Fox Adler Lecture Program 2021

THE THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL

FOX-ADLER LECTURE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 Virtual | 5:30 p.m.

Michael Tisserand is a New Orleans-based author whose most recent book, “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White,” explores the art, life, and times of cartoonist George Herriman, creator of “Krazy Kat.” The New York Times included “Krazy” in its 100 notable books of 2017. “Krazy” also received the Eisner Award for best comics-related book and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld awards for biography. In the years preceding Hurricane Katrina, Tisserand served as editor of Gambit, New Orleans’ alternative weekly, and in addition to comics, much of Tisserand’s work focuses on Louisiana history and culture. He explored Louisiana music in his first book, “The Kingdom of Zydeco,” which received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music writing, and he told his own Katrina story in his second book, “Sugarcane Academy.” Most recently, Tisserand self-published “My Father When Young,” a book of recently discovered photographs that his father had taken in the late 1950s in Europe, Indiana, Kentucky, and at New Orleans’ Mardi Gras. When not writing, Tisserand is an occasional chess coach and promoter, as well as founding member of the Mardi Gras parading organization The Laissez Boys.

More information about Tisserand and his work can be found at www.MichaelTisserand.com.

THE FOX ADLER LECTURE

The annual Fox-Adler Lecture, made possible by the late Norman M. Fox, honors the Fox family and the late Hannah Moriarta Adler. Fox and Adler shared a love of rare books and collecting. A native Saratogian educated at Smith College and Oxford University, Hannah Adler was an avid collector of 18th- and 19th-century books, drawings, and porcelains. In 1967, she loaned to Skidmore her extensive collection of 18th- and 19th-century books, which became the Fox Collection. The collection belongs to the College thanks to the generosity of Norman M. Fox, his commitment to preserving literature and the arts, and his desire to perpetuate his friend’s legacy. His support for the Fox-Adler Lecture sprung from his joy and interest in the collection and his wish to share its richness with others. In 2005, the Fox family endowed the lecture series.

PROGRAM

welcome

Marc C. Conner President

fox family recognition

Catherine J. Golden Professor of English Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters

introduction

Deborah R. Hall Associate Professor of Art

lecture

Why We Need Krazy Kat Michael Tisserand New Orleans-based Author

THE FOX-ADLER LECTURES 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1996 1997

1998 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Richard Altick, “The First Ten Years of Punch: The Caricature Tradition” Roundtable featuring Catherine J. Golden, Ruth Copans, John DeMarco, and Norman M. Fox Robert L. Patten, “In Search of Cruikshank” John Anzalone, “Satirical Illustration and the Literary Milieu of La Belle Époque: The Case of L’Assiette au Beurre” Martha Vicinus, “Victorian Male Impersonators: Theatrical Cross-Dressing” Terry Belanger, “Time and Money: The Search for Speed and the Search for Cheapness in the Production of 19th-Century English and American Illustrated Books” Jonathan Bate, “The Picturesque Environment”; Respondent: Sarah Webster Goodwin Nina Auerbach, “Women’s Ghosts: The Shadow of a “Babe”; U.C. Knoepflmacher, “Wakeful Belles and Torpid Beasts: Retellings of ‘Beauty and the Beast’” Elizabeth Helsinger, “Rossetti and the Art of the Book” David Porter, “‛We All Sit on the Edge of Stools and Crack Jokes’: The Hogarth Press of Virginia and Leonard Woolf” James A. W. Heffernan, “Love, Death, and Grotesquerie: Beardsley’s Illustrations of Wilde and Pope” Peter David Holland, “‛Counterfeit Presentments’: Illustrating Shakespeare and Performance” John Dixon Hunt, “Putting You in the Picture: The Book of the Garden, the Garden as Book” Michael Patrick Hearn, “From Wonderland to Oz: Children’s Book Illustration in the Golden Age” Michael Kimmelman, “Art in Aisle 1: The Early History of American Museums and Department Stores” Ann Thwaite, “Glimpses of the Wonderful: The ‘Miraculous Exactitude’ of the Naturalist and Illustrator Philip Henry Gosse, 1810–1888” Jay G. Williams, “Thomas Nast: America’s Icon Maker” David Tatham, “Winslow Homer and the Art of the Book” Valerie Steele, “A New Look at Victorian Fashion” Barry Moser, “Whales, Monsters and Solitary Voyages: One Illustrator’s Travels Through Nineteenth-Century Literature” Joseph Viscomi, “Blake’s Enlightened Graphics: Illuminated Books and New Technologies” Michael Kuch, “The Annotated Image: When Pictures Precede Text — The Books of Michael Kuch” Irvin Ungar, “Arthur Szyk: Book Illustrator Extraordinaire!”

Elisha Cooper, “Inappropriate: The Art of Children’s Books” Isaac Gewirtz, “Reading the Literary Archive: A Tale of Scholarship and Taste” Victor S. Navasky, “The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power” Scott McCloud, “Comics and the Art of Visual Communication” Mark Dimunation, “Strange and Marvelous Books; Leonard Baskin and the Gehenna Press” Françoise Mouly, “Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See” George P. Landow, “Illustrating Illustrating; Or, What Does it Mean to Illustrate a Book?”

Will Grill, “The Art of Distillation: The Unlikely Road to Making Books”