Archive for August, 2007

» Introduction to Manuscript Studies from Raymond Clemens and …

Posted by admin On August - 28 - 2007Comments Off

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 8:46 am and is filed under Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval Art, Medieval News, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings …

» Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art Travel to …

Posted by admin On August - 23 - 2007Comments Off

The Cleveland Museum of Art houses one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of Early Christian, Byzantine and European Medieval art in the world. This remarkable collection was largely acquired over a period of 90 years and …

'My Kid Could Paint That' and the Controversy of Modern Art – The …

Posted by admin On August - 14 - 2007Comments Off

There’s no better way to stir up controversy about modern art then to have an up-and-coming artist, one who sells her work for thousands, be under the young age of 5. It brings a whole new meaning to the common modern art gripe: “a kid …

Observations on film art : Len Lye, Renaissance Kiwi

Posted by admin On August - 2 - 2007Comments Off

Color frames from it appear in Film Art (8th edition, p. 164) and Film History (2nd edition, p. 321). I had also seen Lye’s strange and evocative first film, Tusalava (1929), an animated film with abstract shapes much influenced by …