Campus Stories - Gordon Chang

Painting; December 1918; Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov papers, Hoover Institution Archives. In this painting, one of the rooms in the Winter Palace in Petrograd is vandalized by revolutionaries. Vladimirov, commissioned by Hoover curator Frank Golder to create paintings depicting scenes of daily life in Russia, illustrates a grim world wherein the realities of everyday life are in stark contrast to Bolshevik propaganda.
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Art And History: Treasures From The Hoover Library And Archives

Hoover Library and Archives | May 2, 2013

The Hoover Institution’s new exhibition, Art and History: Treasures from the Hoover Library and Archives, runs from April 23 to December 20, 2013, in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion (next to Hoover Tower) on the Stanford University campus. Drawing on the extensive holdings of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, this exhibition showcases the…

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Partially reconstructed Double Happiness rice bowl surrounded by shards of Bamboo rice bowls. The names "Double Happiness" and "Bamboo" refer to the very popular painted motifs painted on the bowl.
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Stanford exhibit of San Jose’s lost Chinatown brings archaeology out of the laboratory

VERONICA MARIAN | April 16, 2013

Visitors to the Stanford Archaeology Center find modern glass cases filled with fragments of a lost city – wooden toothbrushes and combs, buttons and leather shoes, ceramic bowls and soup spoons. These are the remnants of the once thriving Chinatown community in downtown San José. Today, these archaeological findings populate City Beneath the City, an art installation designed by…

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