Handwerker Gallery Newsletter
Fall 2001– Volume 3, Number 2
From August 30 through October 14, Handwerker Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Jamaican art entitled In the Fullness of Time. Its curator, Catherine Amidon, director of exhibitions at the Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth State College, spoke with us about the exhibition and the representation of Jamaican art today.
After his April lecture at the Handwerker, "Proletarian Love and Revolutionary Art in New York 1935," we e-mailed Hemingway a set of questions asking him, among other things, to talk more on similarities and differences between the European and American cultural situation in the 1930s; propaganda art and the social functions of art; and the importance and signification of a materialist art history.
During the years of the Weimar Republic, she became the first woman to be elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, where she was head of the Master Studio for Graphic Arts.
Kollwitz’s print Death, Woman, and Child, in the Handwerker Gallery permanent collection, is one of many the artist created after 1914, the year her youngest son died in battle.
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In the Fullness of Time and Before
What Does a Materialist Art History Do:
Andrew Hemingway's Response
From the Permanent Collection: "Death, Woman, and Child"