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A "Peculiarly American" Enthusiasm: George Bellows, Traditional Masculinity, And The Big Dory, James W. Denison Iv Jan 2014

A "Peculiarly American" Enthusiasm: George Bellows, Traditional Masculinity, And The Big Dory, James W. Denison Iv

Honors Projects

A “Peculiarly American” Enthusiasm: George Bellows, Traditional Masculinity, and The Big Dory investigates the portrayal of masculinity in the oeuvre of the much-lauded yet enigmatic American painter George Bellows (1882-1925). Rather than relying on Bellows’ urban works for source material, a significant portion of this investigation is conducted via a case study of Bellows’ 1913 panel The Big Dory, a scene of fishermen pushing a boat into the North Atlantic off Monhegan Island, Maine that the artist painted during a sojourn on the island in the months after his involvement in the landmark Armory Show in New York. The …


Who We Are: Incarcerated Students And The New Prison Literature, 1995-2010, Reilly Hannah N. Lorastein May 2013

Who We Are: Incarcerated Students And The New Prison Literature, 1995-2010, Reilly Hannah N. Lorastein

Honors Projects

This project focuses on American prison writings from the late 1990s to the 2000s. Much has been written about American prison intellectuals such as Malcolm X, George Jackson, Eldridge Cleaver, and Angela Davis, who wrote as active participants in black and brown freedom movements in the United States. However the new prison literature that has emerged over the past two decades through higher education programs within prisons has received little to no attention. This study provides a more nuanced view of the steadily growing silent population in the United States through close readings of Openline, an inter-disciplinary journal featuring …


The Legacy Of James Bowdoin Iii, Bowdoin College Museum Of Art Jan 1994

The Legacy Of James Bowdoin Iii, Bowdoin College Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

The Legacy of James Bowdoin III (1994) was published to accompany a major year-long series of exhibitions and programs at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art commemorating the bicentennial of the founding of Bowdoin College. It includes essays by Kenneth E. Carpenter, Linda J. Docherty, Arthur M. Hussey, Clifton C. Olds, Richard H. Saunders, Susan E. Wegner.


Religion At Bowdoin College: A History, Ernst Christian Helmreich Jan 1981

Religion At Bowdoin College: A History, Ernst Christian Helmreich

Bowdoin Histories

Religion at Bowdoin College: A History (1981), by Ernst Christian Helmreich, considers how people at Bowdoin have perceived religion, how they have felt religion should or should not be realized at the College, and how those views changed over the years.


The History Of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches Of Its Graduates From 1806 To 1879, Inclusive, Nehemiah Cleaveland, Alpheus S. Packard Dec 1881

The History Of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches Of Its Graduates From 1806 To 1879, Inclusive, Nehemiah Cleaveland, Alpheus S. Packard

Bowdoin Histories

The History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates from 1806 to 1879, Inclusive (1882), by Nehemiah Cleaveland and Alpheus S. Packard, provides encyclopedic biographical sketches of Bowdoin presidents and graduates for most of the nineteenth century, along with engraved portraits for many of them.