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Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography & Paris
9/10/09 - 1/03/10

Description: Including more than 120 photographs by such artists as Man Ray, Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Hans Bellmer and André Kertész, Twilight Visions will celebrate Paris as the literal and metaphoric foundation of Surrealism.		  
     

The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection and Indelible: The Photographs of Lalla Essaydi.
Oct 10, 2008 - Jan 25, 2009

Description: Featuring masterpieces of photography and film from throughout history, this exhibition includes works by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Alfred Stieglitz while also presenting various versions of famous photographs.

Indelible: Through her thought-provoking photographs, Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi confronts the issues of confinement and repression experienced by many women in Islamic societies.

 
     
The Photographs of Lalla Essaydi.
Learn more about The Photographs of Lalla Essaydi with Frist Center Associate Curator, Trinita Kennedy.		  
     

Aaron Douglas –
African American Modernist
Jan 19, 2008-Apr 13, 2008

Throughout his career Douglas projected a dignified voice of opposition and aspiration through his powerful imagery. This exhibition is the first nationally touring retrospective to celebrate the art and legacy of Aaron Douglas who is today considered the foremost visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance and "the father of Black American art."

  
 
Frist Center Curator Katie Delmez talks in detail about four of Aaron Douglas' murals.
     
Aspects of Negro Life (1:45)  
     
From Slavery to Recontruction (1:34)  
     
Into Bondage and Aspiration (1:47)  
     
     

Whispering Wind and Lyrical Traditions
June 22, 2007-October 7, 2007

Lyrical Traditions: Four Centuries of Chinese Painting and the concurrent exhibition Whispering Wind: Recent Chinese Photography will be the first exhibitions of Chinese art shown at the Frist Center.

Whispering Wind includes works by 21 contemporary artists from China, several of whom live in the West. The photographers are internationally celebrated for images that examine contrasts between traditionalism and globalism, the real and unreal, nature and urban life, and the personal and social that have come into sharp focus since the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Lyrical Traditions is drawn from the collection of Phoenix residents Marilyn and Roy Papp. The exhibition features magnificent paintings produced in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties and demonstrates how artists followed stylistic conventions and perpetuated ancient social values related to Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.