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Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations: The Photograph As Fact And Other Aspects Of Ed Ruscha's Books, Henri Man Barendse

Art & Art History ETDs

This paper analyzes the fourteen books California artist Ed Ruscha published from 1962 to 1972. Initial discussion of the emergence of Pop Art and the so-called "L.A. Look" form the background for a review of the artist's life and career. This is followed by a brief chronology and descriptions of the books establishing their impact and influence on contemporary art and photography. The publications are discussed in relation to significant movements during the decade, such as Conceptual Art, and it is concluded that they are unique and therefore escape easy categorization. Ruscha's inconoclastic attitude and "styleless" approach to photography as …

Incorporated Press, Inc. December 11, 1978, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1978. This issue from December 11, 1978 featured essays about art exhibitions, departmental news, a student meeting with RISD president Lee Hall, female student safety, and a Francesca Woodman photography exhibition at Woods Gerry. Also included are photos, comic strips, events on the RISD campus and the Providence area.

Decoration And Pattern As Picture, Nancy Norman

Art & Art History ETDs

Many of the concepts for my imagery are drawn from an attitude of affirming the decorative in art and a personal choice to further explore those possibilities. Ornamentation can enhance art, not because it is superfluous and not because it can embellish life with beauty, but as in the ornamental arts themselves it can magnify qualities already present in material life and work. In this presentation I present my decorative ideas in art from a contemporary perspective in terms of an art historical context a well as through my individual vision represented by paintings, lithographs, and paper pieces. Both sections …

From Obsession To Oxymoron: Sonic Cartoons, Steven Ralph Fitch

Art & Art History ETDs

In this thesis I will identify some of the motives and sources behind my present series of photographs and in the process, attempt to clarify their meaning as visual statements and as cultural artifacts.

Picto-Relieves Ritmicos: Una Forma De Integrar La Pintura Y La Escultura, Miguel A. Sosa

Art & Art History ETDs

The "picto-reliefs" are a solution for the integration of painting and sculptural elements. This integration is resolved by an abstract format where lines, planes and bands are projected in a constructivist manner. In this paper, an examination is made of the relationships that exist between visual images and "sonorous" images, between visual rhythms and musical relationships, and between color and certain qualities of sound. The bands are a key element in the "picto-reliefs". The bands create a three-dimensional form in the painting, therefore transforming the painting into a relief. The bands also possess ''musical power”, since according to the color …

Issues And Ideas: Shifting Perspectives In My Photographic Concerns, 1974-1978, Robert A. Widdicombe

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis shall be an examination of the various ideas and interests which have influenced my photography. The discussion will concentrate on the four main bodies of work I have produced since I became seriously involved with photography. The photographs in the first group were done during the years from 1974 through 1976 while I was living in Lansing, Michigan and working as a commercial photographer. The next series of photographs was created between 1976 and 1977, shortly after I began my post-graduate studies at the University of New Mexico. The third body of work is entitled "The Interrupted Landscape" …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 1, Martha B. Kriebel, William T. Parsons, Phyllis Vibbard Parsons, Antje Sommer, Judith E. Fryer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Women, Servants and Family Life in Early America
• "Be it Remembered that these Indentured Servants and Apprentices"
• Gute Socha fer Hame tzu Nemma
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters
• Aldes / Neies

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 67–68 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות סז–סח, Israel Antiquities Authority

חדשות ארכיאולוגיות (סדרה עברית) Hadashot Arkheologiyot (Hebrew Series)

משמר העמק, קבר [5] תל דן-1978 [1–6] הגושרים [9] אניעם (ח' עמודיה) [10] ח' כנף [11–12] כפר נחום [12] עין גב III 1978 [13–14] תל ינעם, 1978 [15] שלומי, 1978 [15–16] ח' בתה -כרמיאל 1978 [16–17] מערת היונים-1978 [17–18] סקר בגליל המערבי [18–19] מערת קדומים (קפזה), 1978 [20] עכו-1978 [21–23] שקמונה-1978 [24–25] קיסריה-1978 [26–27] ח' ג'למה [27–28] ח' עזון (רעננה) [28] תל דלית,1978 [29–31] עזבת צרטה 1978 [31–32] אפק-אנטיפטריס-1978 [32–34] גלגל [35–36] אל-ירכה (ליד פצאל) [36–37] ח' מצד (ח' אל-קצר) 1978 [37–39] תל בטש (תמנה) 1978 [39–42] בית-שמש [42] ירושלים, עיר דוד – 1978 [43] ירושלים …

The Landscape Photographs Of Darius Kinsey, Ansel Adams, Alvin Langdon Coburn And Harry Callahan, Eric Barton Johnson

