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Art History Scholarship
The Arthur Szyk Society is dedicated to preserving the artistic legacy of Arthur Szyk as a cultural hero and national treasure. The Society presents the artist's prolific body of works for broad and diverse audiences in the U.S. and worldwide. The goals of The Society are to: commemorate the art and messages of Arthur Szyk; facilitate scholarly research in art history and other fields of humanities related to the life and art of Arthur Szyk; promote public awareness of Szyk's life and works through education outreach to teachers, students, their families and communities; and catalyze social action through the arts.
The Arthur Szyk Society is soliciting papers for publication on works of art by Arthur Szyk. Proposals should include your name, address, phone number, email address, institution, title for your paper and a one-paragraph summary, and a 25 world personal bio. Please email your proposals to: Curator@szyk.org.
Art History Paper #1:
De profundis by Darlene Miller-Lanning, Ph.D., Gallery Director and an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
De Profundis explores one of Arthur Szyk's most dramatic outcries against the mounting toll of the Holocaust, as well as the lack of an expeditious American response to the catastrophe in Europe. "De profundis" is Szyk's visual interpretation of Psalm 130, which begins "Out of the depths I have called Thee, O Lord."
Art History Paper #2:
Democracy's Weapon: Arthur Szyk in America by Harry Katz, Independent curator and writer and former Head Curator of prints and photographs at the Library of Congress.
Isolated by oceans and sheltered from warfare, no American artist was so utterly prepared as Arthur Szyk to fight the tyranny of hearts and minds he found everywhere in his travels through Europe and even North America, where he dreamed freedom lived. He was democracy's weapon, a soldier in art, wielding pen and brush to render the face of racial hatred and social injustice, its horrid features intact for all to see.
Art History Paper #3:
The Civil Rights Art of Arthur Szyk by Paul Von Blum, UCLA Professor and Honorary Board Member of The Arthur Szyk Society.
Szyk's Civil Rights art shows the artist attacking racism on the home front, even while he was fighting Nazism during World War II. Professor Von Blum's compelling analysis, combined with Szyk's powerful images, demonstrates the complexity and variety of the artist's work, as well as his determination to point out racism and inequality wherever he found it.
To order the group of 3 Art History Papers,
please send check in the amount of $20 (includes priority shipping) to:
The Arthur Szyk Society, 1200 Edgehill Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010.
If you wish to pay by credit card (Visa or Mastercard)
please phone 650-343-9588.
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