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==Biography==
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John Rosenbaum graduated from [[Cornell University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cornellbigred.com/sports/2009/7/20/MXC_0720091558.aspx?path=mcross |title=Cornell University Men's Cross Country History webpage |publisher=Cornellbigred.com |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=[ Displaying Abstract ] |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50615FC3959177B93C6A91789D95F408585F9 |title="Cornell Elects Rosenbaum", New York Times, Dec. 4, 1954 |publisher=Select.nytimes.com |date=December 4, 1954 |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> with a degree in [[engineering physics]] in 1957.<ref>[http://hepstrack.com/championships/heps-cross-country/mens-results/the-1950s/1953-2/]</ref> He moved to the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] in the early 1960s. He contributed to the [[Harvard Project Physics]] textbooks.<ref>''Project Physics: Text'' Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975 edition, ISBN 0-03-089634-7, appendix p. A23</ref> He was associated with the [[free school movement]] in the 1960s, and was a colleague of the educator [[Herbert Kohl (educator)|Herbert Kohl]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://negroartist.com/writings/BLACK%20PANTHER%20NEWSPAPERS/9%20no%2030.htm |title="Black Panther Newspaper", "Center for Open Learning and Teaching" workshop notice, ca. 1973 |publisher=Negroartist.com |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> who described Rosenbaum's educational work in his books ''The Open Classroom''<ref>''The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching'', Herbert R. Kohl. New York Review/Vintage Books, 1969, pp. 64–65</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vidyaonline.org/dl/openclassroom.pdf |title='&#39;The Open Classroom'&#39; online text, p. 24 |format=PDF |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> and ''Math, Writing & Games in the Open Classroom''.<ref>''Math, Writing and Games in the Open Classroom'', Herbert R. Kohl. New York Review/Vintage Books, 1974, ISBN 0-394-70995-0, pp. 134–136</ref> He designed the Xylopipes [[xylophone]] children's toy for [[Creative Playthings]].<ref>[http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/6286/parkinson-s-fails-to-squelch-artistry-of-a-former-scientist/]</ref> Rosenbaum created "Light Boxes",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?objectId=89923 |title="Untitled Kinetic Construction", 1968. Yale University Art Gallery |publisher=Ecatalogue.art.yale.edu |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> [[Lumino Kinetic Art|kinetic sculptures]] using [[Polaroid (polarizer)|polarized]] light and layers of [[cellophane]] laminated between pairs of rotating glass disks, producing changing patterns and [[Polarization (waves)#Materials science|colors]] similar to, and on a smaller scale than, [[Liquid light shows|light shows]] projected at rock concerts in the 1960s. He was exhibited by the [[Felix Landau (art)|Landau Gallery]]<ref name="worldcat1969">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/ow/22156732 |title=John Rosenbaum: kinetic constructions with polarized light: exhibition May 26 – June 21, 1969, Felix Landau Gallery |publisher=Worldcat.org |date=June 21, 1969 |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> in [[La Cienega Boulevard|Beverly Hills]], among others.<ref>Andrews, Oliver. ''Electric Art'', exhibition catalog. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Department, 1969</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-23/entertainment/ca-2090_1_public-art | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Leah | last=Ollman | title=ART REVIEW : Walbridge Exhibit's Power Weakened by Indulgence | date=May 23, 1988}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.newyorker.com/default.aspx?iid=16463&startpage=page0000012 |title='&#39;The New Yorker'&#39;, Jan. 6, 1968, digital edition |publisher=Archives.newyorker.com |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>"John Rosenbaum: Constructions with polarized light by a physicist-artist;", ''The New Yorker'' Jan. 6, 1968, p. 10, E. 84th St. gallery listing</ref> He was a colleague of silk screen artist [[Arthur Okamura]]. He designed the original logo for [[Herbie Mann]]'s [[Embryo Records]]. He died in Alameda, California of complications from [[Parkinson's disease]] in 2003.<ref>[http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/Archive/2004julaug/notes/obits.html "Cornell Alumni Magazine" July/Aug. 2004 V. 107 # 1, Alumni Deaths]{{dead link|date=January 2012}}</ref>