Art & Art History ETDs

The landscape is introduced as a useful motif in order to examine the sensibilities of a group of photographers toward the same subject in detail and in addition discuss some aspects of the mediation imposed by the camera lens on any subject. Four photographers are examined with a detailed analysis of four to six images from each: Darius Kinsey (1871-1940), Ansel Adams (1902-    ), Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966), and Harry Callahan (1912-    ). Chapter I, "Darius Kinsey's Logging Views." The background of the American frontiersman's attitude toward the wilderness is introduced as a context for Kinsey's work done at logging …

An Historical And Practical Manual For Hand Silk Screened Textiles, Grace Danisch Kraft

Art & Art History ETDs

The development and evolution of hand-stenciled textiles is studied from early Chinese cultures (C.A. 15,000 B.C.) to the present. The history of printed textiles is traced in western China, Japan, India, France, England, and America, with Japan and India playing important roles in the types of stencils used and importation of printed fabrics to other parts of the world.

Second Generation Abstract Expressionism, Donna Kay Tennant

Art & Art History ETDs

An examination is made of a select number of painters who are considered to be younger members of the Abstract Expressionist School. The study concentrates on the period 1950-1960 in New York City, but also examines the political, social and economic conditions of the United States and the world in the twentieth century. The first part of the paper discusses the rise of New York as an art center, the influence of World War II on the art community, the society in which these artists lived and worked, the role played by museums, galleries and co-ops and the response by …

Front Matter, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

The European Diary Of Fred And Lillian Lear, Patricia Newman

The Courier

This article describes the journals and sketches of Frederick and Lillian Lear, now housed in Syracuse University Special Collections. The couple toured Europe just a few years before the dawn of World War I. Frederick, an architecture professor at Syracuse University, critiqued the style of European art and architecture of the time, while Lillian offered interesting observations of Eueopean culture.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 4, Don Yoder, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Mark Workman, George A. Boeck, Jo Ann Early

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Dialect Church Service in the Pennsylvania German Culture
• Witchcraft Belief in a Pennsylvania German Family
• German Settlement of Northern Chester County in the 18th Century
• Medical Practice in Philadelphia at the Time of the Yellow Fever Epidemic, 1793
• Folkloric Aspects of the Common Law in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1799
• Runaway Advertisements: A Source for the Study of Working-Class Costume

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement, Richard Shaner, Tom Ahern, Theodore W. Jentsch, Mary E. Sise, Robert W. Murphy, John E. Stinsmen, Barry Mcfarland, Paul E. Forster, Anne E. Denney, Kristen R. Angstadt, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Hex Signs: A Living Tradition
• Decoys and How to Make Them
• Kutztown's Plain People
• The Old Country Kitchen: Where Food Preparation was an Art
• Wooden Toys, Games and Puzzles: The Delight of All Children
• A Sketch of the Seminar Stage Programs
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Furniture-Makers at the Kutztown Festival
• The Muzzle-Loading Gunsmith
• Those Rare Things Called "Antiques!"
• Mouth-Watering Baked Goods, Fresh From the Ovens!
• The Art of the Potter

Sketches Of The Tennessee Valley In The Antebellum Days: People, Places, Things Part 2, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

The Huntsville Historical Review, Vol. 8, No. 3-4, July 1978, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Faust In His Study: The Paradox Of Visual Representations And Poetic Possibilities, Donna Ramsey

Institute for the Humanities Theses

The Faust theme has inspired individuals to creative endeavors over the years. While many of the resulting literary works are widely recognized and highly valued, few of the pictorial efforts have been similarly acknowledged. This investigation treats this apparent paradox as it applies to the soliloquy in the first scene of Part I of Goethe's poetic drama. The first part of the study compares the written word with its graphic interpretation, utilizing twenty-seven portrayals of Faust in his Study. The second section traces the iconography of the scene in a broader context, using twenty-eight prototypes which correspond to the depictions. …

Risd Press May 12, 1978, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD press was a student newspaper published weekly in the early 1970s, a self-described attempt at consolidating all the information outlets of the school, including the previous student newspapers, Montage. The issue of May 12, 1978 includes articles on frustrations with the administration and RISD President Lee Hall, the new faculty union, a Student Board meeting, Collection 78, and apartheid in South Africa, along with a "Steven" comic by Doug Allen, event notices, and other announcements.

