Wednesday, February 20, 2008

upcoming lectures

“Women Artists Through the Ages:" Hannah Hoch, Sonia Delaunay & Romaine Brooks

Monday March 3, 2008

3:30 to 5:00 pm

Ringling Library Education Building, Room 1003

Free


New College Art History students will present short lectures on women artists. These lectures were originally prepared as papers for Professor Cris Hasssold's course "An 'Other’ Story: Women Artists through the Ages." This lecture series is free and open to the public. However, seating is limited so please call for reservations (941) 359-5700 "1" ext. 2701 or 2702.

Hannah Hoch is a German DaDa collage artist; many of her collages survived World War II because she buried them in her garden.

Sonia Delaunay (from wikipedia) collaborated with poet Blaise Cendrars in 1912. She illustrated his poem La Prose du Transsibérien et de La Petite Jehanne de France (“The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France”) about a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, by creating a 2m long accordion type of book. Using simultaneous design principles the book merged text and design.

Romaine Brooks (from wikipedia) experimented with automatic drawing in the 1930s, drawings of humans, angels, demons, animals, and monsters, all formed out of continuous curved lines. She said that when she started a line she didn't know where it would go, and that the drawings "evolve[d] from the subconscious ... [w]ithout premeditation."

“Women Artists Through the Ages:" Florine Stettheimer, Claude Cahun & Leonor Fini

Monday March 10, 2008

3:30 to 5:00 pm

Ringling Library Education Building, Room 1003

Free


New College Art History students will present short lectures on women artists. These lectures were originally prepared as papers for Professor Cris Hasssold's course "An 'Other’ Story: Women Artists through the Ages."


Claude Cahun is arguably the most important forgotten female french surrealist poet. I have a back burner project to translate her works into French and publish a bilingual edition. Here is a link:

claude cahun
http://tinyurl.com/35wo6l

and
Heroines
http://tinyurl.com/367xud

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