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This talk will illuminate and celebrate the life of Dewald Strauss, portrayed by Alice Neel in her painting “Fuller Brush Man.” Jerry Strauss will share the true story behind the painting of his father, a Holocaust survivor and door-to-door salesman.
About the Speaker
Jerry Strauss has always loved music, art, and a good story. As a longtime employee of The Met, he had the chance to experience art on a daily basis. One day, during a TED event at the museum, he got an opportunity to tell the story of his dad, a Holocaust survivor, war hero, and subject of a very famous portrait, “Fuller Brush Man” by Alice Neel. That story evolved into his book, “Giving My Father Back His Name,” which teaches us that there is a profound tale behind every picture.
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Image: Alice Neel, “Fuller Brush Man,” 1965 (detail). © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner.
This talk will illuminate and celebrate the life of Dewald Strauss, portrayed by Alice Neel in her painting “Fuller Brush Man.” Jerry Strauss will share the true story behind the painting of his father, a Holocaust survivor and door-to-door salesman.
About the Speaker
Jerry Strauss has always loved music, art, and a good story. As a longtime employee of The Met, he had the chance to experience art on a daily basis. One day, during a TED event at the museum, he got an opportunity to tell the story of his dad, a Holocaust survivor, war hero, and subject of a very famous portrait, “Fuller Brush Man” by Alice Neel. That story evolved into his book, “Giving My Father Back His Name,” which teaches us that there is a profound tale behind every picture.
Learn more about the exhibition: deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/alice-neel
Subscribe to our channel: https://dey.ng/our-channel
Don’t miss our upcoming programs! Sign up for our newsletter: https://dey.ng/newsletter
Image: Alice Neel, “Fuller Brush Man,” 1965 (detail). © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner.
![[Day 1] Bridges: Social Engagement in Artists’ Books/ 2021 Reva and David Logan Symposium](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rEsYg-nNJCo/mqdefault.jpg "[Day 1] Bridges: Social Engagement in Artists’ Books/ 2021 Reva and David Logan Symposium
As potent tools for understanding, books can bridge disparate cultures. This year’s Logan Symposium brings together six powerful and courageous voices, artists who have traveled the world, and traveled within themselves, to bring back visual and poetic testimony.
About the Speakers
Dana Gioia (Keynote): Creativity, Collaboration, & Community
Dana Gioia is a poet and critic with numerous awards to his credit and a long history of collaboration with letterpress printers and artists. His 1992 book Can Poetry Matter? was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. He is a former Poet Laureate of California and from 2003 to 2009 was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. For nine years Gioia was the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at USC. He now divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California. (danagioia.com)
Nigel Poor: Stories from San Quentin
Description
Nigel Poor, an artist, and photographer is a Professor of Photography at CSU Sacramento and is widely known as co-host and co-creator with Earlonne Woods of the celebrated podcast Ear Hustle. Her book The San Quentin Project (Aperture, 2021), based on classes she has taught at San Quentin on the theory and history of photography, documents the work of incarcerated students. Her fine art has been widely exhibited and collected. (nigelpoor.com)
Philip Zimmermann: Delirium
Philp Zimmermann founded his imprint, Spaceheater Editions, in 1979, and has since published several dozen editions of his mostly photo-based book works, with thirty-eight editions currently in print. A recent work, Delirium, a striking evocation of the contagions of 2020, both medical and political, was selected by the professional design association AIGA as one of the fifty best-designed books of the year. Recently retired as a professor of design at the University of Arizona, he lives in Tucson. (spaceheat.com)
Andre Bradley, Dark Archives, 1–41
Andre Bradley’s Dark Archives, 1–41, was shortlisted for the Photo-Text Book Award at Les Rencontres de la Photographie and the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award, both in 2016. His work is in public and private art collections and libraries including the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Scripps Colleges Ella Strong Denison Library. Bradley holds MFA degrees from Ithaca College and the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received the T.C. Colley Award for Photographic Excellence. He lives and works in Philadelphia. (elanaschlenker.com/dark-archives/)")