Risd Press May 5, 1978, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD press was a student newspaper published weekly in the early 1970s, a self-described attempt at consolidating all the information outlets of the school, including the previous student newspapers, Montage. The issue of May 5, 1978 includes articles on a Student Board meeting, the removal of RISD from the East Coast Art Schools consortium, an upcoming poetry reading by Audre Lorde, a student perspective on the faculty unionization, a "Positions in Architecture" symposium, a tribute to deceased student Joan Shewmon, the softball team, a Barnum and Bailey circus show, along with a comic by Art Wood, a "Steven" comic by …

Towards The Completion Of An Illusion, Joan Emaime Martin

Art & Art History ETDs

I have made an investigation of Renaissance perspective in pursuit of an illusion of objects in space. The drawings reflect the analytical nature of the investigation and a continuing search for new objects which can be represented in the environment of lines and marks used to create the perspective illusion itself.

Mother Knows Best, Robert Saxby

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis is a personal and brief chronicle of my artistic development. It attempts to put my art, and my attitudes toward art into a biographical framework. The English educational system, my emigration to the United States, and my three years at the University of New Mexico are examined, and the effects of each of these experiences on my work are noted. The thesis also deals, quite specifically, with my art work. What I have created, even how I have created it, is briefly discussed. I also scan the primary ideas and influences on my work. I conclude with a …

Modern Photography In America: Marketing The Machine Esthetic, Joseph Maurice Deal

Art & Art History ETDs

During the intervening years between World War I and World War II an international spirit and style matured in art and architecture, based on a "machine esthetic," which was a blend of pre-World War I movements in painting (Cubism, Futurism) and a more sober and practical application of these abstract principles in architecture, design, and the popular arts which developed in France and Germany after the war. This style became recognized and accepted in America, and popularly characterized as “modernistic.” Two closely related institutions of American photography provided the impetus and direction of the modern style in photography: The Pictorial …

David Hockney: Literary Painting In The Twentieth Century, Nicholas Martin Jones

Art & Art History ETDs

The Royal College of Art was the focus of British Pop during the Fifties and Sixties in London. The "Mod" phenomenon, and the events in English history which preceeded it, were instrumental in forming the climate in which the young British artists worked. David Hockney's days as a student at the Royal College during that time in England formed the basic stance that would direct his future career. At the College Hockney met H.B. Kitaj, who would give him the confidence to paint literary and figurative pictures at a time when American Abstract Expressionism dominated the art world. In following …

Risd Press April 28, 1978, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD press was a student newspaper published weekly in the early 1970s, a self-described attempt at consolidating all the information outlets of the school, including the previous student newspapers, Montage. The issue of April 28, 1978 includes articles on Parent's Day, a Student Board meeting, the Sailing team, a Richard Tuttle exhibit at the Bell Gallery, a successful vote by the faculty to unionize, crticism of Acting Provost Bruce Helander's art, and communication problems in the Illustration department, along with a "Steven" comic by Doug Allen, cartoons by Art Wood, event notices, and other announcements.

Of Elements, Memories, And Dreams, Margaret Emily Newman

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis is an exploration of the relationship between my paintings and various memories, reflections, and experiences. Because there is an elusiveness to the memories of experience which over time confuses dreams and reality, I describe these events in prose poem forms, which seems better suited to the nature of these reflections.

The Camera: Its Literary Context, Dana Asbury

Art & Art History ETDs

A discussion is undertaken of modern ideas on the nature of appearance and reality, and how these ideas relate to photography, especially portraiture.

An examination is made of some portrait photographers (August Sander, Richard Avedon, Arnold Newman, Diane Arbus) to trace the evolution of my own approach, which is further related to some movements in art history (Romanticism, Surrealism) and to twentieth century literature (Virginia Woolf).

Reflections On The Mundane, Virginia Stone Yen

Art & Art History ETDs

For me life has always been a splendid tapestry made of ordinary objects, daily routines and common occurrences. When I make art the main thread of thought is a deliberate exploration of what people frequently encounter in everyday living. Etched in my mind are many moments of awe over some commonplace experiences. I want to communicate this sense of wonder because I think the mundane is a common ground which can facilitate communication and perhaps be a springboard for comprehension of existence.

Besides a clarification of this basic concern with the mundane, I also include some personal philosophy and quests …

Dream Confirmation: Present Thoughts On My Work Completed Between The Summer And Autumn Of 1977, Philip J. Calabria

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis discusses an approach to art, as well as an investigation into the concepts underlying the author's work that was completed between the summer and autumn of 1977. The thesis is separated into three parts. Part I deals with the influences that contributed to shaping the author's aesthetic approach. An examination of the author’s work immediately preceding the present sequence is the main topic covered in Part II. And in the final section, Part III, the current sequence, "Dreams through a Crimson Chamber,” is the focus of attention, with particular emphasis given to the formal activity and symbolic theory …