UC Berkeley Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Of the approximately 150 Chinese paintings in this collection guide, the majority were originally collected by UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus James Cahill and the Cahill family. The Cahill family collections, known historically as the Ching Yüan Chai Collection, are arguably among the finest in the western United States, representing virtually every period of Chinese painting over the last 900 years. The collections consist of works from the Sung, Yüan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, including major figure paintings and bird-and-flower paintings. The greatest strength, however, is landscape paintings. Considered the highest category of painting in China, the landscape embodies the ideals ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Although she lived only 31 years, Theresa Cha left a substantial and diverse body of work. The primary mediums in which she worked were: ceramic, performance, artist's books, concrete poetry, film, video, sculpture, mail art, audio, and slide projections. In many cases her work combined aspects of different media, blurring the boundaries between conventionally distinct categories. It was characteristic of Cha to take the thematic and formal approaches developed in one medium and reinterpret them in another; elements of film and video, for example, find their way into artist's books and vice versa. The central theme of Cha's art is ...

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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s comprehensive collection—more than 19,000 works of art and 16,000 films and videos—is characterized by artistic excellence and innovation, intellectual exploration, and social commentary. Representing a tremendous diversity of global cultures and historical periods, the collection reflects the central role of education in our mission. The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant-garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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Since the 1970s, the Pacific Film Archive has hosted numerous guest speakers in conjunction with its film and video exhibition program. The speakers include filmmakers from around the world, as well as others involved in filmmaking, film study and criticism, and film preservation. The guest recordings collection documents these speakers' appearances and consists of question and answer sessions, lectures, symposia, and other interactions between PFA guests and audiences.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive