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Textures Of Our Earth: Bayetage Tapestries By Nancy Hemenway: 1972-1977, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Benjamin Forgery Jan 1977

Textures Of Our Earth: Bayetage Tapestries By Nancy Hemenway: 1972-1977, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Benjamin Forgery

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art; participating museums: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Aug. 5-Sept. 25, 1977; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 18-Nov. 20, 1977; Seattle Art Museum, May 18-June 25, 1978; Textile Museum, Sept. 15-Oct. 28, 1978.


Joseph Nicoletti: Paintings And Drawings, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art Jan 1977

Joseph Nicoletti: Paintings And Drawings, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalog of the exhibition held Jan. 21-Feb. 27, 1977.


David Hockney, Brian Bartlett Jan 1977

David Hockney, Brian Bartlett

Masters Theses

David Hockney is generally recognised as the most talented British artist of his generation. In my thesis I trace his development from his childhood until the present as a figure lionised by the establishment. Hockney has become highly respected, a Van Dyck of contemporary polite society.

I show his place in a line of tradition in English painting, a tradition where painters stress the anecdotal above a purely visual language England has a commanding tradition of literature from figures such as Shakespeare, Bacon, Byron, Tennyson, Keats and Dickens, to name only a few. Due to this English society insisted on …