Art & Photography Books

Book SynopsisResponding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentialityan object's ability to changein architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful embodiment of intentions. Instead, the philosophy of design developed in the text promptsthrough a variety of case studies, thinkers, and disciplinesa collective reconsideration of value, dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design are canonically defined vis-à-vis status-quo economic and socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical assumptions that underpin these practTable of ContentsI. Introduction: Tampering with Design Potentials on a Warming Planet PART I: TABULA RASA 1. Ecologies of Inception: Orientation of Designed Objects 2. Hylomorphism Reconsidered: Matter, Form, and the Ability to Change PART II: HYPERMATERIALS 3. Purity beyond Nature and Culture: Wildfires, Hypermaterials, and Co-option 4. Circularities: Technical Nutrients, Hyperobjects, and Rooms PART III: AUTHORSHIP 5. Rasura Tabulae: From Formats to Media 6. Ecologies of Suspension: Potentiality without Intentions/Relations 7. Exaptive Design: Radical Coauthorship as Method 8. Authorship vs. Withdrawal: OOO and Architecture 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines transmissibility to remind us why the vitality and epistemic significance of an artwork is anachronistic and futural. Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History performs a transdisciplinary philosophy of aesthetic history via the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Cy Twombly, Marina Abramovic, Paul Celan, Cecil Taylor, Italo Calvino, Candida Höfer, and others by focusing on the?artistic and historiographic labor that differentiates artworks from other modes of creation.Trade Review Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History is an exuberant inquiry into the moment—better still, the movement—of transmissibility that pushes aesthetic form over the edge of political praxis, and vice versa. How does art-work survive transitional life-worlds? How are we to think and write about ontological and historical immanence within aesthetic history? Jae Emerling accompanies his reader every step of the way in this exciting and erudite text: he works side-by-side with you to face the challenge of making sense of what it means to encounter art.Homi Bhabha, Harvard UniversityVery occasionally a writer will come along who changes what it might mean to write about art and culture, giving us the permission to take new liberties. In this dazzling, innovative and courageous book, Jae Emerling enacts a radical approach to thinking the intersections of the history and ontology of art. Proposing the concept of ‘transmissibility’ for an ‘aesthetic history’ that complicates the history of art and the history of aesthetics, he demonstrates a new way of thinking artworks as ontological-historiographical configurations, or ‘sense-events’. Rather than the presentation of a new discourse or manifesto, Emerling offers transmissibility as a concept kept in tension, refracted through aesthetic figures and conceptual personae, and continually recreated within the experience of creative acts. Here, experimental historiography meets experimental writing. Crossing an astonishing breadth of references and interlocutors across philosophy, the history of art, literature and critical theory, visual and material culture, Emerling inspires the field by which we think with art. In luminous prose, the book plays, tests, and even betrays its multiple sources, performing the anachronisms and transdisciplinary provocations it describes, deftly moving between modes and genres of writing – the aphoristic, the meditation, the dialogic, the confessional, the fictional – whilst keeping us within the singular thickness of ideas. What must writing do to affirm the becoming of art? How can we extract the virtual from the historical? Emerling addresses such issues as memory, time, destruction, imagination, love and failure whilst drawing us into the folds and intimacies of his thought, and the ceaseless ebbs and flows of an intellectual journey. Transmissibility is a paean to how truly vital scholarship begins with the raw and unmediated experience of an author's real encounters; a love letter to reading without boundaries. Provocative, impassioned, searingly creative, this a book to help us envision the future of writing and thinking about art, its histories and theories, and its multifarious effects. Kamini Vellodi, University of EdinburghJae Emerling has done the remarkable. He argues convincingly that transmissibility is both of and for aesthetics (where aesthetics is critical and transformative thinking), but that it is also of and for history too; which is to