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Richard Hirsch
Richard A. Hirsch (born 1944) is an American abstract ceramic sculptor. He received a BS in art education from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1956, an MFA in ceramics from the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen in 1971 and an honorary Ph.D. from National Taiwan University of Arts in 2008. He taught at Nazareth College (New York), Sault College (Ontario, Canada), Boston University and at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he currently holds the title of professor emeritus, College of Art and Design. Hirsch studied ancient Latin American and Chinese cultures, as well as traditional Japanese Raku ware, raku. ''Ceremonial Cup #14'', in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates how the artist combined the form of a Shang dynasty Ding (vessel), tripod vessel with a raku ware surface. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), the Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece), the Boca Raton M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceremonial Cup -14 By Richard Hirsch, 1983
A ceremony (, ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion. The word may be of Etruscan language, Etruscan origin, via the Latin ''Glossary of ancient Roman religion#caerimonia, caerimonia''. Church and civil (secular) ceremonies According to Dally Messenger III, Dally Messenger and Alain de Botton, in most Western countries the values and ideals articulated in both church and Civil ceremony, civil ceremonies are generally similar. The difference is in what Messenger calls the "supernatural infrastructure" or de Botton the "implausible supernatural element".Messenger, Dally; ''Murphy's Law and the Pursuit of Happiness: a History of the Civil Celebrant Movement'', Spectrum Publications, Melbourne (Australia), 2012 Most churches and religions claim some extra advantage conferred by the deity e.g. Roman Catholics believe that through the words of consecration in the Mass in the Catholic Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
