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Title

Intimate Nevada: Artists Respond

Authors

Lauren Paljusaj, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Anne Savage, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Creative Work

Publication Date

4-22-2020

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Publisher Location

Las Vegas, Nevada

First page number:

1

Last page number:

46

Abstract

Creative Works Winner

Most of us know Nevada beyond the Strip. It’s a place of houses, of shopping plazas, of movie theaters, and grocery stores. A place of hotels that are also places of work. A place of basins, ranges, vistas, and nature. A place of personal history. For Intimate Nevada: Artists Respond, curators Lauren Paljusaj (ENG BA ‘20) and Anne Savage (CFA BA ‘22), draw on photographs found in UNLV Special Collections to uncover the intimate visuality of a Nevada of past centuries. The exhibition focuses on how the imaged built landscape of early 20th century Southern Nevada (Paljusaj) and candids and personal snapshots of 1910s Las Vegas (Savage) allow us to interpret the past in light of who we are today. It also shows how artists utilize research archives and the bottomless fascination of material memory to respond to historical artifacts.

Keywords

Photography; Vernacular; Architecture; Memory; Candid; Snapshot; Southern Nevada; Landscape; Preservation

Disciplines

American Art and Architecture | American Material Culture | American Studies | Art and Materials Conservation | Arts and Humanities | Historic Preservation and Conservation | Information Literacy | Library and Information Science | Photography | Public History | United States History

File Format

pdf

File Size

817 KB

Language

English

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Repository Citation

Paljusaj, L., Savage, A. (2020). Intimate Nevada: Artists Respond. 1-46.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/award/47