say, that it is attentive to both the ontological and the experimental-creative historiographic properties of art. In all this, transmissibility is feral—as is Emerling in the shape of his thinking, his use of language’s materiality, and the rhythm of his writing, and thus what it does—as it (and he) cuts across fields and practices, problematising them, and our affective experiences of them too. How is it possible for Emerling to do all this? Read the book, it’ll blow your bloody doors off! Marquard Smith, University College LondonTable of ContentsI. Introduction: "Visions and Auditions" II. Twenty-first Series of Aesthetic History III. Twenty-first Series of Aesthetic History: Hypomnemata IV. Sybil of Cumae, or Indiscernibility V. From Oceanic Chaos…A Luminous Wave VI. Imperceptibility, or The Ear of the Future VII. To Transmit and Receive Vibrations and Waves VIII. Impersonality, or Bob Dylan as a Column of Air

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Book SynopsisPhotographic lighting is a topic that will never go out of style, no matter how sophisticated cameras and other technology get. Even with the most high-tech gear, photographers still need to put a lot of thought and vision into lighting their photographs in order to get great results. Mastering this key skill has the power to dramatically and quickly improve your photographs as well as your efficiency.LightâScience & Magic provides you with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light, with examples and instructions for practical application. Featuring photographs, diagrams, and step-by-step instructions, this book speaks to photographers of varying levels. It provides invaluable information on how to light the most difficult subjects, such as surfaces, metal, glass, liquids, extremes (black-on-black and white-on-white), and portraits.This new edition includes:â Expanded chapters on portraiture and lighting equipment<Table of ContentsDedication, Introduction, Chapter 1 – How to Learn lighting, Chapter 2 – Light: The Raw Material of Photography, Chapter 3 – The Management of Reflection and the Family of Angles, Chapter 4 – Surface Appearances, Chapter 5 – Revealing Shape and Contour, Chapter 6 – Metal, Chapter 7 – The Case of the Disappearing Glass, Chapter 8 – Making Portraits, Chapter 9 – The Extremes, Chapter 10 – Working on Location, Chapter 11 – Setting Up Your First Studio, Appendix: Reliable Suppliers

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Book SynopsisDigital Negatives with QuadToneRIP is a text that fully explores how the QuadToneRIP printer driver can be used to make expert digital negatives. The book takes a comprehensive, Ã'under-the-hoodà look at how Roy Harringtonâs QTR printer driver can be adapted for use by artists in several different creative practice areas. The text is written from the Mac/Photoshop point of view. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is a step-by-step how-to section that will appeal to both beginning and more advanced practitioners. Part One includes quickstart guides or summary sheets for beginning students who want to jump into using QTR before understanding all of its functional components. Part Two addresses dimroom, darkroom, and printmaking practices, walking the reader through brief workflows from negative to print for lithium palladium, gum bichromate, cyanotype, salted paper, kallitype, silver gelatin and polymer photogravure, with a sample profile for each. It alsoTable of ContentsPreface, Biography, Foreword, Part I: QuadToneRIP 1. Getting Started, 2. Supplies, 3. Overview of QTR Vocabulary, 4. A Sample QTR Workflow, 5. Linearizing a Profile, 6. A Visual Guide to Profile Functions, 7. Quickstart Guides, 8.Troubleshooting QTR, Part II: Sample Workflows from Negative to Print, 9. Silver Gelatin by Doug Ethridge, 10. Lithium Palladium, 11. Gum Bichromate, 12.Cyanotype, 12. Salted Paper, 14. Kallitype by Don Nelson, 15. Polymer Photogravure by Clay Harmon, 16. QuickCurve-DN by Richard Boutwell, Part III: Contemporary Artists, 17. Contemporary Artists, Harlan H. Chapman, Martha E. Davis, David J. Eisenlord, Douglas Ethridge, Kate Jordahl, Sandy King, Michael Puff, Judith Roan, Michael P. Rosenberg, Keith Schreiber, Bill Schwab, Mark Severson, John Foxe Sheets, Ryan Stander, Sam Wang, Jeanne Wells, Tom Wise, Rebecca Zeiss, Appendix, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisWhile much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated in the open-air. Despite the fact that the number of known sites has risen dramatically in recent decades there are few examples in which the weathering and erosion dynamics are under investigation with a view to developing proposals to mitigate the impact of natural and cultural processes. Most of the work being done in different parts of the world appears to be ad-hoc, with minimal communication on such matters between teams and with the wider archaeological community. This richly illustrated book evaluates rock-art conservation in an holistic way, bringing together researchers from across the world to share experiences of work in progress or recently completed. The chapters focus on a series of key themes: documentation prTable of Contents1. Introduction Timothy Darvill and António Pedro Batarda Fernandes 2. Approaches to the Conservation and Management of Open-Air Rock-Art Panels in England, United Kingdom Timothy Darvill 3. The Preservation and Care of Rock-Art in Changing Environments: A View from Northeastern England, United Kingdom Myra J. Giesen, Aron D. Mazel, David W. Graham, and Patricia B. Warke 4. Pride and Prejudice: The Challenges of Conserving and Managing Rock Art in the Landscape of Northern England, United Kingdom, Through Public Participation Kate E. Sharpe 5. Irish Open-Air Rock-Art: Issues of Erosion and Management Elizabeth Shee Twohig and Ken Williams 6. The Open-Air Rock-Art Site at Leirfall, Central Norway, Within the Context of Northern Scandinavian Rock-Art Conservation and Management Practices Over the Past 50 Years Elizabeth E. Peacock, Eva Lindgaard, Kalle Sognnes, Roar Sæterhaug, and Gordon Turner-Walker 7. Experiences Documenting Petroglyphs at Lake Onega, Russia, 1998–2012 Nadezhda V. Lobanova 8. ‘Preservation by Record’: The Case from Eastern Scandinavia Liliana Janik 9. Aspect and Rock-Art Conservation: Preliminary Meteorological Data Regarding the Côa Valley, Portugal, Open-Air Rock-Art Complex António Pedro Batarda Fernandes 10. Lonely Stones: Preservation of Megalithic Art in the Iberian Peninsula Fernando Carrera Ramírez 11. The Conservation of Spanish Levantine Rock-Art in Aragón, Spain, Using 3-D Laser Scanning Manuel Bea and Jorge Angás 12. Conservation Programs in Chaco Cultural National Historical Park, USA: Outgrowths and Consequences of Recording Projects Jane Kolber and Donna Yoder 13. Managing Chaos: Vandalism Rock-Art at the Okotoks Erratic, Alberta, Canada Jack W. Brink 14. The Conservation Diagnostic Processes in Columbian Rock-Art Research Guillermo Muñoz and Judith Trujillo 15. Conservation of Rock-Art Sites in Northeast Brazil Maria Conceição Soa

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Book SynopsisIn this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contemporary evocations of and pleas for unity. This book has three main aims. Firstly, it establishes that Marloweâs tragedies exhibit a profound interest in the process of reduction and the ideal of unity. Duxfield shows this interest to manifest itself in different ways in each of the plays. Secondly, it identifies this interest in unity and unification as an engagement in a cultural discourse that was particularly prevalent in England during Marloweâs writing career; during the late 1580s and early 1590s heightened inter-confessional tension, the Trade Review"Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify represents an original, well researched thesis investigating overlooked historical and critical sources. Undergraduates, academics, and interested readers will find in Duxfield’s book invaluable and entertaining insights into Marlowe’s plays."- Frank Swannack, University of Salford, UK"Duxfield’s argument that the plays of Christopher Marlowe show a tendency towards and an ultimate subversion of unity remains strong throughout the monograph and in his extensive coverage of the entirety of Marlowe’s dramatic works. While drawing on past scholarship in order to situate the thesis, Duxfield’s argument remains strong and clear throughout, and adds a fresh texture to the scholarly conversation on Marlowe’s plays."- Hayley Coble, University of Minnesota, USA"This is a significant and welcome addition to the canon of key critical interventions on the work of Christopher Marlowe."- Adam Hansen review: English, 66:252 (2017), pp. 88–91Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Building a Statelier Troy: Dido, Queen of Carthage2 Reduced to a Map: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two3 "Resolve me of all ambiguities": Doctor Faustus4 Individual and Multitude: The Jew of Malta and The Massacre at Paris5 True Contraties: Edward IIAfterword

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Book SynopsisGlitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of glitch alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. While prior literature on glitch practice in visual arts has been divided between historical discussions and social-political analyses, this work provides a rigorous, contemporary theoretical foundation and framework.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Origins of 'Glitch' in The Stoppage2. The Heritage of Materialist Media3. Digital Misfunction and Materialist Approaches4. Critical Engagements with FailureConclusion: ProspectsGlossary

