When Alice Xie moved from China to California as a teenager, she experienced major culture shock. She understood the words people spoke, but conversations were still hard to follow. She often felt isolated and underestimated.
Through art, Xie found a way to explore and communicate about this period in her life. So it was no surprise when she came to UC Berkeley and became an art history major. What caught her off-guard was that her other major – statistics – helped her understand herself, too.
The department is pleased to announce the publication of Darcy’s new book, Creole. Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century (2022).
From Penn State University Press: This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century.
The Department is pleased to announce the publication of Lisa’s new book, Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange by Cambridge Press. The book is co-edited with Elizabeth P. Baughan, University of Richmond, Virginia.
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The Department is delighted to announce the publication of Aglaya Glebova’s new book Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin.
From the Yale University Press website: Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin’s Soviet Union