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[[Image:BarrySanders.jpg|thumb|350px|Barry Sanders Ph.D.]]
[[Image:BarrySanders.jpg|thumb|350px|Barry Sanders Ph.D.]]
Barry Sanders, Ph.D. is a writer and [[Academia|academic]]. His projects occur increasingly at the intersection of art and activism, and include ''The Green Zone:  The Environmental Costs of Militarism'', which Project Censored named one of the top-ten censored stories of 2009, and “Over These Prison Walls,” which invites collaborations between artists and incarcerated youth. He has twice been a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|Pulitzer Prize]] and is the author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles which have been published in such periodicals as. His book-art projects include a collaboration with printmaker Michael Woodcock, ''Fourteen Ninety Two or Three''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Fourteen ninety two or three|last=Sanders|first=Barry|publisher=Windowpane Press|year=1993|isbn=|location=Pasadena, Calif|pages=1-34}}</ref>, which won Honorable Mention in the [[Carl Hertzog Awards for Excellence in Book Design]].  He has given presentations at the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] (with [[Ivan Illich]]); the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]]; and the [[Portland Art Museum]], among many others, and in 2013, curated the show ''Infinity Device'' with [[Anne-Marie Oliver]] at the Historic Maddox Building in Portland, Oregon.  He was the first to occupy the Gold Chair at [[Pitzer College]], where he taught, among other things, the history of ideas and medieval church iconography.  Along with [[Anne-Marie Oliver]], he founded and chaired the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research Program at the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies, [[Pacific Northwest College of Art]].<ref name="pnca">[http://pnca.edu/faculty/meet/bsanders Pacific Northwest College of Art.edu: Barry Sanders; Co-chair of MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research] . accessed 4.29.2014</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.acast.com/interviewsfromyaleradioartistscuratorsandmore/anne-marie-oliver-barry-sanders|title=Anne-Marie Oliver / Barry Sanders {{!}} Interviews from Yale Radio / Artists, Curators and more on acast|last=acast|date=2016-09-08|work=acast|access-date=2017-05-12|language=en}}</ref> <ref name="oregonian">[http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/anna_griffin/index.ssf/2011/04/oregon_book_award_finalist_bar.html OregonLive.com: "Barry Sanders: The purposeful rambler"]; Oregonian; April 16, 2011 . accessed 4.29.2014</ref> He is the Founding Executive Co-Director of the [[Oregon Institute for Creative Research]] with [[Anne-Marie Oliver]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/anne-marie-oliver-barry-sanders/|title=Anne-Marie Oliver / Barry Sanders|last=brainardcarey|date=2016-09-08|work=Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX|access-date=2017-05-12|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.wsu.edu/announcement/anne-marie-oliver-lecture/|title=Anne-Marie Oliver Lecture {{!}} WSU News {{!}} Washington State University|work=WSU News|access-date=2017-05-12|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://praxiscenterforaestheticstudies.com/blog/259402/perpectivies|title=Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies {{!}} The mathematics of our lives|website=praxiscenterforaestheticstudies.com|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>and is a contributing editor at the [[North American Review]].
