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SUMMARY:Reading Paul Landacre’s Archive with the Clark Collections: Calif
 ornia Landscape and the Erasure of Indigeneity
DESCRIPTION:\nSecond Annual Spotlight Talk by Johanna Drucker\, Distinguish
 ed Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita\, Information Studies\, Unive
 rsity of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\nPaul Landacre was a wood engraver a
 nd artist whose first published work\, California Hills (1931)\, establish
 ed his reputation within the Fine Press community of Los Angeles. Highly s
 killed as an engraver\, he produced a considerable corpus of acclaimed wor
 k\, and he also kept scrupulous records of all aspects of his activity—a
 ccount books\, correspondence\, sketches\, and personal memorabilia. These
  materials provide an in-depth look at his professional life\, and his con
 nections to a singular network of artists and intellectuals in the region.
  But the images\, particularly in California Hills\, raise their own issue
 s in relation to the longer traditions of representations of the “prist
 ine” and “uninhabited” landscape\, thus participating in an erasure 
 of indigenous peoples that had been part of landscape painting. The additi
 onal collections of the Clark Library include many useful materials for es
 tablishing the background for this erasure in documents from the 19th cent
 ury onward in which the struggles for recognition\, sovereignty\, and iden
 tity are recorded. This talk presents an approach to reading Landacre’s 
 archive in relation to this rich historical material.\n\nJohanna Drucker\,
  Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita in the Department
  of Information Studies at UCLA\, is internationally known for her work in
  graphic design history\, typography\, experimental poetry\, and digital h
 umanities. Drucker’s artist’s books are widely represented in museum a
 nd library collections and were the subject of a travelling retrospective\
 , Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects. Recent titles include Diagr
 ammatic Writing (Onomatopée\, 2014)\, The General Theory of Social Relati
 vity\, (The Elephants\, 2018)\, Inventing the Alphabet (University of Chic
 ago Press\, 2022)\, Visualization and Interpretation (MIT Press\, 2020)\, 
 and Iliazd: Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press 
 2020).  In Fall 2022 she taught the Ahmanson Undergraduate Seminar focuse
 d on the Paul Landacre materials at the William Andrews Clark Jr. Library.
 \n\nThe Clark Library is pleased to display a selection of relevant materi
 als from the collection at the lecture.\n\n\n\nThe lecture is free to atte
 nd with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Clark Lib
 rary and livestreamed on the Center's YouTube Channel. No registration is 
 required to watch the livestream. In-person registration will close on Mon
 day\, October 21. Seating is limited at the Clark\; walk-in registrants ar
 e welcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Paul Landacre\, Mont
 erey Hills\, wood engraving from California Hills\, 1931. © The Paul Land
 acre Estate/VAGA\, New York\, NY. Courtesy of the William Andrews Clark Me
 morial Library.
CATEGORIES:Lectures
LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252
 0 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
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