The Visual & Critical Studies (VCS) program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is designed for students interested in the scholarly and creative investigation of the production, dissemination, and impact of visual images, objects, experiences, and practices. With the visual as a starting point, students use multiple methods of critical investigation to study the interactions between visual phenomena and their historical, disciplinary, and social contexts.
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Visual & Critical Studies
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Center 605
112 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60603
BAVCS student, Kayla Anderson, talks about her favorite piece at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection. VCS shout out to our favorite facet of Special Collections at SAIC.
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Remember caricaturist Alfred Frueh from this other letter to his fiancee? Well, only a few weeks before that one he sent her this 3-D masterpiece, a letter that opens up to reveal a miniature art gallery.
Alfred Joseph Frueh to Giuliette Fanciulli, 1913 Jan. 10. Alfred J. Frueh papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
"You are a bear lost in a forest, and there is an old woman with long gray braids baking pies for you, and your job is to keep following the smell of pie. That’s your job—learning how to keep turning toward what is most delicious to you."
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Taxidermy Tuesday. I though I would change it up a bit and put together this series on how to taxidermy a panda.
Top © The Field Museum, RF78491.Middle © The Field Museum, RF78616.
Bottom © The Field Museum, RF78618.
Mr. Julius Friesser and Frank Wonder working on panda, 4th floor taxidermy area. Frank Wonder preparing plaster mold of panda. Mr. Julius Friesser working on the eyes of the panda.5x7 negatives
1934
If I could go back in time and be present at an event I would choose to be in this photograph.
(via scientificillustration)
