Spencer Museum of Arthttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/68032024-03-28T14:52:05Z2024-03-28T14:52:05ZThe Prints of Mary HuntoonMeyer, KateArft, Sadiehttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/318852023-03-27T16:06:15Z2021-08-24T00:00:00ZThe Prints of Mary Huntoon
Meyer, Kate; Arft, Sadie
This is a listing of all known prints by Mary Huntoon (1896–1970), sorted chronologically. This listing draws upon numerous sources, but primarily relies upon documentation in the Mary Huntoon papers (https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/resources/5057) at the Spencer Research Library. Each listing includes an image reproduction whenever possible, an assigned number, the title(s) of the print, the date the print was made, the printmaking technique(s) used, the edition size and state information when known, the image or plate measurements in millimeters when known, the code Huntoon used to order and number her prints, and additional notes about the print when pertinent.
2021-08-24T00:00:00ZColor in Ancient and Medieval East Asiahttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/232082019-04-12T14:21:57Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZColor in Ancient and Medieval East Asia
Dusenbury, Mary
Color was a critical element in East Asian life and thought, but its importance has been largely overlooked in Western scholarship. This interdisciplinary volume explores the fascinating roles that color played in the society, politics, thought, art, and ritual practices of ancient and medieval East Asia (ca. 1600 B.C.E.–ca. 1400 C.E.). While the Western world has always linked color with the spectrum of light, in East Asian civilizations colors were associated with the specific plant or mineral substances from which they were derived. Many of these substances served as potent medicines and elixirs, and their transformative powers were extended to the dyes and pigments they produced. Generously illustrated, this groundbreaking publication constitutes the first inclusive study of color in East Asia. It is the outcome of years of collaboration between chemists, conservators, archaeologists, historians of art and literature, and scholars of Buddhism and Daoism from the United States, East Asia, and Europe.
With essays by Monica Bethe, Mary M Dusenbury, Shih-shan Susan Huang, Ikumi Kaminishi, Guolong Lai, Richard Laursen, Liu Jian and Zhao Feng, Chika Mouri, Park Ah-rim, Hillary Pedersen, Lisa Shekede and Su Bomin, Sim Yeon-ok and Lee Seonyong, Tanaka Yoko, and Zhao Feng and Long Bo
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZLida Abdul – White House , 2005Cateforis, DavidDusenbury, Maryhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/138722019-04-12T14:35:01Z2006-05-01T00:00:00ZLida Abdul – White House , 2005
Cateforis, David; Dusenbury, Mary
Broadcast Transcript: I’m David Cateforis with another art minute from the Spencer Museum of Art. Lida [Leeda] Abdul begins her 2005 video “White House” by training her camera on several bombed structures near Kabul, Afghanistan.The stark landscape includes the remains of a classical structure with a huge, broken concrete slab resting on shattered pillars. In the next sequence, most of the wreckage is coated with white paint and Abdul, dressed in the long, dark robes of a traditional Afghani woman, is methodically painting white everything in her path—even the rocks and rubble on the ground. Eventually a ghost-like man, also clothed in black, enters the scene. He turns to face the whitewashed ruins and Abdul paints his back with the same deliberation she used brushing the ruins and rocks. The video closes with a herd of goats playfully exploring the site.
Lida Abdul is one of an emerging group of transnational artists whose work explores how humans deal with contemporary violence, destruction, and dislocation. “White House” can be admired simply for its formal beauty. But through the complex and multilayered issues it raises, this work invites us to look again, look longer, look deeper. With thanks to Mary Dusenbury for her text, from the Spencer Museum of Art, I’m David Cateforis.
From 2003-2013, the Spencer Museum of Art and Kansas Public Radio produced the Spencer Art Minute, an ongoing series of 90-second radio programs that provides listeners with quick peeks into the Spencer Museum of Art's permanent collection. Each week's recording was played twice each week.
Spencer Art Minute engaged listeners in the Spencer's visual treasures by entertaining their ears with lively descriptions of objects, written by a diverse group of contributors and voiced by David Cateforis, professor in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas.
2006-05-01T00:00:00ZTrees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and CultureGoddard, StephenHardy, Saralyn ReeceKrishtalka, Leonardhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/133422020-12-08T18:01:16Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZTrees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and Culture
Goddard, Stephen; Hardy, Saralyn Reece; Krishtalka, Leonard
Trees & Other Ramifications explores both works of art that were inspired by trees and images from the arts and sciences in which trees have served as a metaphor for real and imagined branching systems—for example, works about family trees, the tree of knowledge, and Darwin's evolutionary tree of life.
This companion catalogue to the Spencer’s spring 2009 exhibition Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture is the Museum’s first full-length electronic book. The publication includes contributions from SMA Director Saralyn Reece Hardy, SMA Senior Curator and Curator of Prints & Drawings Stephen Goddard, and Biodiversity Institute Director Leonard Krishtalka. A full checklist is also included, with images of the exhibition's prints, drawings, books, and photographs, which were drawn from University of Kansas and area collections.
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