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Recommended ReadingNovelist Alan Furst, whose archive is housed at the Ransom Center, kicks off the Texas Book Festival onOctober 26 with a reading at the Ransom Center of his latest bestseller, The Foreign Correspondent(Random House, 2006). Furst offers his recommended reading.Learn more about the Alan Furst archive at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ransomedition.8Memoirs of an Anti-Semiteby Gregor von Rezzori(Vintage International, 1991)Don’t be fooled by the title—this is a fictional memoir of an obscureland in Romania, set in the 1930s, and an exceptionally good read.© Shonna ValeskaHomage to Catalonia by George Orwell(Harvest Books, 1969)A book to reread, some of the best Orwell, with a finely constructednarrative of the Spanish Civil War.The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth(Alfred A. Knopf, 1996)A fictional memoir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and, to some readers,Roth’s best, most carefully realized, novel. A good entree for those whohaven’t read him.The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia(Steerforth Italia, 1999)Moravia is not much read these days, but here’s the reason that shouldn’tbe so: One of the only books written by a man from a woman’s point ofview that I know about that really works. Extraordinary.David Coleman AppointedCurator of PhotographyThe Ransom Center announces the appointment of David Coleman tothe position of Curator of Photography.Coleman has worked at the Ransom Center for 10 years, most recently asAssociate Curator. From 1996 through 2002, he worked as a ResearchAssociate and Assistant Curator.“I have relished the professional opportunities I have had thus far at theRansom Center,” said Coleman. “I am honored to now be the chief curator forsuch a fine collection of photography—one that I look forward to developing further through major exhibitions, publications, and programs.”Coleman played a key role in the recent Arnold Newman acquisition. “I am very excited about our newly announced acquisition of ArnoldNewman’s archive, and I hope that we can build upon it through a selective, but ambitious, collection development strategy.”Coleman earned his Ph.D. in art history in 2005 from The University of Texas, with a specialization in the history of photography. His dissertationfocused on Henry Peach Robinson’s photographs, and he used the Ransom Center’s collection to support his research. Coleman previouslyworked at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York while earning his M.A. in art history at Hunter College.Ransom Edition : :
UpcomingExhibitionThe American TwentiesJanuary 30–July 29, 2007The United States emerged from World War I with wealth and powerand, because the nation was largely still rural, with a bit of aninferiority complex. Profound cultural and social change occurredduring the 1920s, a decade of ambiguities, contradictions, contrasts,and conflicts. In the decade’s struggle to define the future of America,a plethora of issues were argued and fought out in poetry, novels,political tracts, music, and the movies. Issues of race, religion, andrevolution were paramount, followed by those of love, sex,and gender.On the dust jacketof the 1925 firstedition of F. ScottFitzgerald’sThe Great Gatsby,the mysterious“disembodied”girl’s face floatingover Coney Islandrepresents boththe culturaland personalsignificance ofDaisy Buchananin Gatsby’simagination.Questions of the primacy of labor and capital were particularlyfraught, and the benefits of socialism, communism, anarchism,and capitalism were openly debated. Fundamentalists andexperimentalists clashed in many areas of human endeavor.Through these, the idea of the “modern” was crystallized and the“American” century born. This exhibition explores this decade throughthe literature and art that was to become quintessentially Americanand quintessentially modern.Themes explored in this all-gallery exhibition of materials drawn fromthe Ransom Center’s collections include “Remembering the War,”“Babbitts and Bohemians,” “Modernist Monuments,” “Labor andCapital,” “The Rise of Women,” “Hollywood’s Dream Factory,” “Houseand Home,” “Cops and Robbers,” “Cowboys and Indians,” “The NewNegro,” “In the American Grain,” and “The Voice of the People.”In 2007, the Harry Ransom Center commemorates its 50th anniversary.This exhibition is one of many programs planned in a year dedicatedto “Celebrating the Imagination.”Development UpdateWith the arrival of the massive Robert De Niro collectioncame another important acquisition: an endowment tosupport research into the rich trove of film history at theRansom Center. When the Center receives especiallylarge and extensive archives like those of De Niro andNorman Mailer, we seek to provide an endowment for theircontinued preservation or to enhance scholarship. For theDe Niro collection, a fund is being created to ensure thatqualified scholars and students will forever have financialsupport to enable them to come to the Center to conductresearch.The Dorot Foundation of Rhode Island, well known for itswork promoting Jewish heritage, made a significant giftto help us secure the acquisition of the Norman Mailerarchive. Many other foundations helped bring the collectionto Austin, including the Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation,the Perkins-Prothro Foundation, and the Moshana Foundation.Several individuals also made generous gifts towardthe Mailer acquisition, a partnership of donors comingtogether on behalf of a truly unique resource for studyingthe culture of the late 20th century. George Mitchell andthe University Co-op provided exhibition funding for thecurrent exhibition Norman Mailer Takes On America.If you would like to make a gift in support of the NormanMailer acquisition, or assist with a similar opportunity,please contact Jeff Melton at 512-471-5174. Your financialsupport makes possible the work of the Ransom Center.Without your help, we could not remain an internationalresource for scholarship.become a memberMembers enjoy special events and opportunities to explorethe collections and meet the people that make the RansomCenter an international resource for scholarship andintellectual delight.Visit http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/membership8or contact David Dibble at 512-232-3668 to join orlearn more.OF interest...: : David Douglas Duncan recently published Picasso &Lump: A Dachshund’s Odyssey (Bulfinch, 2006), a photographicchronicle of Pablo Picasso and his dog, Lump.: : Ransom Center Advisory Council member Greg Curtis recentlywrote The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteriesof the World’s First Artists (Knopf, 2006), a look at cavepaintings in France and Spain and their origins. The bookwill be released October 13.Ransom Edition : :
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