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Les Six Continents: An Exploration Of Political Visual Rhetoric In Public Sculpture, Olivia Liu Guillotin

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Les six continents series stands as remnants of the 1878 Exposition Universelle and as a visual marker of the cultural, social, and economic culture of the time period. The series, serving as public art, continues to inform and participate in its environment and space, as it is on display by the entrance of the Musée d’Orsay today. Personified representations of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Oceania as allegorical female figures, the series offers insight into the colonial world where it emerged, and how its impact has visually been ingrained in contemporary society. By using these six statues …

Arts Et Métiers Photo-Graphiques: The Quest For Identity In French Photography Between The Two World Wars, Yusuke Isotani

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines the evolution of photography in France between the two World Wars by analyzing the seminal graphic art magazine Arts et métiers graphiques (1927-1939). This bi-monthly periodical was founded by Charles Peignot (1897-1983), the artistic director of the largest manufacturer of typefaces in interwar France, Deberny et Peignot. Arts et métiers graphiques has been recognized in previous literature as one of the principal vehicles for the modernization of photography in France, primarily because it functioned as an essential conduit for the radical practices developed outside the country. The interwar period is regarded as the watershed in the history …

Biotopes And Ecotones: Slippery Images On The Edge Of The French Atlantic, Maura Coughlin

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Looking outside canonical late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century modernist images of the French Atlantic coast, this essay examines usually discrete fields of landscape painting, botanical visual culture and nascent intertidal natural history to articulate an ecological realism of the ecotone. In a survey of peasant gleaning practices, popular natural science of the shore as well as amateur marine botany, the ecological visual literacy of viewers of this era is speculatively assembled. Works by artists such as Elodie La Villete, Charles Cottet, André Dauchez and Mathurin Méheut who lived long term on the coast are put into dialogue with the pressed …

Walls Have Ears But They Also Speak –A Comparative Study Of Two Playgrounds, Anna Hirson-Sagalyn

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Mdocs Newsletter-2014-11-17, 1.5, Jordana Dym, Billie Kanfer, Jennifer Hoffer

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

The Hierarchy Of Rococo Women Seen Through Fashion Paintings, Sanda Brighidin

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

The style of Rococo evokes a variety of feminine attributions; women were usually depicted in works of art in a decorative manner. Many of the interpretations of these paintings focus on the luxurious clothes and lavish backgrounds. Artists like Jean-Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher were responsible for elevating a very elegant view of Rococo women of Rococo within the public’s eyes. But there were also depictions of non-aristocratic women that were geared more to the middle class (bourgeois). After reading a number of articles and book chapters on Jean-Baptiste- Simeon Chardin, and visiting the Louvre museum in Paris, I became …

Exploring Distortion And Clarity In The Modern Printed Portrait, Karina M. Harper

Summer Research

My work has focused on two sides of the artistic process: inspiration and application. While studying abroad, I read, saw, and experienced modern France, living with a host family in Dijon. In the midst of this, I researched the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a French printmaker who utilized the lithographic process and pushed it forward as a modern and respected art practice. Lithography is a type of art involving changing the chemical nature of limestone to attract ink where an image is drawn with greasy pens. Returning to the Puget Sound campus and to one of the few lithograph …

The Development From High Gothic To The Rayonnant Style Through Reims Cathedral And The Sainte-Chapelle, Diane Prigent

Student Scholarship

The Gothic style introduces an incredibly influential set of engineering and design principles for architecture and architectural decoration in art history. It emanated from France in 1140 and evolved through 1500. Architects and patrons developed the style through centuries constantly innovating their building techniques in order to elevate and complicate their enormous structures. These architects' objective was to increase the height of the churches, intensifying their verticality. In the late middle ages, France was governed by a powerful monarchic dynasty, the Capetians. The royal family was powerful, wealthy and closely allied with the Catholic Church. This dynasty strongly encouraged religious …

Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2598. Letters from artist Joseph Dudley Downing, France, to Elinor Green (later Hunter), who worked for the United States State Department in Bern, Switzerland. They discuss their shared interest in art and discuss upcoming visits. Also includes letters from Joseph’s brother, Dero Downing, to Green discussing the possibility of donating artwork to Western Kentucky University.

Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 356. Correspondence, photographs, sketches and drawings, writings, journals and clippings of or relating to Ivan Wilson, an artist and faculty member in the Art Department at Western Kentucky University from 1920 to 1958. Includes some materials related to other artists.

