Reading Paul Landacre’s Archive: California Landscape and the Erasure of Indigeneity
Schedule
Wed Oct 23 2024 at 04:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library | Los Angeles, CA
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The Second Annual Spotlight Talk, "Reading Paul Landacre’s Archive with the Clark Collections: California Landscape and the Erasure of Indigeneity" is given by Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Information Studies, UCLA.Paul Landacre was a wood engraver and artist whose first published work, "California Hills" (1931), established his reputation within the Fine Press community of Los Angeles. The images, particularly in "California Hills," raise issues in relation to the longer traditions of representations of the “pristine” and “uninhabited” landscape, thus participating in an erasure of indigenous peoples that had been part of landscape painting. The additional collections of the Clark Library include many useful materials for establishing the background for this erasure in documents from the 19th century onward in which the struggles for recognition, sovereignty, and identity are recorded. This talk presents an approach to reading Landacre’s archive in relation to this rich historical material. The Clark Library is pleased to display a selection of relevant materials from the collection at the lecture.
Johanna Drucker is internationally known for her work in graphic design history, typography, experimental poetry, and digital humanities. Drucker’s artist’s books are widely represented in museum and library collections and were the subject of a travelling retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects.
This lecture is free to attend with advance registration, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. Please visit the Tickets link to register.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs
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