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Title: Art as communication
Creator: McConeghey, Howard Wallace, 1920-
Date: 1966
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Perspectives on the competition of 1400-2
Creator: Minton, Dean
Date: 1977
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A library research guide for art history graduate students
Creator: Schechter, Ilene R.
Date: 1978
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Byron's poetical Orientalism
Creator: Mahmoud, Sameer Jamal
Date: 1988
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The Lemnian Athena : a study in classical Greek iconography
Creator: Moulton, Beatrice Hilton
Date: 1988
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The other side of Kenneth Clark's Leonardo da Vinci : an account of his development as an artist : an analysis of his approach to art history
Creator: Dutton, Katherine Sydney
Date: 1989
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The image of the cat and it's significance and interpretation in nineteenth-century french art and literature
Creator: Rybicki, Christina R.
Date: 1992
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Art criticism as narrative : Diderot's Salon de 1767
Creator: Arnold, Julie Wegner
Date: 1993
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Interactive image access art history on the World Wide Web
Creator: Abraham, Kimberly
Date: 1997
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The murals of José Clemente Orozco at the Hospicio Cabañas Institute : a philosophy of change and the historical dialectic
Creator: Hockett, Jeremy
Date: 1999
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The 1922 Week of Modern Art and its celebrations : a study of historical reconstruction and nationalism in Brazil
Creator: Mezzadri, Danilo
Date: 2007
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Spiritual autobiography in Puritan portraiture
Creator: Johnson, Linda M.
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACTSPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN PURITAN PORTRAITUREByLinda JohnsonPuritan portraits provide historical evidence about Puritan spirituality in American Studies scholarship. By means of an interdisciplinary methodology of formal art historical criticism, material culture studies, biblical typology, and religious historiography, this study shows a correlation between the documented textual evidence of a select group of Puritan spiritual autobiographies and the portraits of ten notable men who...
Show moreABSTRACTSPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN PURITAN PORTRAITUREByLinda JohnsonPuritan portraits provide historical evidence about Puritan spirituality in American Studies scholarship. By means of an interdisciplinary methodology of formal art historical criticism, material culture studies, biblical typology, and religious historiography, this study shows a correlation between the documented textual evidence of a select group of Puritan spiritual autobiographies and the portraits of ten notable men who represent themselves as visible saints. Ideas about visible sainthood and Puritan election related to the scholarship of Janice Knight's Intellectual Fathers and Spiritual Brethren, John Calvin's theory of predestination and election, Reformation typology, Christian mysticism, and millennialism, as well as the implicit and explicit ideas of Neo-Medieval painterly ideals are utilized in this study.Each man's biographical distinctions become obscured as their pictorial choices in the portraits extended their visual compositions beyond mere exhortative devices or autobiographical treatises into transcendent mystical expressions of an elected High Priesthood. In that transcendence, they strove to embody Christ's life from vocation to service in the prospect of sharing in his glory. Human consciousness is affected by underlying motivations that may be represented in painting as repressed thoughts. Despite the Puritans familiarity with expression through language, the sheer variety of the iconography such as narrative biblical tiles, engraved silver, patterned textiles, picture Bibles, and the sophisticated imagery carved into gravestones, belies the charge that they were iconophobic and of mindless uniformity. The selections of Puritan clerical portraits for this study are steeped in irony, heavily laden with classical and mythological motifs, as well as scriptural text, and are rich in dress choices and theological associations. Since portraits are images of contemplation, subliminal beliefs regarding visible sainthood are portrayed on the men's facades which are hidden metonymically in the style of dress, objects, emblematic conventions, posture, and gestures, embodying the different inner workings of their minds.
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Title: Metal spinning : an autoworker skilled trade and an artist's craft
Creator: Pierson, Tom (Automobile worker)
Date: 2015-12-03
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Retired General Motors skilled tradesman and artist Tom Pierson presents a talk entitled "Metal Spinning: An Autoworker Skilled Trade and an Artist's Craft." Pierson talks about his career and training as a metal spinner for General Motors and explains the differences between spinning for General Motors and spinning as art. He discusses the imperfections in his work which buyers like but would have been unacceptable at GM, the tools of the trade, what it is like to spin various kinds of...
