! course while doing field work in Naples, March 2009 Student projects from the new course, “WIRED! New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials” (VISUALST 201S), can be viewed at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/olson/courses/wired/final-projects WIRED! was offered Spring 2009 and was team-taught by Rachel Brady, adjunct associate professor of visual studies; Caroline Bruzelius, Anne M. Cogan Professor of art history; Sheila Dillon, associate professor of art history; Mark Olson, visiting assistant professor of visual studies; and Raquel Salvatella de Prada, visiting assistant professor of the practice of visual arts. The course explored how research and study in material culture and the visual arts can now be expressed by using new visual technologies to record and communicate complex sets of visual and physical data from urban and/or archaeological sites. Hadrianic Baths, Aphrodisias: Created by Elizabeth Baudoin, Akara Lee, Umberto Plaja, and Catherine Stanley WIRED! introduced techniques for the presentation and interpretation of visual material through a series of interpretive and reconstructive technologies, integrating HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Google Sketch-Up, Google Maps, and Adobe Flash. Students were trained using two test cases: Aphrodisias, a classical archaeological site, and Piacenza, a medieval urban/architectural site, to develop techniques of interpretation and representation. Piacenza: Created by Aurelia D’Antonio and Michal Koszycki Visual Practice Exhibitions and Events Site http://sites.google.com/site/vpexhibitionsevents/HOME This site is a collectively maintained platform for ongoing exhibitions, talks, events, and performances related to the visual arts, visual practice, and visual studies at Duke University. Featured events are organized by students, staff, faculty, and local community members. Graduate Student News Allison Evans will be working as an assistant to the Chief Curator at the Columbus Museum of Art this year. Beyond Beauty: Conversations About Photography Nasher Museum of Art October 2, 2009, 1:00 – 7:00 PM James Karales, Passive Resistance Training, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960. Atlanta, Georgia. Gelatin silver print, 8.5 x 13 inches. The Duke University Special Collections Library. Three conversations with photographers, dealers, curators, and writers explore the relationship between photography and beauty. Conversation One: Beauty and Paradox Dawoud Bey, Eric Gottesman, and Susan Meiselas Conversation Two: The Afterlife of Beauty Philip Brookman, Alison Nordstrom, and Deborah Willis Conversation Three: Contesting Beauty Bill Burke, Howard Greenberg, and Laurel Nakadate Keynote Speaker: Paul Hendrickson 6:00 – 7:00 PM Reception in the Nasher Lobby Sponsored by the Archive of Documentary Arts and Perkins Library, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. http://www.nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions_beauty.php http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/photography.html Please refer all relevant departmental information for inclusion in our bi-weekly announcement to John Taormina, Director, Visual Resources Center, at taormina@duke.edu. Homepage | Faculty | PhD Program | Undergraduates | VRC | Announcements | Contacts © 2008 Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited.