Visual Culture (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deanna Aubert.

While museum education is often thought of as a guided tour or a pre-booked arrangement with museum staff, scholarship on the interpretation of visual culture delves into pedagogical possibilities that render museum displays and exhibits an important platform for learning. While the museum collection is an important element of the gallery experience, this project draws from theoretical perspectives that implicate the learner themselves as the key component for the learning experience. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Hudson. John Henderson.

Hand imagery carried conventionalized meanings across ancient Mesoamerica and represented an embodied semantics that was central to ancient constructions of meaning. Precolumbian ceramic imagery from northwestern Honduras reflects of this generalization and features a set of highly stylized compositions that conveyed an array of specific meanings. Figures and, by extension, the gestures made by them feature prominently in this corpus, but little attention has been paid to how these motifs...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Niell.

According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana’s central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El Templete. Viewing the transformation of the Plaza de Armas from the new perspective of heritage studies,...