Terms and People for Test #3

Test #3 takes place during our final exam time slot, Monday, Dec. 6, 12 - 1:45, in our classroom.
Test begins at 12:00.  Arrive on time.
No make up tests.
Final List of Terms and People posted 9:00 pm, Sunday, December 5.

culture
James Taylor (Chapter 18)
Leslie Magazine (Chapter 18)
Neo-classical
antebellum
Frederick Douglass
The Greek Goddess (or The Greek Slave)
Jenny Holzer
pieta
baroque
icon
grafitti
visual culture
Banksy
Andy Warhol
Madonna
Lady GaGa
Mao
Pop Art
Psyche and Cupid
Charles Moore
Civil Rights Movement
Guerilla Girls
perception
Edmonia Lewis
Hiram Powers

Chapter 18, Marketing the Slave Trade: Slavery, Photography and Emancipation

Frederick Douglass, 1855.

Frederick Douglass.  Link here.  And here for book.

Frederick Douglass, 1848.

The Banjo Player, painting, 35"x 28", 1856.

Portrait of Renty, African-born slave, daguerreotype, 1850.
Harvard scientist Louis Agassiz.  

George Washington, Marble, 1840.  Commissioned by Congress, installed in the Capitol rotunda, Neo-classical.

Amistad.
Cinque, painting, 30" x 25 ", 1839.
Gaze, Staff, Toga.
Madison Washington.

The Greek Slave on view at the Crystal Palace.

Retouched daguerreotype, 1847, photography medium for erotica.
Daguerreotype - an early form of photography, image captured on a copper plate, no negative, cannot reproduce.

British Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
Symbol, Cameo.

The Virginian Slave, 1851, cartoon by John Tenniel, Punch Magazine.
Skin color, chains, American flag, decoration, From Many One (1782).

The Greek Slave, 1844, by Hiram Powers (American sculptor).
Neo-classical, Chains, Locket/Cross, Drapery

From the Courier and Enquirer, August, 1847:
THE GREEK SLAVE.—None of the many descriptions which we had heard and read of this statue gave us any idea of what we were to expect. All were but vague and unmeaning expressions of admiration, from which we could gather nothing save that their object was a beautiful woman with her wrists chained. We wondered at this, but having seen the statue, we wonder no longer; its beauty is so pure, so lofty, so sacred, takes such a clinging hold upon the heart, and so subdues the whole man, that time must pass before one could speak of its merits in detail without doing violence to the emotions awakened in him; and there are few, we think and hope, of the great number who have already seen this exquisite creation of the chisel who will not sympathize with us in this feeling. We cannot attempt, at present at least, to analyse the impressions which this lovely woman makes upon us, or to indicate in detail the many delicate beauties which go to make up the one great and almost oppressive beauty of her presence.
  It is extremely interesting to watch the effect which the slave has upon all who come before it. Its presence is a magic circle within whose precincts all are held spell-bound and almost speechless. The gray-headed man, the youth, the matron and the maid, alike yield themselves to the magic of its power, and for many minutes gaze upon it in silent and reverential admiration, and so pure an atmosphere breathes round it that the eye of man beams only with reverent delight and the cheek of woman glows but with the fullness of emotion. Loud talking men are hushed into a silence at which they themselves wonder; those who come to speak learnedly and utter ecstasies of dilettantism slink into corners where alone they may silently gaze in pleasing penance for their audacity, and groups of women hover together as if to seek protection from the power of their own sex's beauty.

  On Thursday the statue was not open to the public, but the door was continually besieged by parties of three and four, of both ladies and gentlemen, who begged admission on the ground that they were to leave town on Friday, and many have postponed their departure for the West and South, merely that they might see the Greek Slave. Amply will they be repaid, and amply would they have been repaid had they made a pilgrimage from the furthest West to worship at that shrine of beauty.  Link here.

Dates to Remember

Wed., Nov. 17 - Field Trip (see right sidebar) and Zine #2 due.  I need a hard copy of Zine #2.  The mailroom will make copies for each of you.  I will return copies to you on Friday, Nov. 19.  Assemble your Zine and turn in Monday, Nov. 22.  NO LATE ZINE'S ACCEPTED.

Friday, Nov. 26 - No Class.  Thanksgiving Break.  DUE - TEXT FOR PROJECTION.  E-MAIL TO ME.

Monday, Nov. 29 - Response to Magazine Article Due.

Friday, Dec. 3 - Magic Lantern Presentation during First Friday Art Walk.  6:30 pm, location to be announced.  Reception for our learning community, student center, 5 - 6:00.

Monday, Dec. 6, 12 - 1:45, our classroom - Test #3 administered during our final exam time.  NO MAKE UP TESTS.  IF YOU MISS THE FINAL EXAM TIME, YOU RECEIVE A ZERO FOR TEST #3.

Thanksgiving Break Homework

Purchase one of the magazines listed below.  Write a response to an article of your choice.  Type your response.  Xerox the article.  Put your name on everything.  Due Monday, Nov. 29.  I expect the article to be of substantial length and your response to be thoughtful and insightful.

The magazines listed below are: Juxtapoz, Art Papers, Art Lies, Modern Painters, Hi Fructose, Art News, Cabinet, Art in America.

Wednesday, Nov. 10, Visit to Crisp-Ellert Gallery, Flagler College Campus

Damond Howard, work currently on view at Crisp-Ellert Gallery.
Link here for artist statement.

Damond Howard of African American decent depicts the ideas of identity and preprsentation as it relates to his culture and history. He uses racist imagry to point to existing racism in our cultural climate.
Monday, November 01 to Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Opening Nov 5 from 5-8pm

Crisp-Ellert Gallery
48 Sevilla St. at Flagler College, St. Augustine
Event Pricing: free




Further reading and research from the New York Times.

Recalling History on A Day of Light and Darkness.  Link here.

Grace and Culture Intertwined.  Link here.

Met Is to Repatriate to Egypt Artifacts from King Tut's Tomb.  Link here.

TED Talks

Patrick Chappatte
The Power of Cartoons


Alison Jackson Looks at Celebrity

Zine #1, Observation, Winners (4 way tie)