Dr. Roann Barris
Assoc. Prof. of Art History and Co-Director, Radford University Museum
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Borromini: Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25 |
Yinka Shonibare: Scramble for Africa, 2003 |
Richard Meier: Ara Pacis museum in Rome |
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Constantin Alajalov, cover for "Modern Art at the SesquiCentennial" exhib. catalogue, 1920 |
Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum, Berlin (completed in 1998)Connect to home page for ART428 |
The top three images relate to some of the classes I teach; the bottom two relate to the topics of my current and recent research and writing. But all of them capture what I think of as the experience of art history--an invitation to look at the world with new eyes, to see the familiar as something unfamiliar, and a vision which stays with you, even when you're no longer in its presence. What's more, all of the images on this page have a story to tell. Although their particular stories are not always obvious at first sight, they are the stories we tell about the world we live in -- which is precisely why we should study these images.