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Violence In American Cinema, Ryan Lewis

Whittier Scholars Program

The table of contents includes The Production Code, Violence, A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers, and Fight Club. The project begins with an overview of the history of the production code and how violence was originally prohibited in movies. The author discusses various movies that include violence and the different techniques they used. A VHS tape is included as well.

Review Of Stillman, Arab Dress: A Short History, From The Dawn Of Islam To Modem Times., Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Arab Dress: A Short History, From the Dawn of Islam to Modem Times. By YADIDA KALFON STILLMAN. Edited by NORMAN A. STILLMAN. Themes in Islamic Studies, vol. 2. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xxxii + 240, plates, figs.

Billowing folds, exquisite pleats, tightly wound turbans, flowing burqas, short square kerchiefs-the dramatic drapery of Islamic fashion fills the quiet spaces of our daily news coverage; yet the garments illustrated and their significance often pass without verbal notice. Little would Yedida Stillman ever have anticipated the widespread presence of the Islamic vestimentary system in Western media a short three years after her death …

Peacock Alley: Highway 41 And The Growth Of The Chenille Bedspread Industry, Ashley Callahan

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In the fall of 1935. a newspaper editor traveled from Oklahoma City to Atlanta to attend a baseball game, and along the way encountered a stretch of road near Dalton. Georgia known as Bedspread Boulevard. He recorded his experiences in his daily column: "Twisting through northern Georgia late Saturday afternoon, dodging cotton wagons and trying to get an eyeful of the gorgeous tints that glorified the turning trees in the mountains, I thought I saw a washing strung on a line by the roadside. Soon another flashed past. Then they followed in regular succession. . . . Is it possible …

Drs Quarterly Council Report: Issue 1, Alec Robertson

Quarterly Council Reports

This was the first issue of the QCR - an initiative of the Design Research Society Council with the aim of providing a regular overview of Council member views and activity to the DRS members.

Contents

International Reports

• Australia (East), Vesna Popovic
• Australia (West), Terence Love
• Greece, Artemis Yagou
• The Netherlands, John L. Heintz
• Turkey, H. Alpay Er
• USA, Christopher Nemeth

Officers' Reports
• Honorary Secretary, Rachael Luck
• Publications Officer, Alec Robertson

Lifeworlds [On Wendy Kirkup's Echo], Renee Baert

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

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, …

Reginald Marsh Prints: Whitney Museum Of American Art Portfolio, Part Two, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Reginald Marsh Prints: Whitney Museum of American Art Portfolio, Part Two

January 8 to June 29, 2002

Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center

Introduction

It is only fitting that this two-part, yearlong inaugural exhibition for the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center feature one of America's most important artists whose talents were honed during the 1920s and 1930s, a period when American printmaking experienced a surge in popularity. Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) created images that revealed the society and tempo of his environment and his time, and he was considered a Social Realist along with such artists as Isabel …

Mutually Exclusive, Emily Martin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

5 magic wallets (Jacob's ladder module), enclosed in an Asian-style cloth covered portfolio with bone clasps; portfolio cover; magic wallets open and closed. Each booklet features conflicting text from media reports following the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. Opinions and beliefs, formed from the same information, are often opposing.

Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter, 2002, Wonsook Kim School Of Art And Design

Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter

Annual newsletter for the Normal Editions Workshop, School of Art, Illinois State University.

Allusion, Illusion And The Beginning Design Student, Albert C. Smith, Kendra Schank Smith

Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student

This paper explores aspects of media that concern illusion and allusion. It will present some examples of beginning design student projects to question and elucidate both the inherent differences of these potentially dichotomous terms and how they might lead us in a more concordant direction for teaching beginning design and visual communications in architecture. In recent history, we have seen examples of drawings such as those published by Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind that have had an inclination to place archrtecture into a greater state of allusion. These drawings are exciting and provoke the thoughtful references to the poss ibi …

Education Of An Architect: Through African-American Constructions, Scott Ruff

Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student

No abstract provided.

