Sports & recreation facilities; University of Louisville--Basketball; Buildings;
Interior view of the basketball court and stands in the KFC Yum! Center, taken near the time of its grand opening. The facility opened officially on October 10, 2010, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The 721,762 square foot facility is managed by...
"While producing works like this, Turrell also embarked on a major project in 1972 which involved purchasing, and subsequently modifying, an extinct volcanic crater located in northern Arizona. This 'Roden Crater' project has connections with...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
"A basket [glass bowl?] of fruit rests on the trabeation of the imaginary architecture." (caption, p.77); "The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first...
Paintings; Mixed media; Women; Nudes; Beauty; Aesthetics; Body image; Human body; Body parts
Corps de Dames series, 1950; "Child art, which had been a major source of interest for early twentieth-century modernists such as Joan Miró or Paul Klee, was a source here. This was annexed to an adult desire to recover primordial fantasies...
"The painting belonged to Edward James. Surely one of Dali's finest double images." (Caption); "Dali said that The Great Paranoiac had been conceived after a discussion with Josep María Sert about Arcimboldo, and that the...
"The Child-Woman is Gala, who appears here for the first time in Dali's work." (Caption); "Meanwhile, Dali had painted the first major work in which he alluded directly to the relationship with Gala that was partially to blame for...
"Here the artist aspires to a metamorphosis which hints partly at mythology, partly at science fiction. However, with mock pathos, Barney's floppy ears and dual kiss-curls inadequately match up to the four horns of the ram which the video's...
Photographs; Photographic prints; Instant camera photographs; Dye diffusion transfer prints; Plaques; Mixed media; Social aspects; Social values; Ethnic stereotypes; Stereotyping; Discrimination; Women; Backs (Anatomy); Standing; Clothing &...
"The viewer of Lorna Simpson's works is compelled to shuttle between texts and images in order to construct meanings. The use of text-image conjunctions was a major component of 1980s photographic process. In Britain Victor Burgin's teaching...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Myths; Legends; Men; Gods; People associated with religion; Supernatural beings; Fictitious characters; Nudes; Muscles; Genitals; Hairstyles; Beards
"With a serene expression in the eyes and the body of an athlete, the father of the gods hurls a thunderbolt. The statue, an original bronze by a great sculptor, dates from about 460 BC." (Caption, p. 350); "Bronze statue of Zeus or...
Fresco detail, initiate hiding in the lap of the woman who accompanies her in the various phases of the rite. "[…] it still remains uncertain whether the subject is a woman's initiation into an Orphic or Dionysian mystery cult or rather the...