John Rosenbaum graduated from [[Cornell University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cornellbigred.com/sports/2009/7/20/MXC_0720091558.aspx?path=mcross |title=Cornell University Men's Cross Country History webpage |publisher=Cornellbigred.com |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=[ Displaying Abstract ] |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50615FC3959177B93C6A91789D95F408585F9 |title="Cornell Elects Rosenbaum", New York Times, Dec. 4, 1954 |publisher=Select.nytimes.com |date=December 4, 1954 |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> with a degree in [[engineering physics]] in 1957.<ref>[http://hepstrack.com/championships/heps-cross-country/mens-results/the-1950s/1953-2/]</ref> He moved to the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] in the early 1960s. He contributed to the [[Harvard Project Physics]] textbooks.<ref>''Project Physics: Text'' Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975 edition, ISBN 0-03-089634-7, appendix p. A23</ref> He was associated with the [[free school movement]] in the 1960s, and was a colleague of the educator [[Herbert Kohl (educator)|Herbert Kohl]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://negroartist.com/writings/BLACK%20PANTHER%20NEWSPAPERS/9%20no%2030.htm |title="Black Panther Newspaper", "Center for Open Learning and Teaching" workshop notice, ca. 1973 |publisher=Negroartist.com |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> who described Rosenbaum's educational work in his books ''The Open Classroom''<ref>''The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching'', Herbert R. Kohl. New York Review/Vintage Books, 1969, pp. 64–65</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vidyaonline.org/dl/openclassroom.pdf |title='&#39;The Open Classroom'&#39; online text, p. 24 |format=PDF |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> and ''Math, Writing & Games in the Open Classroom''.<ref>''Math, Writing and Games in the Open Classroom'', Herbert R. Kohl. New York Review/Vintage Books, 1974, ISBN 0-394-70995-0, pp. 134–136</ref> He designed the Xylopipes [[xylophone]] children's toy for [[Creative Playthings]].<ref>[http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/6286/parkinson-s-fails-to-squelch-artistry-of-a-former-scientist/]</ref> Rosenbaum created "Light Boxes",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?objectId=89923 |title="Untitled Kinetic Construction", 1968. Yale University Art Gallery |publisher=Ecatalogue.art.yale.edu |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> [[Lumino Kinetic Art|kinetic sculptures]] using [[Polaroid (polarizer)|polarized]] light and layers of [[cellophane]] laminated between pairs of rotating glass disks, producing changing patterns and [[Polarization (waves)#Materials science|colors]] similar to, and on a smaller scale than, [[Liquid light shows|light shows]] projected at rock concerts in the 1960s. He was exhibited by the [[Felix Landau (art)|Landau Gallery]]<ref name="worldcat1969">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/ow/22156732 |title=John Rosenbaum: kinetic constructions with polarized light: exhibition May 26 – June 21, 1969, Felix Landau Gallery |publisher=Worldcat.org |date=June 21, 1969 |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> in [[La Cienega Boulevard|Beverly Hills]], among others.<ref>Andrews, Oliver. ''Electric Art'', exhibition catalog. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Department, 1969</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-23/entertainment/ca-2090_1_public-art | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Leah | last=Ollman | title=ART REVIEW : Walbridge Exhibit's Power Weakened by Indulgence | date=May 23, 1988}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.newyorker.com/default.aspx?iid=16463&startpage=page0000012 |title='&#39;The New Yorker'&#39;, Jan. 6, 1968, digital edition |publisher=Archives.newyorker.com |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>"John Rosenbaum: Constructions with polarized light by a physicist-artist;", ''The New Yorker'' Jan. 6, 1968, p. 10, E. 84th St. gallery listing</ref> He was a colleague of silk screen artist [[Arthur Okamura]]. He designed the original logo for [[Herbie Mann]]'s [[Embryo Records]]. He died in Alameda, California of complications from [[Parkinson's disease]] in 2003.<ref>[http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/Archive/2004julaug/notes/obits.html "Cornell Alumni Magazine" July/Aug. 2004 V. 107 # 1, Alumni Deaths] {{wayback|url=http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/Archive/2004julaug/notes/obits.html |date=20060516015259 }}</ref>
[[File:TCMI Creative Playthings Xylopipes 3.jpg|thumb|100px|Xylopipes, designed by Rosenbaum for [[Creative Playthings]], ca 1960s]]
[[File:TCMI Creative Playthings Xylopipes 3.jpg|thumb|100px|Xylopipes, designed by Rosenbaum for [[Creative Playthings]], ca 1960s]]


