Genealogy questions are among the many requests we receive here at the Mississippi Library Commission. We help patrons look for family links, military records, or anything else we can help them to find using Ancestry Library Edition, Heritage Quest, or books and records in our Mississippi Reference Collection. It was a delight when I happened across a book titled Eudora while searching through Mississippi documents. Eudora, edited and selected by Patti Carr Black, is like a family album spanning back to Eudora Welty’s great grandparents on both her paternal (Welty) side and maternal (Andrews) side. We often see pictures of notable, historical figures during their “prime” years of being famous, and we rarely get a peek of their family history. Here are a few photos for you to enjoy! Feel free to say, “Aww!”  "Mother's father, Edward Raboteau Andrews, was called Ned. he was the first in his family to leave Virginia and move to West Virginia, where he practiced law and met his wife, Eudora Carden [her namesake]" (Eudora 3). "First visit to Ohio, rocking with Grandpa Jefferson Welty" (Eudora 14). Eudora Welty and her father, Christian Webb Welty (Eudora 19). "I was crazy about watches; all children are, I guess" (Eudora 16). We have many titles about Eudora Welty, and by Eudora Welty. Do you have questions about her? Let us know! Or maybe this post stirs up old memories, inspiring you to fill in the gaps in your own family history! We would love to help! Eudora. Ed. Patti Carr Black. Jackson, MS: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1984. Print.

Genealogy questions are among the many requests we receive here at the Mississippi Library Commission. We help patrons look for family links, military records, or anything else we can help them to find using Ancestry Library Edition, Heritage Quest, or books and records in our Mississippi Reference Collection. It was a delight when I happened across a book titled Eudora while searching through Mississippi documents. Eudora, edited and selected by Patti Carr Black, is like a family album spanning back to Eudora Welty’s great grandparents on both her paternal (Welty) side and maternal (Andrews) side. We often see pictures of notable, historical figures during their “prime” years of being famous, and we rarely get a peek of their family history. Here are a few photos for you to enjoy! Feel free to say, “Aww!”  "Mother's father, Edward Raboteau Andrews, was called Ned. he was the first in his family to leave Virginia and move to West Virginia, where he practiced law and met his wife, Eudora Carden [her namesake]" (Eudora 3). "First visit to Ohio, rocking with Grandpa Jefferson Welty" (Eudora 14). Eudora Welty and her father, Christian Webb Welty (Eudora 19). "I was crazy about watches; all children are, I guess" (Eudora 16). We have many titles about Eudora Welty, and by Eudora Welty. Do you have questions about her? Let us know! Or maybe this post stirs up old memories, inspiring you to fill in the gaps in your own family history! We would love to help! Eudora. Ed. Patti Carr Black. Jackson, MS: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1984. Print.

It's been 50 years since two young women chased down poet Dylan Thomas and convinced him to put his voice on record. The formation of Caedmon Records led to today's $2-billion audiobook industry. NPR's Renee Montagne has the Caedmon story.

Detail, Slogan 7 by Zhang Dali. Striking the eyeballs like so many of those infamous hammers-with-iron-sickle, these ideograms form a static compositional grid. Baffled—with my face hovering a mere breath's distance from the vinyl surface—I attempted to "read" from left to right, and, quickly realizing my predictable, "amateur" error, I tried again vertically.1 But… I was still missing the point. Yes, the paintings are made of Chinese characters. (Each line spells out a slogan of Communist propaganda.) I realized, though, that the most dominant visual element here is the background void of solid black. And this is what the full image looks like. What a sad, sad little boy... Zhang Dali opened his Slogans series at Kiang Gallery last Friday. The color black. All other shades of value, including subdued hints of blue and brown, are contained, exclusively, within the tiny brushstrokes of Zhang Dali's lettering. What a potent statement: the figure can only be seen through the intermediary of state ideology. We can only express our opinions with the vocabulary we're given: PRACTICING GOOD MANNERS LEADS TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE PROMOTE SOCIALISM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A HARMONIOUS SOCIETY And you don't have to experience the Cultural Revolution to sympathize. Just turn on the radio—the talking points repeat themselves over and over. Simply replace a single party with two. Slogan A.4, on the other hand, has slightly more color. The content interests me, but I'm more inclined to treat these as a study of the human mark. Names like Chuck Close come to mind. While the grave subject matter demands an unfortunately limited color palette, the meticulous labor that went into each stroke does make the in-gallery experience more meaningful than simply viewing these photographs. I'm reminded of Jonathan's thoughts on Local Ephemera about the significance of "duplicating text by hand." I'm still chewing on the question. So begins "My Self-Education in Beijing Artists," Part 1… Navy/Army/Airforce by Shen Jingdong (photo taken at China Square's exhibit booth at Art Santa Fe). Click for closeups of each panel: Navy, Army, and Airforce. Compare Zhang's disciplined sobriety to Sheng Jingdong. Like the tarnished backside of a silvered mirror, Zhang shows us the emotional reality beneath the shiny surface. His portraits are a far cry from those well-fed, beaming faces of yesteryear. But Sheng's military renderings (above) have their own subversive charm. Those deadpan, bubblegum colors can't be serious. Is this a generational difference between artists? Or simply a stylistic choice? I have so many questions. For example… Demolition: Time Plaza Beijing, 1999. Reminds me of Banksy's "transparent" designs on the Israeli West Bank barrier. Why does Chinese art cost so much? Zhang made a name for himself creating activist graffiti in Beijing. These profile silhouettes (above) marked buildings slated for demolition, drawing public attention to the effects of "progress" on the city's anatomy. Touted as "the only graffiti artist in Beijing" during the early 90s, Zhang's pseudonym was "AK-47." The tag appears in one of the Kiang Gallery pieces, repeating like a deadly postmodern sutra over some poor child's face. But now Zhang's framed Slogan pieces sell for $52,000 each… Of course, everyone's favorite graffiti artist, Banksy, just broke the $500,000 mark last year. His Space Girl and Bird (above) sold for "only" 288,000 pounds, roughly $576,000. However, that still doesn't put "the Beijing trend" into perspective. I suppose I shouldn't consider it a serendipity that, less than a month after the Beijing Olympics, ARTNews magazine's cover story this month focuses on China's art market. To illustrate some of the recent incredible leaps in value, Barbara Pollack cites the case of Zheng Fanzhi: "Five years ago his works sold for under $50,000. Today he commands prices on the primary market closer to $1 million."2 Zhang's Chinese Offspring, an installation meditating the plight of migrant labor. Click here for a detail. Zhang's range is impressive; he completed this two-year sculptural series in 2005 before moving on to other media. I don't mean to challenge Zhang's integrity. I just don't want to live in a world where the sex appeal of "graffiti" outstrips the word's credibility. And though I can certainly see the value of individual Chinese artists, the recent lust for "anything Beijing" should be treated for what it is: a trend. --- 1 I don't speak or read Chinese. Fortunately, technology amplifies my normal powers of deduction. The repetitions in Slogan 7 seem to indicate horizontal orientation. Slogan 13, judging by the placement of key words 社会主义 (Socialism) and 十七大 (the shortened name of the 17th National Congress), reads vertically, although from the bottom to the top instead of what you'd expect. The choices vary according to aesthetic. Correct me if I'm wrong… 2 Pollack's article is an excellent resource, especially for the illustrations in the print edition. It saves me the trouble. : )

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