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Dist. #83, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Dist. #83, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on District #83, located 7 miles north and 1/2 mile west of Elm Creek in Buffalo County, Nebraska.


Island Grove, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Island Grove, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Island Grove (or Garden Grove) school, located 2 miles north and 1/2 mile west from Liberty in Gage County, Nebraska. Also includes notes on an earlier school called Frog Pond School.


Horseshoe Bend - Dist. #25, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Horseshoe Bend - Dist. #25, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Horseshoe Bend School, located five miles northeast of Lexington in Dawson County, Nebraska.


Corn Valley - Dist. #60, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Corn Valley - Dist. #60, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Corn Valley School, four miles south of Crawford in Dawes County, Nebraska.


Belmont School - Dist. #39, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Belmont School - Dist. #39, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Belmont School, located on the south edge of Belmont, 10 miles south of Crawford in Dawes County, Nebraska.


Horn School - Dist. #28, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Horn School - Dist. #28, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Horn School, also called Valley Star School, located about 10 miles northwest of Crawford in Dawes County, Nebraska.


Dist. #58, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Dist. #58, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on District #58, located in Harlan County, Nebraska.


Dist. #87, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Dist. #87, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on District #87, located 1 mile east of Norfolk in Madison County, Nebraska.


Eagle Rock School - Dist. #71, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Eagle Rock School - Dist. #71, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Eagle Rock school, 25 miles north and 3 miles east of Scottsbluff in Sioux County, Nebraska.


Bunkhouse School - Dist. # 46, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Bunkhouse School - Dist. # 46, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on the Bunkhouse School, located 9 miles north and west of Harrison, in Sioux County, Nebraska.


Cottonwood School - Dist. #14, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Cottonwood School - Dist. #14, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Cottonwood School, located 18 miles northwest of Crawford, or 22 miles northeast of Harrison, in Sioux County, Nebraska.


Five Points - Dist. #9, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Five Points - Dist. #9, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Brief description of District #9 in Sioux County, Nebraska. Photo captions also call it Five Points School.


Bodarc School - Dist. #6, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Bodarc School - Dist. #6, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Bodarc School, located 13 miles northeast of Harrison, NE, including a history of the name of "Bodarc".


Barada - Dist. #19, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier Jan 2000

Barada - Dist. #19, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Barada School, located 14 miles north of Falls City in Richardson County, Nebraska.


Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale De France, Codex Grec 54: Modus Operandi Of Scribes And Artists In A Palaiologan Gospel Book, Kathleen Maxwell Jan 2000

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale De France, Codex Grec 54: Modus Operandi Of Scribes And Artists In A Palaiologan Gospel Book, Kathleen Maxwell

Art and Art History

Much can be learned about the working methods of scribes and artists when they leave their product unfinished. This is true of the late thirteenth-century illustrated Gospel book, Paris, Bibliothe`que Nationale de France, cod. gr. 54. It was intended to be a deluxe, bilingual (Greek and Latin) manuscript featuring full-page evangelist portraits and an extensive narrative cycle of some fifty-two miniatures. In the end, only about half of its Latin text and twenty-two narrative miniatures were actually completed. Five other miniatures remain unfinished, and space was reserved in the text for twenty-five additional miniatures that were never even begun. No …


Review Of 1900: Art At The Crossroads, Antoni Pizà Jan 2000

Review Of 1900: Art At The Crossroads, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

There is probably little doubt that the fissure between "high" and "low" culture is more conspicuous nowadays than it ever was. Clement Greenberg, that dashing arbiter of contemporary art, had already sensed it in 1939 when he wrote the seminal essay quoted above, as Adorno also perceived it decades before him. Their foreboding premonitions, however, could not hinder the relentless success of popular culture and the retreat of so-called high art into the safe harbors of the university campus, the museum, and the private sphere.