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2000

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Verbal Vermeer: Updike's Middle-Class Portraiture, James Plath Feb 2000

Verbal Vermeer: Updike's Middle-Class Portraiture, James Plath

James Plath

Of all the artists Updike mentions in his writing, none is cited more often than seventeenth-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, whose near-photographic depictions of household scenes from everyday bourgeois life are recalled in Updike's own fictional portraits of upper-middle-dass domesticity-particularly those set in his native Pennsylvania, where the Dutch historically settled.

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Smithsonian Center For Latino Initiatives: Strategic Plan (2002-2007), Refugio I. Rochin Dec 1999

Smithsonian Center For Latino Initiatives: Strategic Plan (2002-2007), Refugio I. Rochin

Refugio I. Rochin

Synopsis of keynote address. Includes information and plan regarding the Smithsonian Institution's mandate to play a fundamental role in defining the parameters of Latina/o cultural identity: "How the Smithsonian views U.S. Latinos is important to all Americans, because the Smithsonian helps determine how all Americans see themselves--and how the rest of the world views the United States."

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Sounds Of Christmas - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley Dec 1999

Sounds Of Christmas - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An original Christmas carol arranged for SATB choir and piano with optional violin (or flute). Words by June Swanson.

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Machian Epistemology And Its Part In František Kupka's Painterly Cognition Of Reality, John G. Hatch Dec 1999

Machian Epistemology And Its Part In František Kupka's Painterly Cognition Of Reality, John G. Hatch

John G. Hatch

A consensus has emerged amongst art historians that portrays the work the Czech painter, František Kupka (1871-1957), as fluctuating between differing styles and never resolving itself into one straightforward and single-minded direction beyond abstraction. Visually this is true, but for Kupka the visual was secondary in that it plays a subsidiary role to the process involved in the creation of the work itself. A failure to properly understand this process has resulted in an inaccurate reading of Kupka's art, essentially missing the point that his paintings embody in their imagery the cognitive process involved in their creation. Significantly, as I …

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