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Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Steve Rosen
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Steve Rosen
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A look at the works of sculptor Von Allen-McGowan and an interview with the artist conducted by Director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Steve Rosen.
Avard T. Fairbanks: Distinguished American Sculptor, Scholar And Teacher, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Avard T. Fairbanks: Distinguished American Sculptor, Scholar And Teacher, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
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Mr. Fairbanks was a man of his time. His scrupulous attention to anatomical detail made him a super realist as he worked from the interior structure of the human figrue outward to an accurate presentaion of each turning of a mouth, drooping of an eyelid or flexing of a muscle. He saw the human figure, male or female, as an object to be venerated, a mirror of elevated spiritual and aesthetic vaules more than just simplistic replication. His works, whether religious, mythological, industrial or as versitic portraiture, carried the Fairbanks ideal that "The arts are created for contemplation and edification, …
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
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Interview taken place on January 28, 1997 between Von Allen-McGowan, a sculptor at Brigham young university and Steven Rosen, director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State Univerisity.
Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Gretchen Mehring
Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Gretchen Mehring
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Exhibition catalog for Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, a traveling exhibition. "These tea bowls, with their intimate scale and individual personalities, simultaneously offer an appreciation of the past and the contemporary. The subtle beauty of traditional-style bowls contrasts with the more exuberant contemporary idiom, raising an awareness of the role that art has, and can play, in everyday life. As we approach the millennium in an age of mass production, consumption, and get-it-to-go attitudes, the words of Kakuzo Okakura are still relevant, "Do we not need the tea room more than ever?"