Art History
Tradition: C.S.C. and the Arts – Insights from the Director
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Reclaiming our Nature – Charles B. Hayes Family Sculpture Park
The Vision Noted American landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh immediately appreciated the site’s serendipitous qualities produced from past neglect. It enjoys rolling...
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Single Winged Figure on Plinth
Stephen De Staebler was an internationally celebrated American sculptor known for his fragmented figural sculptures created from bronze and clay. Through his sculptures, De...
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Untitled by Chen Jiang-Hong
Chen Jiang-ÂHong explores abstraction in his paintings and utilizes traditional Chinese painting techniques and materials to create his works. He uses ink and paint, along with a...
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Married Woman’s Headdress
This headdress is made entirely of cowhide that has been finished in a variety of ways—buffed smooth and shiny, left soft and nubby, and pierced with a pattern of crisp lines....
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Tracery
This sculpture was created by Deborah Butterfield, an American artist known for her depictions of horses. Butterfield uses everyday, often discarded objects like sticks and metal...
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Blue I
Georgia O'Keeffe painted Blue I. She was among the first internationally known American artists to train exclusively in the United States and to find her subjects here. When she...
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The Portage Landing at the St. Joseph River
Kay Westhues is a photographer and folklorist based in South Bend, Indiana, who is interested in documenting the ways in which rural tradition and history are interpreted and...
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Signal Jammer: ‘Recent Paintings’Â
Featuring paintings that combine darkly comedic text with pop-culture images, Lahr forms a narrative about working-class identity and the shaping of gender norms through mass...
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Art Historian Elizabeth Lev on Art, Italy, and the Vatican
Elizabeth Lev is an American-born art historian who has, as she calls it, “the good fortune to live and work in Rome.” She teaches Renaissance and Baroque Art at Duquesne...
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The Power of Images: Art in the Public Square
This video discusses “The Art of Good Government: Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena” by Elizabeth Lev, and “Mistuned Chords of Memory: Display and...
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Art and Truth in a Fearsome Century
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, son of Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, discusses his father’s life, work, and legacy with professor Daniel J. Mahoney (Assumption College). This...
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