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Passaic Boys Are Hell: Robert Smithson's Tag As Temporal And Spatial Marker Of The Geographical Self, Felicity Colman

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Robert Smithson seductively created stories about his activities as an artist with attention to his duration; his time of existence. Born in 1938 in the New Jersey suburb of Passaic, Smithson lived in the New Jersey suburbs of Rutherford and Clifton with his family until 1957 when he moved to live in downtown Manhattan, New York (Hobbs 1981, 231-232; Tsai 1991, 6). Smithson's adult life was undeniably shaped by his Pascalian/Sopranos awareness of engaging the circumference by which to navigate the centre of everyday life. In 1972 Smithson described New Jersey as: a kind of destroyed California, …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 23 (2002), Virginia Gunn, Melissa Jurenga, Connie J. Nordstrom, Judy Elsley, Kim M. King, Carolyn O'Bagy Davis, Marilyn Goldman

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

She Hath Done What She Could: Discovering Memories on a New York Friendship Quilt Vll by Melissa Jurenga

One Pot of Flowers Quilt Pattern--Blossoming Through Centuries by Connie J. Nordstrom

Read Me a Story: Cultural Values in Children's Quilt Fiction by Judy Elsley

Quiltmakers' Online Communities by Kim M. King

Fanny and the Busy Bees by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis

The Wilkinson Quilt Company: "America's Original Makers of Fine Quilts" by Marilyn Goldman

Authors and Editor

Index

Teaching The Arts Through The Appalachian Culture: A Proposal For A High-School Class., Valerie Renee Pitts

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Because of a demonstrable need, there should be a course for the study of Appalachian art in the high school curriculum. This study is a proposal for the study of traditional Appalachian art and its importance to the promotion and preservation of the arts and crafts in the Appalachian region.

This course consists of background information on selected traditional Appalachian art, contact and interaction with local artists and craftspeople, and student hands-on experience in the art forms considered. Detailed unit and lesson plans are included in the following areas: Spinning and Weaving, Dyeing, Basketry, Quilting, Pottery, Woodcarving, Blacksmithing, Vernacular Architecture, …

Textiles, Scholarship, And Art Education: An Art College Perspective, Wendy Landry

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In many communities the art college is the last formal refuge of active textile-making knowledge and heritage. This location appears to value playful, risky, or challenging material explorations which might result in creative design or meaningful visual expression. This should be the best environment for cultivating adventurous students able to integrate a wide range of experience and resources towards generating new ideas for interesting contemporary textiles. It could be a good place in which to discover how textiles contribute to human experience and history, and how they are meaningful. However, I submit that this art environment is still detrimental to …

An Interview With Claude Guillemot, Samantha Mach

SWITCH

This interview with Claude Guillemot, a French video game developer and publisher, talks about his website and some of the issues surrounding it today. Guillemot also mentioned CD-ROM and the web at the time when DOTCOM started to boom in the years 1998 - 2000. He uses the web to create synthetic artworks and talks about how artworks cannot be objective, the same way scientists such as archeologists are not really objective. In his responses to Switch Staff, Guillemot explains scientists and artists do not form a bias in their works and do not favor one side or another. By …

Mixed Media March 11, 1999, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 11, 1999 issue includes articles on the change of editorial team "The Mixed Media Revolution", lack of a performance department at RISD, world news, the band They Might Be Giants, along with the comics "Die." by Paul and "Ben" by Frenzer, announcement of a meeting about censorship after a censored image in Senior Painting opening, event notices, and other announcements.

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 20 (1999), Virginia Gunn, Molly Miles, Valerie S. Rake, Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff, Zöe C. Smith, Carolyn O'Bagy Davis, Cynthia Dimock-Quaglia

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

The Kezia D. Benton Quilt: A Life Uncovered by Molly Miles

A Thread of Continuity: Quiltmaking in Wayne County, Ohio, Mennonite Churches, 1890s-1990s by Valerie S. Rake

Three Louisiana Acadian Colonnade Quilts: Adding Pieces to a Puzzle by Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff

Between Two Worlds: The Quilts and Life of Caroline Hoffman Christman Chew by Zoe C. Smith

Goldie Tracy Richmond: Indian Trader and Quiltmaker by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis

The "Vampire" Quilt: A Material-Culture Study by Cynthia Dimock-Quaglia

Authors and editor

In memoriam: Alma Wallace Lesch (1917-1999)

Indez

Design Research: The Newsletter Of The Design Research Society No.62, Stephen Little

Design Research Newsletters (1966-1999)

No abstract provided.

Not So Nice Colored Girls: A View Of Tracey Moffatt’S Nice Coloured Girls, Caroline Vercoe

Pacific Studies

Nice Coloured Girls is Tracey Moffatt’s first film. Produced in 1987, this seventeen-minute film describes a tradition that has been passed down from her grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s generation—that of “picking up Captain.” Moffatt explains “since colonisation ‘picking up Captain’ has been a way for Aboriginal women to survive off white men.” Rather than creating new and empowered Aboriginal heroines for the 1990s, Moffatt chooses to site her characters within a colonial continuum. Her tradition begins with postcolonial contact and it is clearly formed by cross-cultural experiences. This essay focuses on the narrative structure of Nice Coloured Girls and discusses the …

Mixed Media November 2, 1997, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The November 2, 1997 issue includes articles on the RISD party scene, mailroom procedures, interracial dating, the Student Alliance, and Halloween, along with the comic "Bernie," student illustrations, event notices, and other announcements.