Spatial Themes In A Three Week Project, Corey Saft

Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student

In speaking to The Enigma of the First Assignment. the premise of this paper is explained with a studio in which a design project is addressed through sets of rules. Rules fall into three categories: for program, for site, and for assembly. These rules were left open-ended and they provided the first footholds for a student to get to work designing and not ponder the much larger problem of design itself.

Prints And Installations: Clinical Essence, Karla Kaye Burkhardt Oler

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

To create images is to create the soul, opening up to the enigma within us. If the body is the container for the soul, how we navigate through life may individuate our essential nature. How we react to and utilize this awareness provides a framework for portraying our existence. With this concept in mind, I am using my scanned body image as the basis for my artwork, a type of clinical observation, both inside and out. By scanning portions of my body, cropping as a basis for a matrix, printing the image from an inkjet printer on to transparency film …

Watts Towers, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Gallos, Caballos, Gente Y Paisajes, Rosendo Sandoval

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

First. I will give the reader a brief but detailed biography. It covers the period of time from my birth all the way to my college graduation. This section gives the reader an idea about my beginnings as an artist, and about the hardships that I have endured during my lifetime.

Second, this paper talks about the work, and my main sources of inspiration. In it I explain to the reader what have been my sources of inspiration from childhood all the way to the present time. One of my first sources of inspiration were the old Mexican movies that …

Book Series, Susan Van Geest

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Mixed Media November 27, 2001, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The November 27, 2001 issue includes articles on Student Alliance updates, the end of programming at Carr House, community service opportunities at RISD, RISD life models, RISD Works, the drummer of band Live Jazz, a man who arranges rocks on Thayer Street, some RISD departments forcing students to buy laptops, and music and film reviews, along with the comics "Captain Obvious" and "Salsa! by Andrew Kaiko, event notices, and other announcements.

Mixed Media November 8, 2001, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The November 8, 2001 issue includes articles on campus construction and relocation projects, a brief history of the Taliban, a visit from guest artist Calef Brown, a guest lecture on genetic and biological art, a guest lecture by architect Will Alsop, and film and music reviews, along with the comics "Atlas" by Heino and Sarah Brown and "Salsa! by Andrew Kaiko, event notices, and other announcements.

Mixed Media October 15, 2001, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The October 15, 2001 issue is about propaganda and includes articles on Osama Bin Laden, student comments on whether the United States should take military action following the events of 9/11, the Nads, music and film reviews, Brown's production of the Noel Coward play "Design for Living," and Dave Eggers' book "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," along with comics, fiction by Jonah Bleicher, event notices, and other announcements.

Ua68/5/1 Portfolio, Vol. 1, No. 3, Wku Art Department

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Art Department newsletter regarding exhibitions, commissions, conferences, meetings, workshops, lectures, research and art on campus.

Inscape Fall 2001, Morehead State University

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The Fall 2001 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 13:3 – Fall 2001, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Northampton, MA
Member News
University of Minnesota Programs in Apparel
Member News, Letter from the President
TSA News, Info Exchange
Textile Network: Textile Center of Minnesota
Calls for Papers, Grants & Fellowships, Conferences & Symposia
Conference Reviews
Exhibit Reviews, Exhibitions Calendar
Lectures/ Workshops, Tours/Courses, Publication News
Call for Nominations

Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings From The Ceseri Collection And The Georgia Museum Of Art, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features drawings from an exhibition of artists in the 19th- and 20th centuries from the private collection of Giuliano Ceseri and the Georgia Museum of Art. The Tracing Vision exhibition was held at the Wright State University Art Galleries from September 12 through October 14, 2001.

Nexus, Fall 2001, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Figurative Sculpture In Paper Clay., Valarie G. Lyle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The artist discusses her Master of Fine Arts exhibition at East Tennessee State University, Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee, March 9 - 17, 2001. The exhibition marked her return to organic, gestural work. Works are figurative, ceramic, sculpture, made of paper clay, ranging from 8-inch, wall mounted, bas-relief to life sized, full round figures. Most are slab constructed, unglazed or lightly glazed with soda wash.

