Dean Rader & Paula J Birnbaum

Booksmith hosts a Dean Rader (Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly) and Paula J. Birnbaum (Sculpting a Life: Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv) in discussion about their new books on May 4, 2023.
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- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -
Dean Rader has authored or co-authored twelve books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. Other titles include his poetry collection Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry and the anthologies Native Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations and Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. Rader writes and reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, BOMB, and Ploughshares. In 2020, he was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award. His new book, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, features Rader’s poems alongside corresponding images by the artist Cy Twombly. Rader’s writing has been supported by fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University, the MacDowell Foundation, Art Omi, The Headlands Center for the Arts, and the John R. Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, where he was a 2019 Fellow in Poetry. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco. www.deanrader....
Paula J. Birnbaum is the academic director of the Museum Studies Master of Arts Program and professor of art history and museum studies at the University of San Francisco. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary art. Paula is a former Fulbright Scholar and fellow at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of, among other works, Women Artists in Interwar France (Routledge, 2011; 2016) and the co-edited anthology Essays on Women’s Artistic and Cultural Contributions 1919-1939 (Edwin Mellen, 2009). Recent essays appear in the Burlington Art Journal, Museum Magazine, Artl@s Bulletin, Modern Jewish Studies and Art Journal, among others. Paula is a regular contributor to museum exhibition catalogs exploring the role of women in modernism, including most recently Suzanne Valadon: un monde à soi (Centre Pompidou - Metz, 2023); Pionnières, artistes femmes des années folles (Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2022); Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-Garde (London: Prestel, 2019). She is presently collaborating with the Musée Zadkine in Paris on an exhibition of Chana Orloff’s work, opening in November 2023. www.paulajbirn...
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