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Biblical tale shown by newest art piece
by Bryan Reben
Kansas staff writer
The Spencer Museum of Art recently acquired a bronze sculpture titled "Salome" by American sculptor Paul Manisha.
Andrea Norris, museum director, said Monday that the sculpture, a gift from R. Crosby Kemper and his wife, is an important acquisition for the museum. The sculpture is on display on the fourth floor of the museum. The Kempers are residents of Kansas City. Mo.
The sculpture depicts Salome wearing a clinging dress, heavy jewelry and draped veils. In her dance, she turns her head backward in the direction of the platter and holds the head of John the Baptist.
"We didn't have any work by Paul Manship before and very little in the art deco style," Norris said. "Paul Manship has recently been the subject of much scholarly attention including a national traveling exhibition."
The biblical story of Salome, daughter of King Herod's wife, Herodias, tells of a woman who, when granted a wish by Herod, requested the head of John the Basket-Bearer to platter him with bineine playtime. The playtime character played Oscar Wilde, artist Aubrey Beardsley and in an opera by Richard Strauss.
'Paul Manhip has recently been the subject of much scholarly attention including a national traveling exhibition.'
Andrea Norris museum director
"The story of Salome has existed in many versions," Norris said. "The sculpture relates to the Salome story in other disciplines and could be discussed and thought about n a lot of different ways. This is an especially good acquisition for a university museum."
Manship was born in St. Paul, Mim., in 1865. He died in 1966. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1901 he won the Prix de Rome and spent the next three years traveling and studying in Italy and Greece.
In 1922 he moved to Paris and later was a professor at the American Academy in Rome. He returned to New York in 1927. His best-known work is the golden Prometheus above the skating rink at Rockefeller Center, completed in 1934.
Paul Manahlo's "Salome," is in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Cultures represented through new textiles exhibit
By Sabine Meyer
Special to the Kansan
Wearing a white glove on her right hand, Sharyn Brooks-Katzman guides visitors through the display of textiles that weave the frame for an exhibition at the Spencer Museum which opened Sunday at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Katzman, a graduate student in art history and curatorial intern at the museum, is the only person who may touch the 150 pieces she selected from the 3,500 to 4,000 pieces which constitute the Spencer Textile Collection, one of the largest collections in the museum.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," she said. "This is an overview, a sampling."
Katzman said she did not want the show to be technical.
"Every piece exhibited here has a story, and I hope it will talk to people," she said.
itinets and centuries through a wide range of materials and fabrics, shapes and colors: a Japanese kimone made of white silk brocade with red silk lining, a Korean embroidered satin canopy, a Buddhist robe, Chinese opera and theater costumes, Indian shawls, French fire screens and American children's clothes.
Rachel Melton, graduate student in art history, assisted Katzman in the preparation of the exhibition.
The exhibition surveys several cor-
She said most of the time people associated textiles with fabric and thought they were rather boring.
Katzman said she believed that garments were more than simple pieces of fabric.
thought they were rather sanguine. "And yet, it is so powerful," Melton said.
"In these dazzling garments, we can see the reflection of culture and entertainment," she said.
Katzman also made a discovery about bandanas. One of the labels she
wrote for the exhibit reads, "North American cowboys might be surprised to know that one of their most common and useful trademarks came from India."
"The story of garments, their function, is just fascinating." she said. "Their shape is also a social-political story. 'Textiles tell the story of cultures that flow, of trade in-between, where empires are made and dynasties fall.'"
The exhibition displayed in the museum is divided into four sections according to regions of influence. For example, China, Korea and Japan are represented by the western part of Middle East, Western Asia and India are represented in a second.
"I've tried to make the organization of the show logical," Katman said.
She said that the influence of China and India on Europe was fascinating.
"Again and again, you see circles, the flow of history," she said.
Katzman said that she was assigned the show in October.
"I was really thrown in and I had to learn how to swim," she said.
tear learn how most of the artists are not known, she has to focus her research on the cultural history of the pieces exhibited.
"I hope I've done an honor to the anonymous people who, in doing these garments, created beauty," she said. "I've been impressed by what they have done. Each pattern means something and tells you how clever these sometimes modest people were."
Part of the collection was gathered by Sallie Casey Thayer, the wife of William Thayer of the former Emery Bird Thayer department store in Kansas City, Mo. She started her collection at the beginning of the 20th century while traveling around the world after her husband's death.
"She had a wonderful eye and an exquisite taste," Katzman said.
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