Book Review: Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo, Palace of the Mind: The Cloister of Silos and Spanish Sculpture of the Twelfth Century (open access)

Book Review: Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo, Palace of the Mind: The Cloister of Silos and Spanish Sculpture of the Twelfth Century

Review of the book "Palace of the Mind: The Cloister of Silos and Spanish Sculpture of the Twelfth Century" by Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo.
Date: 2015
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defining a New Coast: G.I.S. Reconstruction of Maillezais Abbey’s Hydraulic Drainage Program and the Coastline It Created (open access)

Defining a New Coast: G.I.S. Reconstruction of Maillezais Abbey’s Hydraulic Drainage Program and the Coastline It Created

This article discusses the expansion of Maillezais Abbey and the creation of its hydraulic infrastructure.
Date: 2016
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relevant Interdisciplinarity: Taking the Art History Classroom to the Field (open access)

Relevant Interdisciplinarity: Taking the Art History Classroom to the Field

This article situates Medieval Studies in the ever-evolving education environment that has linked the public rhetoric of the academy to business models.
Date: 2016
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strategic Domain: Reconquest Romanesque Along the Duero in Soria, Spain (open access)

Strategic Domain: Reconquest Romanesque Along the Duero in Soria, Spain

This article uses a mapping project to examine the relationship between a small set of chapels in close proximity to defensive fortresses along the upper Duero in the region of Soria.
Date: 2007
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher/Student: Technology as a Basis for Centrifugal Learning that “Goes Both Ways,” Part 1 (open access)

Teacher/Student: Technology as a Basis for Centrifugal Learning that “Goes Both Ways,” Part 1

This article provides retrospective insight on incorporating geographic information systems into medieval studies research.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Untitled

The painting depicts several birds in profile. The style is abstracted with the fowls outlined and brightly colored.
Date: unknown
Creator: Berger, Lorraine Estelle
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Untitled

The horizontal painting depicts a landscape in which the sky is gray and the moon or sun is a solid red-orange color. In the foreground is some brown and yellow grasses which create a hill or small mountain shape.
Date: unknown
Creator: Berger, Lorraine Estelle
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Untitled

The vertical painting consists of a large vertical shape in the center with a red head or top and a dark bottom or body. Surrounding the figurative type image is a orange and red oval which floats in the center. At the top and bottom edges are orange bands which lay behind the cartouche.
Date: unknown
Creator: Betti, Claudia Webb
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Big Heat

The black and white painting depicts a version of a famous scene in the movie The Big Heat from 1953 directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford. The brushstrokes are loose. One man holds a gun on a second wounded man. The man in the right foreground reaches out to the man in the center who leans against the wall.
Date: 1984
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bush and McCain

This work of art consists of three components, a black and white depiction of George W. Bush and John McCain with some text below. To the right of this panel is a red canvas containing more text. And, to the left of the main panel, resting against the wall on its side is a long, rectangular cartoon type piece.
Date: 2008
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bush Meets Pope

The painting depicts George W. Bush meeting the Pope, Pope Benedict XVI. The colors are solid and flat with black outlines.
Date: 2006
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cain and Abel

This large colorful painting depicts the brothers, Cain and Abel, from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. The story of these brothers is also found in the Quran. The painting consists of many bright colors in flat fields with black lines and outlines. The shepherd brother is in the background herding sheep and in the foreground is the second brother holding a large club and peering over his left shoulder.
Date: 1989
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cezanne Painting

This monochromatic painting depicts the artist Paul Cezanne in the countryside with some of his plain-air paintings and on the left hand edge text and dialogue unrelated to Cezanne.
Date: 2010
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Color of Money

In this horizontally oriented painting, two men, in the foreground, are recognizable depictions of Paul Newman and Tom Cruise from the movie titled The Color of Money. In the background, a car and a woman are seen on the right side of the picture. The older man has his arm around the shoulder of the younger man and is holding a roll of money in front of the face of the younger man. The background is a light bright green color. The young man wears a pink and purple plaid shirt and blue jacket. The older man wears a green coat and has gray hair.
Date: 1986
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elvis / Blue Boy Still Life

This large, mostly black and white painting, depicts a scene of a bar fight from one of Elvis Presley's movies and a reproduction of the famous painting, Blue Boy, by Thomas Gainsborough is superimposed. In front of the painting is a wooden table holding an apple, a pear and a pitcher, not unlike a Paul Cezanne still life.
Date: 1981
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Europeans

Two figures in the foreground, seen from the chest up, comment on European angst. A figure in silhouette exits by a set of stairs. Bright yellow light illuminates the exterior of the gallery in which the people in the foreground stand. Talk bubbles are used for the figures' comments. A poster on the wall depicts German Expressionism. The style is like that of cartoons and graphic novels. The colors are bright and flat.
Date: 1995
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Excuse Me

A male figure in the foreground looks at something on a woman's desk. She is seated and holds a telephone receiver. Behind her is a man looking closely at a painting on the wall. The woman states, "Excuse me, these are private papers." The painting on the wall consists of squares of different colors. The man in the foreground is painted in a dark pinkish red tone.
Date: 1998
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Gotta Gun

This artwork consists of two portions, the top a grid, eight by seven, of colored squares and the lower dialogue between Caroline and Steve.
Date: 2011
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Jesus and Disciples in a Storm

The oil painting represents the Bible story in which Jesus is sleeping in a boat when a storm arises and his disciples wake him and he calms the storm. This colorful oil painting depicts the moment Jesus is awakened. The colors are bright and flat with black outlines.
Date: 1988
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Orson

The painting, mostly monochromatic, depicts a portrait of Orson Welles in the top two-thirds of the canvas. Along the bottom edge, also in monochromatic tones, are men depicted in combat with automatic weapons. At the right edge, the face of a superhero is depicted in pink, blue, red and yellow. Running vertically in the left hand portion of the canvas is a depiction of lined notebook paper with a small pencil sketch of a landing craft or space ship.
Date: 1971
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Painted Magazine Triptych

The triptych depicts events and people from the early to mid 1970s such as a battlefield in the Vietnam War, Black Panthers and Patty Hearst being escorted to trial by a federal marshall.
Date: 1976
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Painted Magazine Triptych

This is the center panel from a triptych.
Date: 1976
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Painted Sports Magazine

This painting depicts a 1976 Sports Illustrated magazine cover featuring Steve Spurrier, a San Francisco 49ers football player. The painting depicts the cover as though the corner has been torn away and some extraneous expressionistic paint marks overlay the realistic portrayal of the football player.
Date: 1976
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Paul Newman is Hombre

The nearly square painting is composed of several standing figures, some of whom hold weapons. The colors of the painting are primarily reds, blues and yellows. Two figures on the right side of the canvas appear to be holding microphone and a guitar. Green and red silhouettes of horses are in the background. The picture plane is filled with figures with almost no negative space.
Date: 1967
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library