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Showing posts with label Art Spiegelman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Spiegelman. Show all posts
Thursday, February 20, 2025
SPX Announces Art Spiegelman Documentary at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
'Maus' used in Naval Medical Center Portsmouth's Holocaust education
NMCP HOSTS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY
04.07.2022
Photo by Seaman Ariana Torman
Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth
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04.07.2022
Photo by Seaman Ariana Torman
Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth
220407-N-BB298-1009 Naval Medical Center Portsmouth's (NMCP) Diversity Committee hosted a Holocaust Remembrance ceremony in the command's Chapel of Comfort, April 7. The display of Holocaust memorabilia included literature and poems, along with viewing a video about the Holocaust.
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Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Diversity Committee hosted a
Holocaust Remembrance ceremony in the command’s Chapel of Comfort, April
7. NMCP’s leadership triad including Capt. Shelley Perkins, commanding
officer; Capt. Joel Schofer, executive officer; Master Chief Michele
Sullivan, command master chief; and other staff members, participated in
a walk through of Holocaust memorabilia to include literature and
poems, along with viewing a video about the Holocaust.
Date Taken: 04.07.2022
Date Posted: 04.11.2022 13:54Photo ID: 7137407
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Friday, November 16, 2018
Review: Sense of Humor exhibit at National Gallery of Art
by Mike Rhode
Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical from Leonardo to the Present. Jonathan Bober, Andrew W. Mellon senior curator of prints and drawings; Judith Brodie, curator and head of the department of American and modern prints and drawings; and Stacey Sell, associate curator, department of old master drawings. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art. July 15, 2018 – January 6, 2019. https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2018/sense-of-humor.html
Humor may be fundamental to human experience, but its expression in painting and sculpture has been limited. Instead, prints, as the most widely distributed medium, and drawings, as the most private, have been the natural vehicles for comic content. Drawn from the National Gallery of Art's collection, Sense of Humor celebrates this incredibly rich though easily overlooked tradition through works including Renaissance caricatures, biting English satires, and20th-century comics. The exhibition includes major works by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Jacques Callot, William Hogarth, James Gillray, Francisco de Goya, and Honoré Daumier, as well as later examples by Alexander Calder, Red Grooms, Saul Steinberg, Art Spiegelman, and the Guerrilla Girls.
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| James Gillray, Wierd-Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon, 1791 |
Any exhibit on humor that covers 500 years (from 1470 through 1997), two continents and at least five countries is going to have to deal with the vagaries of what humor actually is. Even within my lifetime, what is considered permissible humor in America has changed, sometimes drastically. The exhibit was divided into three galleries – according to their press release (available at the website) the first "focuses on the emergence of humorous images in prints and drawings from the 15th to 17th centuries. Satires and caricatures gained popularity during this era, poking fun at the human condition using archetypal figures from mythology and folklore. While not yet intended as caricatures of individuals, Italian works reflected the Renaissance interest in the human figure and emotion." To modern eyes, drawings of dwarves or grotesques do not really appear to be either humorous or a cartoon, but the curators make the arguments that the foundations of caricature and satirical cartooning are laid in this period.
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| William Hogarth, Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn, 1738 |
The second gallery begins featuring artists that most of us would consider cartoonists as it "continues with works from the 18th and 19th centuries, when certain artists dedicated themselves exclusively to comical subjects." In this room one found a good selection of the British masters Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray and Cruikshank, as well as Goya and Daumier (and oddly enough the painter Fragonard who drew an errant lover hiding from parents in an etching, The Armoire). This is the most interesting part of the exhibit for historians of comics, and the strong selection of etchings and drawings is worth studying since one rarely gets to see the contemporary prints, or even the original drawings such as Cruickshank's pencil and ink drawing Taking the Air in Hyde Park (1865). The release also notes, "Included in the exhibition is Daumier's Le Ventre Législatif (The Legislative Belly) (1834), a famous image that mocks the conservative members of France's Chamber of Deputies," but the exhibit does not note that the sculptures Daumier also made of the Deputies is on permanent display in another gallery of the museum -- a lost opportunity.
The final gallery "focuses on the 20th century and encompasses both the gentle fun of works by George Bellows, Alexander Calder, and Mabel Dwight and the biting satire of Hans Haacke and Rupert García. Works by professional cartoonists such as R. Crumb, George Herriman, Winsor McCay, and Art Spiegelman are presented alongside mainstream artists like Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Nutt, and Andy Warhol." Of most interest were the McCay (Little Nemo in Slumberland: Climbing the Great North Pole) and Herriman (Ah-h, She Sails Like an Angel, 1921) originals, both of which are worth examining in detail. This section also showed the paucity of the NGA's collections in modern comic art. These are joined by a print by Art Spiegelman, and several Zap Comic books, recently collected and described in standard art historical terms:
Robert Crumb (artist, author), Apex Novelties (publisher)
Zap #1, 1968
28-page paperback bound volume with half-tone and offset lithograph illustrations in black and
cover in full color
sheet: 24.13 x 17.15 cm (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
open: 24.13 x 34.29 cm (9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
The fact that the Gallery still can not bring itself to use the word 'comic book,' the standard term as opposed to paperback bound volume, unfortunately shows that it has far to go in dealing with the twentieth century's popular culture rather than fine art. Still, the exhibit is interesting, and well-worth repeated viewings which are almost necessary to understand the material from the first four centuries of the show.
