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Olympia, Reinventing The Nude, Holly Mcguire

Student Scholarship

Manet’s modernist depiction of the female nude as seen in Olympia sent shockwaves throughout the art world and forever changed the way we view nudes. Camille Lemonnier described the nude as such in 1870 “ The nude was modesty only if it is not a transitory state. It hides nothing because there is nothing to hide. The moment it hides something it becomes prurient, for in reality it shows it all the better. In order to stay virgin the nude in art must be impersonal and must not particularize; art has no need of a beauty spot upon the neck …

Filament: The Work Of Bill Fitzgibbons And Creighton Michael (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Bill Fitzgibbons, Creighton Michael, Jason Brown

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Catalogue to accompany the two-person exhibition of Bill FitzGibbons and Creighton Michael, held at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, September 16 - October 31, 2010.

Continuare: The Figurative Tradition In Contemporary Art (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Kelly Hider, Eleanor Aldrich, Jason Ammons, Amy Hand, Anna Marie Carlson

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Catalogue produced for Continuare: The Figurative Tradition in Contemporary Art. The exhibition featured the work of Bain Butcher, Judith Condon, Virginia Derryberry, Thaddeus Erdahl, Lynda Evans, Carl Gombert, and Denise Stewart-Sanabria.

Catalogue essays were written by students in Sam Yates' summer session of Museum Studies.

L'Autre Guide: For Early Man On A Modern Road, Musée De Préhistoire Des Gorges Du Verdon, Dore Bowen

Faculty Publications

Au cours de leur résidence au musée, l’artiste Isabelle Massu et l’historienne d’art américaine Dore Bowen ont entrepris une recherche dont elles présentent les résultats au Musée de Préhistoire, du 16 mai au 15 décembre 2009, avec la collaboration de la scénographe Isabelle Gressier.