David hall artist
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David Hall was a pioneer of video and installation art. One of the first artists to establish video as an art form, Hall began working initially as a sculptor in the 1960s, when participated in the seminal exhibition ‘Primary Structures’ in New York (1966), which marked the beginnings of Minimalism. That year, he co-founded the pioneering artist’s organisation ‘Artist Placement Group’ (APG), along with Barbara Steveni, John Latham, Barry Flanagan, Anna Ridley and Jeffrey Shaw, amongst others. It was during this time he began working with film and turned entirely to video as an art medium in the early 1970s.
Hall's television interventions first appeared on Scottish TV in 1971, followed by his co-organisation of 'The Video Show', the first significant international show of video work in the UK, at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1975. In 1976, he initiated and founded the artists' organisation London Video Arts, now part of Lux, London. Appointed Honorary Professor at Dundee University in 2003, he taught at the Royal College of Ar
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David D. Hall
American historian of religion (born 1936)
David Drisko Hall (born 1936) is an American historian, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at Harvard Divinity School.[1]
Life
Hall was born on July 8, 1936. He graduated from Harvard University, and from Yale University with a PhD.[2] He is well known for introducing lived religion to religious studies scholarship in the United States, most notably at Harvard Divinity School.
Awards
Works
- The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century, Omohundro Institute, 1972 (Harvard Divinity School, 2006, ISBN 978-0-674-01959-1)
- Hall, David D. (1989). Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. Knopf. ISBN . (Harvard University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-674-96216-3)
- Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology. Princeton University Press. 2004. ISBN .
- Hall, David D. (2008). Ways of writing: the practice and politics of text-making in seventeent
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About
DAVID HALL was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1952 and a law degree from the University of Tulsa in 1969. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 and was a captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, Judge Advocate General Division. Hall served as Assistant Tulsa County Attorney from 1959 to 1962 and Tulsa County Attorney from 1962 to 1966. In the 1970 gubernatorial election, Hall defeated incumbent Governor Dewey Bartlett in the closest gubernatorial election in state history, which required a recount to confirm the outcome. During his tenure as governor, Hall was a member of the National Governors Association’s Executive Committee. His administration focused on the state’s education system and was committed to expansion of Oklahoma’s roads. Three days after leaving office, Hall was indicted by a federal grand jury for violations of antiracketeering statutes while he was the state’s chief executive. He was convicted and served nineteen months of a three-year sentence. Upon his r
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