Show moreRetired General Motors skilled tradesman and artist Tom Pierson presents a talk entitled "Metal Spinning: An Autoworker Skilled Trade and an Artist's Craft." Pierson talks about his career and training as a metal spinner for General Motors and explains the differences between spinning for General Motors and spinning as art. He discusses the imperfections in his work which buyers like but would have been unacceptable at GM, the tools of the trade, what it is like to spin various kinds of metals and what it has been like for him to create and sell pieces as an artist. Pierson is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
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Title: Interview of philanthropist Selma Hollander on joining the Michigan State University community in 1958 and how her life has been intertwined with the university
Creator: Hollander, Selma
Date: 2018-06-01
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In a wide-ranging oral history interview, centenarian Selma Hollander talks about coming to East Lansing in 1958 with her husband Stanley Hollander, a newly hired Michigan State University business professor. In order to remain active, Hollander says that she pursued her love of art by first earning a bachelor's degree and later a masters' at MSU. Hollander says that she and her husband were always avid supporters of the arts and attended every concert and gallery presentation on campus and...
Show moreIn a wide-ranging oral history interview, centenarian Selma Hollander talks about coming to East Lansing in 1958 with her husband Stanley Hollander, a newly hired Michigan State University business professor. In order to remain active, Hollander says that she pursued her love of art by first earning a bachelor's degree and later a masters' at MSU. Hollander says that she and her husband were always avid supporters of the arts and attended every concert and gallery presentation on campus and that from their earliest days in East Lannsing, they were financial supporters of MSU in many different areas including art, music, Jewish studies, and museums. She says that she and her husband funded more than a dozen endowments at MSU and she speaks with particular pride about their work in the creation and support of Michigan State University' Wharton Performing Arts Center. Hollander says that her life has been intimately intertwined with MSU and that the University gave her and her husband a place to enjoy a meaningful and exciting life. The second of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
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Title: Of mist drops and camouflage spots : using children's artmaking conversations to support oral language skills and development
Creator: Weippert, Tracy
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Oral language development, including the development of oral language skills, is paramount in the early childhood years. In many early childhood classrooms, teachers utilize interactive read aloud as the main instructional practice for helping children develop oral language and teaching oral language skills. Research related to oral language in early childhood largely focused on interactive read aloud and oral language skills such as vocabulary or semiotics. However, interactive read aloud is...
Show moreOral language development, including the development of oral language skills, is paramount in the early childhood years. In many early childhood classrooms, teachers utilize interactive read aloud as the main instructional practice for helping children develop oral language and teaching oral language skills. Research related to oral language in early childhood largely focused on interactive read aloud and oral language skills such as vocabulary or semiotics. However, interactive read aloud is only one portion of the school day. Therefore, this study sought to answer a question related to learning opportunities related to oral language skills and development in other portions of the school day such as artmaking experiences. Specifically, this study examined (1) the characteristics of children's artmaking conversations including the use of sophisticated conversation and (2) teacher's preparation and actions, including discourse moves, which influenced artmaking conversations.To answer these questions, I conducted an instrumental case study using discourse analysis to analyze children's artmaking conversations. I observed preschool students, recording their conversations during artmaking experiences. I analyzed their conversations using discourse analysis techniques to identify the characteristics of their conversations including when and how they engaged in conversation. I also examined when and how sophisticated vocabulary or language emerged. Additionally, I examined the actions and discourse the lead teacher engaged in which led to sophisticated conversation. Students engaged in deep, meaningful conversations when discussing their art processes and products, as well as the academic or social/emotional content represented in their art. This study's findings contribute to the field of early childhood literacy by describing how children use oral language to learn and to build social relationships beyond the interactive read aloud. This study has significance for early childhood teacher practice in that it shows the importance of scaffolding children's oral language throughout the school day and by engaging them in meaningful conversations throughout the school day. Specifically, this study recommends that practitioners shift away from only teaching oral language during interactive read aloud, to viewing oral language skills and development as important in every portion of the school day. This study has implications for teacher preparation as well. Findings from this study call for a shift in the way that young children are viewed, highlighting the importance of understanding that young children are capable and thoughtful people with abilities and interests of their own. In addition, the findings of this study call for a shift in the way teachers understand the teaching and scaffolding of oral language development and skills.
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