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Robert Rosenblum: 鈥淒oDo Jin Ming: An Art Historian's View鈥
December 4, 2005
Renowned art historian Robert Rosenblum places the work of photographer DoDo Jin Ming in a wider art historical context, bringing forth compelling insights about both Jin Ming's work and the work of her predecessors.
Rosenblum鈥檚 talk is given in conjunction with the MOCRA exhibition DoDo Jin Ming: Land and Sea.
This talk is made possible through the generous financial support of the .
(1927鈥2006) ranks among the most influential art historians of the twentieth century. A prolific author, well-regarded teacher and scholar, and noted museum curator, Rosenblum taught at New York University for five decades. In 1976 he was named the Henry Ittleson Jr. Professor of Modern European Art. More recently he served as co-Curator of 20th-Century Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Rosenblum's many books include the groundbreaking Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art (1967). In 2000 Rosenblum co-curated the exhibition 1900: Art at the Crossroads, shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Guggenheim Museum.
His colleague Mari毛t Westermann noted, 鈥淩obert had an uncanny ability to make telling comparisons between incommensurate paintings鈥攋uxtapositions that illuminated the special interests of each picture in the pairing.鈥 Rosenblum could discourse on artists as diverse as Ingres, Picasso, Warhol, and Norman Rockwell, and even the dog as a subject in art.
Rosenblum was recognized with numerous distinctions. In 2003 the French government named him a Chevalier de la Legion d鈥橦onneur, and in 2005 New York University conferred on him a Distinguished Teaching Award, the university鈥檚 highest teaching honor. MOCRA is honored to have had Robert Rosenblum lecture on the work of DoDo Jin Ming. He was a gracious and erudite man, whose often surprising insights into Jin Ming鈥檚 work were complemented by his wit and good humor.
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Robert Rosenblum. Photo by Jeffrey Vaughn.
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| 2018-10-07 to 2018-10-14 | 
Walking in Hope: A Weeklong Celebration of the Canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero |
| 2017-04-20 | 
鈥淭he Hand Acts Out a Joyous Dance鈥: Celebrating the Art of Bernard Maisner |
| 2016-09-25 | 
Erika Diettes: 鈥淪tories Told from the Threshold鈥 |
| 2015-12-06 | 
So That You Know Each Other: Intercultural Reflections on Art, Beauty, and Islam |
| 2014-11-15 | 
John Handley: “The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso” |
| 2018-09-28 to 2018-09-29 | 
Fleur-de-Lis Floral Art Walk |
| 2014-02-23 | 
鈥淭he Economy of Gift鈥 in Socially Engaged Art Practices: A Public Deliberation |
| 2013-10-02 | 
Art21: The Spiritual Light screening at CAM |
| 2013-03-02 | 
Rituals and Spirituality in the Performative Photographic Work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons |
| 2012-11-11 | 
Breaking Boundaries: A Conversation about the Art of Patrick Graham |
| 2012-05-20 | 
Stephen P. Durchslag: 鈥淭he Jewish Experience and the Haggadah鈥 |
| 2012-03-27 |
2012 Loyola Chair Lecture: “The Image of the Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Consciousness” |
| 2011-10-06 |
2011 Loyola Chair Lecture: 鈥淭he Pursuit of the Spirit: The Renewed Interest in the Spiritual and Religious Dimensions in Contemporary Art鈥 |
| 2011-05-01 | 
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淕eorges Rouault and the Art of Sacred Engagement鈥 |
| 2010-11-15 |
Terrence Demspey, S.J.: “Creating a Religious Environment through Contemporary Art and Architecture” |
| 2010-03-28 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “The Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Conscience” |
| 2009-12-01 | 
Day With(out) Art |
| 2009-11-15 | 
Michael Byron: “Cosmic Tears: Word and Image” |
| 2009-03-29 | 
Art and the Religious Imagination |
| 2008-04-15 | 
Wu Hung: 鈥淲hat Is Contemporary Chinese Art?鈥 |
| 2007-10-07 | 
Celluloid Bible Classics: The Ten Commandments |
| 2007-11-04 | 
Celluloid Bible Classics: Ben-Hur |
| 2007-09-16 | 
Michael Morris, O.P.: 鈥淢oving Pictures: The Bible and Beyond鈥 |
| 2007-03-30 | 
Peter Frank: 鈥淎n Oskar Fischinger Tribute鈥 |
| 2006-12-01 | 
Day With(out) Art |
| 2005-12-04 |
Robert Rosenblum: 鈥淒oDo Jin Ming: An Art Historian's View鈥 |
| 2003-09-07 | 
To Make Extraordinary: The Role of Sacred Objects in Life and Worship |
| 2002-05-04 | 
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A University Response |
| 2002-04-30 | 
Fred D. Gray: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Study That Should Never Have Occurred |
| 2002-01-31 | 
Cloudlanders |
| 2002-01-26 | 
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Last Temptation: Andy Warhols Art as Belief鈥 |
| 2000-11-30 | 
Day With(out) Art |
| 2001-04-06 | 
Bare Naked Statues in concert |
| 1999-04-15 | 
Two Lectures: Ellen Dissanayake and Jack Renard |
| 1999-03-27 | 
Bernard Maisner: 鈥淭he Art of the Illuminator鈥 |
| 1998-03-22 | 
Renaissance and Modern |
| 1997-11-15 | 
The Role of the Computer in Contemporary Art |
| 1997-07-24 | 
Jennifer Biddle: Body, Country, Canvas: Meaning and Identity in Central Desert Aboriginal Women鈥檚 Art |
| 1997-06-07 |
Creativity as Ancestral Mind: Living with the Ancestors |
| 1997-02-27 | 
The Artist and the Theologian Dialogue: The Body of Christ as Veiling and Unveiling the Invisible God |
| 1996-12-01 | 
Day Without Art |
| 1996-05-19 | 
The Artist as Poet: Readings by Edward Boccia |
| 1995-05-20 | 
Ian Friend: 鈥淭he Edge of Belief鈥 |
| 1995-05-04 | 
Peter Selz: 鈥淒egenerate Art鈥 |
| 1995-02-05 | 
Lynn Hague in recital |
| 1994-11-13 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淭he Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS鈥 |
| 1994-12-01 |
Day Without Art |
| 1994-11-05 |
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Changing Face of AIDS鈥 |
| 1994-11-01 |
The Amici String Quartet in recital |
| 1994-10-15 | 
Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the TIme of AIDS dance program and opening reception |
| 1993-10-29 | 
I Remember Alvin |
| 1993-11-05 | 
An Evening with Katherine Dunham |
| 1992-11-07 | 
The Artist and Sacred Space |