Upcoming Exhibitions - PRWeb Press Release Group http://www.rsspad.com/rss2/4525.xml Information about upcoming exhibitions at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art - Powered by PRWeb and RSSPad en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Back to the Future: New Exhibition at BYU Museum of Art Explores Relationship of Nostalgia and Technology http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb304959.htm Have you ever wondered why new inventions and appliances look the way they do? "Nostalgia & Technology" explores the manner in which traditional forms and artful designs have been used to introduce revolutionary new technologies into the domestic space of the people of their day. Since the beginning of the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, art and ornamentation have been used to clothe new inventions with an air of respectability and social acceptance. Visually appealing designs were carefully contrived to assign social status and to evoke familiar forms of a nostalgic past to which many people could relate — a process that continues to this day.This exhibition brings together a range of intriguing and beautiful objects from both past and present that demonstrate how art and design have been used to facilitate our acceptance of the strange and unfamiliar. (PRWeb Nov 4, 2005)

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]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb304959.htm Brigham Young University Museum of Art to Display Photographic Dreamscapes of Rodney Smith http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/06/prweb250197.htm New York City-based photographer Rodney Smith explores the serene and the surreal through photographs created for his commercial clients including American Express, Saks Fifth Avenue, and the New York Times Magazine. Smith’s photographs of striking beauty, sly wit, and poetic irony illustrate the insight that dreams provide into the experience of reality. Smith’s images are replete with fantastic feats, visual puns and surprising juxtapositions. (PRWeb Jun 23, 2005)

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