UCSB Grad symposium – Call for Papers

The graduate students in the department of the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB are holding their 36th Annual Symposium on April 29-30, 2011, devoted to the theme “Moralities in the Visual Arts.”  They invite proposals for papers on any aspect of this theme from graduate students and recent PhDs in all areas of scholarship.

Read the full description, and call for papers, here.

The keynote speaker will be Richard Dyer, Professor of Film Studies, King’s College, London, who has published widely on aspects of race and sexuality in film and popular culture and will share some of his ongoing research about serial killers.

 

Latest ARTstor additions and announcements

ARTstor’s latest additions to their Digital Library include:

• Judy Chicago: 367 works by the artist, author, feminist, and educator (keyword: judychicago)
• George Eastman House: the completion of 19,161 images illustrating the history of photography (keyword: eastmanhouse)

And these institutions have agreed to contribute:

• Museum of the City of New York: over 55,000 images from prints, drawings and photographs that document the city’s ever-changing cultural, political, and social cityscape
• Getty Research Institute–Julius Shulman Archive: approximately 5,000 images taken by the architectural photographer of Southern California mid-century modern structures
• Getty Research Institute–Alexander Liberman Archive: 1,500 images of European and American artists from the magazine editor’s projects