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Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts

Art can be considered a process rather than a product. At Bowdoin College, art objects catalyze academic inquiry and generate opportunities for interdisciplinary learning. Through art, students and ...
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‘Object Lessons’: A crash course in modern Chinese brush painting

Huang Binhong (China, 1864–1955), Mountain Landscape, c. 1953. Ink and color on paper. Gift of Dr. Shirley Sun (A.B., 1964; A.M., 1969; Ph.D, 1974), 1994.113 The ...
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Object lessons & the formation of knowledge : the University of Michigan museums, libraries, & collections 1817-2017 / Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli, editors

MSRL copy Purchased from the C. Michael Gooden Endowment. Foreword / Mark S. Schlissel -- Introduction / Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli -- I. Museum Disciplines and Histories -- Defining the ...
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Art purposes object lessons for the liberal arts edited by Joachim Homann

"The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24,000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the museum has served as a ...