Author: Scott Peterson
William J. Faber’s Abstraction
By Anonymous
I really enjoyed it, and I am so glad I came to the workshop at the beginning of the semester. I only checked out one piece, but I loved how it added something more to my space without reminding me of other things – it simply just *was*. I definitely plan to check out another piece next year… Thank you so much!
Berthe Morisot’s Drawing Lesson
By Camille Crittenden
Thank you for this wonderful service! The Berthe Morisot sketch I borrowed added a touch of history and visual culture to my office space that I appreciated every day.
New Books Added to Graduate Services in April
Collected Poems by Robert Bly
Beard’s Roman Women by Anthony Burgess with photographs by David Robinson edited with an introduction and notes by Graham Foster
The Black Prince by Adam Roberts Adapted from an original screenplay by Anthony Burgess
David Jones’s The Grail Mass And Other Works (Modernist Archives Series) edited by Thomas Goldpaugh and Jamie Callison
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich A. Kittler translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz
Spekulative Sinnlichkeit: Kontemplation And Spekulation Im Mittelalter by Niklaus Largier
The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of D.H. Lawrence The Poems Volume III: Uncollected Poems And Early Versions edited by Christopher Pollnitz
The Writings Of Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor And Other Uncompleted Writings edited by Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, Robert A. Sandberg, and G. Thomas Tanselle
Enlisting Faith: How The Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion And State In Modern America by Ronit Y. Stahl
Imagining World Order: Literature And International Law In Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 by Chenxi Tang
Why Should I Write A Poem Now: The Letters Of Srinivas Rayaprol And William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958 edited by Graziano Kratli with a forward by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Afterward by Paul Mariani
Robert Swanson’s Fairies & Beth Van Hoesen’s Raccoon Straits
By Emily Turkel
Living with the GALC was great! The one downside was not being able to check the pieces out over the summer — my apartment was defined by the art! I had “Raccoon Straits” hung above my dining room table and everyone complimented me on the piece! Can’t wait to check out some new prints next semester.
Artemio Rodriguez’s Sinfonia Para Los Dioses & Yolanda M. Lopez’s Tribute to Dolores Huerta
By Jessie Rosales
It was my first time using the GALC loan program. It was a good experience. I reviewed aimlessly through the available art pieces. However, I stumbled across two art pieces from Latinx artists. I decided to rent them out and place them in my barebones office. Unfortunately, I found out about the program a bit late, so the art pieces were only in my office for less than a month – but they did bring a lot of character and fullness to my office.
Ryoko Tajiri’s Figure I & Theo Wujcik’s James Rosenquist
By Anonymous
I am a Berkeley staff member and first learned about the GALC through enthusiastic co-workers who had just chosen and hung their prints for the year. Because my work is based at an institute focused on robotics and automation, I sought out two prints that were deeply humanistic in both subject and medium. Both were portraits of human (or humanoid) figures looking contemplative about their roles and places in the world. In contrast to the uniformity of mass-produced art prints from the home decor store, these pieces also stood out because a human hand was so evident in their creation…from delicate and irregular pencil strokes to the hand-cut paper canvas.
After participating for one year, my conclusion is that the GALC is the coolest program on campus! I’ve told dozens of colleagues around the world about it. They were shocked that the University allows this intimate and democratic engagement with fine art. Bringing art and the artists’s stories into our office spaces helps to elevate the professional environment — in ways that reflect the thought-provoking work we all do on behalf of the University. Thank you for providing this very special program.
Man With Plate & Coygon Robinson Jr.’s Mr. Charles
By Clifton Damiens
I loved having those prints in my office. I have an office in the basement; no windows and no natural light. The posters brought a bit of sunshine into my workspace. I only wish I could keep them through the summer.
I am grateful for this program and look forward to reserving two more pieces for the 2019-20 academic year.
New Books Added to Graduate Services in March
What Is Real? by Giorgio Agamben
The Realness Of Things Past: Ancient Greece And Ontological History by Greg Anderson
Little Man Little Man: A Story Of Childhood by James Baldwin with illustrations by Yoran Cazac
The Farm by Wendell Berry with drawing by Carolyn Whitesel
The Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961-1993 by Anthony Burgess edited by Will Carr
Puma by Anthony Burgess edited with an introduction by Paul Wake
William S. Burroughs’ “The Revised Boy Scout Manual”: An Electric Revolution edited by Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett
E.E. Cummings: A Miscellany Revised Edition edited by George J. Firmage
Shards (Fragments Of Verses) by Lorenzo Chiera translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in collaboration with Massimiliano Chiamenti
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: 60th Anniversary Edition edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby: An Edition Of The Manuscript edited by James L. W. West III and Don C. Skemer
Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves with an introduction by Miranda Seymour
How Old Is The Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, And Historical Study by Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten
The Question Concerning The Thing: On Kant’s Doctrine Of The Transcendental Principles by Martin Heidegger translated by James D. Reid and Benjamin D. Crowe
The Letters Of Flannery O’Connor And Caroline Gordon edited by Christine Flanagan
Pennies On My Eyes by Wilfred Owen
The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, And The Reformation by Diego Pirillo
Cathay: A Critical Edition by Ezra Pound edited by Timothy Billings
Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, And The Art Of Poetry by Adrienne Rich edited with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert
Selected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich
Five European Plays In English Versions by Tom Stoppard
Life In Culture: Selected Letters Of Lionel Trilling edited by Adam Kirsch
John Updike: Novels 1959-1965: The Poorhouse Fair, Rabbit, Run, The Centaur, Of The Farm edited by Christopher Carduff
The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography edited by Suzanne Raitt and Ian Blyth
Making Sex Public And Other Cinematic Fantasies by Damon R. Young
New Books Added to Graduate Services in February
Judaism: The Genealogy Of A Modern Notion by Daniel Boyarin
Before The Law: The Complete Text of Prejuges by Jacques Derrida
The Jews: A History (Third Edition) by John Efron, Matthias Lehmann, and Steven Weitzman
‘Dearest Squirrel…’: The Intimate Letters Of John Osborne And Pamela Lane edited by Peter Whitebrook
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Elena A. Schneider
New Books Added To The Graduate Services Collection In January
The Complete Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood
Questioning Minds: The Letters Of Guy Davenport & Hugh Kenner edited by Edward M. Burns
Kerouac Beat Painting by Jack Kerouac edited by Sandrina Bandera, Alessandro Castiglioni, Emma Zanella
A Spell To Bless The Silence: Selected Poems by John Montague
Hazards Of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
The Last Will And Testament Of An Extremely Distinguished Dog by Eugene O’Neill
The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume 2: 1956-1963 edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil
Taking The Arrow Out Of The Heart: Poems by Alice Walker
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells edited by Nicole Lobdell and Nancee Reeves
The Red Wheelbarrow And Other Poems by William Carlos Williams