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<ParaStyle:Course-Head>New Members’ Luncheon
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/12/2018 12:00:00 PM
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<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Brown Bag Luncheon hosted by the Executive Committee
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/29/2018 12:00:00 PM
<ParaStyle:Location><CharStyle:Location-Bold>Location:<CharStyle:>Rm. 128, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Osher Happy Hour
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Join us to welcome new members and socialize with returning snowbirds and other Osher colleagues at our quarterly Osher happy hour. Cash bar.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/18/2018 3:30:00 PM
<ParaStyle:Location><CharStyle:Location-Bold>Location:<CharStyle:>UC San Diego Faculty Club
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Council Meeting (everyone invited)
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/26/2018 1:00:00 PM
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<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Field Trip: Judith Dolan on Broadway
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This field trip will offer an exclusive tour of the Judith Dolan on Broadway exhibition at the La Jolla Historical Society. The tour will be led by famed Broadway costume designer and now-UCSD Professor of Drama Judith Dolan. Limited Registration. Fee.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/20/2018 10:00:00 AM
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<ParaStyle:Course-Head>The Perplexing World of Contemporary Art Photography
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This series of five lectures will demystify contemporary art photography, such as that seen on museum and gallery walls and in art books. If you have ever scratched your head reading an artist’s statement or wondered whatever happened to craft and technical skill in photography, then this is the series for you. Topics will include the dramatic shift from modernism into postmodernism and contemporary strategies used by photographic artists, such as The Directorial Mode, the Deadpan Aesthetic, The Snapshot Aesthetic, and Appropriation.
This introductory lecture will cover the “classic” way of creating and judging photography — according to craftsmanship, composition, and content — which comes from a Modernist tradition. The lecture will discuss the historical reasons for the dramatic shift from Modernism to Postmodernism and will include an introduction to what Conceptual Art did to the practice of photography as an art form.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/10/2018 10:00:00 AM
<ParaStyle:Location><CharStyle:Location-Bold>Location:<CharStyle:>Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>The Perplexing World of Contemporary Art Photography
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This series of five lectures will demystify contemporary art photography, such as that seen on museum and gallery walls and in art books. If you have ever scratched your head reading an artist’s statement or wondered whatever happened to craft and technical skill in photography, then this is the series for you. Topics will include the dramatic shift from modernism into postmodernism and contemporary strategies used by photographic artists, such as The Directorial Mode, the Deadpan Aesthetic, The Snapshot Aesthetic, and Appropriation.
This lecture will address the origins of the dispassionate and detached mode of photography that is so often seen on museum and gallery walls. From the work of early German photographers such as August Sander and Albert Renger-Patzsch in the 1920s to the New Topographics in the 1970s to contemporary photographers such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Rineke Dijkstra, and Joel Sternfeld, we will follow the common thread of objectivity, detachment, and sharpness.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/24/2018 10:00:00 AM
<ParaStyle:Location><CharStyle:Location-Bold>Location:<CharStyle:>Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>The Perplexing World of Contemporary Art Photography
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This series of five lectures will demystify contemporary art photography, such as that seen on museum and gallery walls and in art books. If you have ever scratched your head reading an artist’s statement or wondered whatever happened to craft and technical skill in photography, then this is the series for you. Topics will include the dramatic shift from modernism into postmodernism and contemporary strategies used by photographic artists, such as The Directorial Mode, the Deadpan Aesthetic, The Snapshot Aesthetic, and Appropriation.
This lecture will cover contemporary photographers who create elaborate scenes for the camera, challenging the idea that photography records the real. From the first staged photograph created by Hippolyte Bayard in 1840 to contemporary work by Sandy Skoglund, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Thomas Demand, and Gregory Crewdson, we will see meticulous attention to detail and a strong narrative quality that is often described as cinematic.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>2/7/2018 10:00:00 AM
<ParaStyle:Location><CharStyle:Location-Bold>Location:<CharStyle:>Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>The Perplexing World of Contemporary Art Photography
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This series of five lectures will demystify contemporary art photography, such as that seen on museum and gallery walls and in art books. If you have ever scratched your head reading an artist’s statement or wondered whatever happened to craft and technical skill in photography, then this is the series for you. Topics will include the dramatic shift from modernism into postmodernism and contemporary strategies used by photographic artists, such as The Directorial Mode, the Deadpan Aesthetic, The Snapshot Aesthetic, and Appropriation.