(This review was written for the International Journal of Comic Art 20:2, but this version appears on both the IJOCA and ComicsDC websites on November 16, 2018, while the exhibit is still open for viewing. For those not in DC, Bruce Guthrie has photographs of the entire exhibit at http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2018_07_29B2_NGA_Humor)
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Sense of Humor exhibit open at National Gallery of Art
- Sense of Humor
- July 15, 2018 – January 6, 2019
- West Building, Ground Floor
- https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2018/sense-of-humor.html
James Gillray, Midas, Transmuting All into Paper, 1797, etching with hand-coloring in watercolor on laid paper, Wright and Evans 1851, no. 168, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as an Anonymous Gift
The exhibition is curated by Jonathan Bober, Andrew W. Mellon senior curator of prints and drawings; Judith Brodie, curator and head of the department of American and modern prints and drawings; and Stacey Sell, associate curator, department of old master drawings, all National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Passes: Admission is always free and passes are not required
About the Artists
- Bruegel the Elder, Pieter
- Flemish
- , 1525 - 1569
- Calder, Alexander
- American
- , 1898 - 1976
- Callot, Jacques
- French
- , 1592 - 1635
- Daumier, Honoré
- French
- , 1808 - 1879
- Gillray, James
- British
- , 1757 - 1815
- Goya, Francisco de
- Spanish
- , 1746 - 1828
- Grooms, Red
- American
- , 1937 -
- Guerrilla Girls
- 1985 -
- Hogarth, William
- British
- , 1697 - 1764
- Spiegelman, Art
- American
- , 1948 -
- Steinberg, Saul
- American
- , 1914 - 1999
Press Event: Sense of Humor
https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/press/press-sense-of-humor.html
At the press preview for Sense of Humor on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, remarks were given by Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. Following that, a tour of the exhibition was given by Jonathan Bober, Andrew W. Mellon senior curator of prints and drawings; Stacey Sell, associate curator, department of old master drawings; and Judith Brodie, curator and head of the department of American and modern prints and drawings.
Released: July 10, 2018
Monday, October 27, 2014
Barbara Dale's studio and cartoon collection
Besides being a stunningly successful cartoonist, Barbara Dale also has great collections of comics and cartoon history. Things like Thomas Nast's business card. She's known everyone, and gotten cartoons from many of them. Barbara opened her house and studio for a ComicsDC tour recently and has agreed to let me show some of her excellent collection.
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| Some of Barbara's merchandise |
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| One of three life-size Cathy dolls in existence and a Rube Goldberg original |
Monday, September 29, 2014
Oct 21: Art Spiegelman's Wordless at GWU
Art Spiegelman's WORDLESS! with music by Phillip Johnston
Presented by GW Lisner as part of the Washington DCJCC's Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
Presented by GW Lisner as part of the Washington DCJCC's Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 8:00pm
Tickets: $35, $40, $45
Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston unite in WORDLESS! -- a new and stimulating hybrid of slides, talk and musical performance. With original music by Phillip Johnston and live narration and text by Art Spiegelman, this live performance delves into Art's premise around comics, their history, and their capacity for images to go right to the brain as wordless messages. Experience the art of comics as Spiegelman probes further into the nature and possibilities of his medium.
15% discount for Students/Alumni/Faculty/Staff with GWID and Seniors/Military with ID at the Lisner Box Office.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Bhob Stewart's 1969 underground comics exhibit at the Corcoran
I never met Bhob Stewart who passed away this week. I'm sorry I didn't because our interests in pop culture overlapped. We must have corresponded about comics though, because my name was in his email address book, and his friend Brad Verter was kind enough to send a notice of his death, and some scans that he thought might be of interest. Bhob had apparently asked him to scan these for his blog Potrzebie, but didn't get a chance to use them.
Bhob was apparently instrumental in putting on Phonus Balonus, an underground cartoon exhibit at an offshoot of the Corcoran Gallery on Dupont Circle. Sean Howe has photographs online here, here, and here.
Here are the scans about the exhibit. I'm afraid most of them are only partially complete, but they give you an idea about what was in the show, and how it was received. Brad scanned the whole catalog of the show, and it's online here. Two libraries are shown in Worldcat as holding a copy of it - the Tate in London and UC Berkeley in California.
Bhob was apparently instrumental in putting on Phonus Balonus, an underground cartoon exhibit at an offshoot of the Corcoran Gallery on Dupont Circle. Sean Howe has photographs online here, here, and here.
Here are the scans about the exhibit. I'm afraid most of them are only partially complete, but they give you an idea about what was in the show, and how it was received. Brad scanned the whole catalog of the show, and it's online here. Two libraries are shown in Worldcat as holding a copy of it - the Tate in London and UC Berkeley in California.
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| Corcoran Gallery's press release, page 1 |
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| Front cover to the catalog with art by Bhob. |
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| Exhibit opening ticket. |
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| Newspaper clipping with Skip Williamson art |
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| Article from the New York Post. |
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| Fragment of a Washington Post article |
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| Partial Washington Post article from May 21, 1969. |
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| Partial Washington Star article from June 1, 1969 |
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| Article from an unknown New York city magazine. |
For more information on Bhob's life, read Bhob Stewart, 1937-2014, by Bill Pearson, Feb 26, 2014.
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