Teju Cole is recognized for his interwoven skills of using just the right words to articulate his acute and nuanced observations of today’s visual world. Cole teaches at Harvard University where he is the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing. I admire the recent NYT essay by Cole where he put words to the […]
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Mary Lou Parker was a well-known and respected professional artist, poet, newspaper journalist, art teacher, her church’s minister, gospel song-writer, and pianist who made her family’s home in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Ms. Parker married local mortician Joshua Sanders Parker and was the mother to Betty Hawthrone and Roberta Derixson. Parker is remembered today for writing
Semiotic analysis uses an approach which connects signs (images, words, or sounds) to codes through which we frame the world for understanding. Codes can be social, scientific, aesthetic, mass media, or ideological, to name a few. Codes are conventions or frameworks through which signs are given force and significance. Every work of art is a
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