'''Barry Sanders, Ph.D.''' is a writer and [[Academia|academic]]. His projects occur increasingly at the intersection of art and activism, and include ''The Green Zone:  The Environmental Costs of Militarism'', which Project Censored named one of the top-ten censored stories of 2009<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://projectcensored.org/2-us-department-of-defense-is-the-worst-polluter-on-the-planet/|title=2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet - Top 25 of 2011|date=2010-10-02|work=Project Censored|access-date=2017-05-12|language=en-US}}</ref>, and “Over These Prison Walls,” which invites collaborations between artists and incarcerated youth. He has twice been nominated for the [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|Pulitzer Prize]] and is the author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles .<ref>[http://pica.org/artists/barry-sanders/ PICA | Barry Sanders]</ref> His 2002 essay for ''Cabinet,'' “Bang the Keys Softly: Type-Writers and Their Dis-Contents,” has been reprinted in ''Courier'' (University Art Museum, [[State University of New York|SUNY]]) as well as ''Ghost in the Machine'' ([[New Museum]]) the catalogue for the art exhibition by the same title that surveyed the constantly shifting relationship between humans, machines, and art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/8/keys.php|title=CABINET // Bang the Keys Swiftly: Type-Writers and Their Discontents|website=www.cabinetmagazine.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.albany.edu/news/9837.php|title=UAlbany Art Museum Takes on the Typewriter with 'Courier' - University at Albany-SUNY|website=www.albany.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/information/press/sanders_new_museum.php|title=CABINET // Cabinet Press|website=www.cabinetmagazine.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Ghosts in the Machine exhibition catalogue|last=Sanders|first=Barry|publisher=New Museum, Skira Rizzoli Publications|year=2012|isbn=|location=New York|pages=194–201.}}</ref>
His book-art projects include a collaboration with printmaker Michael Woodcock, ''Fourteen Ninety Two or Three''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Fourteen ninety two or three|last=Sanders|first=Barry|publisher=Windowpane Press|year=1993|isbn=|location=Pasadena, Calif|pages=1-34}}</ref>, which won Honorable Mention in the [[Carl Hertzog Awards for Excellence in Book Design]].  He has given presentations at the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] (with [[Ivan Illich]]); the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]]; and the [[Portland Art Museum]], among many others. In 2013, co-curated the show ''Infinity Device with [[Anne-Marie Oliver]]'' at the Historic Maddox Building in Portland, Oregon. 
Sanders has had an extensive academic career and was the first to occupy the Gold Chair at [[Pitzer College]], where he taught, the history of ideas and medieval church iconography among other things.  Along with [[Anne-Marie Oliver]], he founded and chaired the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research Program at the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies, [[Pacific Northwest College of Art]].<ref name="pnca">[http://pnca.edu/faculty/meet/bsanders Pacific Northwest College of Art.edu: Barry Sanders; Co-chair of MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research] . accessed 4.29.2014</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.acast.com/interviewsfromyaleradioartistscuratorsandmore/anne-marie-oliver-barry-sanders|title=Anne-Marie Oliver / Barry Sanders {{!}} Interviews from Yale Radio / Artists, Curators and more on acast|last=acast|date=2016-09-08|work=acast|access-date=2017-05-12|language=en}}</ref> <ref name="oregonian">[http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/anna_griffin/index.ssf/2011/04/oregon_book_award_finalist_bar.html OregonLive.com: "Barry Sanders: The purposeful rambler"]; Oregonian; April 16, 2011 . accessed 4.29.2014</ref> He is the Founding Executive Co-Director of the [[Oregon Institute for Creative Research]] with [[Anne-Marie Oliver]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/anne-marie-oliver-barry-sanders/|title=Anne-Marie Oliver / Barry Sanders|last=brainardcarey|date=2016-09-08|work=Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX|access-date=2017-05-12|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.wsu.edu/announcement/anne-marie-oliver-lecture/|title=Anne-Marie Oliver Lecture {{!}} WSU News {{!}} Washington State University|work=WSU News|access-date=2017-05-12|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://praxiscenterforaestheticstudies.com/blog/259402/perpectivies|title=Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies {{!}} The mathematics of our lives|website=praxiscenterforaestheticstudies.com|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>


