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The Shape of Space

The Shape of Space.

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The Shape of Space

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  1. The Shape of Space A good way to get students to think about composition and the character of shapes is to have them work with what to them is an unconventional format. Looking at some creative uses of non-rectilinear formats can help them. Have them work with a round or cylindrical format first before drawing attention to examples, but have examples as background inspiration and/or items to study and discuss over time

  2. Within this process, I encourage you to make students aware of how socially constructed one’s sense of space is. Students exploring the world through art and/or history and/or geography or the like can gain a richer understanding of each realm if they see how the art examples often (though not always) reflect larger social patterns. Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape I, 1963

  3. Taos kiva Anasazi/Ancestral dwelling of Tuipmuo at Bandelier Taos Pueblo

  4. Albuquerque settlement 1893 and the grid system relative to natural topography in comparison Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape I, 1963 Taos Pueblo

  5. The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) begun with the Land Ordinance of 1785, which Thomas Jefferson devised Components of the Land Ordinance of 1785 system U.S. map showing where PLSS has been deployed and aspects of it.

  6. Peter Eisenman, Wexner Center for Art, Ohio State University, 1989

  7. The impact and resulting look of the PLSS system in the Midwest Aerial view of Indiana Federal land policies relating to the Homestead Act helped produce settlement keyed to the PLSS. The homesteading system had its origins in 1840s and became law as the Homestead Act in 1862. The delay was caused by Southern resistance to this smaller, agrarian approach to land holding. Aerial view of North Dakota & Minnesota

  8. Try to help students learn a variety of human settlement patterns so they don’t take their own as the only “normal” one. France below & Indana above French survey of a North American local

  9. How we relate to the land may significantly influence how we see the world and respond to it France below & Indiana above Hannah & Emm Greenlee, Crazy Quilt, c. 1827-1896

  10. Though, other influences also play an important role as the “Picturing America” booklet and the Vlach material on our bibliography propose and students should study in terms of cultural transmissions and notions of shape, rhythm, life, etc. France below & Indiana above Kente cloth of the Ashanti in Ghana Hannah & Emm Greenlee, Crazy Quilt, c. 1827-1896

  11. The ‘ledger book’ format relative to painting on animal skin and wearing that imagery or living in it speaks to the imposition of the grid system and much of how it came to acquire meaning on cultures which had different relationship to land Indiana above Edward Thomas, View of Fort Snelling, c. 1850, MIA George Catlin, Catlin Painting Mandan, Mah-to-toh-pa, 1861 Black Hawk, “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book, 1880-81

  12. Aerial view of Indiana Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, MA, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow), 1836 Encourage students to contemplate the complex relationship between a natural order and the Enlightenment-based order -- as Transcendentalists and Hudson River School artists did, though not necessarily siding with the natural order to the degree people long assumed, as Albert Boime (The Magisterial Gaze) and others have discovered.

  13. N.C. Wyeth’s 1919 cover illustration for James Fenimore Cooper’s, 1826 Last of the Mohicans Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 Help students probe the complex cultural legacies informing such world views.

  14. Consideration of this has serious environmental consequences as you can help students start to learn Alex MacLean, Marias River Drainage & Piovt Irrigator Loma Area, MT, 2003 Taos Pueblo

  15. It is increasingly important to teach the long history of America and fully picture it including the complex history of the “Anasazi”/Ancestral Pueblo. (See: Jared Diamond, Collapse, for more on this.) Canyon de Chelly & White House ruins, Anasazi (or Ancestral Pueblo), c. 1000; abandoned by c. 1300; extant & influential today Taos Pueblo

  16. Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 Childe Hassam, Allies Day May 1917, 1917 Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape I, 1963 Help students learn the prominent role of the grid in culture and art…

  17. Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 Childe Hassam, Allies Day May 1917, 1917 Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape I, 1963 Help students learn the prominent role of the grid in culture and art… and also rich alternatives to it in both realms

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