What: Sem, GiGi, and Caricature
When: February 3 through April 19, 2015
Where: T.R. Anderson Gallery, fourth floor of Wilson Library
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The exhibition Sem, GiGi, and Caricature celebrates the new thirty-foot long acquisition Sem au Bois accompanied by other special collection materials contextualizing caricature during la Belle Epoque in France, and caricature expressed in the film GiGi. On display are late 19th and early 20th century illustrated journals, books, prints, and newspapers from the University of Minnesota Special Collections, in particular, the Francis V. Gorman Rare Art Book Collection.
Exhibition Coordinator: Deborah Ultan Boudewyns, Arts & Architecture & Landscape Architecture Librarian
Co-Curators: Lindsay Keating, Arts Librarian Projects Assistant & Nikki Otten, PhD Candidate
Exhibition Designer: Darren Terpstra
Faculty Advisor: Professor Gabriel Weisberg