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From:The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSave the Sinking Art & Culture, by Joe Nalo (Papua New Guinea). 2012. Watercolor on paper. 420 mm x 279 mm. Collection of the Solomon Islands National Museum and Art Gallery. Joe Nalo, who was among Papua New...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 171, Issue 572)
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHow welcome to the admiring but often more than slightly baffled has been the Slought Foundation's issue of a handsome volume aiming to guide with various criticism, appreciations, interviews, and archival matter, the...
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From:Journal of Evolutionary PsychologyPeer-ReviewedAs some members of The Journal of Evolutionary Psychology may note this author has occasionally contributed thoughts or quotations to "On The Edge of Contemplation". One of these quotations had been floating around in...
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From:Journal of Aesthetic Education (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere is a fundamental difference between flatness and flatness. There can be a flatness that is meaningless and there can be a flatness that is the highest expression of life--from infinity depth up to the surface: an...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRebecca Allan is a New York-based painter who blends the traditions of abstract landscape painting with contemporary concerns: "As a painter, my longstanding interest in landscape ecology stems from a direct and...
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From:International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRay Dirks, curator of the Mennonite Heritage Centre Galery on the campus of Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, served at the Overseas Ministries Study Center as artist in residence during the 2002-3 academic year....
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From:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNEW YORK'S Metropolitan Museum of Art recently mounted an unusually large and comprehensive exhibition of drawings and writings by the Renaissance Italian master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). Among the scores of...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 179, Issue 618)This April marks the 400th anniversary of El Greco's death, with museums worldwide mounting special events and exhibitions in honour of the artist's life and work. But who was El Greco, and is it possible to reconcile...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 180, Issue 624)One of the most influential painters working today, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans traces his roots to a Flemish tradition that reaches back to Van Eyck. His understated, often ambiguous works are difficult to pin down, yet...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 188, Issue 666)In 1905, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) went to the Holy Land in search of inspiration for The Triumph of Religion, his great mural scheme in the Boston Public Library. He was planning to paint the Sermon on the Mount...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 163, Issue 530)A hodgepodge of 305 late-16th-century fragments of needlework at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, has been conserved and reassembled to recreate a seven-metre long table carpet made in 1579 for Bess of Hardwick. Made of...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 159, Issue 506)William Evans of Eton (1798-1877) best known as the Eton Drawing Master who painted some of the most memorable images of the school and its setting to be produced in the nine teenth century. (1) Between 1836 and 1837,...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 176, Issue 604)J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) once told a friend that, 'if he could begin life again, he would rather be an architect than a painter'. England's greatest landscape artist often depicted architectural subjects, of course,...
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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedROB GONSALVES recalls canoeing at night on a still lake near his rural Ontario home. Stars from the clear sky reflected in the shimmering water. "It wasn't hard to imagine that I was floating in the stars," he explains....
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From:Apollo (Vol. 190, Issue 681)Aberdeen Art Gallery has reopened after a 35m [pounds sterling] expansion project--and the number of works on display has trebled. The granite city can finally show off its collections Why did people make a fuss of...
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From:Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 1-2)IT IS A WELL-ESTABLISHED FACT that history is written by the victors, but it is less widely acknowledged that history is also painted by the victors. In Inventing Ireland, Declan Kiberd argues that the bloody Irish...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 115, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedYou find one on Madison Street, near Pike, beyond the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge. It hovers on the wall of a makeshift parking lot, over exhaust, rust, old tags. It shouldn't be here, but there it is--a hummingbird....
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From:Apollo (Vol. 169, Issue 566)Alberto Giacometti met Caroline at the end of 1958. He was then 57, she was 20, living in the Hotel de Sevres in Montparnasse, and working as a flourishing prostitute. (1) They struck up a close friendship and he saw...