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Frederic Edwin Church  (American, 1826 - 1900) Our Banner in the Sky,  1861 oil on paper

Terra Foundation for American Art

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Terra Co-Founder Seeks Relief From Arrest Over $105M LUNA Sale Charges

Terra Co-Founder Seeks Relief From Arrest Over $105M LUNA Sale Charges

As the legal troubles mount up for the Terra Co-founders, the accused executives made an appearance in the South Korean court. South Korean Prosecutors were seeking arrest warrants against Daniel Shin and seven other Terra associates. Will Terra co founder get relief from arrest? As per reports, Seoul Southern District Court launched an interrogation against Terra’s co founder in order to make a…

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John Singleton Copley. Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress. 1763. Oil on canvas. Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.

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'Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow' celebrates outsider art, Chicago history

Intuit Gallery's new show, "Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow," part of the Terra Foundation's Art Design Chicago initiative, celebrates outsider art and Chicago's unique history.

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Yesterday I went to the Tom Gunning lecture at the Louvre Auditorium, which was about Succession: Movement and Story in American Serial Images: Panoramas, Comic Strips, Photo Series, Optical Toys, Film.

Gunning delivered a rich and intense lecture, being able to keep together two aspects that is pretty difficult to fusion: the accurate historical competence and the wider theoretical view. The starting point of his speech was in fact one of the major aesthetic problems, based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laocoon (1766), that is to say: the supposed radical distinction between temporality of the image and of the word in art. What Gunning argued is that, if we look at the history of arts at the end of 19th century, in fact there is no clear opposition between the two but rather a sort of dialectic. 

What I found most interesting it's that the roots of this dialectic, according to Gunning, can somehow be retraced back in millenaries, thanks to the research of scholars such as Denise Schmandt-Besserat and André Leroi-Gourhan on the relationship between writing and image. 

It's quite difficult to resume such lecture, where one could find references ranging from hieroglyphs to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, or from W. S. Mount to Muybridge, so I guess I'll just wait until his new book comes out to go deeper into the subject. 

The lecture ended on a masterpiece by David Wark Griffith, The Country Doctor (1909), and I couldn't think of a better conclusion. 

While I was sketching his portrait during the Q&A with the audience, I was thinking what I could add to get an idea of the richness of his speech. I decided to pick the symbols taken from the proto-sinaitic alphabet quoted in a text by Schmandt-Besserat on the Evolution of Writing (2001; you can find an online version here), as a synthetic way to underline the dialectics between word and image stressed by Gunning during his conference. 

(February 2013)