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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     






























PRINTS....

essays by
 
Emily Pegues and Tara Hartnett






Engraving by Albrecht Dürer



 Print by Laura Pharis



Color Woodblock by Kochoro Kunisada












               Prints have an uncertain place in the art world of today. Gallery directors often refuse to show works by printmakers, disdaining them as a "low order of art making."  In the eschelon of the fine arts, printmaking is ranked behind the more established media of painting and sculpture.  


               But, prints are a reflection of our increasingly visual society. Pop Art artists of the 1960s made extensive use of the print technique, marrying Pop Art content with process and multiple images, and thereby helping to make prints more acceptable. 


     


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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.