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When I arrived at my class tent in the middle of lunch, there was no one
there! How sad.
Soon two people showed up, but that was it.
| The requisite shot looking down Palm Drive from the quad.
| Another requisite shot: a row of the quad's sandstone arches. This is
along the quad's south side, looking west.
| A close-up of the top of a column. It looks like a cross between Doric
and Corinthian.
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| A close-up of the top of another column in a different part of the quad.
It looks Corinthian.
| A fancy relief between two arches.
Stanford must have money to spare for these all these flourishes.
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| Sculpture Tour
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| Humboldt with his globe. (He's a geographer.) I never noticed this
statue before though it's above the entrance to building 420, the
psychology building where I had many classes.
| Gay Liberation statues. Made using full-sized casts from the artist's
friends. They're bronze statues that were painted white. The bench was
made from wood involved in the gay riots in New York City.
I
remember this statue from when I was a student.
| Lantern dew-drop meets Hoover Tower.
| The requisite picture of the Burghers of Calai. The tour guide knows
stories about each individual burgher. Also, she told us we could touch
them.
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| This bas relief on the art building looks to me from this angle like a
city's roof-tops. It's said to use the artist's hieroglyphics, but no
one knows what it means.
| A quirky, fun (animal?) sculpture by Miro.
| From one side, the sculpture looks like a corkscrew propeller drill.
| From the other it looks like sleek boat fins.
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Concentric patterned arches at the entrance to the so-called Art Gallery
by Dohrmann Grove.
Artificially brightened.
| The back side of a totem on this side of campus. Humorously shocking.
I never would've noticed this except our tour guide has a fetish for
pointing out the rear end / rear side of sculptures.
| The front, for completeness.
| The history corner, the southwest corner of the quad, has a statue of
Leland Stanford that I never previously noticed. I had a number of
classes in this building. Also look at the detailed carvings around the
arches.
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| Looks to me like nice places to sit, but they're actually a sculpture
title Six Stones.
| Three Graces uses three copies of the same metal pieces, just in
different orientations, to compose the sculpture.
| This sculpture does likewise, just with four copies of a
differently shaped piece.
| Alber's Wall evokes music notation or perhaps a code. Game clue?
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| The opposite side is quite different. Its interesting feature is these
four patterns. Each pattern is made from the same points in the same
relative positions, just connected with lines in different ways. The
alternate lines yield different interpretations of perspective.
| Andy Goldsworthy's Stone River. It was constructed by eight
dry-wallers from Great Britain.
| Ditto. Perhaps a better shot due to better perspective and the presence
of people.
| In the Art Museum: though it looks like a horse made of driftwood, it's
actually made of bronze. The texture's authenticity comes because there
was an original driftwood sculpture from which a clay cast was made, the
wood was burned away, and then this bronze sculpture was made from the
cast.
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Also at the Art Museum, we walked a giant sculpture like those I saw at
LACMA. This one was a different experience because it was outdoors;
when you walk through the sculpture and look up, all you see are tall
metal walls and a clear, featureless blue sky. It's disorienting.
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