Gould Center Seminar
Spring 2011
Studio Seminar on Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Ertai and Maya Gao
Tuesdays, 2:45:5:30 PM
Rembrandt 209, Pitzer campus
Enrollment limited to 15
An introduction to the techniques of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, this course will combine attention to Chinese art history and art theory with hands-on acquisition of basic skills. Students will learn the principles of Chinese calligraphy and the technical skills required when using Chinese brushes and writing materials, and will be introduced to painting techniques both in the meticulous court style and the freehand brush style. Assigned projects will include exercises in landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting, and human portraiture. By the end of the semester, students will have developed a body of work in the traditional Chinese idiom.
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Robert von Hallberg
Helen A. Regenstein Professor in English Language & Literature, University of Chicago
Professor von Hallberg studies comparative poetry and poetics. His research interests include early literature modernism (1909-1925), postwar American poetry, and East German writing. He is co-editor of the Journal of Modernism/Modernity and is currently working on a book about African-American poetry.
Fall 2010
Jean-Luc Godard, Screenings and Discussion
Richard Brody, film critic for The New Yorker, will meet with students November 2nd and give a public talk on the work of Jean-Luc Godard November 3rd. In the week preceding Mr. Brody's visit, several of Godard's films will be screened on campus.
Brody's book, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, was a 2008 National Book Critics Circle award finalist in criticism and the winner of the 2009 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. From the National Book Critics Circle blog:
"Any biography of Godard is bound to be equal part cultural criticism. Complete absorption in film renders his art inseparable from his private experience. His movies are memoirs, if obliquely so at times. The juxtaposition of literary, philosophical, and pop-culture elements—overlapping in ways that sometimes prove exciting, sometimes frustrating, often enough both—create dense collage portraits of Godard’s own life. Especially his love life. His films through Weekend (1967) reflect a sense that capitalist modernity has rendered romantic love impossible. Maybe so, but the director’s tendency to cast his real-life inamoratae as prostitutes (or, in one case, as a cannibal) may suggest problems of a less abstract nature."
Schedule of Events:
Tuesday, October 26, 7-10 PM
Mary Pickford Auditorium, Bauer Center
Double Feature: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger, 1950)
The Godard classic that inaugurated the French New Wave shown on a double bill with one of its key influences, Otto Preminger’s little-seen film noir. Where the Sidewalk Ends runs from 7-8.30 pm, Breathless from 8.30-10.00 pm.
Thursday, October 28, 7-9 PM
Mary Pickford Auditorium, Bauer Center, CMC campus
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
Godard’s most acclaimed recent film, rarely screened in the U.S., will be featured prominently in Richard Brody’s talk on the filmmaker’s work.
Tuesday, November 2, 3:00 PM
Freeberg Room, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
Mr. Brody will meet with students to discuss freelance writing, working on The New Yorker, the current state of film culture and criticism in the United States, and other topics.
Wednesday, November 3, 4:00 PM
Mary Pickford Auditorium, Bauer Center
Mr. Brody will give a public talk on the work of Jean-Luc Godard.
