McKissick Museum Documents

The University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum publishes various documents to share information about the collection and events happening at the museum.

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    The Ultimate Vacation : Watching Other People Work
    (2012-12) McKissick Museum
    Catalog for the exhibition titled, "The Ultimate Vacation: Watching Other People Work" at the McKissick Museum from September 8 to December 18, 2012. The exhibition grew out of directed groundwork done as projects for various coordinating museum studies courses by students at the University of South Carolina in previous years.
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    The Museum of Education
    (1980) McKissick Museum
    A pamphlet describing the history and content of the McKissick Museum, also known as the Museum of Education.
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    Fall Folklife Festival
    (1998) McKissick Museum
    A booklet for the fourth Fall Folklife Festival organized by the McKissick Museum to celebrate rich folk heritage that resides in South Carolina. The festival includes southern food-ways along with crafts, music and storytelling.
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    Above the Fall Line : Folk Art of the Southern Piedmont
    (1989) McKissick Museum
    This booklet was developed as a catalog to accompany the exhibition, "Above the Fall Line: Folk Art of the Southern Piedmont" that displayed at the McKissick Museum from March 15, 1987 to June 30, 1989. The booklet includes information about the geography of the Southern Piedmont, what the residents of the Southern Piedmont region are like, different examples of folk art, and a comprehensive list of objects featured in the exhibition along with each object's catalog information.
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    McKissick Memorial Library : Self-Guided Tour and General Information
    (1975) University of South Carolina
    The McKissick Memorial Library is the main collection in the university library system, housing major book, periodical, and microtext resources in all subject areas except science, education, law, music, and South Carolina. This tour is intended only to point out the major sections of the Library necessary for its use. There are also brief descriptions of some library services and policies and of other libraries on campus.
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    Heard at Every Turn : Traditional Music in South Carolina
    (2015) McKissick Museum; University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences
    The title of this catalog and exhibition reflects a frequent observation made by folks traveling through the South in the 19th century. They noted how rich and prevalent music was - it was "heard at every turn." In 1916, music scholar Cecil Sharp commented that singing was "as common and almost as universal a practice as speaking." This music was manifest in churches, juke joints, fiddlers' contests, county fairs, revival meetings, and community centers, among other venues.
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    From Artist to Patron : The Fraser Collection of Engravings Presented to Dr. Robert Gibbes
    (1985) McKissick Museum; University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
    This catalog accompanies an exhibition that deals with collecting, taste and culture in the nineteenth century. Although many individuals enjoy visiting museums to admire individual objects, few people ever wonder why a particular object was collected. Rarely are collections themselves considered a single entity worthy of study. This examination of the print collection assembled for Robert Gibbes by Charles Fraser, however, reveals the value of utilizing collections to study cultural history.
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    Fanfare! : Tailgating with the Gamecocks : A Tailgating Cookbook
    (1997) McKissick Museum
    This catalog contains recipes recommended for football tailgating at University of South Carolina football games. Types of recipes include appetizers, cold dishes, hot dishes, desserts, beverages, breads, and more. Images of previous football games, players, marching bands, game advertisements, and more can be seen throughout the catalog.
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    An Elegance Rediscovered : The Figurative Paintings of Henry Salem Hubbell
    (1998) Hubbell, Henry Salem; McKissick Museum
    This catalog features an exhibition held at the McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina for the artist Henry Salem Hubbell. Examples of paintings can be found throughout the catalog as well as biographic information about the artist.
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    Richard Burnside : Who is King?
    (2016) Burnside, Richard; Przybysz, Jane 1954-; Puchner, Edward M.; McKissick Museum
    This document is a catalog for an exhibition at McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina from May 6 - August 6, 2016 featuring the artist Richard Burnside. This catalog includes an artist statement by Richard Burnside and information about the artist and his work written by McKissick Museum staff. Examples of Richard Burnside's artworks that were featured in the exhibition can be found in the catalog.
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    Dawn of Freedom : The Freedmen's Town of Mitcheville, South Carolina
    (2014) McKissick Museum
    This booklet was developed to coincide with the nationally traveling exhibition, organized and circulated by McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina. The exhibit, "Dawn of Freedom: The Freedmen's Town of Mitchelville, South Carolina" discusses the history and importance behind "one of the first self-governing towns of freed Africans in the country."
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    The Art of Environmental Awareness : Batiks by Mary Edna Fraser
    (2010) McKissick Museum
    This booklet was published in conjunction with an exhibition held at McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, August 14 - December 14, 2010.
