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August 8, 2010 |
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A Revolution on Paper: Why Italian Artists Drew
Sunday August 8, 2010
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Hugo Chapman, curator of Italian drawings at the British Museum, explores how drawing radically transformed the thinking and working practice of Renaissance artists such as Mantegna, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Titian. He argues that without paper the creative innovations of Renaissance art would not have come about.
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August 12, 2010 |
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Rethinking Orientalism
Thursday August 12, 2010
7 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
The exhibition The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Getty Center provides a context for reexamining issues raised almost 30 years ago by Linda Nochlin in her groundbreaking essay "The Imaginary Orient." Mary Roberts, professor in the department of art history and film at the University of Sydney, and photographer Lalla Essaydi, whose work is inspired by 19th-century Orientalist painters, join Nochlin in this discussion.
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September 16, 2010 |
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My Journey from Film Fidelity to Digital Metaphor
Thursday September 16, 2010
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Photographer Robert Weingarten explores the progression of photography through his three projects. He examines the fidelity of film to record nature, digital imaging to achieve abstraction, and the use of metaphor as portrait through digital composition.
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October 15, 2010 |
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Pictures from a Revolution
Friday October 15, 2010
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
In the film Pictures of a Revolution (1991) photographer Susan Meiselas, who covered the Nicaraguan revolution in the 1980s returns to track down the people pictured in her photographs. Following a screening of the film, Meiselas chats with journalist Alma Guillermoprieto. Complements the exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties.
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September 24, 2010 |
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Artists and Actors: Iconography and Peformance in Ancient Greece
Friday September 24, 2010
9 am
Auditorium, Getty Villa
This symposium considers the artistic evidence for dramatic performance in ancient Athens as well as Greek and local settlements in southern Italy. Drawing on objects featured in the exhibition The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, distinguished international scholars investigate the historical context for theatrical performance and its relation to the creation of some of the most vivid art from the ancient world. Continues Saturday, September 25. Registration fee: $15/day, $10/day students. Advance registration for each day required.
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September 25, 2010 |
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Artists and Actors: Iconography and Performance in Ancient Greece
Saturday September 25, 2010
9 am
Auditorium, Getty Villa
This symposium considers the artistic evidence for dramatic performance in ancient Athens as well as Greek and local settlements in southern Italy. Drawing on objects featured in the exhibition The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, distinguished international scholars investigate the historical context for theatrical performance and its relation to the creation of some of the most vivid art from the ancient world. Begins Friday, September 24. Registration fee: $15/day, $10/day students. Advance registration for each day required.
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