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Morton R Godine Library
Presents
19th & 20th century
Artists’ Materials
Sept 24, 2009 – October 22, 2009
From the Collection of Robert Baart
In Memory of
Aubrey Baer
New Venue for Sept. 28th: Smith Hall Lounge, 1st floor!
An interactive game show that asks if acts of artistic appropriation are fair or not. 
AP photo by Manny Garcia and Obama Hope poster by Shepard Fairey, 2008.
Come join us for a fun evening in which panels composed to students and faculty as well as the studio audience get to vote on whether different cases of appropriation (such as Shepard Fairey’s use of an AP photo for his Obama poster) are ethical or not. There will be few clear right or wrong answers. Just a lot of interesting debate.
There will be two stand-alone sessions. The first will take place on Monday, September 21 at 7 PM. The second will take place on Monday, September 28 at 7 PM. The moderator is Greg Wallace, MassArt librarian. The event is sponsored by Project Discovery: The Studio Foundation Experience.
Art Rogers, Greeting card photo and Jeff Koons, String of Puppies, 1988
Some useful online resources:
US Copyright Office
Fair Use Project at Stanford University
National Coalition Against Censorship – Art Law Library
http://www.ncac.org/art-law/index.cfm
Harvard Law School (Art Law Overview)
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/art_law/image_rights.htm
University of Texas (Copyright Crash Course)
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm#top
The Arts and Humanities in Public Life: Copyright Protection and Appropriation Art by William M. Landes.
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf1999/landes.html
New York Foundation for the Arts (Essay on Copyright and Fair Use)
http://www.nyfa.org/archive_detail_q.asp?type=6&qid=173&fid=1&year=2004&s=Winter
The Boston Public Library has donated to the the MassArt library a portion of its extensive picture file. The picture file is located on the 12th floor near the computer lab. It is housed in two green file cabinets. The images are organized loosely by subject. Please feel free to browse the files. You will see pictures of: bears, whales, trees, flowers, and more. Feel free to take the pictures out for your creative projects.
At its commencement ceremony on May 22, MassArt will award an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree to the Monuments Men. This group of approximately 345 men and women from 13 nations participated in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program within the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied Armies during World War II. They rescued art and other cultural property from the war’s destruction and the Nazi’s systematic looting.
Manet Painting recovered from Merkers Mine in Germany (from the website of the Monument Men Foundation For the Preservation of Art)
In tribute to the Monuments Men, the Godine Library is exhibiting a range of materials: books, posters, playing cards, videos– on several themes. We hope to recount the Monuments Men’s challenges and heroics more than 60 years ago as well as explore similar challenges we face today, many concrete and dangerous, others philosophical and political. As we can, we’ll be posting to this blog, presenting additional information reflecting the exhibition themes:
The Monuments Men respected the cultures of others. They risked their lives to preserve that culture. Two Monuments Men were killed in action protecting treasures. As a group the Monuments Men changed the course of history by returning more than 5 million cultural items after the war. Help us preserve the legacy of the Monuments Men and put it to use in protecting cultural treasures from future armed conflict. (from the website of the Monument Men Foundation For the Preservation of Art)
(from the website of the Monument Men Foundation For the Preservation of Art)
Monuments Man Sgt. Kenneth Lindsay gazing at the ancient Egyptian Bust of Queen Nefertiti. On view as part of the Art & War exhibit is a plaster cast of this bust as well as a selection of books about the ethics of cultural appropriation. Does the Nefertiti bust reside in Berlin and the Parthenon marbles reside in London for reasons of preservation and public access or colonialism?
The following images from the 1946 exhibition catalog in the Godine’ Library’s collection, Paintings Looted from Holland give a sense of the work of the Monuments Men and the enormous value of the artworks they recovered.
Room Before the MFA&A Took Over with Leftover Nazi Propaganda Material
Koenigsplatz, Munich, With Art Collecting Point in Center
Room in Art Collecting Point after MFA & A Took Over
Token Load for Holland. 26 Masterpieces Taken on Board American Plane
Dutch Convoy Starting for Holland
From the book Paintings looted from Holland : returned through the efforts of the United States Armed Forces. A collection to be exhibited in … Ann Arbor, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, Buffalo, New York [etc.] … 1946
Hendrick Avercamp, Skating
Gerard Ter Borch, Jacob de Graeff
Pieter Claesz, Still Life
Arent A. Gelder, Ernst van Beveren
Pieter Codde, Couple in Interior
Gerret Heda, Showpiece.
Jan Davidsz. De Heem, Vivant Oranje
Thomas De Keyser, A Lady
Thomas De Keyser, A Young Tourist
Nicolaes Maes, “Juno” or the Eavesdropper
Aert Van Der Neer, Mills at Night
Jacobus S. Mancadan, Classical Landscape
Jacob Van Ruisdael, Beach of Egmond
Jacob Van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem
For more information about the Monuments Men, including video interviews and clips from the film Rape of Europa, please visit http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/.
