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August 2019
08-28-2019
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards are given annually to six women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers. The awards of $40,000 each will be presented to the six recipients on September 12 in New York City. Sarah, a freelance writer and editor who is currently pursuing an MFA at Bard, will use the grant to focus on her writing projects full time.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
08-27-2019
“Because the culture as a whole is so overwhelmingly commercial, it’s vital that professional, public, literary, and cultural criticism remain independent,” says Professor Mendelsohn. “Negative criticism is, in part, what fights against the commercial, or the merely stupid, or vulgar; it is a form of resistance, a reminder that we must think for ourselves and not have our judgments coopted by advertising and the ephemeral.”
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature |
08-09-2019
“For Johns, factual certainties, such as the American flag or a plaster cast of a body part, enable him to dwell in ‘uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts,’ and not reach after ‘fact,’ which would be redundant,” writes Yau in this two-part essay. “This is the pleasure that Johns gives us. He does not tell us what to see or think. He shows what seeing and thinking can be.”
Photo: Art exhibit at Bard College. Photo by Karl Rabe
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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