The 1962 book “The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things” radically altered how we now think about the history of art. Studying and traveling through Latin America, the author George Kubler (1912–1996) developed a methodology that would expand the scope of art history—moving it away from the study of great works of art and biographies of makers toward a consideration of every intentionally made object.
Join us at Haas Arts Library for a peek at artist books from Arts Library Special Collections! Frances Osugi will join us to highlight handmade paper found in artist books.
The term “artist book” can be hard to define. Simply put, an artist book is an art object inspired by the form and/or function of a conventional book. Haas Arts Library has thousands of artist books in its special collections. During this lunchtime session, library staff will showcase a few recent acquisitions. Feel free to drop in anytime during the hour.
A touchstone of murder mysteries and historical intrigue, tactical warfare and political coups, poison looms large in our cultural imagination. An invisible agent of death, it might be hiding anywhere, stashed in a secret agent’s suitcase or mixed into a murderous martini.
Yale University’s Visual Resources Collection dates to the 1930s and comprises approximately 370,000 slides (both lantern and 35mm) and 187,000 mounted photographs related to global art, architecture, and material culture. The collection was formed in response to curricular needs to support teaching and research in the Arts and Humanities. Yale’s VRC slide library was an independent entity located on High Street until 2008 when it was folded into the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library operations and collections, and physically moved to the Haas Arts Library.
You are welcome to a banned books read-in, to gather together with others from the campus and community and read on the library mezzanine on the afternoon of May 3, a National Freedom to Learn Day of Action.
This presentation will focus on the life and legacy of Robert M. Park, his family, the Black community in New Haven, and Yale in the 19th century. A founder of the Temple Street Church, now the Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ and a delegate to the Connecticut State Convention of Colored Men in 1849, Park was a noted community builder and leader. He worked, variously, as a custodian around campus and at the Hopkins School, and as a laboratory assistant to Yale Professors Benjamin Silliman, Sr. and Jr. Several of Park’s grandchildren attended Yale.
No-No Boy is an immersive multimedia work blending original folk songs, storytelling, and projected archival images all in service of illuminating hidden American histories. Taking inspiration from his own family’s history living through the Vietnam War as well as many other stories of Asian American experience, Nashville born songwriter Julian Saporiti has transformed years of doctoral study into an innovative project which bridges a divide between art and scholarship.
No-No Boy is an immersive multimedia work blending original folk songs, storytelling, and projected archival images all in service of illuminating hidden American histories. Taking inspiration from his own family’s history living through the Vietnam War as well as many other stories of Asian American experience, Nashville born songwriter Julian Saporiti has transformed years of doctoral study into an innovative project which bridges a divide between art and scholarship.
Yale College Poets: an annual reading by outstanding undergraduate poets co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library and the Creative Writing Program of the Yale Department of English.
Readings by Yale Student Poets: Taylor Adams, Cassidy Arrington, Megan Briggs, Hailey Carter, Eugenio Garza Garcia, Naomi Goodheart, Eileen Huang, Kinsale Hueston, Logan Klutse, Baylina Pu, Emily Tian
A talk in conjunction with the Beinecke Library building-wide exhibition, “Revisiting the Past—Imagining the Future,” on view through July 9.
Zoom Webinar registration: https://bit.ly/40xZo85
Konstanze Kunst, Librarian for Judaic Studies, will discuss some of the items she selected for the exhibition.
