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2017

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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design

All Around Us, Anne M. Giangiulio Sep 2017

All Around Us, Anne M. Giangiulio

Anne M. Giangiulio

Grandpa says circles are all around us. He points to the rainbow that rises high in the sky after a thundercloud has come. “Can you see? That’s only half of the circle. The rest of it is down below, in the earth.” He and his granddaughter meditate on gardens and seeds, on circles seen and unseen, inside and outside us, on where our bodies come from and where they return to. They share and create family traditions in this stunning exploration of the cycles of life and nature.

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Digitizing Lantern Slides In The Warren H. Manning Collection, Bill Yungclas, Melissa Tedone Jun 2017

Digitizing Lantern Slides In The Warren H. Manning Collection, Bill Yungclas, Melissa Tedone

William Yungclas

No abstract provided.

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Mario Rufino Méndez Y La Caricatura Política En Nuestra Raza: Estudio Testimonial De Una Rica Producción Cultural De Los Afro-Uruguayos (1933-1948), María Cristina Burgueño Mar 2017

Mario Rufino Méndez Y La Caricatura Política En Nuestra Raza: Estudio Testimonial De Una Rica Producción Cultural De Los Afro-Uruguayos (1933-1948), María Cristina Burgueño

María Cristina Burgueño

This work is a one volume published by the National Library of Uruguay with a prologue by Dr. George Reid Andrews. It provides an in depth analysis of the corpus of caricatures made by Mario R. Mendez, an afro-Uruguayan artist, for the magazine “Our Race” during its second period 1933-1948. These editorial caricatures made a strong statement against the Fascism in Europe and the League of Nations’ attitude towards the invasion of Ethiopia ordered by Benito Mussolini. They also satirized the political and social reality in Uruguay. Both, the caricatures and the magazine provide a testimony of an extensive cultural …

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Conservation Workshops In Djenné, Mali, 2015 And 2017, Michaelle L. Biddle Dec 2016

Conservation Workshops In Djenné, Mali, 2015 And 2017, Michaelle L. Biddle

Michaelle Biddle

A report on two conservation workshops Michaelle Biddle conducted in Djenne, Mali. The workshop in 2015 was about making lightweight all-in-one conservation boxes. The one in 2017 was a course on how to separate stuck manuscript pages using various humidification techniques. A syllabus for the latter workshop is included.

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