Word: westernness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Winter and Zerner are quick to note that B-10 is distinct from Fine Arts 13. Instead of presenting art history as a straight-line history of Western painting, sculpture, and architecture, the new course will be "more thematic than chronolological," says Winter, who chairs the Fine Arts department...
...Indian art so I use pieces from India to illustrate non-Western forms," says Winter, adding that professors in years to come might teach works from their own specialties. "You teach best what you love best...
...late 1980s, Zerner says, professors came to agree that "Fine Arts 13 didn't work anymore. A general survey on western art no longes served as a good introducation...
Whether or not the new course is a symptom of intellectual trendiness, it's the envy of other schools that are still trying to move away from traditional surveys of Western...
...outbreak of pneumonic plague in western India has killed 100 people and has sent 300,000 others fleeing from the city where it originated. The country's entire medical-care apparatus has been put on red alert at the flare-up of the contagious, deadly disease to prevent its spread to the nearby megalopolis of Bombay. An outbreak this serious hasn't occurred in India in two decades...