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of choreography both as a creative skill and as a field of study, introducing readers to the essential theory and context of choreographic practice.Providing invaluable practical considerations for creating choreography as well as leading international examples from a range of geographical and cultural contexts, this resource will enhance students' knowledge of how to create dance. This clear guide outlines both historical and recent developments within the field, including how choreographers are influenced by technology and intercultural exchange, whilst also demonstrating the potential to address social, political and philosophical themes. It further explores how students can devise and analyse their own work in a range of styles, how choreography can be used in range of contexts including site-specific work and digital technologies and engages with communities of performers to give helpful, expert suggTrade Review"Roche and Burridge's book, Choreography: The Basics, is an insightful introduction to the theory and practice of choreography that is illustrated with current choreographic examples from diverse regions and cultural contexts. For anyone considering studying dance as a profession, I would recommend this book."Professor Anna CY Chan, Dean of the School of Dance, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts"Choreography: The Basics is ideally suited to undergraduates seeking to better understand a multiplicity of approaches to making dances. Emphasising the social and relational aspects of choreography, alongside its craft and discipline, this accessible text is packed with insights and portraits of choreographic processes for the twenty-first century."Professor Carol Brown, Head of VCA Dance, University of Melbourne"Brought to life through diverse examples, Choreography: The Basics provides a road map of the experience, knowledge and contexts of making dances. I would recommend this book to all dance students and scholars eager to establish a sound basis to their choreographic studies."Dr Jamieson Dryburgh, Director of Higher Education, Central School of Ballet, LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. The Journey Begins, 2. Choreographic Notebook, 3. Broader Skills a Choreographer Needs, 4. Choreographic (Re)evolution, Documentation and Preservation, 5. A Choreographic Voice, 6. Choreography for Sites, Screens and Community Practice, Conclusion: Next Steps on Your Choreographic Journey

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Book SynopsisThe United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and groups utilizing design to drive social change. Grounded by a global survey in sectors as diverse as public health, urban planning, economic development, education, humanitarian response, cultural heritage, and civil rights, Design for Social Innovation captures these stories and more through 45 richly illustrated case studies from six continents. From advocating to understanding and everything in between, these cases demonstrate how designers shape new products, services, and systems while transforming organizations and supporting individual growth. How is this work similar or different around the world? How are designers building sustainable business practices with this work? Why are organizations investing in design capabilities? What evidence do we have of impact by design? Leading practitioners and educators, broTrade Review‘All in all, without being pretentious, idealizing, or hiding its vulnerabilities, this book serves as a veritable design for social innovation compendium... The book is available for open access consultation and learning to widen our knowledge of the field and its subtleties so that we may develop collective trust, learn from each other’s failures and resilience, increase the legitimacy of design for social innovation enough to earn a seat at the table where decisions are made, communicate outcomes via diverse trusted mediums, and enhance practice among others. It is a read for all. Equally valuable and useful for students and new and well-seasoned practitioners, whether they already work in design for social innovation or want to move into the field. The entire collection is exceptionally well organized and clear, offering information in all shades of grey, written and visual—as much a very enjoyable read as a rigorous one!’Carolina Escobar-Tello, She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2022, Pages 291-293, ISSN 2405-8726, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2022.06.002. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872622000247)Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Geographies of Power a. Roundtable 2. Trajectories of International Development 3. Organizing the Work 4. Navigating Partnerships 5. Mediums of Change 6. Measuring Impact 7. Positioning for Growth

