include images of artists working
with selected materials. Other posters
demonstrate tools used to create the
crafts. Art teachers will find these display cards to be a welcome addition to
their resource libraries.
Pam Stephens is associate professor of art
education at Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff.
Web Reviews
Rebecca Arkenberg
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This is one of those quirky websites
that demands to be explored. Devoted
to the theme of hay in art, it mixes
photographs of hay fields from around
the world with images from medieval
breviaries and the paintings of Claude
Monet, Paul Cézanne, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and others. The site
contains more than 6,000 images,
linked to museum or poster sites with
larger views.
Click on the sidebar topics “Hay in
Art and Literature” or “Table of Contents” to explore some of the thematic
essays, including hay’s earliest depiction on Trajan’s column, Bosch’s Hay
Wain (whimsically called “Wain’s
World”), Hay in Winter, Hay on Water,
Roles in the Hay, among others. A
few artists such as Martin Johnson
Heade, who is known for painting hay,
are discussed in more detail. Prospective essays include “Hay in the Manger,” “Hay in the London Suburbs,”
“Russian Hay: The Social Realists,”
“Abstracting Hay,” and other topics.
The site also explores the literature
of hay, with more than one hundred
poems, prose passages (Thomas Hardy,
Ray Bradbury, Leo Tolstoy, and others), and a list of books, ranging from
government agricultural pamphlets, to
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novels, to children’s literature. A glossary of hay-related terms is included
as well.
The site includes three pages of
harvest images gleaned from the Morgan Library and Museum’s collection
of medieval manuscripts. (Corsair, the
Morgan’s online collection database,
is a useful link in itself at corsair.mor-
ganlibrary.org.)
While a little difficult to navigate
and rather text-heavy, this site does
provide a thoughtful and unusual perspective, linking art to earth sciences,
technology, agriculture, ecology, and
literature.
Rebecca Arkenberg is a museum consultant from Stratford, Connecticut.
