Background
Laar, Timothy Jon Van was born on March 3, 1951 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Jack and Eloise Van Laar.
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Active Sights: Art as Social Interaction
(Designed as a supplementary text, this brief, inexpensive...)
Designed as a supplementary text, this brief, inexpensive book explores the purposes of contemporary art and the complex interactions between art, artist, and viewer. Active Sights looks especially at how artist and viewer belief systems and the social functions of art affect the ways in which contemporary art is seen. The text includes 31 full-page illustrations of contemporary art, including many pieces created as recently as five years ago.
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Art with a Difference: Looking at Difficult and Unfamiliar Art
(Designed as a supplementary text for beginning art course...)
Designed as a supplementary text for beginning art courses, this brief, inexpensive text introduces issues that are typically overlooked in standard art survey texts, such as the role of the museum in creating the canon, ways to understand art of other cultures and outsider art, and the difficulty many beginners have in understanding art, especially contemporary art.
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Timothy Jon Van Laar
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1973. Master of Fine Arts, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1975.
Career
Part-time instructor Wayne State University, 1976—1977. Instructor Calvin College, 1977—1981. Assistant professor University Illinois, Champaign, 1981—1987, associate professor, 1987—1997, professor, since 1997.
Resident artist Common Ground for Arts, Detroit, 1975—1977, Urban Institute Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, 1978, Karl Hofer Gessellschaft, Berlin, 2002. Visiting lecturer Glasgow School Art, 1988—1989. Leader summer Seminar Pew Charitable Trusts, 2000, 02.
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Art with a Difference: Looking at Difficult and Unfamiliar Art
(Designed as a supplementary text for beginning art course...)
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Active Sights: Art as Social Interaction
(Designed as a supplementary text, this brief, inexpensive...)
- Active Sights: Art as Social Interaction 1st edition by Van Laar, Timothy, Diepeveen, Leonard (1997) Paperback
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Art with a Difference: Looking at Difficult and Unfamiliar Art
Membership
Member of College Art Association.
Connections
Children: Elise Kristine, Jacob Peter.
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American
Awards
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Fellow, Yaddo, 1985, Illinois Arts Council, 1987, Howard Foundation, 2001-2002. Grantee, Michigan Council Arts, 1978, Arts American, 1994. Scholar, Fulbright, 1989, Luce, 2001-2003.Fellow, Yaddo, 1985, Illinois Arts Council, 1987, Howard Foundation, 2001-2002. Grantee, Michigan Council Arts, 1978, Arts American, 1994. Scholar, Fulbright, 1989, Luce, 2001-2003.