{"id":705,"date":"2020-09-09T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/?p=705"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:42:29","slug":"bridget-r-cooks-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/2020\/09\/09\/bridget-r-cooks-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget R. Cooks Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Modern Art Colloquium and Ricker Library present:<\/p>\n

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Xaviera Simmons, High Seasoned Brown, 2004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Contemporary Landscape Photography and the Black Female Figure<\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 9 @ 5:30pm CT
\nRegistration Link: https:\/\/forms.gle\/kM5QUHnizfRWf4NX9<\/p>\n

a lecture by<\/p>\n

PROFESSOR BRIDGET COOKS<\/p>\n

University of California, Irvine<\/p>\n

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More about Dr. Cooks:<\/p>\n

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Portrait of Bridget R. Cooks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bridget R. Cooks is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. Cooks has worked in museum education and has curated several exhibitions including, Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California<\/em>, (2018) (Pasadena Museum of California Art); and Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective<\/em> at the California African American Museum (2019), and the forthcoming exhibition The Black Index<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She is author of the book Some of her other publications can be found in Afterall<\/em>, Afterimage,<\/em> American Studies<\/em>, Aperture<\/em>, and American Quarterly. <\/em>She is currently completing her next book titled, Norman Rockwell: The Civil Rights Paintings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Selections from Dr. Cooks’ bibliography:<\/h3>\n

Books and book chapters:<\/h4>\n

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum<\/em> (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011).<\/a><\/p>\n

Berry, Ian, Lauren Haynes, and Alma Thomas. Alma Thomas. <\/i> New York, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2016.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hayes, Jeffreen M., Kirsten Pai Buick, Bridget R. Cooks, and Augusta Savage. Augusta Savage\u202f: Renaissance Woman <\/i> London, UK: GILES, an imprint of D Giles Limited, 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n

Articles<\/h4>\n

“David Driskell, 1931-2020<\/a>” Artforum<\/em>,\u00a0 April 10, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

“Norman Rockwell’s Negro Problem,” Cultural Critique 105, Fall 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Art World Has Lost its Mind: Lorraine O\u2019Grady and the Birth of Mlle Bourgeise Noire.\u201d Afterall (46: Fall 2018).<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cRedux: Bridget R. Cooks on Harlem on My Mind (1968),\u201d \u201cVision and Justice\u201d: Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas.<\/em> Volume 223 (Summer 2016).<\/a><\/p>\n

“Sound of the Break: Jazz and the Failures of Emancipation,\u201d co-authored with Graham Eng-Wilmot. American Quarterly<\/em> 68:2 (June 2016).<\/a><\/p>\n

“Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind (1969).” American Studies<\/i> 48 (1), 2007.<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u201cConfronting Terrorism: Teaching the History of Lynching through Photography\u201d. Pedagogy 7.1: (January 2007).<\/a><\/div>\n
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Other Projects and articles where Cooks is interviewed:<\/h4>\n

UCI Podcast: The cultural significance of visual representation<\/a><\/p>\n

“SFMOMA Grapples With Accusations of Racism” SF Weekly, 7\/20\/2020<\/a><\/p>\n

Getty Research Institute Oral history project<\/h4>\n

Bridget R. Cooks, moderator: Oral History on Photography: Herb Randall, Ming Smith, Dawoud Bey, Adger Cowans, Herb Robinson<\/a><\/p>\n

Artnews announcement about the initiative<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ricker Library Facebook posts about artists that Cooks discusses in the lecture with links to resources<\/h3>\n

Nona Faustine<\/a><\/p>\n

Xaviera Simmons<\/a><\/p>\n

LaToya Ruby Frazier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Modern Art Colloquium and Ricker Library present:   Contemporary Landscape Photography and the Black Female Figure Wednesday, September 9 @ 5:30pm CT Registration Link: https:\/\/forms.gle\/kM5QUHnizfRWf4NX9 a lecture by PROFESSOR BRIDGET COOKS University of California, Irvine   More about Dr. Cooks: Bridget R. Cooks is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-events","category-resources","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/arx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}