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What's New |
| Art Gallery Brings Distinguished Lecturer in
African Art
New Student Intern Begins Condition Survey of Collection Director to Attend Art Law Seminar |
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The Maness Collection will be displayed in the vitrines at the entrance of the Art Gallery. As an “exhibition-in-progress,” the objects will be displayed initially with only basic information identifying the country of origin and the culture/tribe that created the object. Throughout the rest of this academic year, selected objects will be featured weekly with more in-depth information provided (researched by Taryn Busch ’00, who just returned from the College’s study abroad program in Ghana). Most of the work in the collection dates from the 20th century and comes from West and Central Africa. Among the tribes represented are Yoruba, Ashanti, Mossi, Fanti, Baule, Ibibio, Lobi, Yaka, Lega, Senufo, Dogon, Dan, Bamana, Hemba, Azande, Kamba (Kenya, East Africa), Kuba, Tangale, Fulani, Kran, Chockwe, Mende, Ewe, Aja, Ibo Kulango, and Urhobo. The Maness Collection is a tremendous addition to the Gallery’s resources, one that will enhance the study of religion, art, history, sociology, International Studies, Women’s Studies, and many other disciplines. We are deeply grateful to Dr. Maness for sharing these objects, and his passion and knowledge about them, with us. For a virtual tour of the African Art exhibit produced by the Greensboro News-Record, click here. |
The exhibit is organized into seven thematic sections that correspond to important phases of Eichenberg's life and career: introduction to the artist; his years as a student and commercial artist in Germany; his early years in New York; his success in book illustration; his religious-themed work; large-scale prints and portfolio projects; and autobiographical work. This structure conflates a scheme of ten autobiographical chapters devised by Eichenberg in 1986 for his final exhibition at Associated American Artists gallery in New York, but never realized by Eichenberg because of the onset of Parkinson's disease. Each part joins Eichenberg's works of the period with a chronology of his life, excerpts from his unpublished autobiography, and relevant text concerning concurrent world events. This synthesis of materials gives viewers both a sense of the context from which Eichenberg's images emerged and an opportunity to reflect personally upon the political and social issues that he presents. Witness To Our Century was organized by the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and curated by Robert Conway, Director of the Eichenberg Trust, and Walter Schatz. The exhibit is supported through through the generosity of the Louise Bullard Wallace Foundation; the Goethe-Institut Atlanta; and the Fritz Eichenberg Trust.
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