Film on the art of the Gilded Age to premiere at Reynolda House; David Lubin featured
This is a guest post from Reynolda House Museum of American Art:
Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host the North Carolina premiere of “America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age,” a film that tells the story of the painting, sculpture, music and literature of America’s renaissance featuring art historian David Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest. Lubin is the author of “Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War,” which will be available for purchase at the museum. Independent filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films will introduce the film and Lubin will join them for questions following its screening.
The one-night-only screening will take place Thursday, Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. in the museum’s auditorium. A brief reception will take place before the screening. Tickets are $15, and available online atreynoldahouse.org or at the door.
“America Rising” highlights works from what Mark Twain described “The Gilded Age,” the tremendous outpouring of artistic endeavor that occurred between the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and the death of Mark Twain in 1910. Featuring the only known film footage of Mark Twain, “America Rising” illustrates how, after the Civil War, American art and American artists came into their own on the world stage. In painting, sculpture, architecture and music, America found its artistic soul and voice in the art created during the explosion of American economic growth, which Twain wrote about in his novel, “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.”
Using more than 90 works of art, featuring painters as diverse as Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast and John Singer Sargent – all artists represented in the Reynolda House collection – and with the great public sculpture of creative geniuses including Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his “Robert Gould Shaw Memorial,” “America Rising” creates a portrait of a country reinventing itself after the tragic events of the Civil War.
A review in “Artes Magazine” said that “this film is a tour de force, offering a comprehensive, multi-layered glimpse into many moving parts of an historical period…skillfully showing us what we as Americans were capable of becoming.”
Clips from the film can be viewed at this link: https://vimeo.com/two17films.
Categories: Guest Post, Inside WFU
Faculty publications: May 2016 updates
Dalton, Mary M., Max Dosser, Katie Nelson, & Rebecca Steiner, Eds. (Communication). Critical Media Studies: Student Essays on Deadwood (Critical Media Studies, Vol. 2). Library Partners Press. May 2016.
Dalton, Mary M. & Laura R. Linder, Eds. (Communication). The Sitcom Reader: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed, 2nd ed. State University of New York Press. May 2016.
Echeverría, Andrea. (Romance Languages). El despertar de los awquis: Migración y utopia en la poesía de Gloria Mendoza y Boris Espezúa. Paracaídas Editores. May 2016.
Fogel, Daniel S. (Sustainability). Strategic Sustainability: A Natural Environmental Lens on Organizations and Management. Routledge. April 2016.
Lubin, David M. (Art). Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War. Oxford University Press. May 2016.
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Inaugural 'Lifelong Learning' event: Q & A with David Lubin
A guest post by Madeline Stone, Wake Forest News and Communication Intern
World War I marked the beginning of a period when a soldier could be severely injured in battle and still survive. In his research on art and World War War I, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art David Lubin discovered the work of Anna Coleman Ladd, an American sculptor who began creating prosthetic facial masks for disfigured soldiers.
Ladd’s work became the inspiration for “Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America’s First World War,” Lubin’s upcoming book. His findings have been featured in recent weeks in the Washington Post and on NPR’s All Things Considered.
On Oct. 27, Lubin will present “Behind the Mask: World War I, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution,” the inaugural Lifelong Learning lecture at 7:30 p.m. at the Byrum Center Auditorium. The lecture will address facial disfigurement, and the subsequent transformation in beauty standards for women, as evidenced by movie star photography, the growth of the makeup industry, and the advent of beauty pageants such as Miss America.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Art professor Lubin named William C. Seitz Senior Fellow
The National Gallery of Art has appointed Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art David Lubin the William C. Seitz Senior Fellow for 2013-14.
The fellowship, offered by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, is one of the most competitive and prestigious in the broad field of art history. It primarily supports research on modern and contemporary art.
During his sabbatical, Lubin will have access to world-class art at one of the nation’s premier art galleries and the Library of Congress — resources that will be vital as he continues working on his upcoming book examining World War I and how American artists responded to the upheaval in painting, drawing, photography, and film.
At CASVA, a leading center for art history activity, Lubin will be working with 20 international scholars and predoctoral graduate students, each focusing on a different research project.
“This is a great opportunity for me to work in a sustained way with the best and brightest,” Lubin said. “Part of the benefit of the senior fellowship is the opportunity to mentor and learn from the most promising younger scholars in the field. And when I need a break, I can walk to another area of the gallery and spend time with Raphael, Rembrandt or Titian.”
Founded in 1979, CASVA is located in the National Gallery’s famed East Building, designed by I.M. Pei. The Center fosters study of the production, use and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, urbanism, photography and film worldwide from prehistoric times to the present.
As a senior fellow, Lubin will reside in Washington from September 2013 through May 2014.
Read more about Lubin’s work: Researching the iconic images of war
Categories: Faculty News, Hot Topics
Thursdays at Byrum Hall
The Provost and the Undergraduate Admissions Office invite faculty and staff to Thursdays at Porter B. Byrum Hall (the Welcome and Admissions Center) on March 8.
A wine and cheese reception will run from 4-4:30 p.m., followed by a program from 4:30-5:15 p.m. that will feature David Lubin, Peter Kairoff and Morna O’Neill and Allison Slaby.
The event also will serve as a kickoff for the Arts Council campaign kickoff, so there will be remarks by David Finn, WFU campaign chair and professor of art; Nathan Hatch, WFU president; Leon Porter (’78), campaign chair; and Milton Rhodes, president and CEO of The Arts Council.
Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber professor of art, will discuss an essay he’s writing on oil money and oil painting for an exhibition co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art to mark the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
Kairoff, professor of music, will discuss and perform The Keyboard Suites of J.S. Bach.
Morna O’Neill, assistant professor of art history, and Allison Slaby, managing curator, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, will discuss their collaboration on the current exhibition, “Domestic Bliss: Art at Home in Britain and America, 1780-1840.”
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