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Public Art and Patronage: A Collective Study of Four of Buffalo, New York's Early Monuments, 1882-1907
Public Art and Patronage: A Collective Study of Four of Buffalo, New York's Early Monuments, 1882-1907
The goal of this paper is to investigate the motivations of the patrons behind four of Buffalo, New York’s early monuments. These are the Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1882), the Lincoln, The Emancipator Monument (1902), the Red Jacket Monument (1890), and the McKinley Monument (1907). Each section contains historical context regarding the time period, critical events that influenced the monument, comparisons to similar monuments in the United States, and the narratives of the monument’s dedication and ceremonies. When grouped together, the historical context provided for each monument ess...
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Public Art and Patronage: A Collective Study of Four of Buffalo, New York's Early Monuments, 1882-1907
Moving Toward Modern: How the Steel Plant Museum of Western New York is Embracing the Paradigm Shift of Museums in the 21st Century
Moving Toward Modern: How the Steel Plant Museum of Western New York is Embracing the Paradigm Shift of Museums in the 21st Century
Discusses the emerging museum trends of the 21st century, using the Steel Plant Museum of Western New York as a short case study to explore how a small museum addresses the paradigm shift.
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Moving Toward Modern: How the Steel Plant Museum of Western New York is Embracing the Paradigm Shift of Museums in the 21st Century
Elements of a Creative Environment: Was the Roycroft Campus of 1900 - 1915 a Hothouse?
Elements of a Creative Environment: Was the Roycroft Campus of 1900 - 1915 a Hothouse?
Ancient Athens, Renaissance-era Florence, and Germany’s Bauhaus community that practiced between the two World Wars are all examples of what Barton Kunstler refers to as a hothouse. He defines a hothouse as an area where creativity flourishes wildly and magnificently, producing results that neither nature nor the usual round of human activity could ever anticipate. Out of each of Kunstler’s notable hothouse communities came extraordinary achievements and he theorizes that a hothouse is created out of a relatively rare confluence of forces – 36 factors within four dimensions, to be exact. In...
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Elements of a Creative Environment: Was the Roycroft Campus of 1900 - 1915 a Hothouse?