Faculty Publications http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16629coll1 Receive updates for this collection. Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:25:40 -0500 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:25:40 -0500 en-us <![CDATA[Remembering Children's Books of Yesteryear During National Library Week]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/131 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0400 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/131 <![CDATA[“I can’t help you. You’re on your own”: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoir]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/130 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/130 <![CDATA[Liminal Leo: Mourning Leo Steinberg]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/129 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/129 <![CDATA[MoMA and Child: The Century of the Child at the Museum of Modern Art]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/128 child, not the reverse: the Arts & Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Futurism, De Stijl, Pop Art, digital art. Despite claims that artists’ approaches were rooted in desires to understand children, you may come away feeling that, if the twentieth century is indeed The Century of the Child, surely that child is as much a projection of adult fantasy and social ideology as the pale coy innocents of the pre-Raphaelites or the bedizened seventeenth century infantas of Velázquez. A Gargantuan wooden table with a climbable oversized chair and step stool offer adults who try them out a bodily take on children’s experience. Mugging visitors pose on them for photo ops, while uniformed security personnel control access by ordering people brusquely to form a queue. For one split second, I clamber up on the chair and, when the tabletop reaches barely to my nose, my bygone helplessness and marginalization as a child rush back in a flood: I am Gulliver in Brobdingnag until an officious guard whisks me away: “You can’t spend any time here,” he admonishes sternly; now, I truly am a child. Visitors chuckle and guffaw at wall-mounted black and white 1927 footage of a three or four-year-old who steers his kiddie-motor wheel of fanciful circular design along an empty road. His father, in fedora, tie, and three-piece suit, chases him dutifully, unable to keep up as the child and his mini-vehicle careen along a wide unpopulated avenue in zigzag swaths, as if illustrating the line from Isaiah 11 (“the little child shall lead them”) or Wordsworth’s similar sentiment from the Rainbow poem of 1802. Throughout the exhibit, which is thronged morning and afternoon, spectators seem euphoric, entranced by images such as this. They appear bemused and nostalgic, while their children respond especially to movement for, as Fénelon wisely wrote, children are happiest when their bodies are in motion, when they can change position. Late in the show, you come upon a striking work that chimes with the Jensen photograph you met at the start: Paul Rand, in 1996, shortly before his death, composes a flat black child, upside down, arms akimbo, balancing precariously on a slanting tightrope made of words. The great designer fills in the body with saucy details from Breughel’s Children’s Games (1560) to create an indelible poster in support of a village devoted to orphaned and abandoned children. Aesthetically, top prize belongs to The Adventures of Prince Achmed, an exquisite dreamlike shadow film by Berlin artist Lotte Reiniger (1923-25) that plays silently in a gallery labeled “Avant Garde Play Time.” Possibly the earliest surviving animated film, this gossamer confection was painstakingly made by hand, its style inspired by finger puppets, embroidery, and lace making. Reiniger, who invented her own techniques, created this masterpiece by scissor work, intricately cutting out characters of astonishingly delicate beauty, which, in an evanescent world, sway, prance, bow, and embrace while enacting stories of intrigue, romance, and suspense drawn from the Arabian Nights. Reiniger’s villain, a wicked enchanter known as the African Magician, appears maleficently in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. To stand spellbound watching as these silhouetted tales unfurl their sinister plots and metamorphoses in ever-swirling motion until Prince Achmed is at last reunited with his slender fairy Peri Banou, is to recapture a childhood in which magic is real and flying demons are more true than anything attached to solid earth. This thought returns us to the elevated image with which we began — the photographed child in the air— and leads me to conclude that, if real children are to be found in this show, they must be summoned, like genii, from encounters with whatever designed objects move us most, for there is, after all, no such thing as the child but rather millions of uniquely responsive children, and adults, for whom childhood, despite varying degrees of distance, can still be occasionally invoked. Perhaps that is as close as we will ever come to the angel with the flaming sword who guards the way back, as Ernst Gombrich wrote famously once in his essay on the hobby horse. ]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/128 <![CDATA[Gentling The Savage Enormity Of Gargantuan Space: Ann Hamilton at the Armory]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/127 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/127 <![CDATA[Behavioral Health Management of Space Dwelling Groups: Safe Passage Beyond Earth Orbit]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/121 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/121 <![CDATA[Behavior Analysis of Team Performance: A Case Study of Membership Replacement]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/120 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/120 <![CDATA[Programmed instruction for teaching Java: Consideration of learn unit frequency and rule-test Performance]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/119 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/119 <![CDATA[Digital Atlas of Megalopolis]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/118 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/118 <![CDATA[The capsule polysaccharide structure and biogenesis for non-O1 Vibrio cholerae NRT36S: genes are embedded in the LPS region]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/55 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/55 <![CDATA[English Grammar: It’s Not So Difficult]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/54 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/54 <![CDATA[If Clauses: Native Speakers Don’t Know Them Very Well]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/53 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/53 <![CDATA[Noun Clauses: Useful Structures for Gossip]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/52 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/52 <![CDATA[Adjective Clauses: Do They Define or Tell Us More Information?]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/51 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/51 <![CDATA[Adverb Clauses: Don’t Use Future Tense]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/50 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/50 <![CDATA[Connectors: Words that Connect]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/49 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/49 <![CDATA[Clauses and Phrases: The Difference is Simple]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/48 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/48 <![CDATA[Determiners: Little Words, Big Problems]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/47 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/47 <![CDATA[3 Kinds of Nouns: Counting is Not Always the Issue]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/46 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/46 <![CDATA[Passive Voice: It’s All About Subjects and Verbs]]> http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/45 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16629coll1/id/45
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