Sentences with phrase «thoughts on art history»

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To omit it is to miss the basic teaching of Christianity, one that has had a huge impact on Western history, thought, and culture — including, of course, Western art.

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I've asked my friend Ali Clark, who graduated from Boston University last year with a degree in Art History, to pick out several of her favorite outfits, and to take photographs with me as she discusses some of her thoughts on style.

For example, parents (and the public as a whole) think much more attention should be given to reading and math, while teachers would especially increase emphasis on the arts and history.

Included: Five mysterious lessons — focused on language arts, history, and forensic science — to ignite critical thinking and spark interest in reading.

Thomas Cahill is the author of the bestselling Hinges of History series (a planned seven part series) including How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (1996), The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1999), Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (2001), Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why The Greeks Matter (2004), Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe (2006), and A Saint on Death Row (2009).

The books below lay out the history of graphic novels, their standing among the arts, and the most current academic thinking on their utility today, specifically at an educational mindset with an eye toward the concerns and thoughts of librarians.

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It was at Princeton that Stella first encountered, among other pieces in his art history professor's collection, the paintings of Jasper Johns, which had a profound influence on his own early work (think stripes).

On one level I think it relates to our own histories of working with, or first becoming a viewer of contemporary art.

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: Well, I did this film called Strange Culture [2007] that helped to get the charges dropped against an artist, [Steve Kurtz, who was detained by the FBI on suspicion of bioterrorism,] and then I did Woman Art Revolution [2010], which inserted a history [of women in art] that had been denied our culture, and I thought those were really important things to aArt Revolution [2010], which inserted a history [of women in art] that had been denied our culture, and I thought those were really important things to aart] that had been denied our culture, and I thought those were really important things to add.

As part of the exhibition opening, several artists featured in After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History — FX Harsono, Nge Lay, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen — come together for a thought - provoking discussion on their experiences navigating dramatic and often dangerous sociopolitical upheavals, and the profound effect these experiences have had on their artistic practices.

Earlier this year, when Stanford University bought her working archives, Stanford art and art history Professor Paul DeMarinis said Hershman Leeson «envisioned, thought out and realized just about everything about interactive narrative that is going on now, well in advance of its officially acknowledged gurus.»

Bard College seeks to realize the best features of American liberal arts education, enabling individuals to think critically and act creatively based on a knowledge and understanding of human history, society and the arts.

ALEXIS DAHAN — I have to ask this, as you are both now part of art history: any thoughts on today's art world?

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

Numerous scholars have explored the history of performance art as a manifestation of radical shifts in social thought and artistic practice, but only a small handful of publications have specifically focused on black performance art.

A collection of readings, thoughts, and commentary on the arts, history, and culture, every post is packed with quotes, attributions, and links — both to her own previous posts as well as other sources where readers can purchase the book being quoted or read more deeply about a subject.

Mothernism developed from the artist's ongoing attempts to organize her thoughts on motherhood in history, music, art, and personal experience — or, in her words, to «locate the «mother - shaped» hole in contemporary art discourse.»

Whether through the lens of architecture, art, cultural industries, history or literature, dialogicCENTRALsolutions focuses on discussing new approaches on thinking about Central America.

She is currently pursuing a doctorate in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, on the intersection between ecological thinking and art history.

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The gallery's curatorial vision endeavours to foster a transcultural perspective on the history of art, encompassing both modernism and the emergence of contemporary cultural thought in an increasingly interconnected world.

The group exhibition «Time Will Tell — A selection of artists from the Ricard Foundation Prize» is based on the history of the Ricard Prize, which was inaugurated in 1999, and since has distinguished an emerging artist on the young French art scene each year, invites us to think beyond the very logic of what a prize does, which is to single out a personae at a given time.

What are your thoughts on the «state of postwar Italian art history» today?

The journal publishes research related to the Stedelijk collection and on institutional history, museum studies (think of education and conservation practice) and current topics in the field of visual arts and design.

Where as a figurative work of art might allow every viewer to engage with it on the same level by referencing some aspect of history or life with which we are all familiar, an abstract artwork requires that every viewer that sees it begins anew, using their thoughts and feelings to arrive at some conclusion about what it could possibly mean.

Richter thinks of his art as history painting, filled with weird couplings, crowds of characters, unfathomable, offbeat narratives and violence on the street.

At their most successful, exhibitions can change the way we think — not only about the art on show, but about ourselves and our history.

It was only later, after I began to teach it and decided that I was going to keep on teaching in order to support my art writing, that I thought I'd better get a Ph.D. in art history, which I did rather late in life.

Curators, on the other hand, have turned their attention to what Terry Smith calls «recurating,» a tendency focused on recovering exhibition histories (think of Kari Conte and Florence Ostende's Retracing Exhibition, 2009, in which they reconstructed sections of the Independent Group's 1953 exhibition Parallel of Life and Art).

The complexity of her imagination and her meticulous command of art history have caused her silhouettes to cast shadows on conventional thinking about race representation in the context of discrimination, exclusion, sexual desire, and love.

What is distinctive about Sean Scully is that his work is absolutely contemporary, insists on individual consciousness and independent thinking, and is able to explore and express the essential power of the inner consciousness and of the external world in such a way as to make a really valuable contribution to the life and the history of art in a tempestuous time.»

«I look forward to delving into this exceptional collection, and to building on the work my colleagues have already started, exploring narratives that expand how visitors think about the history of American art, both in New England and beyond,» Corrales - Diaz said in a statement.

We talk to Denver Art Museum curator Gwen Chanzit about her important exhibition, speak with the artist Judith Godwin — an Abstract Expressionist who has largely been ignored in the history books, I travel to the Upper West Side to get feminist art historian Linda Nochlin's thoughts on the matter, and finally I chat with curator and critic Karen Wilkin, who was friends with Helen Frankenthaler (one of the leading Abstract Expressionist artistArt Museum curator Gwen Chanzit about her important exhibition, speak with the artist Judith Godwin — an Abstract Expressionist who has largely been ignored in the history books, I travel to the Upper West Side to get feminist art historian Linda Nochlin's thoughts on the matter, and finally I chat with curator and critic Karen Wilkin, who was friends with Helen Frankenthaler (one of the leading Abstract Expressionist artistart historian Linda Nochlin's thoughts on the matter, and finally I chat with curator and critic Karen Wilkin, who was friends with Helen Frankenthaler (one of the leading Abstract Expressionist artists).

No more walking out of your way in an unfamiliar area because Maps thinks you have to follow the one way street you're on — Maps will instead direct you using previously ignored options like foot bridges, park trails, and other pedestrian friendly routes as seen above in the screenshot of the suggested route between The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.