==Academic and writing career==
==Academic and writing career==
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Sanders joined the faculty at [[Southern Illinois University]], and helped students start a radical newspaper to [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|protest the war in Vietnam]] and organized a three-day teach-in. He received death threats and a request from administrators to take his talents elsewhere. A stint at [[California State University, Northridge|Valley State College]] (CSUN) in California ended the same way, Sanders was fired in 1971 not long after being arrested at an anti-war protest along with 200 students. <ref name="oregonian"/>
Sanders joined the faculty at [[Southern Illinois University]], and helped students start a radical newspaper to [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|protest the war in Vietnam]] and organized a three-day teach-in. He received death threats and a request from administrators to take his talents elsewhere. A stint at [[California State University, Northridge|Valley State College]] (CSUN) in California ended the same way, Sanders was fired in 1971 not long after being arrested at an anti-war protest along with 200 students. <ref name="oregonian"/>

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In 1998 Sanders received his second nomination for a Pulitzer Prize, by [[Harper's Magazine]], for the book ''Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619–2000'', with his co-author Francis D. Adams. The Detroit Free Press named it a "Notable Book of the Year".


In 1972 he started teaching at [[Pitzer College]] in [[Claremont, California|Claremont]] where he became the Gold Chair, and was a professor in the departments of Literature and the History of Ideas for 33 years. He was the first to hold the Peter S. and Gloria Gold Chair at Pitzer, and retired from the college in 2005.
In 1972 he started teaching at [[Pitzer College]] in [[Claremont, California|Claremont]] where he became the Gold Chair, and was a professor in the departments of Literature and the History of Ideas for 33 years. He was the first to hold the Peter S. and Gloria Gold Chair at Pitzer, and retired from the college in 2005.
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===Publications===
===Publications===
Barry Sanders is the author and co-author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles, has twice been nominated for the [[Pulitzer Prize]], and twice a finalist for the [[Oregon Book Award]]. <ref>[http://pica.org/artists/barry-sanders/ PICA | Barry Sanders]</ref>
Barry Sanders is the author and co-author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles, has twice been nominated for the [[Pulitzer Prize]], and twice a finalist for the [[Oregon Book Award]].
====Author====
====Author====
*''A is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Word'' (1994)
*''A is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Word'' (1994)
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*''ABC, The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind'' (1989) — co-author [[Ivan Illich]], on the shift from orality to literacy in the European Middle Ages.
*''ABC, The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind'' (1989) — co-author [[Ivan Illich]], on the shift from orality to literacy in the European Middle Ages.
*''Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619–2000'' (2004), co-author Francis D. Adams.
*''Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619–2000'' (2004), co-author Francis D. Adams.

⚫
In 1998 Sanders received his second nomination for a Pulitzer Prize, by [[Harper's Magazine]], for the book ''Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619–2000'', with his co-author Francis D. Adams. The Detroit Free Press named it a "Notable Book of the Year".


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Ivan Illich]] — ''Co-author''.
*[[Ivan Illich]] — ''Co-author''.
*[[Paul Shepard|Paul Shepard — ''Co-author''.]]
*[[Paul Shepard|Francis D. Adams — ''Co-author''.]]


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 20:01, 12 May 2017

Barry Sanders Ph.D.

Barry Sanders, Ph.D. is a writer and academic. His projects occur increasingly at the intersection of art and activism, and include The Green Zone:  The Environmental Costs of Militarism, which Project Censored named one of the top-ten censored stories of 2009[1], and “Over These Prison Walls,” which invites collaborations between artists and incarcerated youth. He has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is the author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles .[2] His 2002 essay for Cabinet, “Bang the Keys Softly: Type-Writers and Their Dis-Contents,” has been reprinted in Courier (University Art Museum, SUNY) as well as Ghost in the Machine (New Museum) the catalogue for the art exhibition by the same title that surveyed the constantly shifting relationship between humans, machines, and art.[3][4][5][6]

His book-art projects include a collaboration with printmaker Michael Woodcock, Fourteen Ninety Two or Three[7], which won Honorable Mention in the Carl Hertzog Awards for Excellence in Book Design.  He has given presentations at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (with Ivan Illich); the J. Paul Getty Museum; and the Portland Art Museum, among many others. In 2013, co-curated the show Infinity Device with Anne-Marie Oliver at the Historic Maddox Building in Portland, Oregon. 

Sanders has had an extensive academic career and was the first to occupy the Gold Chair at Pitzer College, where he taught, the history of ideas and medieval church iconography among other things.  Along with Anne-Marie Oliver, he founded and chaired the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research Program at the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art.[8][9] [10] He is the Founding Executive Co-Director of the Oregon Institute for Creative Research with Anne-Marie Oliver.[11][12][13]

Academic and writing career

Sanders received an MS from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960, and an MA from USC—University of Southern California in 1963. He earned a doctorate in Medieval literature from USC in 1966. [8]

Sanders joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University, and helped students start a radical newspaper to protest the war in Vietnam and organized a three-day teach-in. He received death threats and a request from administrators to take his talents elsewhere. A stint at Valley State College (CSUN) in California ended the same way, Sanders was fired in 1971 not long after being arrested at an anti-war protest along with 200 students. [10]

In 1998 Sanders received his second nomination for a Pulitzer Prize, by Harper's Magazine, for the book Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619–2000, with his co-author Francis D. Adams. The Detroit Free Press named it a "Notable Book of the Year".

