Pinned
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She came to me in the form of a rash, I scratched and scratched until my old skin fell away and I was born anew
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Ulla Jokisalo, Saldo, 1989 - 1992.
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Andrew Wyeth - "Winter Carnival" (1985)
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Joy Sullivan, from “On Days I Hate My Body, I Remember Redwoods”, Instructions for Traveling West
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Railway Embankment - Gustav Wunderwald , 1926-28.
German , 1882 - 1945
Oil on canvas
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“One of the interesting features of lesbian history, as opposed to women’s history, is the seemingly unresolvable ambiguity of the subject of lesbian history. That ambiguity is partly attributable to the fact that the lesbian (and the homosexual) as a distinct sort of person appear to have been the creation of late 1800’s medical and psychiatric discourse. As a culturally constructed subject, the lesbian does not exist prior to that time. Thus, of the women who cross-dressed, married other women, had sex with women, and formed intensely romantic but non-sexual friendships with women before the late 1800s, one may reasonably ask, “But were they lesbians?” Their ambiguous status reflects not only the relatively recent invention of the lesbian but also the absence today of consensus on any single definition of what it means to be a lesbian. Even the centrality of sexual desire to lesbianism can be called into question, as it was in the equation of lesbianism with woman identification. We cannot, it would seem, get at lesbian difference by asking “Who is a lesbian?” Not perhaps should we, since the “who is” question invites a set of troubling assumptions: that identity is an interior essence, that one is definitely and permanently either a lesbian or not a lesbian, and that real lesbians can never be correctly read for traces of heterosexuality (and vice versa). But perhaps we can get at lesbian difference, and do so without inviting these troubling assumptions, by instead asking “Who represents the lesbian?” Through what images does the lesbian become more thinkable? What images invite a lesbian reading?”
— cheshire calhoun
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From Hardcore Crafts (1976)
Found in Carta Monir's archive here: X
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John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) Fumée d'ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris), 1880 Oil on canvas, 139 x 90cm
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Slides were used to teach history of art and architecture since around 1880s until they were replaced by digital modes such as PowerPoint. Since the founding of the Fogg Art Museum in 1895, the Fine Arts Library has served the needs of teaching faculty, art museum staff, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and historians at Harvard and around the world. By 1920s, many universities had slide libraries, including Harvard. Since then, over the decades, FAL has acquired over 600,000 slides, mainly from the courses taught by Harvard faculty for teaching.
In the past couple years, the Fine Arts Library’s Digital Images and Slides Collection has been engaged in a large-scale move of our 35 mm slides to off-site storage at the Harvard Depository.
This collection of over 600,000 slides documents the history of world art and architecture up to the early 2000s. Access for retrieval of items needed by future researchers is being provided through creating HOLLIS records. We have digitized most of the slides, but the archiving of this significant teaching format, nearly in its original arrangement, will serve as a valuable record both of the past art historical interests of faculty and students, and as a tangible reminder of bygone classroom teaching practices.
These are some samples from our slide collections. We’ll be showing some of these slides at our Open House on September 18th.
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Two followers of Cadmus devoured by a Dragon (detail). Cornelis van Haarlem ~ 1588
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