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Art symposium featured with Hood exhibition
By Kelly Sidley | November 10, 1997The visual arts of eighteenth-century France was a popular topic this weekend at the Hood Museum of Art.
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Pottery exhibit showcases Native American culture
By Kelly Sidley | October 23, 1997Anyone who has experienced the vibrant colors of New Mexico Southwest understands the spiritual intonations that the ruddy soil of the Southwest can evoke.
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Hogarth's legacy celebrated in Hood print exhibition
By Kelly Sidley | October 15, 1997Celebrating the triennial year of his birth, the Hood Hogarth exhibition presented in conjunction with conference
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French art exhibition unveiled this weekend
By Kelly Sidley | October 6, 1997A new exhibition titled "Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France" opened at The Hood Museum of Art this past Saturday. Richard Rand, Curator of European Art, developed the first exhibition ever devoted to eighteenth-century French genre painting. The show features 51 paintings and 29 prints on loan from world-renowned museums such as the Louvre in Paris, France, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The selection of important works by Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard and Greuze examine issues of gender roles, courtship and family life topics that are as pertinent to contemporary views as to eighteenth-century audiences. A standing-room only audience filled Loew Auditorium to celebrate the opening of "Intimate Encounters." Rand delivered a lecture titled "Images of Heart and Home: Genre Painting in Eighteenth-Century France." Director of the Hood Timothy Rubb gave the opening remarks, and Nancy Rogers of the National Endowment of the Humanities spoke on the necessity of interpretative exhibitions like "Intimate Encounters." Rand's lecture and slide presentation illustrated how genre painting emerged as an alternative to public paintings such as history or biblical pictures whose didactic, often moralistic themes aimed to instruct viewers. Modern viewers interpret genre paintings to be scenes of everyday life, but in the eighteenth century genre painting included virtually everything outside of history painting, such as still-lifes and landscapes. Rand explained that "genre painting had to co-opt the narrative element of history painting" in order to appeal to a wider audience. As more artists began to paint interior and domestic scenes, genre painting turned away from grand public displays to focus on private affairs. These depictions of domestic life are linked to the Enlightenment philosophies of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot. Themes of family values predominate these genre paintings.
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Hood Museum reopens after summer house cleaning
By Kelly Sidley | October 2, 1997New carpeting, computer re-wiring are insignificant to discerning eye; better allows Museum to serve public
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Collier reveals personal voice through poetry
By Kelly Sidley | February 13, 1997Whether he writes about a childhood picture of his wife, a Degas pastel drawing of ballerina dancers or his view of the moon through the lens of an old telescope, Michael Collier is a poet who writes from close observation. The Department of English welcomes Collier to the College as part of its Prose/Poetry Reading Series.
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New exhibition at Hood features drawings from 'Durer to Matisse'
By Kelly Sidley | January 28, 1997The process of creation can best be detected in an artist's drawings. A painter's sketches show the development of ideas and designs that will later appear on larger oil masterpieces.
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Novelist reads at Sanborn today
By Kelly Sidley | January 16, 1997Dartmouth College welcomes a New Hampshire-born fiction writer to the campus. The Department of English presents a prose reading by the novelist Laurie Alberts, who will read from her latest book "The Price of Land in Shelby" this afternoon. Alberts actually has strong ties to the town of Hanover.
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Artist to present poetry
By Kelly Sidley | January 9, 1997If you are looking for a warm diversion in the midst of the latest blast of bone-chilling weather to sweep through the Upper Valley, a reading by the poet Lucie Brock-Broido is sure to warm the soul this Thursday evening. The Department of English and the Ralph Samuel Poetry Fund present a reading by the author of "The Master Letters" and "A Hunger." The metaphysical nature of her poems have been compared to other female poets such as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Bishop.
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LeWitt's Conceptualist art raises questions of ownership
By Kelly Sidley | November 26, 1996The Romantic idea that an artist is an inspired genius who communicates part of his soul through his visual, literary or musical creations incorporates an autobiographical element into the creation process. But conceptual artist Sol LeWitt is anything but a Romantic.