ESSAYS & IDEAS: SWARTZENTRUBER

The essays on this website are available for publication.. Please contact the author. ESSAYS & IDEAS I: Art Education • Academic Patriarch: An Apologetic for Visual Art ESSAYS & IDEAS II: Essays are reworked from Defecation: A Carnivalesque Discourse at the Ego Altar, by Swartzentruber. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art Program at Vermont College of Norwich University July 27, 2000 • Artist as Model (Joshua & Medusa: Anger and Lust Falling) • Artist's in Galleries, Cyberspace, and Books (Grotesque Pages: Etruscan) • Covert Play (Carnivorous K9) • Hunter & Gather: The Creative Mood • Jet Fuel ( light bulb) • Intellectuals at the Easel (tweedle dumb & Dee) • I am an Artist, I Lied (Grotesque Pages: Jawline) • Lessons from Donald Duck and the Hairy Who (Pain) • Outsider Art in the Classroom: A perspective on Student Creativity ( Carnivalesque Collaboration Intro) • Wanted: Art Teachers in their Studio (Visual Art Education Resources) Education • Education: Teaching Philosophy (Visual Art Education Resources) • Liberal Arts Education (Visual Art Education Resources) Physiognomic/Archetypes • Intro ( Facing the Sublime & the Grotesque book cover) • Physiognomy (Grotesque Pages: Physiognomics) • The carnal physiognomy (Grotesque Pages: Monster's Tonque) • Salvation (Grotesque Pages: Bestiary Page) • Macabre Physiognomy ( Grotesque Pages: Fluids) • Deity (Grotesque Pages: Pieces & Parts) Religion: • Beatitudes of the Studio (the Evolution of Man) • Raw (dogma-vomiting hoarder) • Carnival-Grotesque Mysticism (Scapegoat Messiah: Sketch) • Postmodern Sanctuary: The Ultimate Exhibit Space ( the Skateboard Incident,) • The Mystic's Awkward Day-Planner (Strange Horizons) • Jesus Christ: Kitsch, Avant-Garde and Inspirational (Master and Beasts) • Postmodernity and the Mennonite ( pop-mennonite) • Religious Extremism: A Postmodern Approach to an Ancient Subject (the Martyr) • Outside of Beatiful (Saul Eating a Christian Snack) • Testamony: (Exorcising Personal Demons: poster) • Education: A Believer's Perspective (One, Two, Three (Trinity) Psychology/Philosophy • Erotic (Grotesque Pages: Skin Deep ) • Rib (Organically Entwined) • Compelling Compulsions (money mountain) • Dead Cat in My Coffin (Graven image drawing) • Penny Folk Wisdom (Daniel & the Stress Test) • Ego Alter (twins)

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