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Sarah Spurgeon: Artist And Educator, Karen J. Blair Sep 1996

Sarah Spurgeon: Artist And Educator, Karen J. Blair

History Faculty Scholarship

This brief article is a personal history of Sarah Spurgeon (1903-1985), who was a professor of art (painting and drawing) and art education in the Department of Art and Design at Central Washington University between 1939 and 1971.


Bath Iron Works, By Carroll Thayer Berry, William David Barry Jun 1996

Bath Iron Works, By Carroll Thayer Berry, William David Barry

Maine History

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Counting Vessels, M. Siri Amrit Kroesen May 1996

Counting Vessels, M. Siri Amrit Kroesen

Dissertations and Theses

The discussion and illustration of how paintings function as thresholds is examined in the thesis report and the thesis exhibition, Threshold implies the passage of how an artist approaches the processes of seeing. The painting is the entry point, a place of connection of artist and viewer, a record of human experience transforming individual, interdependent and universal knowledge. Issues of the human body's relationship to vessels, and the metaphor that is integrated in relationship of space and proximity is explored. The significance of symbols and signs and the interplay of historical and personal imagery are examined through the precepts of …


Songs And Stories That Only You Know: Multiplicity, Meaning, & The Metaphorical Bridge, Matthew Haggett May 1996

Songs And Stories That Only You Know: Multiplicity, Meaning, & The Metaphorical Bridge, Matthew Haggett

Dissertations and Theses

The thesis report will serve as a companion for the body of work that is the bulk of the thesis project. The theme of the thesis project is "the bridge". "The bridge" is a metaphor for meaning occurring through context. It is present on many levels. It will implicit in much of the discussion. I will include themes such as the play of differing scales, the ambiguous line between part and whole, and the reasons for the book format . Specific imagery that occurs repeatedly in the work, like architecture and knots, will be explained in terms of its sources, …


Pumped, Nicolas Bates May 1996

Pumped, Nicolas Bates

Forces

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Woman With Hand Cradling Face, Julie Barbeau May 1996

Woman With Hand Cradling Face, Julie Barbeau

Forces

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Charcoal Feet, Maureen Botello May 1996

Charcoal Feet, Maureen Botello

Forces

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Untitled, Jim Gaither May 1996

Untitled, Jim Gaither

Forces

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1996 Forces, Peggy Brown May 1996

1996 Forces, Peggy Brown

Forces

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Generations Of Kentucky: An Exhibition Of Folk Art With Photographs By Guy Mendes, Guy Mendes, Julie Ardery, Tom Patterson Jan 1996

Generations Of Kentucky: An Exhibition Of Folk Art With Photographs By Guy Mendes, Guy Mendes, Julie Ardery, Tom Patterson

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

1996 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of Kentucky folk art and photographs by Guy Mendes.


Front Matter Jan 1996

Front Matter

Inscape

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Untitled: Chris Lynn, Chris Lynn Jan 1996

Untitled: Chris Lynn, Chris Lynn

Inscape

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End Matter Jan 1996

End Matter

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Jan 1996

Full Issue

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Guy Grey-Smith : Guy Grey-Smith's Landscapes Of Western Australia, Annette Davis Jan 1996

Guy Grey-Smith : Guy Grey-Smith's Landscapes Of Western Australia, Annette Davis

Research outputs pre 2011

This exhibition focuses on the landscapes of one of Western Australia's most significant artists, Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981). Working in Western Australia for more than thirty years from 1948 to 1981, GreySmith offered audiences a fresh, new interpretation of the Western Australian environment.