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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Donatello’S David: The Putti Speak, Sally A. Struthers
Donatello’S David: The Putti Speak, Sally A. Struthers
Art and Art History Faculty Publications
As the first approaching life-sized, freestanding, sensuous, bronze nude since Antiquity, Donatello’s bronze David is a critical monument of the Italian Renaissance. It is also one of the most enigmatic. David is nude, but not completely unclothed, wearing a feminine-looking hat and knee-high boots. David holds a rock and a sword, while standing suggestively, on the head of Goliath. He stands in a relaxed contrapposto stance. His left hand, held to his hip, holds a stone. His right hand is resting on an oversized sword, which points downward to the helmet of Goliath, between the feet of David. As Zuraw …
Alger Veazie Currier: Apostle Of The Beaux-Arts In Maine, V. Scott Dimond
Alger Veazie Currier: Apostle Of The Beaux-Arts In Maine, V. Scott Dimond
Maine History
Alger Veazie Currier began a promising career as an artist in Paris when two of his paintings were accepted to the prestigious Salon of 1888. After this moment of glory, Currier returned to his home in Hallowell, at a time when art in Maine was at its most provincial. He brought with him with fresh approach to teaching art and a mission to bring both painters and patrons up to date. During a brief tenure at Bowdoin College, Currier signaled a break from the old- fashioned landscape painting that dominated the Maine art scene. Although his European, Beaux-Arts ideas were …
Creative Approaches To Enhance Student Learning, Teaming, And Collaboration, Sally A. Struthers, Ned Young, Gary Mitchner
Creative Approaches To Enhance Student Learning, Teaming, And Collaboration, Sally A. Struthers, Ned Young, Gary Mitchner
Art and Art History Faculty Publications
This forum concentrates on the use of humor and non-conventional pedagogy to help students improve their learning, teaming, and collaboration skills. Using card games, party games, egg drop exercises, and "A Bug's Life" movie, students experience the complicated interactions of teaming process and external boundary management.
2002 Artist In Residence Biennial (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Michael Brakke
2002 Artist In Residence Biennial (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Michael Brakke
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
The presence of acclaimed artists—who have lived and worked in major cultural centers across the country—enhances the educational opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the University of Tennessee School of Art. With daily contact over the course of a full semester, resident artists develop a unique relationship with the student body which complements the creative stimulation offered by guest lecturers and the School of Art’s faculty. Representing diverse ethnic, cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds, these resident artists introduce another layer of candor and a fresh artistic standard for the students who, though early in their formal art …
The Great American Spirit, Phyllis George, Kentucky Folk Art Center
The Great American Spirit, Phyllis George, Kentucky Folk Art Center
Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs
2002-2003 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of folk art depicting the events of September 11, 2001.