Mixed Media April 14, 1997, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The April 14, 1997 issue includes articles on alleged supernatural occurrences at Woods Gerry, a follow-up on the previous week's article on diversity woes at RISD, a response from the RISD Administration about sexual harassment, the MTV show "Singled Out," a response to complaints about cross-registration difficulties, a response to the queer arts festival, and the spring film series, along with the comic "Miko" by Royce Wesley, the comic "Soft Core" by Jesse Wiens, event notices, and other announcements.

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 18, No 1 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

Review Of: Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis, Paul Faulstich

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Rock-art studies have now come of age, and are among the most fertile explorations of expressive culture. Through an interdisciplinary approach to its study, we have expanded our knowledge into the realms of aesthetics, belief systems, and social structures. Australian rock an is particularly significant, since it is a visual expression that has been practiced by contemporary as well as prehistoric Aboriginals. Robert Layton's most recent book -his "new synthesis" of Australian rock art- is an ambitious and successful analysis of Aboriginal rock art from across the continent.

Artwork: Industrial Mechanical, Inc., Pelce

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Sparto: A Greek Textile Plant, Helen Bradley-Griebel

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

INTRODUCTION

Cotton and flax are known as plants whose fibers are used in the manufacture of textiles, and hemp and jute are known as plants used to make rope. Less well known for its contribution to both textile and rope manufacture is the plant sparto (Spartium iunceum L.; Spanish broom) which grows wild over much of the Mediterranean region in brushwood localities of the mountainous and semi-mountainous zones, including the area of my fieldwork village on the West Coast of the Greek Peloponnesos.

Sparto is a perennial broom, growing as a shrub not reaching over 3m. in height. Its …

Textiles As A Daily Obsession: A Day In The Life Of An Andean Weaver, Elayne Zorn

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

INTRODUCTION

This paper focuses on weavers and textiles from the island of Taquile, in Lake Titicaca, Peru, in the southern Andes. In my abstract I wrote that I would speak about both Taquileans and the Sakaka of Bolivia, but due to the richness and complexity of the material, I shall concentrate on Taquile.

This paper dates back to a conversation I had with Natividad Machaca (Figure 1), a matron of Taquile, on a winter afternoon in June 1984, after the festival of Saint John, which Taquilean families dedicate to ceremonies to increase the fertility of their scrawny sheep. Along with …

Narratives Of Action And Identity In Cloth: The Textiles Of Highland Luzon, The Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The textile artifact, although framed by its physical existence, is not an isolated entity, but functions as a vital part in the ongoing systems of society. By viewing the artifact as an actor with its own life history and with particular parts to play in every sphere of life's narrative, we are provided with an entry to discovering how both the textile object and the subject, its creator and user, collaborate to mutually define one another. To interpret fully the significance of textiles within their cultural context one must examine not only the artifact's physical qualities, its materials, techniques and …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 12 (1991), Laurel Horton, Michael Kile, Rod Kiracofe, Lawrence Howe, Catherine E. Cerny, Vista Anne Mahan, William J. Riffe, Pat L. Nickols, Clover Nolan Williams, Valerie Wilson, Varyn M. Kendra, Kyle Emily Ciani

Uncoverings Journal

Dedication:Michael Kile (1947-1991) by Rod Kiracofe

Preface by Laurel Horton

Research Papers

A Text of the Times: The NAMES Project by Lawrence Howe

A Quilt Guild: Its Role in the Elaboration of Female Identity by Catherine A. Cerny

Quilts used as Backdrops in Old Photographs by Vista Anne Mahan

Brain Dominance and Quilters: A Small Group Study by William J. Riffe

Mary A. McElwain: Quilter and Quilt Businesswoman by Pat L. Nickols

Tradition and Art: Two Layers of Meaning in the Bloomington Quilters Guild by Clover Nolan Williams

Quiltmaking in Counties Antrim and Down: Preliminary Findings from the Ulster Quilt …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 11 (1990), Laurel Horton, Kristin M. Langellier, Jeanette Lou (Jan) Stehlik, Janet Carruth, Laurene Sinema, Joyce B. Peaden, Nancy Gibson Tuckhorn, Elizabeth Richards, Sherri Martin-Scott, Kerry Maguire, Barbara K. Phillippi, Wilene Smith

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Laurel Horton

The Marketing of Anne Orr's Quilts by Merikay Waldvogel

Contemporary Quiltmaking in Maine: Re-fashioning Femininity by Kristin M. Langellier

Quilt Patterns and Contests of the Omaha World Herald, 1921-1941 by Jan Stehlik

Emma Andres and Her Six Grand Old Characters by Janet Carruth and Laurene Sinema

The Multicolored Geometric Pieced Sails of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago by Joyce B. Peaden

