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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     
























SCULPTURE....

essays by
 
Allison Gerber and Bobbie Jo Hedrick











    

Lin Emery
 
American (born 1928)

Serendipity, 1981

bronze

Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of Mrs. Harold B. Whiteman, Jr.


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               Serendipity by Lin Emery is bronze with stainless steel bearing assemblies.  Its dimensions are 8' x 7' x 5' and it weighs 400 pounds.  The work was commissioned by Mrs. Harold Whiteman, Jr. in memory of her parents Madin P. Dams.  


               Lin Emery works outside of New Orleans and is a fairly well known artist.  Art critic Roger Green said "Emery's kinetic sculpture brings together sleek metal elements that swing, rock, and turn in elliptical areas."  He believes that by "orchestrating kinetic effects Emery gives life to ideas and feeling, and attempts to express a sense of unity that is spiritual and often religious.


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  Sculpture












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.