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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Illuminated Histories, Laura Meader
Illuminated Histories, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
Artist Maggie Libby ’81 unearths the hidden histories of Colby women with their portraits.
The Museum As A Mirror: Reinterpreting And Delinking American Landscape Art From Colonial Narratives, Blythe C. Romano
The Museum As A Mirror: Reinterpreting And Delinking American Landscape Art From Colonial Narratives, Blythe C. Romano
Honors Theses
Art museums have recently been looking at their existing collections with heightened scrutiny, revisiting their decision to display colonial works uncritically in their gallery spaces, and reconsidering the idea that there is such a thing as a unified art historical canon. These conversations regarding reinterpretation are necessary for all museums that choose to display art with problematic histories, as this information is owed to visitors -- especially within the settler colonial context. The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine is one site where such collection and gallery “reinterpretation” has begun to be implemented and discussed. For example, in …
Modern Visual Culture And The New Sciences Of The Self
Modern Visual Culture And The New Sciences Of The Self
Colby College Museum of Art
No abstract provided.
The Physicality Of Printmaking
Using Visual Art To Structure A Curriculum
Using Visual Art To Structure A Curriculum
Colby College Museum of Art
No abstract provided.
Special Collections: Cerulli World Series Collection
Special Collections: Cerulli World Series Collection
Colby College Museum of Art
No abstract provided.
Teaching With Special Collections
What The Walls Say: Finding Meaning And Value In Tel Aviv’S Street Art, Rachel R. Bird
What The Walls Say: Finding Meaning And Value In Tel Aviv’S Street Art, Rachel R. Bird
Honors Theses
This thesis explores street art in Tel Aviv, Israel through anthropological concepts of value. By defining street art as an interstitial practice—one that exists between permeable, socially defined boundaries and is characterized differently by different power structures—I attempt to define some of the different regimes of value that apply to street art. Using the emerging market of “street art tours” as a fieldwork site, I look at how street art is presented and re-presented to both tourists and locals. By situating my research in a historical and geographic context, I hope to understand the ways different value schema, from economic …
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Freewriting As Active Learning, Meredith Mccarroll
Freewriting As Active Learning, Meredith Mccarroll
Colby College Museum of Art
No abstract provided.
Revolutionary Posters: Mao Zedong And Political Propaganda, Shalini Le Gall
Revolutionary Posters: Mao Zedong And Political Propaganda, Shalini Le Gall
Colby College Museum of Art
No abstract provided.
Art And Social Justice, Nicole Ivy