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John Rosenbaum (September 3, 1934, in Brigantine, New Jersey[1] – September 30, 2003, in Alameda, California), was an American physicist, educator [2] and kinetic sculptor,[3] associated with the San Francisco Renaissance [4][5] and the counterculture of the 1960s.

Biography

John Rosenbaum graduated from Cornell University[6][7] with a degree in engineering physics in 1957.[8] He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1960s. He contributed to the Harvard Project Physics textbooks.[9] He was associated with the free school movement in the 1960s, and was a colleague of the educator Herbert Kohl,[10] who described Rosenbaum's educational work in his books The Open Classroom[11][12] and Math, Writing & Games in the Open Classroom.[13] He designed the Xylopipes xylophone children's toy for Creative Playthings.[14] Rosenbaum created "Light Boxes",[15] kinetic sculptures using polarized light and layers of cellophane laminated between pairs of rotating glass disks, producing changing patterns and colors similar to, and on a smaller scale than, light shows projected at rock concerts in the 1960s. He was exhibited by the Landau Gallery[16] in Beverly Hills, among others.[17][18][19][20] He was a colleague of silk screen artist Arthur Okamura. He designed the original logo for Herbie Mann's Embryo Records. He died in Alameda, California of complications from Parkinson's disease in 2003.[21]

Xylopipes, designed by Rosenbaum for Creative Playthings, ca 1960s

Exhibitions

See also

Tension in plastic film, showing colors as used in Rosenbaum's kinetic sculptures

References

  1. ^ "Cornell Elects Rosenbaum", New York Times, Dec 4, 1954 "John J Rosenbaum Jr of Brigantine N J today was elected captain of Cornell's 1955 varsity crosscountry team"
  2. ^ "National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report 1982" (PDF). Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  3. ^ "August 8, 1997 "Parkinson's fails to squelch artistry of a former scientist", Ronnie Caplane, ''Jewish Bulletin'', August 8, 1997". Jweekly.com. August 8, 1997. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  4. ^ Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–1980, Thomas Albright. University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 1985, ISBN 0-520-05518-7 (p. 172)
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ "Cornell University Men's Cross Country History webpage". Cornellbigred.com. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  7. ^ [ Displaying Abstract ] (December 4, 1954). ""Cornell Elects Rosenbaum", New York Times, Dec. 4, 1954". Select.nytimes.com. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  8. ^ [2]
  9. ^ Project Physics: Text Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975 edition, ISBN 0-03-089634-7, appendix p. A23
  10. ^ ""Black Panther Newspaper", "Center for Open Learning and Teaching" workshop notice, ca. 1973". Negroartist.com. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  11. ^ The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching, Herbert R. Kohl. New York Review/Vintage Books, 1969, pp. 64–65
  12. ^ "''The Open Classroom'' online text, p. 24" (PDF). Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  13. ^ Math, Writing and Games in the Open Classroom, Herbert R. Kohl. New York Review/Vintage Books, 1974, ISBN 0-394-70995-0, pp. 134–136
  14. ^ [3]
  15. ^ ""Untitled Kinetic Construction", 1968. Yale University Art Gallery". Ecatalogue.art.yale.edu. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  16. ^ a b "John Rosenbaum: kinetic constructions with polarized light: exhibition May 26 – June 21, 1969, Felix Landau Gallery". Worldcat.org. June 21, 1969. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  17. ^ Andrews, Oliver. Electric Art, exhibition catalog. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Department, 1969
  18. ^ Ollman, Leah (May 23, 1988). "ART REVIEW : Walbridge Exhibit's Power Weakened by Indulgence". Los Angeles Times.
  19. ^ "''The New Yorker'', Jan. 6, 1968, digital edition". Archives.newyorker.com. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  20. ^ "John Rosenbaum: Constructions with polarized light by a physicist-artist;", The New Yorker Jan. 6, 1968, p. 10, E. 84th St. gallery listing
  21. ^ "Cornell Alumni Magazine" July/Aug. 2004 V. 107 # 1, Alumni Deaths Archived 2006-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ Thompson, Peter, ed.; "John Rosenbaum and Arthur Okamura", Catalogue, The Civic Arts Gallery, May 21 – June 28, 1975
  23. ^ "Arthur Okamura Exhibitions/Bibliography, Braunstein/Quay Gallery website". Bquayartgallery.com. Retrieved January 17, 2012.

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