Moving here, as well as construction was a huge economic boom. As we go from agricultural to suburbia, one of the big contributing factors of that are these machines right here. So you have cooling, which this would have filled up with water and air would have been blown through it because in the desert its so dry that the addition of humidity would cool he air down. But it didnt do as good a job. Then you have this, which was brought to arizona via motorola. But it then made its way not just from that industrial use but then every home started having its own air conditioning as well. This really caused was one of the major factors in folks now moving to arizona. Because before that, it was really the weather that prevented folks from being here yearround. But with the addition of air conditioning, you now had the ability to control your own climate and your house. Arizona is a state that is very much still finding itself. Its a new state. 1912. We just celebrated, a few years ago, cen
The frankstage at lloyd wright theater in tempe, arizona. Visits thestory tv art museum to learn more about the collection of political art. The print collection is one of the largest at the museum. 7000 works on paper, and they are cared for and stored and made available for close study and viewing here in the print study room. One of the areas of concentration within the print collection is artists dealing with social and political content. A lot of these artists throughout history have recognized the art forms ability to bring about social change. They are just like us, living in their own time frame, and they want to reflect upon what is going on around them. And potentially influence society with their work. And the amazing thing about prints is it allows them to be powerful social tools, really, is they are relatively inexpensive to produce. They are multiple. They are less expensive to acquire. And so they really penetrate all aspects of society. And they are excellent platform
Artists dealing with social and plenty social and political content. A lot of these artists throughout history have recognized the artforms ability to bring about social change. Later, we will make our way to the top of hayden butte and hear about the man credited 40 settlement, Charles Hayden. He was a Community Builder in a wider sense. Thinking about what could he do to help the Community Get bigger and that is in a lot of ways why his figure has become bigger historically. We begin the hour at the asu library, where we will looking at items from two long serving senators, Barry Goldwater and carl hayden. The arizona collection here at the asu library preserves accessible the papers of 14 members of congress from arizona. The goldwater papers and the hayden papers are the two largest archival collections that document the works of the arizona congressional delegation. Hayden is an interesting individual because his father was the first white settler of the city in about 1870. He bui
Throughout history have recognized the art forms ability to bring about social change. They are just like us, living in their own time frame, and they want to reflect upon what is going on around them, and potentially influence society with their work. And the amazing thing about prints that allows them to be really powerful social tools, really, is they are relatively inexpensive to produce. They are multiples. They are less expensive to acquire. And so they really penetrate all aspects of society. And they are excellent platform with which to convey information, both image and text. And so lot of artists have used print specifically for this reason. So we selected today from the collection a range of prints from the 18th century through to contemporary of artists dealing with social and political content. And what is really amazing is that while a lot of the specifics change so, the settings, the costumes, the specific details of the current event the broader issues remain the same.
Throughout history have recognized the art forms ability to bring about social change. They are just like us, living in their own time frame, and they want to reflect upon what is going on around them, and potentially influence society with their work. And the amazing thing about prints that allows them to be really powerful social tools, really, is they are relatively inexpensive to produce. They are multiples. They are less expensive to acquire. And so they really penetrate all aspects of society. And they are excellent platform with which to convey information, both image and text. And so lot of artists have used print specifically for this reason. So we selected today from the collection a range of prints from the 18th century through to contemporary of artists dealing with social and political content. And what is really amazing is that while a lot of the specifics change so, the settings, the costumes, the specific details of the current event the broader issues remain the same.