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As It Is: The Proceedings of The Representational Art Conference 2015 - Paperback
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by Selected Conference Presenters (Author)
The Representational Art Conference 2015 was held in Ventura California. Visitors to the event enjoyed demonstrations of painting, drawing and sculpture by master artists from around the world, and heard inspiring presentations about a broad variety of topics by leading figures in the revival of representational art. The conference included off site trips in convoys of buses that carried enthusiastic members of the TRAC community to five gallery exhibits. This volume contains a record of many of the papers and speeches that were presented at the conference.
CONTENTS PrefaceMichael J. Pearce PhD MFA Jamie Wyeth: Loves and Obsessions
Elliot Bostwick Davis, PhD What is Fine Art and Why Realism?
Frederick C. Ross, MA Representational Art and Truth: A Study from the perspective of Theological Aesthetics
Sheng Yu Peng, PhD Beauty across cultures: Male Beauty in Chinese and Western representational art. (From the late nineteenth-century to the present)
Aihua Zhou Pearce, MFA The Training and Use of Visual Memory For Representational Landscape Painters
Deborah Paris, JD, BFA Selected Works of Contemporary Representational Chinese Figurative Ink Painters
Nan Liu, PhD Female Heroes: A Survey of Warrior Women in Painting and Sculpture
Felice House, MFA, MS Lynette House, MS Visita Interiora Terrae: Dino Valls Painting The Psyche
Lucio Giuliodori, PhD The Representational Option: Un-Mere Realism and the Digital Age
Peter Frank, MA From Roman "Virtus" to Contemporary Times: the Heroic Nude as a Representational Male Prototype
Jorge Egea, PhD Representational Painting and Consciousness
William Oberst, PhD, MFA From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Representational Painting in the Digital Age
John Devane BA (HONS) MA RCA Meaning and Purpose: Morality and Politics in 21st Century Representational Art
Anne Emerson Hall Do Both Genders Share the Same Ideologies and Aesthetics in Art, or Have Women Been TOLD Throughout History What is Legitimate?
Lori Escalera, BA The Role of Intuitive Perceptions in and of Art
Virgil Elliott The Bicameral Brain and the Primacy of Perception
Brian Curtis, MFA Allegorical Still Life Painting: More than Just Objects
David Cunningham, MFA Representational Art Can Reveal Unique Climate Change Solutions: Art in Service to the Environment
Robert Chianese, PhD Max Ginsberg: An analysis of aesthetics, morality and significance in recent works.
Suzy Hart Drawing Is Thinking
Domenic Cretara, MFA The Spaces Between-Thoughts on the Nature of Composition
Archer Dougherty, BFA
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