Arnold Rubin

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Arnold Gary Rubin (born July 24, 1937 - April 19, 1988 ) was an American professor of art history at the University of California and tattoo researcher.

Life

Arnold, who was born in southwest Virginia in 1937, studied African art history at Indiana University , where he also received his doctorate. He founded a graduate school in African Art and established himself as an eminent scholar in the art of the Benue River Valley in Nigeria, where he spent four years - 1964–66 and 1969–71. By the time he died, he had published numerous articles on Nigerian art, worked as a consultant editor on African art, planned several exhibitions at the Museum of Cultural History and founded the Arts Council of the African Studies Association.

During his apprenticeship at the University of California, Arnold trained a number of undergraduate students in African art, some of whom held institutional positions of their own, as well as several undergraduate students studying pre-Columbian or Native American art history.

Tattoo research

A later generation of his students supported Arnold in exploring the art of tattooing . At the tattoo convention of the National Tattoo Club of the World from March 23 to 25, 1979 in the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Denver (Colorado), he met u. a. to Don Ed Hardy , Manfred Kohrs , Horst Klassenbach and David Yurkew . Together with his colleague Jan Stussy , he gave a detailed lecture at this convention . In 1982 Rubin organized a tattoo party on the Westwood campus . Several colleagues, numerous artists and scientists attended his major symposium on body modifications at the University of California in 1983. The works of this symposium edited by Arnold, which contain an essay by him, were published posthumously in 1988 under the title Marks of Civilization .

Publications (selection)

  • African accumulative sculpture: power and display. SUDOC (France)
  • Black Nanban: Africans in Japan during the sixteenth century. Koninklijke Biblioteek (Netherlands), SUDOC (France), Library of Congress / NACO
  • Figurative sculptures of the Niger River Delta exhibition. SUDOC (France), Koninklijke Biblioteek (Netherlands), Forest Lawn Library of Congress / NACO
  • Observations and interpretations: 2000 years of Nigerian art. Koninklijke Biblioteek (Netherlands), Library of Congress / NACO
  • Prologue to art history in plateau state. Koninklijke Biblioteek (Netherlands)
  • Sculpture of Black Africa. Paul Tishman Collection Bibliothèque nationale de France Koninklijke Biblioteek (Netherlands), NUKAT (Poland), Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Biblioteca Nacional de España SUDOC (France), Library of Congress / NACO
  • The art of power, the power of art. Studies in Benin iconography
  • The tattoo renaissance. Regents of the University of California 1988.
  • With Zena Pearlstone: Art as technology: the arts of Africa, Oceania, Native America, Southern California. Hillcrest Pr 1989, ISBN 0-914-5890-40 .
  • Marks of civilization: artistic transformations of the human body. Museum of Cultural History 1988, ISBN 0-930-7411-29 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Justine M. Cordwell (Ed.): The Visual Arts: Plastic and Graphic World Anthropology. Walter de Gruyter 1979, ISBN 3-110-8102-47 , Google Books: p. 800.
  2. ↑ BURT A. FOLKART: Arnold Rubin; Art History Scholar, Student of Tattoos. In: Los Angeles Times. April 13, 1988. Retrieved October 23, 2017 . (English) Retrieved October 23, 2017
  3. ^ University of California: In Memoriam, 1994: Arnold Gary Rubin, Art History: Los Angeles (English) Retrieved October 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Rubin, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rubin, Arnold Gary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1937
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1988