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CORRECTED DATE! This Monday, February 17 at 5:15 P

CORRECTED DATE! This Monday, February 17 at 5:15 PM in JFT 1010, Please Join the Department of Art History for our new series of talks, Art History in Action: Our Faculty Present Their Scholarship

Our first speaker will be Dr. Jaclynne Kerner whose talk is entitled,
"Illustrated Sheet Music of the Shriners 1885-1930"
Monday, February 17, at 5:15 PM
JFT 1010
Refreshments will be served!

Abstract: Music is one of the foremost entertainments of the Shriners, the fez-wearing fellows who injected Middle Eastern flair into the American fraternal landscape more than a century ago. Shriner quartets, choirs, and singing groups styled as “Chanters al Koran” proliferated after the fraternity’s inception in 1870, as did orchestras, costumed “Oriental” bands, and drum and bugle corps. These ensembles’ repertoires included popular songs of the day, works of classical composers, and original songs penned expressly for fraternal use. This paper will consider pieces of sheet music from the Shriners’ autochthonous corpus as exponents of the fraternity’s pervasively Orientalized worldview during the so-called Golden Age of Fraternalism (ca. 1870-1930). Fezzes, cameleers, sphinxes, Orientalized lettering, and Zouave-costumed men adorn the covers of Shriner sheet music, colorfully exposing the Islamophilia and ersatz exoticism of America’s most public secret society. The visual and lyrical dimensions of Shriner sheet music, I contend, manifest the antiquarian tendencies and chivalric medievalism of the fraternity’s founders as well as the enduring pseudo-Islamic personae of its members. As items of popular consumption, illustrated sheet music transmitted the Shriners’ fraternal identity from their lodge-like “mosques” or “temples” to the public sphere and the private parlors of America’s upper and middle classes. Ultimately, this paper seeks to understand sheet music as a mediator of self-identity as it situates Shriner sheet music within the fraternity’s extensive but understudied material legacy.

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📣Monday, February 3rd, at 7:00 PM via Zoom! 🔗to Register in our Bio! Looking forward to seeing you there!

@np_aha’s 2024-25 Lecture Series on the Intersections of Disability Studies & Art History

Dr. Elizabeth Howie, Professor, Coastal Carolina University, "The Dandy Victorian: Yinka Shonibare, Disability, and Passing"

#yinkashonibare’s Diary of a Victorian Dandy, a series of five large Chromogenic photographs, depicts the revels of a black dandy holding court in a luxurious 19th Century manor, admired by ladies, gentleman, and servants alike. The serious subject matter of these charming and delightful images concerns two characteristics, one more visible than the other, that make Shonibare’s dandy quite unusual: the historical unlikelihood that a black dandy would be such a success in the Victorian era, and what is far less visible, the effects of Shonibare’s having contracted transverse myelitis as a teenager.

Rather than the paralysis and impairment with which he lives every day, Shonibare the dandy displays vigor, strength, fortitude, thwarting a pathological reading. He is the object of admiring gazes, not curious stares. To pass as non-disabled, to disavow a body with limitations, may seem to be a form of complicity with society’s biases. How, then, are we to read Shonibare’s simultaneously singling himself out as unique by appearing as a black Victorian dandy while apparently hiding the disability that is quite obvious in his everyday life? A dandy is the perfect vehicle for the recuperation of the gaze, for an expert managing of the spectacle of disability: the making of the dandy is accomplished through his powers of observation; the dandy’s keen scrutiny has made him who he is.

Shonibare is deliberately playing with the issues of the gaze, the stare, and disability, and when society does and does not deem sustained looking acceptable. His exploration of dandified passing is not a reinvention of a self that denies another aspect of identity, but instead one that powerfully contests the containments of identity that so often structure how we think about each other.
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REMINDER! Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 12, at 5PM i

REMINDER! Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 12, at 5PM in Lecture Center 108, please join the Department of Art History, Professor Reva Wolf, and students from our capstone course, Art History: Theories and Approaches, for a guest lecture by Daniel Belasco, entitled, "All-Women Exhibitions: An Emerging Method of Art Historical Research."

Dr. Belasco, Executive Director of the Al Held Foundation and former curator at The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, will discuss his fascinating new book, Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions (University of Chicago Press, 2024), and its exciting contribution to the methodology of feminist art history.

Attendees may purchase a copy of Women Artists in Midcentury America for $30.
See you then!
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🎨🗣Monday, November 18 at 7:00 PM via Zoom, t

🎨🗣Monday, November 18 at 7:00 PM via Zoom, the Art History Association is thrilled to announce the kick-off event for its 2024-2025 Lecture Series, which will focus on the intersection between art historical research and Disability Studies.

AHA's esteemed speaker is Dr. Gannit Ankori, Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as the Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

Dr. Ankori will deliver a virtual talk, “Phantom Limbs: Frida Kahlo, Disability, and Art,” which examines how Frida Kahlo’s physical disabilities and exceptional creative capabilities allowed her to powerfully transform trauma and loss into inspiring and groundbreaking art.

Register for this free Zoom event with the QR code or from the 🔗in our bio!
The Zoom registration URL is https://suny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvcu2grzMqG9U3mEvI37d4CP67OV39A78e

AI-generated Closed Captioning will be provided. For further accommodations, please contact Professor Keely Heuer at heuerk@newpaltz.edu or (845) 257-3829.
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FILM SCREENING: Thursday, November 7 at 7:00 PM in

FILM SCREENING: Thursday, November 7 at 7:00 PM in SAB 118A
Professor Beth Wilson, currently teaching an Art History Special Topics course,"Photography and Land/scape in the Anthropocene," will host a free screening of Manufactured Landscapes, a film by Jennifer Bachiwal.

ABOUT THE FILM: Manufactured Landscapes is the winner of Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. It is a striking documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky.

Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and
witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste. In the spirit of such environmentally enlightening sleeper-hits as An Inconvenient Truth and Rivers and Tides, Manufactured Landscapes powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it, without simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions.
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Sadly, the Departme

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Sadly, the Department of Art History must cancel Col. Matthew Bogdanos' talk this coming Monday, November 4th, due to a family emergency.

We hope to be able to reschedule this event for later this academic year. We apologize for any inconvenience this change may have caused, and we are most appreciative of your understanding!
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