This is a great page to find out how to continue to use the Libraries after you graduate.
http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/undergraduates/?page_id=668
Amazing, intriguing, weird, imaginary and fantastical are a few of the adjectives applied to the work of the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher. If you are interested in finding out more about this artist, the Fine Arts Library can help. See DASe https://dase.laits.utexas.edu/collections for images of Escher’s work. In addition, if you check The Fine Arts Library Catalog, you will find many books on this artist, as well as a film by Michele Emmer entitled The Fantastic World of M.C. Escher (DVD 5778) and a recording by the American composer, Paul Chihara, called Forever Escher (Compact Disc MU 32756), a piece Chihara wrote for a saxophone quartet and a string quartet, and that was inspired by the metamorphosizing he found in Escher’s images and created in his own music.
Take a study break, grab an apple, and make a button and/or bookmark. Use one of our designs or create your own.
Use this blank template to prepare your design or image. We’ll have plenty of blank templates at the event, too.
Apples generously provided by the UT Division of Housing and Food Service.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/calendar/finals-maker-break
This is a four and a half star documentary on the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front. The FBI called this group America’s number one domestic terrorist threat.
DVD 11412 Fine Arts Library
21 Outstanding Performing Artists Are the First Participants in an Unprecedented Nationwide Initiative to Expand Artistic and Personal Freedom for Creative Leaders in the Fields of Jazz, Contemporary Dance and Theatre.
http://www.ddcf.org/Arts/
included is Austin’s own
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) is an artist whose portraits of Spanish court members and prints of the disasters of the Napoleonic Wars are well known. In addition, from 1819-1823, Goya, age 74, disillusioned by ill health and the continuing political conflict in Spain, painted 14 paintings in oil, directly on the walls of two rooms of his farmhouse, Quinta del Sardo. These paintings, now know as The Black Paintings, were later transferred onto linen and are now house in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Check out these 14 enigmatic paintings and many more by Goya on https://dase.laits.utexas.edu/collections
The second Excessive Noise concert of the sem
ester will be on April 20th at 6pm in the Fine Arts Library and will feature three student composer works: “Enredando Sombras” by Carlos Rios for four classical guitars and one electric guitar; Ethan Greene’s “Flying Fish” for violin, trombone, and live electronics; “La Magie Noire” by Max Stoffregen for two violins and fixed media; and screenings of short silent films by Georges Méliès with live music. The concert will also feature an interactive presentation of architecture student Benjamin Walker’s “Cardboard Confessionals” project.
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
EVENT: The 7th annual Nilsson Lecture in Contemporary Drama and Literature featuring a performance of the Dylan Thomas work, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”
WHEN: 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
WHERE: The Perry-Castañeda Library, UFCU Student Learning Commons.
BACKGROUND: The 7th annual Nilsson Lecture in Contemporary Drama and Literature flaunts a newly-added literary component in a performance of Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”
Occurring on Tuesday, April 17, the program features an interpretive production of the Welsh writer’s much-loved seasonal work by local Austin jazz chanteuse Suzi Stern accompanied by musicians Rich Harney, Alex Coke and Chris Maresh.
EVENT: Dr. Alan J. Kuperman delivers talk on civil war, genocide and humanitarian intervention in Africa
WHEN: 4:00pm-5:30pm, Tuesday, April 10, 2012.
WHERE: Fine Arts Library Reading Room (DFA 3.200)
BACKGROUND: The Human Rights Documentation Initiative, the Fine Arts Library and One Million Bones Texas present a talk by Dr. Alan J. Kuperman on the relationships between civil war, genocide and humanitarian intervention in Africa–specifically in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
The talk coincides with a dual exhibition at the Fine Arts Library of artistic materials made for the One Million Bones Project and historical photographs from the Human Rights Documentation Initiative’s collections from the Genocide Archive of Rwanda. The exhibition is on view from through April 22, 2012.
Dr. Alan J. Kuperman is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project and the leader of a Pentagon-funded project on Constitutional Design and Conflict Management in Africa. His scholarship focuses on ethnic conflict, U.S. military intervention and nuclear proliferation. He is the author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001) and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War (Routledge, 2006).
Helena Matheopoulos, the former fashion editor of Tatler, has brought her interests in fashion, opera and music together to write Fashion Designers at the Opera, 2011 She specifically looks at creative collaborations which have occurred during the years 2009-2011 when opera houses commissioned designers such as Miuccia Prada, Christian Lacroix and Giorgio Armani to design costumes for their productions of Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Cossi fan tutte and other works. See some of the images from this book on DASe at https://dase.laits.utexas.edu/collections The book is available for check out at the FAL.
