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Delphi Stadium. Built circa 580 BC, 200 meters long, 7,000 seating capacity, Delphi, Greece.

Photography Lee Sandstead

 

 

Charles Desvergnes, Sainte Jeanne d’Arc, circa 1900-1920, Notre-dame de Paris

Photography  Lee Sandstead

 

 

Biography

 

Mr. Sandstead currently resides in the New York City area, actively engaging in art history and photography. 

 

His lectures on art history and art appreciation have been heard at such notable universities as: Yale University, Duke University, Virginia Tech, Penn State University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Memphis, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University and the University of Toronto.

 

He received his B.A. Philosophy/B.S. Mass Communication from Middle Tennessee State University in December 1996, when he was awarded the prestigious award for “Outstanding Magazine Journalism Graduate.”  He has studied art history at the University of Memphis’ graduate program, and most recently, the art history doctoral program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York City.

 

He currently teaches art history at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ and is author of the forthcoming book on American master-sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman (1874-1954).

 

Articles of Note

 

Unearthing the Great: The Hall of Fame of Great Americans – The Intellectual Activist – May 2004

The Remembered Dead: What We Can Learn from the 19th-Century American Conception of the Cemetery – The Intellectual Activist – Sept. 2002

Challenging the Archetype: William Bouguereau’s 1876 Pietà - American Arts Quarterly – Summer 2001

Psycho-epistemology and Narrative in Painting - The Intellectual Activist - Nov. 1999

Mysticism vs. Heroism: Star Wars, a review - The Intellectual Activist - July 1999

Style and Psycho-epistemology in Painting- The Intellectual Activist - Aug. 1998

 

Photographic publications of Note

 

The forthcoming book by Judith Dupré:  Monuments: Life in Memory

 

Unearthing the Great: The Hall of Fame of Great Americans – The Intellectual Activist – May 2004

Patricia Cronin: The Domain of Perfect Affection, 1993–2003, exhibition catalog

Ms., March 2004

Preservation Magazine, Jan. 2004

American Cemetery Magazine, Nov. 2003

New York Times, Sunday, NY City edition, October 26, 2003

The New Intellectual, April 2003

New York Post, Nov. 2, 2002

 

 

Jules Lefebvre, detail from Truth, 1870

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Photography Lee Sandstead

 

 

Emile Signol (1804-1892)

Vis Divina

Mural in Saint Eustache, Paris

Photography Lee Sandstead

 

 

Harriet Frishmuth, Slavic Dancer, n.d., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Photography Lee Sandstead