In the early days of the Iraq war, apparently in favor of protecting Iraq’s oil ministry, the United States abandoned that nation’s national library and museum to fire and looting respectively. Since then we’ve all learned more about Iraq’s cultural treasures, what’s at stake, and what we can do.
Archeologist and MassArt Professor of Art History John Russell has long been outspoken about the need to protect Iraq’s cultural treasures. He even put his life on the line. For nine months at the start of the war, Russell served as an advisor to the Ministry of Culture in Baghdad, where he helped renovate museums and protect archeological sites from looting. You can read about his service in Andrew Lawler’s Boston Globe article “The Treasure Hunter,” and read John’s own thoughts in his essay “Why Should We Care” that appeared in the winter 2003 issue of Art Journal.
Professor John Russell
More recently Russell been working on two projects with the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting cultural property during wartime. First, the USCBS successfully lobbied the U.S. Senate to ratify (this past September) the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Second, Russell and the USCBS have been delivering cultural-property-protection training to U.S. military personnel. You can read more about these projects in the USCBS newsletter. One aspect of the training is the design and distribution of playing cards modeled on the “Most Wanted” playing cards. Instead of bearing the images of bad guys, these cards have images of art needing protection. The Godine Library exhibition includes a deck and other educational materials that Russell helped develop. You’ll probably notice that every card says, “ROE first.” ROE signifies the military Rules Of Engagement.
Websites of Interest:
Society for Historical Archaeology
Materials available for your perusal within the Godine Library exhibit Art & War:
Monographs
The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad : the lost treasures of ancient Mesopotamia / edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster. 2005
Antiquities under siege : cultural heritage protection after the Iraq war / edited by Lawrence Rothfield. 2008
The rape of Europa : the fate of Europe’s treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War / Lynn H. Nicholas. 1995
Afghanistan : hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul / edited by Fredrik Hiebert and Pierre Cambon. 2008
Art under a dictatorship / Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. 1973
The lost museum : the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world’s greatest works of art / Hector Feliciano.1997
The victor weeps : Afghanistan / Fazal Sheikh.1998
Rescuing Da Vinci : Hitler and the Nazis stole Europe’s great art : America and her allies recovered it / Robert M. Edsel ; forewords by Lynn H. Nicholas and Edmund P. Pillsbury. 2006
Paintings looted from Holland : returned through the efforts of the United States Armed Forces. A collection to be exhibited in … Ann Arbor, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, Buffalo, New York [etc.] … 1946
Loot! : the heritage of plunder / Russell Chamberlin.1983
The plundered past [by] Karl E. Meyer.1973
Klimt’s women / edited by Tobias G. Natter and Gerbert Frodl ; texts by Neda Bei … [et al.]. 2000
Articles
Specters of Provenance: National Loans, the Königsplatz, and Maria Eichhorn’s “Politics of Restitutions”
Alexander Alberro, Grey Room Winter 2005, No. 18: 64–81.
Films
The Rape of Europa [videorecording] / Actual Films ; in association with Agon Arts & Entertainment presents ; written, produced and directed by Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen ; co-producer, Robert M. Edsel ; an Actual Films production, in association with Agon Arts & Entertainmentand Oregon Public Broadcasting. 2008
The Train [videorecording] / a United Artists release ; [Les Productions Artistes associés]. MGM Home Entertainment;screen story and screenplay by Franklin Coen and Frank Davis ; produced by Jules Bricken ; directed by John Frankenheimer. 1951. In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim’s scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
We are featuring exquisite pieces from our special collection and archive departments.
Please come into the library to browse this exhibit.
Featured works by Sonia Delaunay and others.
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It has been a fine 2008 semester here at the library and the holiday break is upon us faster than we thought. With the winter solstice taking place only days ago we plunged right into a cold Boston winter. The library will be closed for Winter break from Dec 24th to Jan 2nd. We will be open again on January 5th. The library will be open with limited hours from 12-5pm from January 5th to January 20th. We are not open weekends during this period.
The library will be closed Wednesday January 14th.
Thanks so much for coming to see us this 2008; we look forward to seeing you in the new year!!!!!
2008 Banned Book week is here at Mass Art
Please come check out some of the worlds best books that have been confronted with censorship; classics like Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer.
The 13th floor of the Morton Godine Library will be undergoing construction. The library has moved current periodicals temporarily to the other side of the building. The current periodicals are still on the 13th floor, they are located right when you go up the steps from the 12th floor. The back issue periodicals are still located in the same place.
The library is providing a new home for Urban Arts on the 13th floor. The library looks forward to welcoming Urban Arts to their new home. Please be sure to stop by the library and see what’s happening!
