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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Nov-24
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Portrait of the Sculptor as a Young Man
Biemiller, Lawrence
Chronicle of Higher Education, v53 n14 pA56 Nov 2006
Teaching 11 agriculture-college students to make art--to see creatively, to represent imaginatively--has turned out to be a challenge, for an artist like Mr. Austin C. Heitzman who, during a year in Rome, painted a cheesy Wild West landscape, carried it down to the banks of the Tiber, and took photos of himself posing in front of it while wearing a homemade cowboy costume. In this article, the author presents Mr. Austin C. Heitzman who is teaching Studio Art I and II at Delaware Valley College. To help broaden the horizons of his students, he requires them to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the downtown galleries and write brief papers about what they saw. And for extra credit, they can go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, and the galleries in Chelsea. Furthermore, when he's not worrying about his Studio Art I class, he is thinking about his own work. String, sticks, and strips of wood make up his most recent sculptures, a series of large, airy, primitive works that look like topographical studies of memories and dreams.
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Delaware
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