In 1972 he started teaching at Pitzer College in Claremont where he became the Gold Chair, and was a professor in the departments of Literature and the History of Ideas for 33 years. He was the first to hold the Peter S. and Gloria Gold Chair at Pitzer, and retired from the college in 2005.

In 2005 Sanders won a five-year appointment as Senior Fulbright Scholar, to investigate the idea of the Commons in Greece.[14]

He was featured on WNYC's Radiolab program in 2008, and is a contributing editor of North American Review. [10]

Sanders taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. [8] He and Anne Marie Oliver are the Founding Co-chairs of the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research at the PNCA Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies and the Ford Institute for Visual Education. [15] His projects increasingly occur at the intersection of art and activism. [8]

Publications

Barry Sanders is the author and co-author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles, has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and twice a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.

Author

  • A is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Word (1994)
  • Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History (1996) — Explores the history of laughter, emphasizing the ways in which it has been used as a means of political subversion.
  • The Private Death of Public Discourse (1998) — thesis is that civil public discourse is possible only if there is the necessary corollary of truly introspective quest for meaning. .
  • The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of US Militarism (2009) — (finalist in the 2011 Oregon Book Award general nonfiction category.)[10] [16][17]
  • Unsuspecting Souls: The Disappearance of The Human Being (2010) — the collusion of drugs and aesthetics in the late nineteenth century Victorian era. [18] (finalist in the 2011 Oregon Book Award general nonfiction category.)[10]

In 1994 Sanders received his first nomination for a Pulitzer Prize from Random House for his book A is For Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Word.

Co-author

  • The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature (1985) — co-author Paul Shepard.
  • ABC, The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind (1989) — co-author Ivan Illich, on the shift from orality to literacy in the European Middle Ages.
  • Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619–2000 (2004), co-author Francis D. Adams.

See also

References

  1. ^ "2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet - Top 25 of 2011". Project Censored. October 2, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  2. ^ PICA | Barry Sanders
  3. ^ "CABINET // Bang the Keys Swiftly: Type-Writers and Their Discontents". www.cabinetmagazine.org. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  4. ^ "UAlbany Art Museum Takes on the Typewriter with 'Courier' - University at Albany-SUNY". www.albany.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  5. ^ "CABINET // Cabinet Press". www.cabinetmagazine.org. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  6. ^ Sanders, Barry (2012). Ghosts in the Machine exhibition catalogue. New York: New Museum, Skira Rizzoli Publications. pp. 194–201.
  7. ^ Sanders, Barry (1993). Fourteen ninety two or three. Pasadena, Calif: Windowpane Press. pp. 1–34.
  8. ^ a b c d Pacific Northwest College of Art.edu: Barry Sanders; Co-chair of MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research . accessed 4.29.2014
  9. ^ acast (September 8, 2016). "Anne-Marie Oliver / Barry Sanders | Interviews from Yale Radio / Artists, Curators and more on acast". acast. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  10. ^ a b c d e OregonLive.com: "Barry Sanders: The purposeful rambler"; Oregonian; April 16, 2011 . accessed 4.29.2014
  11. ^ brainardcarey (September 8, 2016). "Anne-Marie Oliver / Barry Sanders". Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  12. ^ "Anne-Marie Oliver Lecture | WSU News | Washington State University". WSU News. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  13. ^ "Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies | The mathematics of our lives". praxiscenterforaestheticstudies.com. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  14. ^ Pitzer.edu on Barry Sander's Fulbright Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Art & Education.net: MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research at Pacific Northwest College of Art and the Ford Institute for Visual Education
  16. ^ HuffingtonPost.com: "The Green Zone: The Worst Lie Of All" (consequences of the Iraq war); by Barry Sanders; October 28, 2007.
  17. ^ HuffingtonPost.com: "The Green Zone: The Military's Addiction To Oil"; by Barry Sanders; October 29, 2007.
  18. ^ The Nervous Breakdown blog: Barry Sanders | Unsuspecting Souls: An Excerpt

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