The Plains of Mars, European War Prints, 1500-1825

Over fifty original prints by renowned artists from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century, including Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Théodore Géricault, and Francisco de Goya, among many others, are featured inThe Plains of Mars: European War Prints, 1500-1825. On loan from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the works of art included in this exhibition examine the topics of war and peace, propaganda, heroism, brutal conflicts, and the harrowing aftermath of battle. Spanning from the Renaissance to the Romantic periods and encompassing a wide geographic scope including Italy, Germany, France, Spain, the Low Countries, England, and North America, the prints depict triumphant Renaissance soldiers, devastating scenes of violence, and satirical caricatures of political figures. Also on display is Goya’s compelling “Disasters of War” series, completed in response to the brutality of the Spanish War of Independence. Goya’s prints serve as a powerful testament to the horrors faced by both soldiers and civilians. Under the direction of Professor Felicia Else and Shannon Egan, Melissa Casale ‘19 and Bailey Harper ‘19 have researched and written didactic labels, catalogue essays, and created an interactive digital interface to complement the exhibition. Together, Melissa and Bailey will lead public tours of the exhibition. A Gallery Talk by Prof. Peter Carmichael will draw connections between the depictions of warfare on view in the Gallery with representations of the American Civil War. James Clifton, Director of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will be delivering a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition. Dr. Clifton, who also serves as curator of Renaissance and Baroque painting at MFAH, curated the exhibition in its first iteration and wrote the exhibition catalogue (published by Yale University Press). Dr. Clifton’s lecture not only will provide an overview of the exhibition, but also will focus on the concept of “mediated war.” A full-color catalogue with images and essays by Bailey Harper ’19 and Melissa Casale ’19, under the supervision of Profs. Felicia Else and Shannon Egan, is planned to accompany the exhibition.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/1028/thumbnail.jp

Portraits of the Most Sane

The project discusses Géricault\u27s Portraits of the Insane and interprets them as his self-reflective works, interpreting the series as the projections of artist\u27s socio-political views

Between two barges : comments about the regime of visuality and the discourses on the history of art

Este texto parte do contraste manifesto pela associação entre a Barge de Robert Rauschenberg e Le Radeau de la Méduse de Théodore Géricault, com vistas à discussão dos contextos de suas recepções, levando em conta a necessidade de marcar retornos críticos e deslocamentos conceptuais ao longo dos desenvolvimentos diacrônicos de suas fortunas críticas e diferentes sentidos de historicidade. Preocupado com questões teórico-metodológicas da história da arte, o texto discute modelos interpretativos basilares para esboçar a hipótese de uma homologia entre discursos das ordens plástica e teórica, sob a lógica da montagem, diferenciando os conceitos de quadro e mesa de trabalho. Este artigo é fruto de pesquisa financiada pelo CNPq.From the contrast between Robert Rauschenberg’s Barge and Théodore Géricault’s Le Radeau de la Méduse, this article discusses the context in which they were introduced, the development of their critical reception and their mixing with different historiographical meanings, taking into account the need for setting up critical returns and conceptual dislocations. By evoking authors that propose interpretative models approaching contemporary art, this article contributes to the hypothesis that argues for a homology between different forms of discourse, being the plastic and the theoretical ones under the logic of montage table. This article received a grant from CNPq

Marxist and Formless: Uncanny Materialism in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance

Peter Weiss made no secret of the importance of form for his magnum opus The Aesthetics of Resistance. “Again and again [I’ve made] new attempts at finding a form for the book,” he wrote early on in its conception. This authorial search is, in fact, far more complicated than the long blocks of prose Weiss settled on for the novel. Exemplified in volume 2’s opening confrontation with Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa, this search within the narrative vacillates between constituting erect forms and leveling them altogether. With the aid of Georges Bataille, the following essay illuminates not only how reading and writing embody these oppositions between form and formless but also how this tension culminates in Weiss’s poetic regeneration of a Marxism uncanny in nature despite what he perceived as dialectical materialism’s bureaucratic exhaustion in the Eastern bloc