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Robert Cumming (author)
Robert Cumming may refer to: * Robert Cumming (artist) (born 1943), American painter, sculptor, photographer, and printmaker * Robert Cumming (art historian) (born 1945), professor of the history of art at Boston University * Robert Denoon Cumming (1916–2004), Canadian-American philosopher and historian of philosophy See also * Robert Cummings (other) {{hndis, Cumming, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cumming (artist)
Robert H. Cumming (1943 – December 16, 2021) was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, and printmaker best known for his photographs of conceptual drawings and constructions, which layer meanings within meanings, and reference both science and art history. Early life Cumming earned a BFA in 1965 from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and an MFA in 1967 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Career His first teaching position was at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he was involved with mail art, an early conceptual art movement that conferred art status on items sent through the postal system. In 1970, Cumming moved to southern California to lecture on photography, and in 1974, he started teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1978, Cumming moved back to New England, where he continued to teach and make art. Institutional representation Cumming is represented in the permanent collections of various major art museums, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cumming (art Historian)
Robert Alexander Cumming (born May 1945) is professor of the history of art at Boston University. He worked for the Tate Gallery, London, before moving to Christie's auction house where he founded the education department. After he retired from Christie's he joined Boston University. Cumming is a prolific author of art history books aimed at young people and beginners. His edited edition of the letters between Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark is published by Yale University Press. Early life Robert Cumming was born in May 1945. He received his advanced education at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied law. He qualified as a barrister A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ... and began to practice but returned to Trinity Hall to study art history.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Denoon Cumming
Robert Denoon Cumming (October 27, 1916 – 25 August 2004) was a Canadian-American philosopher and historian of twentieth-century Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology. He taught at Columbia University from 1948 to 1985, when he retired as Frederick E. Woodbridge professor emeritus of philosophy.Wolfgang SaxonRobert D. Cumming, 87, Philosophy Scholar Dies ''New York Times'', 6 September 2004. Life Born in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Cumming grew up in Bangor, Maine. He graduated from Harvard University in 1938 with an A.B. in classics, ''summa cum laude'', and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then studied at New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. During World War II he served in U.S. military intelligence, liaising with the Free French Forces and earning the French Croix de Guerre, the Legion of Merit, and the Purple Heart. After the war he studied at the Sorbonne, gaining his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1950 under the supervision of Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |