RELATED EVENTS
FILM AND DRAWING: EARLY ANIMATION
December 15, 7 pm
Auditorium
The first program in the series features a selection of short films focused on early animation ranging from Winsor McCay and his dinosaur Gertie to the surrealist animations of Len Lye.
Run time: approx. 90 min
Free.
OPENING LECTURE: PROMENADES ON PAPER
December 17, 2 pm
Auditorium
Clark-Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin presents an overview of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Grandin shares the rich history of the National Library of France’s collections, and how that shaped the selection of works included in the Clark’s exhibition. The drawings on view reveal the medium’s new status as an autonomous and democratic instrument of creation and documentation in France in the eighteenth century.
Free.
FILM AND DRAWING: FANTASIA
January 26, 7 pm
Auditorium
Fantasia illustrates animation’s connection to the embodied, lyrical quality of drawing. When released by Disney in 1940, the studio’s third feature film was a technological marvel, introducing stereophonic sound to the masses. A musical fantasy extraordinaire and a study in contradictions, Fantasia lives up to its name.
Run time: 2 hrs
Free.
FILM AND DRAWING: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION OF THE ’60S AND ’70S
February 2, 7 pm
Auditorium
A selection of short films covering experimental animation from the 1960s and ’70s is a visual treat ... and trip! In the midst of the Cold War, animation artists explored alternative realities. Some of these realities reached back to fairytales, like the animations of the Soviet Union’s Yuri Norstein. Other artists, like the Canadian-Scottish animator Norman McLaren, pursued abstraction, looking for basic first principles that might be shared across the animation frame.
Run time: approx 90 min
Free.
CONVERSATIONS WITH ARTISTS: JOMO TARIKU
February 4, 2 pm
Auditorium
Acclaimed furniture designer Jomo Tariku discusses his design process and his relationship to the history of design, including the use of drawing by eighteenth-century designers as seen in the Promenades on Paper exhibition. Tariku, whose work has recently been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, synthesizes styles across time and space.
Free.
FILM AND DRAWING: PERSEPOLIS
February 16, 7 pm
Auditorium
This English-language version of Persepolis, the adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s sensitive and sharp autobiographical novel, traces Satrapi’s growth from young child to rebellious teen. The film takes place in Iran, during the tense political climate of the ’70s and ’80s. Animation becomes thoughtful realism as Persepolis portrays life as it is lived, filtered through the lens of human experience. The film was awarded the Prix du Jury at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Run time: 1 hr 36 min
Free.
CLASSIFICATION AND CONQUEST IN THE NAPOLEONIC DESCRIPTION DE L’ÉGYPTE
February 23, 6 pm
Auditorium
In conjunction with the Promenades on Paper exhibition, Liza Oliver, associate professor of art at Wellesley College, discusses the Description de l’Égypte (1809–1820)—a monumental compilation of engravings and essays about the pharaonic past, modern state, and natural history of Egypt that ushered in the discipline of modern Egyptology as we know it. Born out of Napoleon’s violent occupation of the country in 1798, the Description de l’Égypte highlights the close connection between Enlightenment-inspired classification projects and Europe’s imperial and colonial ambitions of the period.
Free.