Innovative perfumer “CB I Hate Perfume,” who markets scents as diverse as “Burning Leaves” and “November” has developed a special new perfume called “In the Library.” Described as “a warm blend of English Novel, Russian & Moroccan Leather Bindings, Worn Cloth and a hint of Wood Polish” the fragrance goes on sale starting at $12.00 for 2ml, a small price to pay for that irresistible bookworm smell.
Tonight, Monday, September 28th at 8 in Kulas Hall Oberlin alum Frank Calendaria will present the first lecture in the Musicology Department’s Murphy Colloquium Series. Now a professor at the University of Texas, Calendaria will speak on “The Mystery of the Rosary Candelarias: A Study in Attribution.”
The Rosary Cantorales (Yale Beinecke ms. 710) is a large, handsomely illuminated Kyriale from the early 16c, unusual in preserving a Josquin fragment among the chant material. Its provenance has been unclear until Candelaria’s work a few years ago in an award-winning monograph. Drawing extensively on its iconography, Candelaria has identified its Spanish origins and especially its resonance with the devotional rosary legend of the “Knight of Cologne.” His talk at Oberlin will chronicle the interdisciplinary riches uncovered in studying the history of this important chant book.
This year’s Margin Release class, taught by Julia Christensen, is fortunate to have two artists-in-residence for the semester, Brian Springer and Chris Hill. The class’ semester-long project this year is entitled “Archives Alive: An Interdisciplinary Portrait of Ohio,” in which students will undertake projects using archival materials from city, corporate, church, non-profit, radio, television, and other databases in the area to cull together a multimedia work from their research. This will culminate in a media arts show at the end of the semester exhibiting a portrait of the state of Ohio that stretches beyond artistic mediums and academic disciplines. Springer is perhaps best known for Spin, a documentary he made in 1995 in which he recorded back channel news feeds not intended for public viewing in an effort to dissect the methods by which television is used to create and destroy notions of reality in the American public’s consciousness. Chris Hill currently teaches media production and theory at Antioch College and served as a consultant to Video Data Bank in their production of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the US along with aiding them in archiving seventeen hours of historic video tape.
International Bibliography of Art
The International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art, and is published exclusively by ProQuest. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute as part of BHA. These records were created in 2008-2009, and cover scholarship up to 2009, including retrospective records for material published in previous years. ProQuest will be building on this by adding 25,000 new records per year going forwards, ensuring unbroken coverage of indexed journals.
ProQuest is retaining the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field, and will use the Getty Research Institute’s own thesaurus and authority files. The bibliography provides authoritative coverage of international scholarship within the following broad parameters:
* European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945
* Visual arts in all media, plus decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology and classical studies, antiques and architectural history, and related fields
* Scholarship from at least 500 core journals, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues
* Very international coverage, with at least 60% of records from non-English-language publications (principally German, French, Italian and Spanish)
Subject Coverage
* Fine arts in all media (from painting and sculpture to video and new media)
* Decorative Arts
* Museum studies and conservation
* Archaeology
* Folk art
* Material culture
* Classical studies
* Antiques
* Architectural history
On Wednesday, September 29, at 5 PM Trevor Paglen will present a lecture on “Photography and the Creation of the World” at Hallock Auditorium in the Lewis Center for Environmental Studies. Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines. His visual work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, the Andy Warhol Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and has been featured in numerous publications including the New York Times, Aperture, and Art Forum. He is the author of four books: Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (2006), I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (2007), Blank Spots on a Map (2009), and Invisible (August, 2010). Paglen holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley. He currently resides in Oakland, California and New York City.
(The Photography and Politics Lecture series is made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Art Department Baldwin Fund, as well as contributions from the History Department and the Department of French and Italian.)
