Final Project - Art Timeline Kimberly Davis ART 101 August 3‚ 2014 Lynda Sweat Final Project - Art Timeline As the Museum ’s new curator‚ I have been informed that one of my main priorities is to improve the content of our museum ’s website. I have decided to go with something a little more out there than traditional art‚ and that is why I have chosen to highlight Art Installation ’s on our new site. Art installations are a large exhibit of any type of material that alters the way space is
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Introduction: We as humans usually have the need to gather and preserve knowledge. Remarkable events in the civilization of mankind are known to us in contemporary times through the records‚ written or visual‚ that were left by people from past times. Such instances prompt the need to preserve historical collections in a specified location and time period. Sources of natural history are held with importance by enthusiasts as well as scholars because they shed light on questions posed in modern times
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I am writing in response to the Education Assistant opportunity that was posted on your website. As an aspiring museum educator‚ I am highly interested in helping the Education team at The Walters. After taking an Ancient through Gothic art history course last semester‚ I got to learn extensively about the collection‚ and I am enthusiastic about the possibility of leading tours and activities centered around it. In my résumé‚ you will see that I have worked with children and teens from a wide
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Human Remains Human remains is a very controversial topic in the world of science but to be more specific in the world of Anthropology. What are exactly human remains? Well human remains is described as; “The physical remains of the body of a person of Native American ancestry/ The term does not include remains or portions of remains that may reasonably be determined to have been freely given or naturally shed by the individual from whose body they were obtained‚ such as hair made into ropes or
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Chapter 1 – A World of Art Multiple Choice Questions with Slides 1. (Slide: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Umbrellas‚ Japan and United States) (figs. 1-2; pp. 9-10) The Umbrella Project is a typical artwork by the collaborative team: a) Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt b) Christo and Jeanne-Claude c) Herbert and Dorothy Vogel d) Ron and Nancy Howard Answer: (b) 2. (Slide: Albert Bierdstadt’s Rocky Mountains) (fig. 3; p. 11) Bierdstadt’s picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines
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Ty Cobb could be easily called the greatest baseball player of all time. His determination and persistence is what made him the best. Through the lessons and morals of hard work that his father had taught Ty Cobb as a boy‚ he was able to become a great hard-working baseball player. His personal life was hard at times‚ but nonetheless he earned astonishing achievements in the 24 season playing career in the American league. A batting record for runs scored of 2‚245‚ runs batted in of 1‚937‚ a record
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Grant case brings up the issue of informed consent. In this case the surgeon‚ Dr. Grant informed the patient‚ Mr. Cobbs that he had an intractable peptic duodenal ulcer‚ which required surgery. In this case the surgeon failed to inform the patient of the risks associated with the initial surgery. The legal principle of informed consent is the patient has the right to
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Are Seltz’s new Japanese museums ‘counter-museums’ by Patterson’s definition? Patterson and Seltz introduce new museums differing in subject matter‚ context and methodology‚ but sharing analogous goals. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (JCM) in the United States is touted by Patterson as a ‘counter-museum’ that ‘seek[s] to engage visitors as active participants in dynamic‚ continuing memorial processes’ (66)‚ and one that ‘seeks to use products of intolerance to teach understanding’ (68)
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of news about Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) drew my attention. It said that this nonprofit museum suffered decreasing investment and donation since the worldwide financial crisis in 2008; indeed‚ it lost about 18% money. It is no doubt that the great power of financial crisis damages the development of nonprofit museums‚ which rely on the endowments and donations from the individuals‚ institutions‚ government‚ etc. There may be some negative expectation on the future of nonprofit museums because of the
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In this essay‚ I will argue that ethnographic museums privilege viewing‚ at the expense of other senses. I will further argue that by privileging the visual‚ ethnographic museums become problematic in two ways- firstly‚ by not accurately representing the cultures they are supposed to be exhibiting‚ and secondly‚ by limiting the experience of museum-goers who may be visually impaired or otherwise unable to visit museums that are purely mono-sensorial. After outlining and discussing the problems associated
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