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John Beardsley, author and senior lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), entertained a crowd of approximately 150 academics, GSD students, and local artisans in a talk yesterday evening entitled “Black Belt Vernacular: African-American Visual Culture in the Deep South...
Held in Piper Auditorium at the GSD, the hour-long lecture included a series of visual slides, artistic analysis, and a brief question-and-answer period, all of which focused on analyzing quilts from the early 20th century as forms of African-American narrative in the South...
...with visual art, culture, and dance, this is not improvisation but a systematic way to break predictability,” he added...
...find that scientific fact hard to accept on an emotional level, the work of James Mollison may help. For four years the English photographer traveled the world, making close-up portraits of gorillas, chimps and orangutans. The result is one of the most detailed and revealing visual studies ever made of the great apes. "Face to Face," an exhibition of 30 of these striking portraits, goes on display at London's Natural History Museum from May 28 to Sept. 18. Each over 6 ft. [1.8 m] tall, the photographs reveal a moving depth of personality in their subjects. Mollison...
Scientists used to believe that the human brain recognized faces as a whole. But a new study published last week in the Journal of Vision reports that our visual system seems to parse faces as it does words: by their component parts--eyes, nose, lips. The beauty of the brain is that it can assemble those parts into a familiar face in the blink of an eye. --By David Bjerklie