18 Reasons to Read Ulysses: A Centennial Celebration

In-Person Exhibits
Written By Amber Manning

Dates

From 06/01/2022 to 09/18/2022

Description

This year marks a century since the publication of James Joyce’s Modernist masterpiece, Ulysses. The Rosenbach, home to the only complete manuscript of the novel and the location of Philadelphia’s annual Bloomsday celebration, marks this occasion with a thematic walk around the novel’s eighteen episodes.

The exhibition challenges the novel’s reputation as a difficult book to read, presenting eighteen highlights from the manuscript, each representing a single theme—along with related objects from The Rosenbach’s collections. Visitors can engage with these thematic groupings separately or connect them to the larger nexus of ideas at play in the novel. Nationhood, food, literature, music, identity, and love are just a few of the themes we ask you to ponder.

Exhibition Highlights

The exhibition will be enhanced by over one hundred paintings by contemporary artist, Heather Ryan Kelley, whose work on Ulysses is a visually engaging meditation on the themes of the novel. Pictured below are selections of her work.

Pictured in exhibition logo: Heather Ryan Kelley, Ulysses, 1996. Oil on canvas, 16.5 x 11 inches. 2022.1.101

Amber Manning

I founded AmberCo. when I was five years old. Over the years, it has offered a variety of services from house cleaning, babysitting, car washing, travel planning, interior design and more. After college, I serendipitously fell into working for a web development company and I never looked back. I am happy that AmberCo. has finally settled on a mission that helps people in a meaningful way. I am also happy that some of the original services AmberCo. offered (cleaning and organizing) have carried through into its current iteration. I have been lucky enough to work for significant nonprofits such as the Sierra Club and the International Committee of the Red Cross and small local companies such as Hinkel Equipment Rental and Indars Stairs. My favorite part of working in technology is finding creative solutions for people and making their day to day work easier.

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