In this lecture we will discuss Robert Frank’s influence on a generation of street photographers, such as Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. We will also discuss the ways in which contemporary art photographers use seemingly unskilled “snapshots” to signal an intimacy between them and their subjects, for example in the work of Nan Goldin, Larry Sultan, and Tierney Gearon. We will also look at artists like Martin Parr and Nikki S. Lee who use the Snapshot Aesthetic for other conceptual reasons.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>2/21/2018 10:00:00 AM
<ParaStyle:Location><CharStyle:Location-Bold>Location:<CharStyle:>Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>The Perplexing World of Contemporary Art Photography
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This series of five lectures will demystify contemporary art photography, such as that seen on museum and gallery walls and in art books. If you have ever scratched your head reading an artist’s statement or wondered whatever happened to craft and technical skill in photography, then this is the series for you. Topics will include the dramatic shift from modernism into postmodernism and contemporary strategies used by photographic artists, such as The Directorial Mode, the Deadpan Aesthetic, The Snapshot Aesthetic, and Appropriation.
The final lecture will cover the controversial use of appropriation by artists such as Martha Rosler beginning in the late 1960s; Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Prince in the early 1980s; and contemporary artists such as Doug Rickard, Eric William Carroll, and Penelope Umbrico. We will discuss why these artists tend to get away with what many see as copyright infringement.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>3/7/2018 10:00:00 AM
<ParaStyle:Location><CharStyle:Location-Bold>Location:<CharStyle:>Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Understanding Modern Art: Toward Modernism: From Romanticism to Impressionism
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Phillip Chan, MFA
Both Romanticism and Impressionism are considered part of the modern-art movement. This lecture actually begins with the Renaissance and moves quickly to the late eighteenth century then into the nineteenth century, focusing on a formal issue with Romanticism and an epistemological issue with Impressionism.
Part one of a two-lecture series discussing twentieth-century modern art on the philosophical, psychological, and formal level.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/11/2018 1:00:00 PM
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Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Understanding Modern Art: Formal Modernism
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Phillip Chan, MFA
Formal Modernism is at the heart of developing the language of modern art. It focuses on the impact that Cubism had in redirecting twentieth-century art toward abstraction. It begins with Cezanne, then moves onto Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, Constructivism, and Geometric Abstraction. Understanding formal modernism is absolutely necessary for anyone to truly understand modern art.
Part one of a two-lecture series discussing twentieth-century modern art on the philosophical, psychological, and formal level.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/25/2018 1:00:00 PM
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Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Louis Kahn and the Challenge of Architecture
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Louis Kahn, 1901-1974, represents the end of an era in architecture. He was the last truly great modernist architect, practicing as society transformed from a modernist to a post-modernist culture. He had a reverence for past practice grounded in the present and in an imagined world of possibilities. “What does the building want to be?” became the driving force in Kahn's search for form and use of the institution itself. This lecture will examine a wide range of his projects, with special attention to use of geometry, materials structure, and imaginative daylight in his buildings.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>1/22/2018 1:00:00 PM
<ParaStyle:Location><CharStyle:Location-Bold>Location:<CharStyle:>Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage
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Katia Zavistovski, MA
Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage, presented by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), highlights the principal role that music and dance played in Chagall's artistic practice. The exhibition concentrates on Chagall’s four productions for the stage: the ballets Aleko, set to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1942), The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky (1945), and Daphnis and Chloé by Maurice Ravel (1958), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute (1967). The exhibition features the artist’s vibrant costumes and set designs — some of which have not been exhibited since they appeared on stage — and includes a selection of iconic paintings depicting musicians and lyrical scenes, numerous works on paper, and documentary footage of original performances.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>11/29/2017 1:00:00 PM
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Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex
<ParaStyle:Course-Head>Is Kawasaki Disease Blowin’ in the Wind?
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Professor Jane Burns
Kawasaki Disease (KD) is the most common cause of acquired pediatric heart disease in the U.S. and Japan. Its incidence is increasing at an alarming rate with over 100 new cases treated at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego in 2016. Despite intense research, the trigger for this pediatric vasculitis has not been identified. It is presumed to be airborne, and current work suggests a relationship between seasonal peaks in cases of KD in Japan and tropospheric winds originating in northeastern China. This lecture will discuss ongoing research to explore the wind-borne hypothesis of KD.
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<ParaStyle:Time-Date><CharStyle:Time-Date-Bold>Time/Date:<CharStyle:>11/30/2017 1:00:00 PM
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Rm. 129, UCSD Extension Complex