Art

January 31, 2013 - Emily Neie

Art critic Jed Perl’s "Magicians and Charlatans"

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Art, art criticism, Chardin, Eakins Press Foundation, Gerhard Richter, Jed Perl, Lincoln Kirstein, Magicians and Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Kayafas, The New Republic, Warholism

The Harry Ransom Center welcomes Jed Perl, art critic for The New Republic, and Peter Kayafas, Director of the Eakins Press Foundation, to discuss their work on Magicians and Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture and the way that artists, writers, and publishers have responded to the digital age. The… read more

June 22, 2012 - Sarah Sussman

Alice in Burnt Orange: Salvador Dalí’s rendition of the Lewis Carroll classic at the Ransom Center

Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures, Art, illustrations, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Maecenas Press–Random House, Sarah Sussman

Sarah Sussman is a graduate student in the English Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Though currently writing about nineteenth-century American Spiritualism, she is interested in Surrealist art, children’s literature, and British literature as well. Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel that stretches the imagination and playfully defies logic has… read more

March 13, 2012 - Io Paulo Montecillo

In the galleries: Jacob Lawrence’s "Eight Studies for The Book of Genesis"

Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Art, cultural influence, Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis, Jacob Lawrence, King James Version, The King James Bible: Its History and Influence

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) received his early education as an artist in Harlem. By the time he was in his twenties, he had received national recognition for his work, notably “The Migration Series,” about the African-American migration from the South to the North following World War I. Lawrence spent most of… read more