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    Grass Roots : African Origins of an American Art
    (2010) McKissick Museum
    This booklet was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held at McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, February 13, 2010 through May 8, 2010.
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    Natural Curiosity : The University of South Carolina and the Evolution of Scientific Inquiry into the Natural World
    (2007) McKissick Museum
    "Natural Curiosity : the University of South Carolina and the Evolution of Scientific Inquiry Into the Natural World" is a long-term exhibition organized by McKissick Museum and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina.
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    A Portion of the People : Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life
    (2002) McKissick Museum
    This document is a gallery guide for a traveling exhibit which portrays the history of the Jewish people in South Carolina, "from the founding of the British colony in the late 17th century" to today's "Palmetto Jews." The exhibit schedule includes McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., January-May 2002; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., September-November 2002; Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York, N.Y., January-June 2003; Museum of the New South, Charlotte, N.C., September-November 2003.
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    University of South Carolina Department of Art 2001 Faculty Exhibition
    (2001) McKissick Museum
    Visual artists are in the transformation business. In their hands, clay or metal takes on the shape of living thing or colorful geometry or table utensil both useful and beautiful. Pigments, fabrics, and textures coalesce to represent that which already exists or to chart new combinations of the abstract and the concrete. Light framed and focused captures the visible and recreates it. Computer codes and aggregate pixels yield paintings without paint, drawings without ink or charcoal. This catalogue provides a guide, index, and souvenir of the latest transformations wrought by the faculty of our Department of Art. In turn, of course, the catalog transforms works of different sizes and media into photograph and text on the 9 by 5 printed page. That is why it accompanies the exhibition but can never replace it. I hope that you will read these pages as you would a map, and then go explore what Robert Lyon and our gifted faculty artists have created.
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    Myth, Memory and Imagination : Universal Themes in the Life and Culture of the South : Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
    (1999-10) McKissick Museum
    This catalog is for an exhibition held at the McKissick Museum, October 3, 1999-February 20, 2000. Artists with works reproduced in the catalog include: Laura Gilpin, Eldridge Bagley, Theora Hamblett, William Tolliver, Margaret Bourke-White, Reverend Herman Hayes, William Christenberry, Clyde Connell, Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, Jonathan Green, Carl McKenzie, Bernice Sims, George Rodrigue, Clementine Hunter, Russell Lee, Daniel Weiner, Esther Bubley, Eudora Welty, Walker Evans, Aubrey Bodine, Warren Criswell, Andy Smith, Margaret Speer, Stephen Kimball, Ben Shahn, Jack Spencer, Helen Levitt, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Ralston Crawford, John Gutmann, Willie Little, Richard Law, Emmit Gowin, Martha McMillan Roberts, Doris Ulmann, Shelby Lee Adams, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Luster, Clarence John Laughlin, Lewis Hine, Michael Christie, Tom Jones, Nancy Witt, and James Van der Zee.
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    Catawba Indian Pottery : A Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in McKissick Museums
    (1981) Terry, George D.
    American Indian pottery produced by tribes living east of the Mississippi has been rare for over a hundred years. Along the Catawba River in York County, South Carolina, however, the Catawba Indian tribe has been producing pottery for at least 400 years. Recognized as one of the finest examples of Indian art in America, Catawba Indian pottery is the oldest continuing art form in South Carolina.
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    Glorified Patchwork : South Carolina Crazy Quilts
    (1989-08-06) Horton, Laurel
    Crazy quilts are a distinctive form of American needlework which developed and flourished in the late nineteenth century. Characterized by the joining of irregularly shaped pieces of fabric, crazy quilts are often highly embellished with embroidery, including decorative outline stitches as well as pictorial and symbolic motifs. Although crazy quilts include a wide array of fabrics, rich materials such as silks, satins and plushes are most often associated with high-style examples.
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    Life and Times at the South Carolina College, 1805-1905
    (1999) Heiting, John
    Visitors approaching the campus of the University of South Carolina will first see the tops of the modern high-rise buildings that attest to the dynamic growth of the institution in recent years. But as they enter the section of the campus known as the "Horseshoe" and look upon the graceful array of nineteenth-century buildings lining a brick drive, they will sense that this part of the campus has a history all its own. This catalog will tell some of that story and provide a glimpse of student life at the University during the period when it was known as the South Carolina College and its boundaries were the brick walls surrounding the Horseshoe area.