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Isabel Dunn

Meet the Staff: Jane Boyd and the art of the paper lab

April 27, 2016 - Isabel Dunn

Boyd carefully examines the damages of an item from the Woodward and Bernstein collection, 2016, courtesy of Boyd.

Meet the Staff is a blog post series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center. This installment of Meet the Staff is released in conjunction with our series for the American Library Association’s Annual Preservation Week, which highlights work in the Ransom Center’s preservation and conservation division. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Jane Boyd and the art of the paper lab

Filed Under: Conservation, Meet the Staff Tagged With: Conservation, Jane Boyd, Meet the Staff, Miguel Covarrubias, paper lab, preservation week, Preservation Week 2016, Watergate, Woodward and Bernstein

Showing the audience some love

April 4, 2016 - Isabel Dunn

Shakespeare at Winedale,'s Comedy of Errors, July 17, 2013.

On a sunny spring afternoon at The University of Texas at Austin, you may happen to see college students rehearsing Shakespeare in one of the courtyards on the south mall. “Shakespeare Through Performance” is a class that combines [Read more…] about Showing the audience some love

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: James Loehlin, Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Undergraduate, William Shakespeare

To quarto, or not to quarto?

April 1, 2016 - Isabel Dunn

Andrew Carlson, Clinical Assistant Professor and Managing Director of the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at The University of Texas at Austin, has worked extensively with Shakespeare’s plays through critical analysis and performance. [Read more…] about To quarto, or not to quarto?

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: African-American, Andrew Carlson, faculty lecture, First Folio, Othello, performance, plays, quarto, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Print and Performance, textual variations, theater

Marco Breuer on the photograph as object

March 25, 2016 - Isabel Dunn

Marco Breuer, Untitled (Heat/Gun), 2000. Gelatin silver print, burned, 12.5 x 9.75 inches. © Marco Breuer.

A photograph is commonly understood to act as a window, crystallizing a subject or moment in time. Artist Marco Breuer, however, subverts this traditional understanding of the medium, exploring the inherent limitations of photographic materials rather than using them to record the world outside. His work employs radical techniques that do not rely on the use of a camera, aperture, or film, and investigates the potential of the photograph as an object unto itself, beyond its ability to represent notions of external reality. [Read more…] about Marco Breuer on the photograph as object

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Photography Tagged With: Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions, Marco Breuer, Photography

Meet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast

December 15, 2015 - Isabel Dunn

Carol Headrick gives a tour of the exhibition "Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West." Photo by Pete Smith.

Harry Ransom Center docents are volunteer guides who lead daily tours of the Center’s exhibitions. In the months leading up to exhibition openings, docents work closely with exhibition curators to gain a more complete understanding of exhibition items and content. The docent training process involves readings, discussion, and intense familiarization with the exhibition.

[Read more…] about Meet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Meet the Staff Tagged With: 1914-1918, Art, docents, Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West, Frida Kahlo, landscapes, pastels, Texas, The World at War

Listen: Frank Reaugh’s favorite monochrome pastel painting

November 24, 2015 - Isabel Dunn

Frank Reaugh, 1860–1945, Brushy Bottom. Undated. Pastel; 44 x 56 x 3 cm.

One of the most popular visitor features of our current exhibition Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West is the “guide by cell” audio tour for visitors. This audio tour lets visitors call in and hear informational snippets about the paintings on display. Ransom Center Curator of Art Peter Mears discusses highlights from the exhibition, and Project Specialist Greg Curtis speaks as the voice of Frank Reaugh to narrate the artist’s own comments.

[Read more…] about Listen: Frank Reaugh’s favorite monochrome pastel painting

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Art, audio, Frank Reaugh audio guide, Frank Reaugh: guide by cell, Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West, monochrome, painting, pastel

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