Topics discussed: the artist's development, including the influences of Stephen De Staebler, in his treatment of the individual in mass culture, and of Mary Frank, in psychological content and in the use of negative …

Thomas Kinkade And The La-Z-Boy Aesthetic, Matt Mays

SWITCH

A discussion of mass production using the artist Thomas Kinkaid as an example. Kinkade, the painter of light, was an artist that was readily available to the average American art lover and potential speculative art collector. In this article, the author discusses the idea of mass-produced art, which allows the ordinary person to join the art world. Media Arts Group, Inc was able to create prints in mass production. As a result, Thomas Kinkade built an empire of light and beauty, selling his works to the masses, while mixing religion and values into his work.

Tracing The Cultural Memory In The Rio Grande Valley: Mexican-American Dichos, Proverbs Interpreted Through Art, Jennifer Michele Rodriguez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Conversational phrases, dichos are verbal hallmarks from Mexican-Americans and familiar to the Hispanic culture through different versions. This folk wisdom is exposed through communication, tracing historical accounts of life, love, struggle, and ultimately survival among Mexican-Americans. I have started a series of paintings and collective art pieces focusing on Mexican-American dichos unique and familiar to the Rio Grande Valley. They are a cultural representation of life unique to this area, and combine the recollective spirit from not only myself, but from my family's accounts of these spontaneous conversational phrases.

With influences stemming from the Pop Art period, specifically Roy Lichtenstein …

Chthonic Power Versus Synthetic Power: Iconography And Color Symbolizing The Female Principle Relative To The Male Principle, Kathryn M. Thorn-Simpson

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The images depict an exploration of an expressive, abstract aesthetic that delineates visual content with symbolism: depicted by color, iconography, and form. The artistic intention underlying the imagery is to evoke emotional awareness of the possibility that chthonic forces of nature—the mysterious life force generated by earth and the universe—in contrast to man-made synthetic powers—technology, science, machines, war, and ideas related to control over nature—are manifested as a dichotomy of experience between female and male; the forces of nature as the female principle and synthetic powers as the male principle. The imaginative elements in the imagery use colors and forms …

Zephyr: The Second Issue, Zephyr Faculty Advisor, Matthew Bibeau, Danielle Chabot, Tiffany Cherry, Ernie Cote, Lisa Curtiss, Ryan Eling, Richard Goddeau, Judith Haug, Andrew Shuttleworth

Zephyr

This is the second issue of Zephyr, the University of New England's journal of creative expression. Since 2000, Zephyr has published original drawings, paintings, photography, prose, and verse created by current and former members of the University community. Zephyr's Editorial Board is made up exclusively of matriculating students.

The Lantern Vol. 68, No. 2, Spring 2001, Kirsten Mascioli, Benjamin Schuler, Alyson Jones, Sarah Napolitan, Corey Taylor, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, John Ramsey, Lori Kruk, Syreeta Dixon, Melanie Scriptunas, Thomas Lipschultz, Jeffrey Church, Daniel Gallagher, Mike Keeper, Monica Stahl, Ani Broderick, Christine Spera, Jason Fischer, Genevieve Romeo, Rosabelle Diaz, Raquel B. Pidal, Kelly Campbell

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Eden
• Ginsberg Mourning
• On the Cusp of Winter
• (Woman: as Needing to be Silver and Sharp)
• Descended
• Book Unbinding
• Scrawlings on the Stall
• My Frankenstein
• Jazzy Avantguardia
• Paper Crane
• A Child's Valentine
• Ten Years' Gone
• Out the Window
• Tar's Melting
• Passing Time
• Ave Maria
• Heart of the Matter
• Damn Kids
• The Candle Incident
• Nostalgia
• Cuban Couch
• Dinner Date