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Photographs from Cuba by Max Pillsbury '12
On display in Berry 183 (RWIT)

“I took these photographs on a trip to Cuba in August 2011. I arrived in Havana and traveled throughout the western countryside, reaching Trinidad, Cuba in ten days. Cuba is a place of infinite beauty and solitude. It is a country with which many regimes have meddled over the last hundred years, and one that has never forgotten it. It is difficult to describe or depict the disparate experiences that coexist in modern Cuba, and a brief visit to the country hardly qualifies one as an authority on the subject. It is merely my hope that these photographs can convey some of the culture, influence, art, isolation, and raw beauty of the country I saw.”

                                                                                                                         ~Max Pillsbury

On Display 2/7/12 - 3/12/12

Drawings by Ryan Hueston '14

"I jumped into this project with the intent to capture the optimism and motivation that was the predominant public motivator of the 1940's and 50's. This choice was to not only cater to my own personal tastes, but to provide something wholly unique---when was the last time that you've seen a WWII-era pin-up? However, my admiration of the artwork transcends the sleek art-deco lines and beautifully rendered people. In those old posters and movies, there was always a drive to give the public a reason, rather than a demand, to fight for a cause. In much the same way, my purposes for the art direction in this project were to to provide Dartmouth students with a reason, rather than a demand, to be sustainable. No matter how noble the cause, or how honest the people, there is no drive without the development of strong personal beliefs that are the foundation to make the small changes, that will eventually lead to bigger changes and a chance for everyone to one day live 100% sustainably."

Charles Dickens was one of the most beloved and influential authors of the nineteenth century. Dickens sketched a "curiosity shop" of characters and managed his readers' "great expectations" to help us understand Victorian England. This exhibit celebrates the 200^th anniversary of his birth by showcasing items from the Dartmouth College Library's collections.

"Dickens at 200" was curated by Laura Braunstein and designed by Dennis Grady and will be exhibited on Berry Main Street from February 6 to April 27, 2012.

For more information on the worldwide celebration of Dickens's bicentennial, see http://www.dickens2012.org/

Photography by Eddie Ruhland at Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library

The latest exhibit at Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library features photographs taken by Eddie Ruhland. Eddie, a fourth year MD/MBA student at Dartmouth Medical School and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, spent two years in Vanuatu, an island nation in the South Pacific, as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Vanuatu, located 1,000 miles east of Australia and is made up of 83 volcanic islands. Eddie has a remarkable insight into the beauty of this island nation. His photographs are on display from January 2012 through April 2012.

​Photography by Christine Claudino at Dana Biomedical Library

About the Exhibit: My lack of gardening skills has inspired me to capture nature's beauty whenever it passes me by. I especially enjoy capturing flowers in bloom. I've spent the past year and a half working on a series of flowers I call Forever Blooming.  These photos will displayed on the first floor of Dana Biomedical Library from January 16 - March 31, 2012.

Christine's Bio: The blizzard of '78 greeted my parents when they set foot on American soil. Their final destination was Boston, but the plane was rerouted to New York due to the blizzard. The snowy weather was drastically different from their sunny hometown islands they left behind in Azores, Portugal. They officially met and got married after arriving in Boston.

I was born and raised outside of Boston. My interest in art started at a young age. I've used many different mediums over the years and continue to experiment with them. My interest in photography was actually an added benefit to my painting. Initially I took photographs of places, people, and flowers in order to paint them. As my photography improved I received a Cannon Rebel as a gift. The new digital camera was intimidating at first, but through experimentation I have been fortunate enough to capture these unique images.

Rauner Special Collections Library is pleased to announce a new exhibition in the Class of 1965 Galleries:

Literary Gentlemen and a Girl Like I

On a train ride from New York to California, popular screenwriter Anita Loos sketched out a farce based on a gold-digging blonde capable of manipulating any man she wished. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: An Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady became the second best selling novel of 1926, and its first printing in December 1925 sold out overnight. This exhibit places Loos’s cultural phenomenon into the context of the literary world of the 1920s.

The exhibition was curated by Anne Peale and Jay Satterfield and will be on display through February 29, 2012.

One of the very first examples of multi-color wood block printing, the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Painting, was first published in China by Hu Zhengyan in the early 17^th century, c. 1633.   Named after the bamboo growing in front of his studio, these editions are masterpieces of color woodblock printing, and consist of eight subjects, bound as books, pairing each image with a matching poem by a master calligrapher.

The volumes are divided by the subject matter:  instructions, orchids, bamboo, plums, round fans, stones, fruit, birds & flowers.  The poems were chosen from a variety of old masters, and paired with water color sketches.  Hu Zhengyan assembled a team of seven other artists to assist him in creating the wood blocks and calligraphy for these editions. 

These volumes employed an innovative printing technique called tou-pan, that allowed for subtle, multi-color printing, and replicated the look and feel of delicate watercolor paintings.  This enabled these volumes to serve as painting manual, predating the famous Mustard Seed Garden Manual of the late 16^th century by several decades. 

Tou-pan printing employed different sizes of blocks are designed according to the colors and shades of the painting that needs to be printed.  The painting was traced onto sheets of transparent paper and the sheets are covered reversely on the blocks so that the mirror images of the designs can be carved out.  Following the prescribed order, the blocks are printed onto a sheet of paper.  Some blocks create overlapped areas and as a result, different shades of colors will appear and the final product will look almost exactly the same as the original painting.

Shi zhu zhai shu hua ce  by Hu Zhengyan [no publication date, call #726.4 H86s] from the Sherman Art Library Special Collection will be on display 12/13/11 through 3/13/12

The Winter display of new books by Dartmouth authors is now available, and includes publications from the individuals listed below. This display will be available until May 2012. Please come by and see what your professors and/or colleagues at Dartmouth have written.

The Dartmouth author display can be found in the new Library café (the former Berry News Center).

Please share comments or suggestions for new publications with Andrea Bartelstein, coordinator for this exhibit space.

Sarah Allan (Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures)
Zao qi Zhongguo li shi si xiang yu wen hua = Early Chinese History, Thought and Culture / 早期中国历史思想与文化 / 艾兰著 ; 杨民等译. Beijing: Shang wu yin shu guan, 2011.
Shi xi yu shan rang: Gu dai Zhongguo de wang chao geng ti chuan shuo = Heir and the Sage / 世袭与禅让 : 古代中国的王朝更替传说 / 艾兰著 ; 余佳译. Beijing: Shang wu yin shu guan, 2010.
Gui zhi mi: Shang dai shen hua, ji si, yi shu he yu zhou guan yan jiu = The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China / 龟之谜 : 商代神话, 祭祀, 艺术和宇宙观研究. Beijing: Shang wu yin shu guan, 2010.
Shui zhi dao yu de zhi dao: Zhongguo zao qi zhe xue si xiang de ben yu = Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue / 水之道与德之道 : 中国早期哲学思想的本喻 / 艾兰著 ; 张海晏译. Beijing: Shang wu yin shu guan, 2010.

Faith Beasley  (French & Italian)
Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2011.

Michael Bronski (Jewish Studies)
A Queer History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011.

Michael A. Chaney (English)
Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.

Ronald Michael Green (Religion)
Kant and Kierkegaard on Time and Eternity. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2011.

Mikhail Gronas (Russian)
Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory: Russian Literary Mnemonics. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Lev Loseff (1937-2009) (Russian) - IN MEMORIAM
Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

Jeff Sharlet (English)
Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2010.

Roxana Verona (French & Italian)
Parcours francophones: Anna de Noailles et sa famille culturelle. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2011.

Barbara Will (English)
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.