Department of Art History  |  Sweet Briar College



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EXHIBITION CATEGORIES


Decorated Pottery


Illustration


Prints


Drawing


PHOTOGRAPHY


Sculpture


Painting

What is Art .... ?
                     .... What is an Artist ?


An exhibition exploring the perception of ART     
and the identity of the ARTIST     
through HISTORY     
and in CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY     


PHOTOGRAPHY....
essays by
Hobby Holmes and Emily Busse

Tara Hartnett
American
HOUR #8, March 1997
photograph
Collection of Tara Hartnett

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               Tara Hartnett is currently a student at Sweet Briar College of Virginia in the class of 1999. Having experimeted with photography for one year Hartnett feels, "photography as an art form is an interesting way to express your views and the way you perceive different things."

               In the photograph entitled Hour #8, we see a series of erratic lines of light falling back into space and joining at the point of horizon. Below is a reflection of the lights on the hood of a car. Hartnett's photograph differs radically with the other photographs exhibited in this exhibition by its uncertainty of subject matter. The artist creates an abstracted point of view of the portrayal of a simple subject such as lights.


Photography


The objects and material in this exhibition were gathered together, researched and largely written about by students in the seminar "Art and Artists" conducted in the Fall semester, 1997, by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, 24595 USA. Invaluable assistance was provided by Rebecca Massie Lane, Director of Galleries and the Arts Management Program, who in turn was assisted by Dana Lee Bordvick '98.