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HsT* ^ ^ i ^ ^ L jG ] ; Hf r | 4 -A - Fine art profess ^^_Professo r Profile "Imagine the world with no art, a room with no pictures, a book with no illustrations ? you can't do it." These are the words of art professor Carol Pittman. Pittman's interest in art started at the age of eight when her mother dropped her off every morning at the Richmond, Va., museum. Pittman has been teaching art at USC for four years. Before coming here, she worked for the South Carolina Arts Commission in arts You Coul Be Doiti I lnis or y TAT i VV 1 The The Gamecock the Spring. You office Game Room ; c mm0^ - - j Jl, ;or enjoys "selling tf - administration, where she worked wc > as a curator for art exhibitions. Pittman has three degrees in de ^K<>aa /4? PfA??ar> f ?\Knpno A f r? rt ort o1< Uiltt, uiii^iv^m ui an. ai i at. history, studio art and art educa- Ui tion. M; "I have an undergraduate degree in art history because I am an artist ini and all art is based on art preced- be ing it. I felt like it was really ini important for me, as an artist, to understand about the history of m; art," she said. ini When Pittman is not working th( she is creating art. She helps coor- kii dinate Vista Lights. She paints be brick walls in empty spaces of eli buildings, runs lights on the ceil- th< ing and puts art exhibitions in go these spaces. She does this ab because there is no place in of Columbia for those artists whose ou could orking fo Gameco is hiring advertising sal must have a vehicle. Jus i to fill out an applicatio ?cock Advertij 313, Russell H 777-4249 arol] M ml J * | mJm I ml LJ I ~OtlT?1 ie love for art" to >rk does not sell. F Pittman studied at the Academia t 1 Belli Arti in Naples, Italy. She ( so went to Old Dominion I liversity, the University of aryland and USC. ? Pittman feels as if she is "sell- r a love of art to students who, t fore taking her class, had no erest or background in art. "My father was a salesman and 2 f mother was a teacher. It's real r teresting how I combine what < ly did. I'm trying to talk to those ids of people who have never 1 en exposeu iu an. /\u n> nui an tist thing. If you understand what \ ; artist is trying to say, you can i ' and look at something and be c le to enjoy it if you know some s the language," Pittman said. Having been a military wife, i i o [ouse be >r ck! es people for ;t stop by our n. airier iria! I Art professor Carol Pittman: "Art is just as important as histollife I HMPP Lea Clayton/The Gamecock | I her students 1 'ittman has lived in many counries, including Italy, France and jreece. While in Italy, she taught mglish to Italians. Having been exposed to the ;reat art of these regions makes the naterial she teaches more impor ant, she said. She is the mother or three sons ? an artist, a Peace Corpsman, ind her youngest son works in the view Jersey state government budget section. j The question Pittman is asked a ot is "Why is art important?" She responds, "Without art we vouldn't know about the past. Art s important just as history. You :an't go forward unless you underhand what's happened in the past." Pittman's hobbies are art, hiking ind fishing. . . Class i You'll r We know. \ T 1 _ 1 ^ ^1 ^ A*. /> I our aiarm ciock uiun i g now you only have ten mil class. Too bad you live fift minutes away. You should be living clos campus. At Whaley's Mill, example, we offer a locati* hard to beat. To live any cl would have to live in a doi serious student knows it's any studying done there.) isn't all that Whaley's Mill provide surveillance came floors, Shuttlecock service campus, either furnished c VHHPfWH 0FFIC M~F1 tiiSmiSisSsM 2111 & ASSOCIATES 254-7801 Reading may holiday break From Staff Reports bl If you find yourself without ca something to do over the holiday an break, try catching up on some en pleasure reading. Check out one of these books at any library or buy t. one at your local bookstore. J m> "Possessing die Secret of Joy," W by Alice Walker, 1992. A peripher- he al character in "The Color Purple" Sti and "The Temple of My Familiar," ioi HP L! 1_ ~ ? 1 ^?.,n U ? lasill UCCU1I1CS uic lutus ui una ua welcome new work. Tashi, who inl marries Celie's son Adam, submits m; to female circumcision partially out of loyalty to the threatened tribal customs of her people, the Olinka. ^p SI: Tashi, enduring pain and emo- tej tional trauma, stretches to bridge S0J two continents and to understand why women must undergo this torture, even at the hands of their ^ mothers, for the pleasure of men. Although she eventually succumbs to madness, Tashi eventually finds ^y the secret of joy. els This is not a sequel to Walker's irevious novels, but it easily re jquals, if not surpasses, their excel- tei ence. cc "Live from Golgotha," by Gore Vidal, 1992. Caution: Do not read ^ this book if you consider yourself a ^ conservative Christian. The premise of this book is that in the late 20th century, a computer hacker has found a way to erase the sU New Testament, thereby altering ^ history. With the aid of a new technology, a plan is put forth to save ^ Christianity. At best, Vidal's book is a mediocre attempt to critique the wi writings of St. Paul, the hacker's or main victim. Even when the hack- sp er's surprising true identity is revealed, the book flounders to an ^ UllCAlillllg UtllWU^lll^lll. "O'Keeffe: The Life of an a American Legend," by Jeffrey si Hogrefe, 1992. Hogrefe has proba- a s in ten min j teed one of unfurnished ap o off and And with a ch lutes till semester, sumr een leases, you dor semester break ,er to So move to V\ , for your racer, and an that's the money you loser you tickets, you cai rm (and any that works, hard to get But location offers. We ?11 icis uii an 5 around >r E HOURS: \\f 5:30-5:30 \ MAIN ST. > Where home isn 't far away. I remedy boredom y come as close as possible to ipturing in words the uniqueness id rich life experiences of the legidary Georgia O'Keeffe. well researcneci ana aocument, this biography illuminates this ^sterious, independent woman, onderful pictures of O'Keeffe, r family, her husband Alfred eglitz, and her old-age compan1 Juan Hamilton accompany this rrative, which is packed with formation taken from mainly priiry sources. How do you say "chill out" in anish? A new book, "Mexican' ang," by Linton H. Robinson, Is you what your Spanish profesr won't! "Mexican Slang" reveals the hip k, cool lingo and lewd eloquence the Spanish used commonly in i streets of modern Mexico, and Mexicans who have migrated ;ewhere. The new title has just been leased in time to save you from rminal boredom in Spanish 101. The book's covers warns that it mtains adult language. The pressions used by native Spanish eakers are often slang and somenes a little off-color because this real-life Spanish. Since these phrases are often not und in a dictionary, the language jdent and novice are left in the irk. Into the breech comes /lexican Slang," the jargon of ug dealers, cliolos, outlaws and laws, teens and yuppies. This book may be for those who uit to spice up their vocabulary, those who plan to head south for ring break. This small manual sheds light on le darker side of slang with chap:rs on sex and drugs. But there are Iso chapters on the lighter side of treet talk, like rock 'n' roll, parties nd nicknames. Lutes. these. i artments and more, oice between npr nnH short term t't have to wait till to make your move, ^haley's Mill, park walk to class. With '11 save on speeding n buy an alarm clock 9 HALEY'S L vmygpy ?