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New Alumni Publications in Art History
Check out these new publications by U.C. Berkeley Art History Alumni, available through UC Library Search.
The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi: Allegory and Visual Narrative in the Late Empire, by Mont Allen.
Rethinking the Public Fetus: Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy, by Jessica M. Dandona.
Toshiko Takaezu; Worlds Within, essay by Diana Greenwold.
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History Art and Culture in 101 Objects, essay by Diana Greenwold.
Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy. Literature, Art and Intellectual History, by Sharon Hecker (ed.).
Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism, by Christina Kiaer.
Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism, by Katherine Kuenzli.
Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays 1889-1914, by Katherine Kuenzli.
Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning, by Amy Lyford.
Albrecht Durer and the Depiction of Cultural Differences in Renaissance Europe, by Heather Madar.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, essay by Bibiana Obler.
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider, essay by Bibiana Obler.
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Rare Images of the Winter War by Photojournalist Thérèse Bonney
In the Autumn of 1939 Thérèse Bonney traveled to Finland to photograph preparations for the Olympic Games in Helsinki to be held the following year. Instead, she became a war correspondent. With World War II already underway, Bonney was one of few photographers in Finland as tensions with the neighboring Soviet Union grew. Bonney photographed Finnish military training operations leading up to the Soviet invasion on November 30, 1939. Throughout the ensuing Winter War she photographed civilian evacuations, relief operations, and meetings of Finnish leaders — work for which she was awarded the White Rose of Finland medal. The event would change the trajectory of her photographic career. Previously focused on French art and design, Bonney would go on to photograph throughout World War II, leaving an important record of the effect of war on civilian populations. Additional images of Bonney’s work in Europe during WWII can be seen in these previous postings: Wrapping up Women’s History Month: Selections from the Thérèse Bonney photograph collection at The Bancroft Library and Thérèse Bonney: Art Collector, Photojournalist, Francophile, Cheese Lover.
Still more is available via the Library’s Digital Collections site and the Finding Aid to the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection.
Wrapping up Women’s History Month: Selections from the Thérèse Bonney photograph collection at The Bancroft Library
The Thérèse Bonney photograph collection at The Bancroft Library consists chiefly of documentary photographs taken throughout Western Europe during World War II. Bonney (Berkeley class of 1916) photographed all aspects of the war, but focused on its effects on the civilian population.
An active humanitarian, Bonney frequently used universal symbols in her work, allowing her images to speak beyond language barriers and leading their viewers to see beyond cultural differences. Her photographs of children were exhibited and published widely, influencing audiences to contribute to relief efforts for innocent victims of war. But the images throughout her archive feature another prominent symbol — women. Old women, young women, mothers, sisters, friends, neighbors; always at work, usually together, forever the epitome of personal sacrifice for the greater good. In honor of Women’s History Month, the Bancroft Library’s Pictorial Unit presents this collection of newly digitized images from the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection. The Finding Aid to the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection circa 1850-circa 1955 is available through the Online Archive of California. The finding aid includes digital images for Series 6: France, Germany 1944-1946. Images for Series 3: Carnegie Corporation Trip: Portugal, Spain, France 1941-1942 are coming soon, with a preview offered here!
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at Berkeley
January 31- April 22 ,the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) exhibit, “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictée” celebrates the prolific, short-lived career of the influential Asian American artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Centered around Cha’s magnum opus, Dictée, the exhibit will include extra-textual art and writing from Cha’s body of work which corresponds thematically to the ten chapters of Dictée. Continue reading “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at Berkeley”