Art across the Curriculum: Out of the Box

Autor/in	Sartorius, Tara Cady
Titel	Art across the Curriculum: Out of the Box
Quelle	In: Arts & Activities, 145 (2009) 4, S.18-20 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-3931
Schlagwörter	Artists; Sculpture; Portraiture; Art Materials; Interdisciplinary Approach; Art Education; Social Studies; Mathematics Education; Art History; Physical Education; Language Arts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Artiste; Artist; Künstler; Künstlerin; Bildhauerei; Abbildung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Gemeinschaftskunde; Mathematische Bildung; History of art; History of arts; Kunstgeschichte; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Sprachkultur
Abstract	Rick Beck works in cast glass; his large-scale work ranges in scale from 15 inches to around 7 feet tall. His medium--glass--makes the scale of Beck's pieces very impressive. He is probably best-known for his oversized cast glass sculptures of common hardware: nuts, bolts, screws, measuring spoons, saws, eating utensils, eye hooks, wing nuts and more. His pieces take on a sort of irony in that they are images of craftsmen's tools, crafted with a traditionally known craftsmen's material, glass. In theory, Beck's motives make sense, but his sculpture, featured in this article, is titled "Self-Portrait." What does this self-portrait say about Rick Beck? It is an image of compression, of inward movement, of restraint. The containment is of his own creation, but it's hard to tell if this is a constant condition or just a temporary mood. If nothing else, this self-portrait expresses something familiar (physically, emotionally or psychologically) to the artist. Beck's focus on formal and mechanical concerns persists, but the metaphor for the human condition has grown much stronger. His self-proclaimed self-portrait is certainly abstract and almost conceptual, but in some ways it might be more realistic, or telling, than any image from the mirror. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10