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Margaret Scolari Barr
Margaret Scolari Barr (1901–1987) was an art historian, art critic, educator, translator, and curator. Life Margaret Scolari Barr was born in 1901 in Rome to the Italian antiquities dealer, Virgilio Scolari and his Irish wife Mary Fitzmaurice Scolari. She attended the University of Rome from 1919-22 before moving to the United States in 1925. She taught Italian at Vassar College until 1929, where she also started her MA in art history in 1927. There she was introduced to the young art historian Alfred H. Barr, Jr. by her colleague Henry-Russell Hitchcock. At this time, she was offered a position at the Smith College Art Museum, but turned it down to move closer to Barr. In 1929, she moved to NYC where she started taking classes at New York University in art history. She married the art historian and curator Alfred Barr on 8 May 1930 in Paris. She and Barr and one daughter, Victoria Barr who is a painter. Scolari Barr died of colon cancer in New York in 1987. Work Scolari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Historian
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes related to an ever-evolving definition of art. Art history encompasses the study of objects created by different cultures around the world and throughout history that convey meaning, importance or serve usefulness primarily through visual representations. As a discipline, art history is distinguished from art criticism, which is concerned with establishing a relative artistic value upon individual works with respect to others of comparable style or sanctioning an entire style or movement; and art theory or "philosophy of art", which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art. One branch of this area of study is aesthetics, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. MoMA's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, and electronic media. The MoMA Library includes about 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, more than 1,000 periodical titles, and more than 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives hold primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. It attracted 1,160,686 visitors in 2021, an increase of 64% from 2020. It ranked 15th on the list of most visited art museums in the world in 2021.'' The Art Newspaper'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October (journal)
''October'' is an academic journal specializing in contemporary art, criticism, and theory, published by MIT Press. History ''October'' was established in 1976 in New York by Rosalind E. Krauss and Annette Michelson, who left ''Artforum'' to do so. The founders of the journal were originally known as "Octoberists". Its name is a reference to the Eisenstein film that set the tone of intellectual, politically engaged writing that has been the hallmark of the journal. The journal was a participant in introducing French post-structural theory on the English-speaking academic scene. According to ''The Art Story'', Krauss used the journal "as a way to publish essays on her emergent ideas on post-structuralist art theory, Deconstructionist theory, psychoanalysis, postmodernism and feminism". Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, one of the co-founders of the journal, withdrew after only a few issues, and by the spring of 1977, Douglas Crimp joined the editorial team. In 1990, after Crimp left the jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jere Abbott
Jere Abbott (October 5, 1897– July 9, 1982) was an American art historian and museum director. Abbott was the founding associate director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from 1929 to 1932, and director of the Smith College Museum of Art from 1932 to 1946. Career Born in Dexter to Arthur Preston Abbott and Flora Shaw Parkman, Abbott graduated from Dexter Regional High School. He then received his Bachelor of Science from Bowdoin College, and went on to Harvard University with the intention of studying physics. There, Abbott met the art historian Alfred H. Barr Jr., who sparked an interest in the field. Abbott then pursued studies in France and Russia, and upon returning to his native country, transferred to Princeton University to receive a degree in Art History. In 1929, Abbott helped to establish the Department of Fine Arts at Wesleyan University, and began working at the founding associate director of the Museum of Modern Art under its director, Barr. Abbott woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archives Of American Art
The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C. and New York City. As a research center within the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives houses materials related to a variety of American visual art and artists. All regions of the country and numerous eras and art movements are represented. Among the significant artists represented in its collection are Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Marcel Breuer, Rockwell Kent, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, John Trumbull, and Alexander Calder. In addition to the papers of artists, the Archives collects documentary material from art galleries, art dealers, and art collectors. It also houses a collection of over 2,000 art-related oral history interviews, and publishes a bi-yearly publication, the ''Archives of American Art Journal'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oral History
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and perceptions of these are to be preserved as an aural record for future generations. Oral history strives to obtain information from different perspectives and most of these cannot be found in written sources. ''Oral history'' also refers to information gathered in this manner and to a written work (published or unpublished) based on such data, often preserved in archives and large libraries.oral history. (n.d.) The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia®. (2013). Retrieved March 12, 2018 from https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/oral+history Knowledge presented by Oral History (OH) is unique in that it shares the tacit perspective, thoughts, opinions and understanding of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Academy
