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John McCracken (driver)
John McCracken may refer to: * John McCracken (artist) (1934–2011), American minimalist artist * John McCracken (historian) (1938–2017), Scottish historian and Africanist See also * John Henry MacCracken (1875–1948), American academic administrator {{hndis, Mccracken, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCracken (artist)
John Harvey McCracken (December 9, 1934April 8, 2011) was a minimalist artist. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York. Education/teaching After graduating from high school, McCracken served in the United States Navy for four years before enrolling in the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, earning a B.F.A. in 1962 and completing most of the work for an M.F.A. During these years he studied with Gordon Onslow Ford and Tony DeLap. Taught: *1965–1966: University of California, Irvine *1966–1968: University of California, Los Angeles *1968–1969: School of Visual Arts, New York City *1971–1972: Hunter College, New York *1972–1973: University of Nevada, Reno *1973–1975: University of Nevada, Las Vegas *1975–1976: University of California, Irvine *1975–1985: College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Work Internationally recognized, John McCracken commenced developing his earliest sculptural wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCracken (historian)
Kenneth John McCracken (1 July 1938 – 23 October 2017) was a British historian and Africanist. He was known particularly for his works on the history of Malawi and Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa. Biography John McCracken was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 1 July 1938. He was educated at Sedbergh School and later studied at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became interested in African history. He undertook a PhD at Cambridge under the supervision of Ronald Robinson, focussing on Church of Scotland missions in colonial Malawi. While still a doctoral student, in 1964 McCracken left for Africa. He took up a teaching post at University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and was present at the celebrations of Malawian independence in July 1964. After Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, he left the country to teach at the new history department in the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |