Jaume huguet biography of william
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Professor Benjamin Rowland (December 2, 1904 - October 3, 1972), served as Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard between 1950 - 1972. Rowland attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. The remainder of his degrees and teaching were exclusively at Harvard University. He earned his B.S. in 1928 and Ph.D. only two years later. His dissertation on the 15th-century Catalonian painter Jaume Huguet was written under Chandler R. Post and published in 1932.
From 1932-33 he was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies where he traveled to Kyoto, Tokyo, Beijing and New Delhi. In 1936-37 he traveled to India, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) researching a book on Buddhist wall painting. It was published in 1938 as The Wall-Paintings of India, Central Asia & Ceylon. It was while exploring the temple remains in Afghanistan and the Gandhara district of West Pakistan that he became fascinated with the influence of Greco-Roman art on Buddhist sculpture. This
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Past’s Present: Artist’s Books by José Oliveira |
1. Introduction
José Oliveira is a book artist. He is also an artist of other arts: a concrete poet, a musician, a performer. A self-taught visual artist who studied sociology and anthropology but not painting or sculpture, he has taken from those arts the knowledge he needed to conceive his books, book-sculptures and other book-related works for the past 20 years. Working with books in multiple ways, José Oliveira has also produced bookworks in the sense defined by Garrett Stewart as “something done to a book, done with it and others like it, or done in place of it” (21). That is, he makes book-objects and book-sculptures as well as proper books.
In this essay I will deal mostly with Oliveira’s books: I will not consider his bookworks. In order to differentiate books from his other work on books I will begin by defining what a book i