Milton Academy (also known as Milton) is a highly selective, coeducational, independent preparatory, boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts consisting of a grade 9–12 Upper School and a grade K–8 Lower School. Boarding is offered starting in 9th grade. It is a highly selective school, accepting only 14% of applicants in the 2020–21 school year. Historically, it has been an unofficial feeder school for Harvard University. Milton is a member of the Independent School League (ISL). Milton's historic athletic rival is Noble and Greenough. History The original Milton Academy was founded by a Massachusetts bill granting a charter in 1798, but operations ceased in 1866 with the opening of the public Milton High School. The academy, however, was re-established in 1884 on a new 125-acre site by John Murray Forbes, with the approval of the old board of trustees. Athletics Milton offers 15 interscholastic sports for both boys and girls each, as well as nine intramur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etha Fles
Margaretha "Etha" Tekla Johanna Fles (1857-1948) was a Dutch artist and art critic. Biography Fles was born on 1 May 1857 in Utrecht. She attended the ''Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten'' ((State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam. She studied with August Allebé, , and Anton Mauve. She was one of the first women admitted to the Academy along with J.H. Derkinderen-Besier, Grada Hermina Marius, and Wally Moes. Fles was a member of Arti et Amicitiae, , the Pulchri Studio, and ''Vereeniging Voor de Kunst Utrecht''. After leaving ''Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten'' Fles became interested in Impressionism along with the contemporary criticism of William Morris and John Ruskin. She traveled to Paris in 1900 to represent Arti et Amicitiae at the Exposition Universelle. In Paris she met Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) an Italian sculptor with whom she maintained a friendship until his death. She was a patron and mentor, moving to Rome in 1909 to set up her own studio. She returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medardo Rosso
Medardo Rosso (; 21 June 1858 – 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor. He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to be an artist working in a Post Impressionism, post-Impressionist style. Biography and works Rosso was born in Turin, where his father worked as a railway station inspector, and the family moved to Milan when Rosso was twelve. At the age of 24, after a spell in the army, Rosso enrolled at the Brera Academy, from which he would soon be expelled after punching a student who refused to sign a petition that Rosso had circulated demanding that live models and body parts be used for the drawing classes, which was a standard practice in Italian academies at the time. In his 1889 almanac of living artists, Angelo de Gubernatis offered a romanticized portrait of Rosso's early years as an artist: (He) rebelled at each school, with each method, with each Academy, abhoring anything that smacked of trade, of artifice, soon found himself alone, without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial society, industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies, and war. Artists attempted to depart from traditional forms of art, which they considered outdated or obsolete. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it New" was the touchstone of the movement's approach. Modernist innovations included abstract art, the stream-of-consciousness novel, montage (filmmaking), montage cinema, atonal and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and modern architecture. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of Realism (arts), realism and made use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Artists
Listed below are Italian people of note, who are identified with the Italian nation through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability. Acting Actors * Stefano Accorsi (born 1971), actor, known for '' Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo'' (1995) *Henry Armetta (1888–1945), character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, beginning in silent movies * Roberto Benigni (born 1952), actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, known outside of Italy for directing and acting in the 1997 tragicomedy ''Life is Beautiful'', for which he won the 1999 Oscar for Best Actor *Rossano Brazzi (1916–1994), actor. Was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film ''Three Coins in the Fountain'' (1954), followed by the leading male role in David Lean's ''Summertime'' (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn. *Lando Buzzanca (born 1935), theatrical, film and television actor, whose career spanned over 55 ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes reference and trade publications for the medical, business, and engineering professions. McGraw Hill operates in 28 countries, has about 4,000 employees globally, and offers products and services to about 140 countries in about 60 languages. Formerly a division of The McGraw Hill Companies (later renamed McGraw Hill Financial, now S&P Global), McGraw Hill Education was divested and acquired by Apollo Global Management in March 2013 for $2.4 billion in cash. McGraw Hill was sold in 2021 to Platinum Equity for $4.5 billion. Corporate History McGraw Hill was founded in 1888 when James H. McGraw, co-founder of the company, purchased the ''American Journal of Railway Appliances''. He continued to add further publications, eventually establishing The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
