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Two Punahou Juniors were recently awarded full tuition scholarships by Otis College of Art and Design for the college's online "Summer of Art' program". Otis is a preeminent art college located in Los Angeles. These scholarships offered to Punahou signals growth in the relationship between the two institutions, which includes admission representative visits to our campus each year, and annual Portfolio Day reviews for students interested in developing visual art for their college applications.
Recommended by Mr. Selarque -Academy Art Art & fear: Observations on the Perils (& Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland "Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. It is about committing your future to your own hands, place Free Will above predestination, choice above chance. It is about finding your own work." -from the publisher Recommended by Mr. Tollefson -Academy Art Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga Part of Redrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial America, a project of the Library Company of Philadelphia supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. "During the Paxton massacres of 1763, a mob of white settlers, so-called “Paxton Boys” murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga People in a genocidal campaign that reshaped Pennsylvania settlement politics. Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga re-imagines this difficult history through an educational graphic novel that introduces new interpreters and new bodies of evidence to highlight the Indigenous victims and their kin." - Dr. Will Fenton Recommended by Mr. Pascucci -Academy Art The Art Spirit 85th Anniversary Edition by Robert Henri (Author) Paperback Publisher: Basic Books Edition 2007 Language: English ISBN- 0-465-00263-3 *Warning - Apparently, someone is selling a version photocopied from the older publisher. It sounds like a bad copy and I would recommend buying it second hand. -Mr. Pascucci "First published in 1923, “The Art Spirit,” by famed artist and teacher Robert Henri, has been an important and influential guide to aspiring artists for nearly one hundred years. Born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865, Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Académie Julian in Paris, and the Ѐcole des Beaux Arts before returning to America and eventually teaching at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women beginning in 1892. Henri was an immensely popular and inspirational teacher and attracted a large group of followers who enjoyed meeting with him to discuss art and culture. Henri became a leader of the Ashcan School of American realism and encouraged his students and peers to create new, more realistic art which reflected their lives and experiences. “The Art Spirit” is a collection of Henri’s teachings, words of wisdom, and views on the place of the art and artist in American society and culture. It also contains insightful and valuable technical advice for every art student. This timeless and classic work is an engaging read for anyone who enjoys and appreciates art." -from the publisher Recommended by Mr. Pascucci -Academy Art Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: by Lawrence Weschler -Expanded Edition, Paperback Publisher: University of California Press; First Edition, Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin edition (February 2, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0520256093 ISBN-13: 978-0520256095 Review "A magnetic (now expanded) biography."--San Diego Union-Tribune "Seeing is Forgetting may not be just the best biography of an artist out there but also one of the best books on contemporary art-making."--Frieze "'Seeing Is Forgetting' and 'True to Life' are not only about the artists talking to Weschler or, through him, to each other; they're about the artists talking to themselves."--Los Angeles Times Book Review From the Inside Flap "Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."―Calvin Tomkins About the Author Lawrence Weschler's many books include Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Vermeer in Bosnia, and Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Recommended by Mr. Pascucci -Academy Art
Michelet by Roland Barthes (Author), Richard Howard (Translator) Paperback – January 8, 1992 Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition (January 8, 1992) Language: English ISBN-10: 0520078268 ISBN-13: 978-0520078260 Review "It is not only the mingling of codes in Michelet that Barthes claims as his own; it is also the opulence of Michelet's sensual language . . . that excess in expression visible when the author's pen loses itself in the athletic joy of writing." -- Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books "No review can possibly do justice to the subtlety and economy of Barthes's presentation." -- John Clive, The New Republic "Odd, perplexing, brilliant, weird, ruminative, daring, outrageous yet masterful, Roland Barthes's Michelet . . . anticipates the methods of the author in later studies. . . . Michelet in the end is re-created in the same terms that he himself applied to history." -- Robert Taylor, Boston Globe From the Inside Flap "For students interested in historiography, Michelet is one of the earliest truly successful literary readings of an historical text. . . . For all of us who are interested in this field it is a classic."—Lionel Gossman, author of Between History and Literature From the Back Cover "For students interested in historiography, Michelet is one of the earliest truly successful literary readings of an historical text. . . . For all of us who are interested in this field it is a classic." (Lionel Gossman, author of Between History and Literature) About the Author Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Rumania and Egypt, he joined the Centre de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the Collège de France until his death in 1980. |
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