Word: alva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...underground railroad, is cited six times in the guide, whereas Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is mentioned only once in passing. Students are expected to know about the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights (mentioned nine times) but not about the uncited Wright brothers or Thomas Alva Edison, whose inventions transformed the lives of millions. McCarthyism dominates the National Standards precis of the cold...
...treated like objects in everyday language and imagery. In a 1992 piece, Self-Possession, Simpson uses a Polaroid frontal image of a woman's torso dressed in black. Its red-gloved hands frame her abdomen and the words IS 9/10THS OF THE LAW. Simpson has also collaborated with actress Alva Rogers on Places with a Past, a work that combines audiotapes, relics and photographs to evoke the slave trade in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1990 Simpson was the first African- American woman artist to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. In that same year she had a solo exhibition...
...riches or produced so powerful a ruling elite. Donnan compares interpreting the Moche with no information about Sipan's Senor to "trying to reconstruct ancient Egypt without knowing anything of the existence of the pharaohs." Our understanding of Moche social organization, religion, art and technology is now divided, says Alva, into periods he calls "before Sipan and after Sipan...
...high point of the seven centuries of Moche civilization, Alva estimates, 5,000 people lived in the sandy foothills near Sipan. There too were the busy workshops of the masterly skilled artisans who created the richest treasures found in the Western hemisphere. They perfected an alloying technique, using gold, silver and copper and formulated a method of gilding copper by electrochemical plating...
...Alva believes that he is close to finding a fourth burial site and that the next 10 years will see even greater revelations. Archaeologists are finding clues about the life of ordinary people by uncovering foundations of houses, determining their size and the location of doors and hearths. In 1995, after completing a tour of five American museums, the contents of the royal tombs will go on permanent display in the Bruning museum, where a specially constructed $800,000 wing will be financed partly by proceeds from the U.S. tour. It is not inconceivable that Sipan will someday rival Machu...