June 29, 2012
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Dr. Joan Brix Carter, Dean of Olivet University's College of Art and Design, has just completed a biography of Italian artist Giotto de Bondone for the International Encyclopedia for Scholars and University Resources. The theme of the conference, scheduled for July 8th through July 13th, is "Art and Christianity in Revolutionary Times."
Dr. Joan Brix Carter, Dean of Olivet University's College of Art and Design, will be traveling to Boston, Maine in July to deliver a paper at the International ACE conference. The subject of her paper is the life and work of Edward Hicks, the late 18th century painter best known for his many renditions of "The Peaceable Kingdom" based on Isaiah 11:6. Quaker minister by profession, Hicks through his folk art style, was able to give expression to his pacifist views to a wide audience of ordinary people.
Dr. Carter's doctoral dissertation on Giotto's work in the Arena Chapel in Padua, Italy and its connection to the medieval liturgical drama of the late 14th century, has been noted in several recent publications including the "The Cambridge Companion to Giotto" published by Cambridge University.
Giotto was the first artist to make a break from the two dimensional idealized figures of the Byzantine school. He is credited with leading the way into the Italian Renaissance and is often referred to as the "father of western painting."
Founded in 1991, ACE is an international group of theologians, clergy and artists who meet every two years in different parts of the world to address various issues concerning the relationship between the arts and the life of the church.
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