11/7/10
11/1/10
Lecture Today
Monday, November 1, 2010 ● 4:30 p.m. ● Wilder 101
"Asian American Art History: Hidden Right Before Our Eyes"
Gordon Chang
Professor of History
Stanford University
A professor of American history at Stanford University, Gordon Chang's research focuses on the history of United States-East Asia relations and on Asian American history. He is particularly interested in the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America and foreign relations, and explores these interconnections in his teaching and scholarship. He is a recipient of Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships, and has been a two-time fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Chang is the editor or author of a number of essays and books, including Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (2006), Asian Americans and Politics: An Exploration (2001), Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Wartime Writing, 1942-1945 (1997), and Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 (1990). His most recent work, American Asian Art: A History, 1850-1970 (2008) is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of American Asian artists active in the United States before 1970. He is currently at work on a "long" history of U.S.-China relations from the colonial era to the present.
Sponsored by Oberlin College Comparative American Studies Program, Oberlin College Shansi, Oberlin College Art Department (Baldwin Fund), Oberlin College Department of History (Anderson Fund), Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program, Oberlin College Multicultural Resource Center
"Asian American Art History: Hidden Right Before Our Eyes"
Gordon Chang
Professor of History
Stanford University
A professor of American history at Stanford University, Gordon Chang's research focuses on the history of United States-East Asia relations and on Asian American history. He is particularly interested in the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America and foreign relations, and explores these interconnections in his teaching and scholarship. He is a recipient of Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships, and has been a two-time fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Chang is the editor or author of a number of essays and books, including Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (2006), Asian Americans and Politics: An Exploration (2001), Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Wartime Writing, 1942-1945 (1997), and Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 (1990). His most recent work, American Asian Art: A History, 1850-1970 (2008) is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of American Asian artists active in the United States before 1970. He is currently at work on a "long" history of U.S.-China relations from the colonial era to the present.
Sponsored by Oberlin College Comparative American Studies Program, Oberlin College Shansi, Oberlin College Art Department (Baldwin Fund), Oberlin College Department of History (Anderson Fund), Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program, Oberlin College Multicultural Resource Center
9/29/10
Lecture Today
Wednesday, September 29, 5 pm—Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
Trevor Paglen, Photography and the Creation of the World
Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines. His visual work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, the Andy Warhol Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and has been featured in numerous publications including the New York Times, Aperture, and Art Forum. He is the author of four books: Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (2006), I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (2007), Blank Spots on a Map (2009), and Invisible (forthcoming August 30, 2010). Paglen holds a B.A. from UC Berkkeley, an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley. He currently resides in Oakland, California and New York City.
Still life from Afghanistan
Thanks to Hossit ( to see more)
For U.S. military officials in Kandahar province, the war in Afghanistan – is not only the shooting and patrolling. It is also usual scenes of daily life in the camps and bases. Dusty regions. Metal bowls. General barracks. Impromptu memorials to the fallen soldiers. Still life in Afghanistan.
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9/26/10
9/22/10
9/21/10
Postcard from Down Under
Lab monitor Alex Voight checks in from his semester in Australia (with the absolute perfect post card!)
9/17/10
9/16/10
Egyptian newspaper under fire
The altered photo
The originalFrom the BBC
Egypt's state-run newspaper has come under fire for altering a photograph to suggest President Hosni Mubarak was leading the Middle East peace talks.
Al-Ahram showed Mr Mubarak walking on a red carpet ahead of US President Barack Obama as well as the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders.
The original image, taken at the White House when talks were formally re-launched, shows Mr Obama leading the way and Mr Mubarak trailing behind.
9/7/10
AMAM Lecture series
Wednesday, September 29, 5 pm—Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
Trevor Paglen, Photography and the Creation of the World
Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines. His visual work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, the Andy Warhol Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and has been featured in numerous publications including the New York Times, Aperture, and Art Forum. He is the author of four books: Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (2006), I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (2007), Blank Spots on a Map (2009), and Invisible (forthcoming August 30, 2010). Paglen holds a B.A. from UC Berkkeley, an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley. He currently resides in Oakland, California and New York City.
Tuesday, October 5, 5 pm—Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
Andy Grundberg, Culture Wars Revisited: Mapplethorpe, Photography, Pornography and the Real
Andy Grundberg is a curator, teacher, arts consultant and former New York Times critic who has been involved with photography and art for more than twenty-five years. Among the major exhibitions he has organized are Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946 (1987), Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures (1996), Ansel Adams: A Legacy (1997), and In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places (2001). His books include Alexey Brodovitch (1989), Mike and Doug Starn (1990), and The Crisis of the Real (1999), a collection of essays, which examine the notion that photography both reflects and helps shape the contemporary art world. Grundberg is currently the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Chair of Photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.
Monday, October 11, 5 pm—Classroom 1, Allen Art Building
Mark Levitch, Filling the Void: The Culture of Photography in Great War France
Mark Levitch holds a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art history from the University of Pennsylvania. Previously an intelligence analyst at the State Department, Levitch works as a researcher and writer at the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. He is also the author of Pantheon De La Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War (2006), the first historical and scholarly exploration of the Pantheon. Oberlin’s Professor of History Leonard Smith writes: “Levitch’s fine archaeology of the Pantheon provides a great service to historians of the memory of the Great War.” Levitch combines cultural history, art history and material culture studies to trace the changing reception of traditional art in the new age of mechanical media.
Thursday, October 14, 5 pm—Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
David Odo, Reframed Meanings: Early Photography of Japan as Souvenir/Science
David Odo is the Bradley Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs at the Yale University Art Gallery. He previously taught in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Odo received his D.Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and has held numerous research fellowships, including appointments at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Freer/Sackler Galleries, Harvard University, and the University of Tokyo. He has edited, curated and published work on early Japanese and Asian photography. His most recent publications are Unknown Japan: Reconsidering Early Photographs, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008) and “Expeditionary Photographs of the Ogasawara Islands, 1875-76” (in History of Photography, 2009).
5/10/10
Happy Mother's Day
Jake and his mom Rhea collaborated on The Gift, the last project of the Mixed Media class. 10 am on Sunday we were invited to show up wearing pajamas. First of all, no one has pajamas and I don't think that students can get up that early on a Sunday. We all came, some of us wearing pajamas and watched Jake's video and ate Ria's famous pancakes with berries, scrambled eggs with mushroom and cheese, bacon and drank Mimosa. Happy Mother's Day and it was a win win situation for everybody. Thanks Ria and Jake!!!
930am
The early birds
The Pancakes
The eggs
The video
The crew
What happened to Lucas' Site Specific Project
Lucas created a beautiful space under the stone circle in the Arb and before he can document the project, the police cleaned it up and dumped it in the trash by the golf course. So the crew loaded up and went in search of Lucas' project and miraculously Lucas found it after digging around in the dumpster. As a bonus Sophie found a bag of dog droppings sitting on top of Lucas' mirror
Sophie is helping Lucas while Jake is videotaping
Lucas was elated to find his mirror
Sophie is helping Lucas while Jake is videotaping
Lucas was elated to find his mirror
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