A Profile of Quilts and Donors at the DAR Museum by Nancy Gibson Tuckhorn

Quilts as Material History: Identifying Research Models by Elizabeth Richards, Sherri Martin-Scott, and Kerry Maguire

Pre-1940 Quilt Tops: Their Status and …

John Charlot's Review Of Lynn Ann Davis's And Nelson Foster's A Photographer In The Kingdom: Christian J. Hedemann, John Charlot

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

The University Of Maryland Historic Textile Data Base, Clarita Anderson

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

INTRODUCTION

Our charge today is to discuss strategies and methodologies for gathering and extracting data from textiles. My specific task is to discuss the University of Maryland Historic Textile Data Base. This Data Base was officially established in September 1986 with a grant from the College of Human Ecology. Its purpose was to establish a sophisticated data management program on personal computers to handle the massive amounts of data necessary for research in this area. The long range goal of this project is to include all flat textiles. The immediate goal is to establish a data base on coverlets.

Before …

The Validity Of Studies Of Pattern And Structure: Case Histories, Milton Sonday

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The importance of the analysis of continuous pattern and detailed recordings of the structures of lampas and velvet was driven home to me during my work on the Textile Museum's Safavid project. This resulted in "Pattern and Weaves, Safavid Lampas and Velvet" pp. 57-83 in the catalogue Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart published by The Textile Museum, Bier (1987). Practically anyone with a minimum knowledge of Iranian Safavid art and design of the 16th and 17th centuries can recognize a standard Safavid-style lampas and velvet because of motif. Therefore, why go any farther? Perhaps you don't, but …

Designing Among The Navajo: Ethno Aesthetics In Weaving, Ann Lane Hedlund

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Navajo weaving from northeastern Arizona and contiguous areas if the American Southwest is widely recognized for colors and patterns that range from subtle shades to dynamic brilliance, from soft stripes to bold geometries to fanciful pictorials. The apparent diversity in this native textile art, developed over the past three centuries, has defied any unified description of The Navajo Style. While Navajo blankets and rugs may be superficially categorized and classified, put into chronological sequences and evolutionary schemes, when the textiles are viewed synoptically, the delineation of Navajo aesthetics remains a formidable task.

The search for a Navajo style and sense …

Women's Perception Of Fashion Comparing Viewers And Non-Viewers Of Evening Soap Operas : The Cultivation Effect, Elliot Paul Bloom

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The cultivation effect is defined as the distorted view of reality which results from the heavy viewing exposure to a certain type of programming content. The assumption behind the cultivation hypothesis is that the more hours an individual exposes himself or herself to a particular type of program content. the more the individual's view of reality will be consistent with the "reality" shown in the program.

It is no mystery that for the past half-century, millions of Americans have made the broadcast soap opera a daily habit. In response to the heavy interest exhibited by this strong audience, social scientists …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 36, No. 1, Carolyn J. Mattern, Terry G. Jordan, Matti Kaups, Richard M. Lieffort, Hilda Adam Kring, Helen Bradley Griebel

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• A Pennsylvania Dutch Yankee: The Civil War Letters of Private David William Mattern (1862-1863)
• New Evidence on the European Origin of Pennsylvania V Notching
• Sem Kaufman's "Instructions to my Children"
• Worldview on the Landscape: A Regional Yard Art Study
• Aldes un Neies / Old & New

Design Research: The Newsletter Of The Design Research Society No.27, Necdet Teymur

Design Research Newsletters (1966-1999)

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 1, Mary Laycock Selders, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Priscilla Stevenson Lockard, Guy Graybill, John D. Kendig, Elda F. Gehris

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Grandmother's Flower Garden: The Quilts of Sadie Ida Christian Laycock
• Our Good Old One-Room School Days
• A Parade from the Past
• The Philip Arndts of Manheim (1797-1888)
• Pennsylvania German Cookery
• Aldes un Neies

Southwinds - Spring 1984

Southwinds: The Literary and Arts Magazine of Missouri S&T

Southwinds 1984 is produced in Rolla, Missouri, by the Southwinds Club and is entirely for and by the students of U.M.R.

The Loving Of The Game: A Study Of Basketry In The Mammoth Cave Area, Denis O. Kiely

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The production and marketing of baskets in the Mammoth Cave area of Kentucky from 1880 to the present is observed in light of the cultural, technical, aesthetic, ad traditional aspects involved. The process of making a white oak ribbed basket is documented, as well as the technical and aesthetic variables from which the basket maker renders his product. The changing role of social organization and communication in the production and marketing of a traditional craft objects is also considered.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 31, No. 1, Henry J. Kauffman, John D. Kendig, Guy Graybill, Marie K. Graeff, William T. Parsons, Ray W. Sauers

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Pennsylvania Copper Tea Kettle
• "Our Camp and Soldiers Life" (1861-65)
• The Surprising Come Back of the Pennsylvania Rifle
• Folk Songs
• Port Royal and Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania Dutch Life Along Switzer Run and Penn's Creek
• Aldes un Neies / Old and New