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Created: March 3, 2002; July 10, 2003
Latest Update: October 7, 2005
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Art Index

Art as a Focusing Catalyst

• One of Appel's Kandinsky figurines.

  In the class room, or in any face-to-face interaction, art provides a refuge from the gaze of those who approach topics that make us uneasy or intimidate us. In learning01.htm I suggest taking notes as one such activity. But certainly the use of oil pastels or any drawing or coloring medium that does not require other medium, like linseed oil or water for use, or a computer if they're available, is suitable to relieve the stress of intimidation as you approach either answerability or topics of controversy, such as religion and sex.

Art as Transparency

What I mean by transparency here is that we have lived an adversarial reality for so long that transparency does not come easily. I have found that using my own art to illustrate events and relationships on the site gives a glimpse of who I am and what I'm trying to do that I might not be able to accomplish without visual text. I'm thinking of the illustrated manuscripts of old, and of Ivan Illich's In the Vineyard of the Text. This is one of the reasons I complain that we have eliminated art as text in our schools to replace the visual text with "objectified tests" that measure in a non-transparent way. When the test questions are complex, the measure of reason may be accurate, but it is by no means transparent to those who get the answer wrong, even when they're given the answer. That's because myriad steps are left out and the answer does not provide transparency. Bruner was approaching this when he relied on concrete examples to teach abstract concepts.

Art as Social Context

• Graffiti

Art as Social Context

• Sociology of Art

Art and Answerability

• Leonard Peltier's Art .

  Art Resources on the Internet

  • the-artists.org Good quick reference site with many of the artists, art schools, and visual approaches to present social issue that we discuss. Added April 8, 2005.

  Schools of Art

  • Ashcan School

  • Realism/Impressionism

    Artists

    • Gustave Courbet Calm Sea . . . Backup from Digital Archive of Art, Online Images from Boston College. I think this is a lovely example of Courbet's work. There is much more on the Boston College Site. Enjoy.

    The Greek Orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

    • Greek architecture Prof. Jeffrey Howe, Boston College, Fine Arts Department. One is expected to know these terms as part of one's liberal arts education. jeanne Link checked July 10, 2003.

    Roman Art

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    • Roman provincial art in Gaul (3rd - 7th century) Link added March 3, 2002. Link checked July 10, 2003.
    • Ravenna Mosaics (6th - 7th century) The Ravenna mosaics are beautiful beyond belief. They're also funny. You have to drop a coin in every few minutes or the lights go off. jeanne Link added March 3, 2002. Link checked July 10, 2003.
    • Roman provincial art in Aquitaine (6th - 7th century)Aquitaine: Think of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the four kings. She was married to Louis, XII of France, ditched and divorced him, preserving her rights to her own land of Aquitane, married Henry the 1st of Normandy, and was the mother of John Lackland (of Robin Hood fame) and Richard III of England. Link added March 3, 2002. Link checked July 10, 2003.
    • Roman provincial art in Ravenna (5th - 8th century) Link added March 3, 2002. Link checked July 10, 2003.
    • Roman provincial art: Rome urbs (3th - 7th century) Link added March 3, 2002. Link checked July 10, 2003.

    Italian Art

    • Provincial art in Italy beyond the Exarchate Link added March 3, 2002. Link checked July 10, 2003.

  Photography

  Projects

  • Photography as Sociological MethodSaundra Davis has offered a new poem
    to the process text on Stanley Cameron's project on
    Link added May 5, 1999. Link reviewed June 19, 2004.

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