Nineteen Nineteen - Hardcover

Glisson, James; Watts, Jennifer A.; Lawrence, Karen R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087328268X ISBN 13: 9780873282680

Publisher: Angel City Press, 2019

Race riots. Labor strikes. Women's battle for the vote. The aftermath of the Great War. The transformative events and harsh realities of the year 1919 still reverberate a century later.

Nineteen Nineteen, published to accompany a centennial exhibition of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, explores the institution and its founding through the lens of this single, tumultuous year. The fully illustrated catalog features works from The Huntington's vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and art, many of them never exhibited or published before.

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From the Inside Flap:

Henry Huntington was once asked whether he planned to write an autobiography describing his career. He demurred and said in response, "This library will tell the story; it represents the reward of all the work that I have ever done and the realization of much happiness." When exhibition co-curators James Glisson, interim chief curator of American art, and Jennifer Watts, curator of photography and visual culture, were considering a Huntington centennial exhibition, they decided to take Huntington at his word and allow the library and art collections to tell the tale.

"Nineteen Nineteen" is organized around five broad themes: Fight, Return, Map, Move, and Build, drawn from the millions of documents, objects, paintings, ephemera, photographs, and volumes found in The Huntington's archives, galleries, and rare book stacks. "We wanted to harness the large number of 1919-related items here into something provocative, allowing the visitor to interpret the period in a fluid way. Rather than telling a neat, resolved story, we tried to recapture the jarring experience of life during a year that everyone understood was an inflection point for world history," said Glisson. "Empires had fallen in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Millions had died fighting and in a flu pandemic. Delegates at the Paris Peace Conference tried to sew a tattered world back together. Like today, people felt that irrevocable change was underway. The issues of 2019"€"immigrant detention, women's rights, and the fight for a living wage"€"were equally pressing in 1919."

About the Author:

James Glisson is Interim Chief Curator of American Art at The Huntington.

Jennifer A. Watts is Curator of Photography and Visual Culture at The Huntington.

Karen R. Lawrence assumed her position as the ninth president of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on Sept. 1, 2018, following a decade as president at Sarah Lawrence, a small, highly regarded liberal arts college in Yonkers, NY. At Sarah Lawrence she is credited with weathering the 2008 financial crisis with smart management and effective leadership, moving the institution into a period of strong growth and performance as well as increased student body diversity. She led the most successful fundraising campaign in the college's history, culminating in the building of the Barbara Walters Campus center, scheduled to open in 2019 (and the largest gift in the college's history from one of its most famous alumni).

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