Talk To Me, I Am Listening, Larbi Sami Ben

Theses and Dissertations

An introductory conversation with a new person I just met usually goes like this: So, where is your accent from ? Are you American? Well, yes, .....but no. Not really. I do have American citizenship and I lived in the US for fifteen years but I grew up in France. Ok, so you’re French? Well, yes, but .....not totally. My mother is French but my father is Tunisian. Ok, so you’re Tunisian? Well, yes, but... not wholly. I don’t speak Arabic, so I don’t totally feel Tunisian. So what are you? American? French? Tunisian? With my work, I ask the …

Poincon: 18th Century French Punches, Frank Tierney, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Letters

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Creations, Jef De Schilder, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

Date is approximate. 22 plates : all color illustrations (pochoir) ; 51 cm.

Title from cover. Pochoir prints. Includes additional cardboard sheet with the following in blue crayon: "originales, J de Schilder, 22 creations, Paris". In new portfolio with part of original cover mounted on new cover.

The Relation Of French Poetry And Painting To The Development Of French Impressionistic Music, Phyllis Elaine Threlfall

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

As far as the writer could find in her reading no one has ever written a finished study of this phase of Music, Art, and Literature. Of course, there are hints of it here and there in many books, but in no one in particular was a detailed study given. Paul Landormy’s book, A History of Music, seemed to carry the heart of the subject, however, in an extremely miniature style.

When we think of French music, our minds are generally centered in Paris, for it is here that the greatest organizations have been sponsored, and the important musical ideas …

Collection Decors Et Couleurs: Album No. 1, Georges Valmier, Jean Saudé, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

20 leaves of color plates : illustrations (pochoir) ; 46 cm.

Gift of Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf. In portfolio. Pochoir plates.

Insectes : Vingt Planches En Phototypie Coloriées Au Patron Donnant Quatre-Vingts Insectes Et Seize Compositions Décoratives, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

[2] pages, 20 leaves of color plates : color illustrations ; 46 cm

Portfolio with a collection of twenty pochoir pattern plates, titled "Insectes: vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron donnant quatre-vingts insectes et seize compositions décoratives" (Insects: twenty plates with colored phototypes with patterns with eighty insects and sixteen decorative compositions), created by Émile-Allain Séguy and published in Paris by Tolmer Éditeur, probably in the 1920s. The collection contains a title page, one page of text, one page with the contents of the portfolio, listing the insects featured in the illustrations, and 20 illustrated plates: the first 16 …

Floréal : Dessins & Coloris Nouveaux, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

[4] pages, 20 leaves of plates (in portfolio) : all color illustrations ; 53 cm.

Loose plates in publisher's portfolio. Striped cloth fabric on spine and corners of portfolio. Colophon printed in red.

Pochoir color plates of ornamental floral patterns. A prolific artist whose career covered both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, Séguy was one of the foremost French designers of the early 20th century. He drew his inspiration primarily from nature, producing ornamental patterns derived from flowers, foliage, minerals, insects and animals.

Nouvelles Variations : Soixante-Quinze Motifs Décoratifs En Vingt Planches, Edouard Benedictus, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

1 page, 20 leaves of plates : color illustrations (pochoir) ; 49 cm.

In portfolio. Paper in poor condition, some plates damaged.

Gift of Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf.

Harmonies: Intérieurs De Ruhlmann, Jean Badovici, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

15, [1] pages : chiefly illus., 40 leaves of plates (some color) ; 28 cm.

From the series Documents d'architecture ; art français contemporain. In portfolio. Some plates hand-colored. Collotype prints.

Gift of Mrs. A. Grant Fordyce.

Suggestions Pour Étoffes Et Tapis : 60 Motifs En Couleur, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

[2] pages, 20 leaves of color plates ; 47 cm.

In portfolio. Pochoir prints.

Gift of Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf.

Macao & Cosmage, Ou, L'Expérience Du Bonheur, Edy Legrand, Jean Saudé, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

54] pages : all color illustrations (pochoir) ; 34 x 34 cm.

Illustrations on paper covers and lining papers. Pages [1] and [54] on lining papers. Pochoir illustrations, hand colored by Jean Saudé. Color illustrations on endpapers. Color illustration on title page.

Les Fleurs Et Leurs Applications Décoratives, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

2 volumes : 60 leaves of color plates ; 52 cm.

In portfolios. 30 plates each. Pochoir prints. Library has 2nd volume only and the following plates only: 31, 35-36, 39-40, 42-46, 51, 53-55, 57-58. Three plates have been trimmed, others in fragile condition.

Gift of Joan Brancale from the collection of Walter Mitschke.

Motifs Décoratifs Tirés Des Pochoirs Japonais, Thoédore Lambert, Charles Massin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

[4] pages, 50 leaves of plates : chiefly illus. ; 43 x 32 cm.

Issued in tied portfolio. "Paris. L. Maretheux, imprimeur, 1, Rue Cassette."--Verso of page [4]. Date of imprint is from verso, page [4]. Louise Hetzer Memorial Fund.