Counterwitnessing the Visual Culture of Brazilian Slavery
Author: Matthew Francis Rarey, Visiting Assistant Professor Published in: African Heritage and the Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World Year: 2015 More information
News
“American Beauty” opens at the Charles Allis
American Beauty: Nineteenth Century Landscapes opened at the Charles Allis Art Museum on Friday, February 13, 2015.
Rarey’s New Essay: ”Camera Lucida Mexicana: Travel, Visual Technologies, and Contested Objectivities”
Matthew Francis Rarey’s essay ”Camera Lucida Mexicana: Travel, Visual Technologies, and Contested Objectivities” discusses three nascent visual technologies—the camera lucida, the panorama, and the daguerreotype—as often stubborn and defiant agents in quests for both scientific rationality and picturesque image-making in the first four decades of the nineteenth century.
Recently restored painting by Alfred von Wierusz Kowalski
It is with great pleasure that the UWM Art Collection announces the unveiling of a recently restored painting by Polish artist, Alfred von Wierusz Kowalski (1849-1915).
Kupiecki and Murphy Intern at MOWA
Graduate students Anna Kupiecki and Jackie Muprhy helped Andrea Waala, the Museum of Wisconsin Art’s (MOWA) registrar, accession three Tom Uttech paintings into the museum’s collection.
Art Exposé: Linda Brazeau
On Tuesday, February 10, 2015, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.
UWM Art Collection to Collaborate with ARTstor
The UWM Art Collection will soon be featured in the ARTstor Digital Library.
Camera Lucida Mexicana: Travel, Visual Technologies, and Contested Objectivities
Author: Matthew Francis Rarey, Visiting Assistant Professor Published in: Romantic Circles (A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture) Year: 2015 More information
“Reflections on a Collection” Opens in UWM Art History Gallery
Reflections on a Collection: The UWM Icons Revisited Fifty Years Later opened in the UWM Art History Gallery on Thursday, February 5, 2015.
Myth into art: foreign impulses and local responses in archaic Cypriot sanctuaries
Author: Derek Counts, Professor Published in: The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean Year: 2015 More information