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Art inSight Inc.
Adventures in Art History
PO Box 5730
Austin, Texas 78763-5730

512-431-8932
Email: karen_pope@mac.com
Baylor: karen_pope@baylor.edu [you may occasionally receive email from this address--although I retired from the Baylor faculty in May 2015, the email address is mine forever! and sometimes the Baylor server handles a large list of email recipients better than the mac account]




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NOTES ABOUT NOW:

The "canon" of art history under fire and defended.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/yale-scraps-quintessential-course-now-deemed-too-white-problematic

My position: Gotta start somewhere.  Explain parameters and encourage exploration. My intro class gradually expanded to include Japanese woodblock prints, African masks, monumental Buddhas, Latin American abstraction.  Can't cover it all, but one can acknowledge comparisons, dynamics, global transmissions, and other relationships, avenues for further inquiry. 

We all want to believe in the integrity of our own experiences; meanwhile, the global concept has changed perceptions in probably every field of knowledge.  I’m up for adjustments and sampling and moderating the dominant, but there still needs to be a starting point and a foundation that makes sense!


Students should not be the determiners of the curriculum. 
College and camp are two different institutions.

The Wall Street Journal weighs in: 

"Civilization Is History at Yale," Roger Kimball, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 29, 2020
Great art is too ‘white, straight, European and male,’ so it’ll have to give way to the latest agitprop:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/civilization-is-history-at-yale-11580342259?emailToken=4f7b84476703eb002725c3bbcd58c8fcSMCCAOayrUf0txKEyU54RMTzWqJyAGHALJbG5Tj0wIMv4JKuoFn/mGhnYxMVyEIA7Ed5YRl+m5T5fJtXNnmedw%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Yale's Art History Chair in The Art Newspaper:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/art-history-is-a-global-discipline?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=e2b588b749-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_06_06_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c459f924d0-e2b588b749-60868729


FAVORITE QUOTES:
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of its process -- Henry James, c. 1912?
Context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/09/henry-james-h-g-wells-art/





Charles Umlauf, Striding Christ (detail), subject of "Bronze Sculpting" film
A FEW USEFUL and INTERESTING WEBSITES:

LOST WAX BRONZE SCULPTURE PROCESS
https://texasarchive.org/2013_05148
The best film I know for understanding this complicated artform; tells the story of the making of a Charles Umlauf sculpture "from conception to realization" -- first drawings to installation in the Texas Hill Country; 50 minutes


WHAT IS A PRINT?
https://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/2001/whatisaprint/print.html
Interactive tutorial explaining basic printmaking processes

• Woodcut
• Etching
• Lithograph
• Screenprint


EXPLORE THE SISTINE CHAPEL
http://www.michelangelo.org/sistine-chapel-ceiling.jsp
Interactive experience in the chapel, allows you to zoom to any details, see the whole from any angle


JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
https://www.artelino.com/Default.asp
Online auction site: two auctions per week, archives, informational essays, biographies


UKIYO-E SEARCH
https://ukiyo-e.org/
Ukiyo-e Search offers the means to both search for Japanese woodblock prints by simply taking a picture of an existing print AND the ability to see similar prints across multiple collections of prints. 


RIJKSMUSEUM IS OPEN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6W2ZMpsxhg&feature=youtu.be
A flashmob in a Dutch mall . . .


ANOTHER DELIGHTFUL FLASHMOB . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k
Central Station, Antwerp, 2009 . . .  Julie Andrews . . . a beloved song . . . 


WHAT JANE SAW
http://www.whatjanesaw.org/
Visual, interactive reconstructions of two exhibitions in Jane Austen's lifetime--The Shakespeare Gallery as it appeared in 1796 and the Sir Joshua Reynolds Retrospective exhibition in the British Institution in 1813.  


Frank Lloyd Wright's HOLLYHOCK HOUSE
https://www.houzz.com/houzz-tv/exclusive-video-of-wrights-jaw-dropping-hollyhock-house-stshtvvw-vt~44267101
Exceptional footage of the house since its 2015 restoration, celebrating its addition in 2019 to the World Heritage Sites list (along with 7 other Wright structures).  The narrative is good but--too bad!--it fails to mention the grand Japanese painted screens flanking the emphasized fireplace, or the fact that the hollyhock came to America from Japan, making it another element in the Japonisme that mattered so much in Wright's design philosophy.  



MISCELLANY -- Items of Interest
from the World of Art History


 
 
 

Art inSight Inc. f. 1995; website 2007 designed by Kathy Kelly;  Last update: March 12, 2023