Portrait of Paul R. Williams, 1952, Julius Shulman. Gelatin silver print. Getty Research Institute,
2004.R.10
NEW ACQUISITION
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Portrait of Paul R. Williams, 1952, Julius Shulman. Gelatin silver print. Getty Research Institute, 2004.R.10
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Paul Revere Williams Archive
Paul Revere Williams was the most significant African American architect of the 20th century. A native Angeleno, Williams contributed greatly to the cultural landscape and design of Los Angeles. He was the first African American member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), its first African American Fellow, and first African American Gold Medalist. Partnering with Williams' alma mater, the USC School of Architecture, Getty Research Institute has jointly acquired the renowned architect's archive which documents the entirety of his career.
Learn more about this acquisition.
Read about the archive in the LA Times.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Applications Now Open for 2021/2022 Scholar Year Themes
The Getty Scholars Program announces its research themes and call for applications for the upcoming scholar year. The Getty Research Institute will be continuing the theme of The Fragment, inviting applicants to address both the creation and reception of fragments, and their valuation and consequence throughout history. Scholars at the Villa are invited again to focus on the ancient cultures of The Levant and their relations with the classical world. Residencies are contingent upon the state of the international pandemic.
The application deadline for the 2021/2022 scholar year is October 1, 2020.
Apply for a Getty Scholar Grant.
Learn more about the two research themes.
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Langslet House (Long Beach, Calif.), Julius Shulman, 1977. Architect unknown. Getty Research Institute, 2004.R.10
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'What Is a Good Dream House?': Julius Shulman and the 1970s Domestic Interior
Architecture photographer Julius Shulman was at best ambivalent about postmodernism. In a 1990 interview, he alternately called such architecture "hideous," "horrendous," and "horrible," citing it as the primary reason he'd slowed down his professional activity by the mid-1980s. And yet, his oeuvre nevertheless chronicles the wane of modernist austerity in favor of a form of excess—marked by exuberant forms, vivid color, bold graphics, expressive ornament, and playful historical reference—perhaps identifiable as postmodern. View a selection of Shulman's images from around 1970 that illustrate a reconsideration of the aesthetics of domesticity.
Read more on the Getty Iris blog.
LISTEN
PODCAST: Globalization and the Year 1000
In the year 1000 CE, Vikings reached the shores of North America, trade routes connected China with Europe and Africa, and in the Americas, cities like Chichén Itzá
underwent explosive growth that attracted people and goods from afar. Valerie Hansen explores these early economic and cultural exchanges and their long-term impact in her new book
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began, which originated as a college course co-taught with Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute. In this episode, Hansen and Miller discuss the state of the world around the year 1000.
Listen to the podcast.
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Mary Schmidt Campbell at Getty Center, 2019
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Mary Schmidt Campbell: An American Odyssey
Spelman College President and Dean Emerita of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Mary Schmidt Campbell, discusses her biography of
Romare Bearden, the renowned 20th-century African American artist known for his large-scale public murals and collages exploring universal themes through the celebration of African American culture. This program, organized in collaboration with Spelman College and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, was part of the Getty Research Institute's ongoing
African American Art History Initiative.
Watch the lecture.
PUBLICATION
Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.
Written by Mark Nelson, William H. Sherman, and Ellen Hoobler
Following the Armory Show of 1913, Louise and Walter Arensberg began assembling one of the most important private collections of art in the United States. In total, the couple acquired some four thousand rare books and manuscripts and nearly one thousand works of art—including world-class specimens of cubism, surrealism, and primitivism, the bulk of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre, and hundreds of pre-Columbian objects—filling every conceivable space in each room of their house, including the bathrooms.
Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. takes readers room by room, wall by wall, object by object through the couple's Los Angeles home in a comprehensive reconstruction.
Reserve your copy.
NEW FOR RESEARCHERS
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Eric Orr, Sunrise, 1981. Getty Research Institute, 2017.M.13
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Eric Orr documentary photographs and papers
Finding Aid
Eric Orr (1939–1998) was a key figure in the Light and Space movement in Southern California. A native Kentuckian, Orr moved to Los Angeles in 1965, where he began to produce perceptual installations using the elemental qualities of silence, sound, darkness, and light as material. From the 1970s onward, Orr created atmospheric monochrome paintings, wall-mounted sculptures, and public fountains which incorporated a variety of elements including fire, water, gold, volcanic ash, meteorite dust, and his own blood. Orr's archive consists primarily of photographic materials that document his works and schematic drawings related to his public projects.
Browse the finding aid.
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