{"title":"Drawing All Over Again: Remembering Patrick Dean","authors":"Robert Newsome","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:When artist Patrick Dean died in May of 2021, he left behind sketchbooks, paintings, loose pieces of paper, cardboard, newsprint, a couple of sculptures, and several other things he'd drawn or painted on. After being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Dean said that he would draw as long as he was able, and he continued to experiment with different methods. With the help of his family, he learned to use eye-tracking technology. This technology, instrumental in allowing those with limited mobility to communicate, wasn't exactly intended for creating art, but Dean was determined to make it work that way. As his hands slowly stopped being able to create work, his proficiency with eye-tracking software steadily improved.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"58 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.0004","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:When artist Patrick Dean died in May of 2021, he left behind sketchbooks, paintings, loose pieces of paper, cardboard, newsprint, a couple of sculptures, and several other things he'd drawn or painted on. After being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Dean said that he would draw as long as he was able, and he continued to experiment with different methods. With the help of his family, he learned to use eye-tracking technology. This technology, instrumental in allowing those with limited mobility to communicate, wasn't exactly intended for creating art, but Dean was determined to make it work that way. As his hands slowly stopped being able to create work, his proficiency with eye-tracking software steadily improved.
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In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.