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Writing At The Williamsburg Bray School?, Terry L. Meyers
Writing At The Williamsburg Bray School?, Terry L. Meyers
Arts & Sciences Articles
"I’ve become interested recently in whether writing was taught to the pupils in the Williamsburg Bray School. I had assumed all along that it was, and that the discovery of 40 some slate pencils at the Bray School Dig was confirmation of that.
I’d not been alone in my assumption about the teaching of writing, for the great majority of those interested in the Bray School have affirmed that the curriculum included writing..."
"Introduction" & "Modernisms And Authority", Charles J. Palermo
"Introduction" & "Modernisms And Authority", Charles J. Palermo
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
Modernism and Authority presents a provocative new take on the early paintings of Pablo Picasso and the writings of Guillaume Apollinaire. Charles Palermo argues that references to theology and traditional Christian iconography in the works of Picasso and Apollinaire are not mere symbolic gestures; rather, they are complex responses to the symbolist art and poetry of figures important to them, including Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice, and Santiago Rusiñol. The young Picasso and his contemporaries experienced the challenges of modernity as an attempt to reflect on the lost relation to authority. For the symbolists, art held authority by revealing something compelling—something …
Rembrandt’S Etched Angels: Traces Of The Divine, Catherine Levesque
Rembrandt’S Etched Angels: Traces Of The Divine, Catherine Levesque
Arts & Sciences Articles
This paper considers the paradoxes inherent in Rembrandt’s treatment of angels in his etched works where his choice of subject and medium directly addresses the fraught relation between the material and the spiritual, between reason and imagination, issues at the heart of Rembrandt’s artistic enterprise and central as well to the long reformation. Rembrandt’s etchings with angels draw particular attention to his craft, especially the distinction between the etching (on the plate) and the print (on paper) whereby the paper (as opposed to the plate) provides an unstable and fragile surface particularly suited to convey unsteadiness of all earthly things. …
Value And Hidden Cost In André Breton’S Surrealist Collection, Katharine Conley
Value And Hidden Cost In André Breton’S Surrealist Collection, Katharine Conley
Arts & Sciences Articles
André Breton’s collection provides a unique perspective on the environment within which the principles of surrealism were crystallized. In addition to his collection of European paintings, Breton’s Oceanic object collection grew during World War Two in New York. In essays from the 1950s and 1960s, Breton ascribed a “poetic view” and “prestige” to these things with no reference to their monetary value. And yet his history of acquisition and de-acquisition of such things and paintings show that he also understood collecting as a form of investment, despite his avowed objection to the forces of French colonialism that made it accessible …
Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family And Cold War America, Julia Kaziewicz
Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family And Cold War America, Julia Kaziewicz
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
My dissertation, "Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family and Cold War America," examines how the Rockefeller family used the Museum of Modern Art, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection to shape opinions about America, both at home and abroad, during the early years of the Cold War. The work done at Colonial Williamsburg tied the Rockefeller name to the foundations of American society and, later, to the spread of global democracy in the Cold War world. The establishment of a new museum for the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art collection in 1957 renewed the narrative that American …
The Land Remembers: The Construction Of Movement Possibility Among Woodland Period Communities Of The Virginia Peninsula, Josue Roberto Nieves
The Land Remembers: The Construction Of Movement Possibility Among Woodland Period Communities Of The Virginia Peninsula, Josue Roberto Nieves
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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From Path To Portage: Issues Of Scales, Process, And Pattern In Understanding New Brunswick Riverine Trail, Mallory Leigh Moran
From Path To Portage: Issues Of Scales, Process, And Pattern In Understanding New Brunswick Riverine Trail, Mallory Leigh Moran
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Canary Red: Preserving Cochineal And Contrasting Colonial Histories On Lanzarote, Sarah Mattes
Canary Red: Preserving Cochineal And Contrasting Colonial Histories On Lanzarote, Sarah Mattes
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Could You Point Me To Your Nearest Clay Source, Please?: A Xrf Study Of Barbadian Historic Era Ceramics, Benjamin Crossley Kirby
Could You Point Me To Your Nearest Clay Source, Please?: A Xrf Study Of Barbadian Historic Era Ceramics, Benjamin Crossley Kirby
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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