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Reading The Representation: Using Assessment To Understand Student Knowledge, Rebecca Feind Apr 2010

Reading The Representation: Using Assessment To Understand Student Knowledge, Rebecca Feind

Faculty and Staff Publications

Now that competencies for information literacy are widely communicated in higher education, including in Art and Design, assessing student learning of the standards is the next step in fully incorporating information literacy in the discipline. A recent investigation at San Jose State University of students’ ability to analyze citations illustrates that students need practice in identifying types of sources, and that this practice can be effectively delivered through brief active learning activities.


Book Review. Diamond, Heather A. American Aloha: Cultural Tourism And The Negotiation Of Tradition, Jo Farb Hernandez Apr 2010

Book Review. Diamond, Heather A. American Aloha: Cultural Tourism And The Negotiation Of Tradition, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Teresa J. Wilkins, Patterns Of Exchange: Navajo Weavers And Traders, Jo Farb Hernandez Apr 2010

Book Review. Teresa J. Wilkins, Patterns Of Exchange: Navajo Weavers And Traders, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Tradition And Innovation: Extremeñan Connections And Collaborations, Jo Farb Hernandez Apr 2010

Tradition And Innovation: Extremeñan Connections And Collaborations, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

The writer discusses the collaboration between California artist Sam Hernández and the Moreno León family from Extremadura, Spain, who create tinajas, monumental ceramic storage vessels. While Hernández approached this collaboration with admiration for the elegance of the traditional tinaja, and respect for the Moreno León ceramists, the innovation in superimposing his own images led to a totally new set of sculptures that, though linked to his earlier oeuvre, are markedly different from it. By recontextualizing the tinaja into a contemporary narrative through the overlay of his chosen subject matter, he shifted the collaboration into a new territory, as, at the …


Tradition And Innovation: Extremeñan Connections And Collaborations, Jo Farb Hernandez Apr 2010

Tradition And Innovation: Extremeñan Connections And Collaborations, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

The writer discusses the collaboration between California artist Sam Hernández and the Moreno León family from Extremadura, Spain, who create tinajas, monumental ceramic storage vessels. While Hernández approached this collaboration with admiration for the elegance of the traditional tinaja, and respect for the Moreno León ceramists, the innovation in superimposing his own images led to a totally new set of sculptures that, though linked to his earlier oeuvre, are markedly different from it. By recontextualizing the tinaja into a contemporary narrative through the overlay of his chosen subject matter, he shifted the collaboration into a new territory, as, at the …


L'Autre Guide: For Early Man On A Modern Road, Musée De Préhistoire Des Gorges Du Verdon, Dore Bowen Jan 2010

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

Dore Bowen

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.


Damage To Pujiula’S Towers, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Damage To Pujiula’S Towers, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Pravina Shukla, The Grace Of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, And The Art Of The Body In Modern India, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Book Review. Pravina Shukla, The Grace Of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, And The Art Of The Body In Modern India, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Josep Pujiula I Vila: Out Of The Ashes, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Josep Pujiula I Vila: Out Of The Ashes, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Shukla, Pravina, The Grace Of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, And The Art Of The Body In Modern India. Book Review., Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Shukla, Pravina, The Grace Of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, And The Art Of The Body In Modern India. Book Review., Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Taya Doro Mitchell: Art For Healing, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Taya Doro Mitchell: Art For Healing, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Watts Towers Conservation, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Watts Towers Conservation, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


L'Autre Guide: For Early Man On A Modern Road, Musée De Préhistoire Des Gorges Du Verdon, Dore Bowen Jan 2010

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.


Book Review. Diamond, Heather A. American Aloha: Cultural Tourism And The Negotiation Of Tradition, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Book Review. Diamond, Heather A. American Aloha: Cultural Tourism And The Negotiation Of Tradition, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.


Spaces Update, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Spaces Update, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.


Watts Towers Conservation, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Watts Towers Conservation, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Pravina Shukla, The Grace Of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, And The Art Of The Body In Modern India, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Book Review. Pravina Shukla, The Grace Of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, And The Art Of The Body In Modern India, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Teresa J. Wilkins, Patterns Of Exchange: Navajo Weavers And Traders, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Book Review. Teresa J. Wilkins, Patterns Of Exchange: Navajo Weavers And Traders, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.


Damage To Pujiula’S Towers, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Damage To Pujiula’S Towers, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.


Taya Doro Mitchell: Art For Healing, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Taya Doro Mitchell: Art For Healing, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.


Shukla, Pravina, The Grace Of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, And The Art Of The Body In Modern India. Book Review., Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Shukla, Pravina, The Grace Of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, And The Art Of The Body In Modern India. Book Review., Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.


Josep Pujiula I Vila: Out Of The Ashes, Jo Farb Hernandez Jan 2010

Josep Pujiula I Vila: Out Of The Ashes, Jo Farb Hernandez

Jo Farb Hernandez

No abstract provided.