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from international scholars of marketing and consumer studies, this renowned text engages directly with a range of contemporary themes, including: The importance of arts consumption and its socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions The impact of new technologies, platforms, and alternative artforms on the art market The importance of the aesthetic experience itself and how to research it The value of arts-based methods The art versus commerce debate The artist as entrepreneur The role of the arts marketer as market-maker This fully updated new edition covers digital trends in the arts and emerging technologies, including virtual reality, streaming services, and branded entertainment. It also broadens the scope of investigation beyond the West looking to film in emerging markets such as China, music in Sub-Saharan Africa, and indigenous art in Australia. Alongside in-depth theoreTrade ReviewMarketing the Arts: Breaking Boundaries is a breakthrough volume that serves as an important introduction for and update on the state of the field. The editors have succeeded in gathering a distinctive and diverse set of contributors who provide thoughtful reflections on the multitude of interactions between art and the market. Full of unexpected insights. Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA This second edition does important work for the field of arts marketing because it responds positively to broader demands for the social sciences to decolonise themselves and to address urgent progressive issues. This book, therefore, marks a signal moment for the field of Arts Marketing as its priorities shift. It is a necessary book and presents us with essential reading. Alan Bradshaw, Professor of Marketing, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKMarketing the Arts is, as the title suggests, a truly boundary breaking text. The cases and methods are wide ranging, topical and critical in their analysis, tackling such subjects as social justice to entrepreneurship. The authors do not just talk about the arts, but illustrate how the arts – dance, poetry, drawing, literature, can be used as tools for investigation. It is lively in its presentation and should be a valuable resource for students of marketing, the arts, media studies, sociology and arts management. A genuinely engaging read.Christina Goulding, Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham, UKI am delighted to learn about a new edition of Marketing the Arts edited by Finola Kerrigan and Chloe Preece. These editors have expanded the themes provided by the now-classic earlier edition to include a broadened geographical coverage (China, Nigeria, Australia); managerial applications (case studies, detailed illustrations); and attention to such inherently intertwined themes as the role of aesthetic experience, the art-versus-commerce tension, and the branding of artistic creations. Students of Arts Marketing will again benefit greatly from the insights provided. And, for those who favor food-related metaphors, "dessert" appears in the form of a delicious essay on Ernest Hemingway by the masterful prose stylist, Stephen Brown. Morris B. Holbrook, W. T. Dillard Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Columbia University, US Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marketing the Arts- Breaking Boundaries 1. Arts Marketing, Social Justice Activism, and Government Messaging in the Age of Social Media 2. Arts Marketing & Entrepreneurship – Insights from the Nigerian Music Industry 3. Marketing Nigerian Films 4. Marketing art films in contemporary China: Between the rock of politics and the hard place of economy 5. Researching artistic production: The material turn in arts marketing research 6. Chapter 6: The Marketing of the Arts in the Age of Curatorial Production 7. Music Streaming and Surveillance Capitalism 8. Music festivals and the everyday nature of extraordinary experiences 9. Selling Secrets: the role of 'elusivity' in the liminoid invitations of immersive theatre 10. Consuming Cuba through dance: an embodied ethnography of Salsa 11. Poetic orientation for creating and writing 12. Drawing with women: ethical considerations from an art-based project on domestic violence 13. Accounting for the Selection of Exhibits: Examining the Organisation of Gallery Talks as a Marketing Activity 14. The Many Faces of Indigenous Art: Indigenous Art Market and Decolonizing Perspectives 15. Marketing through Art – The Case of Braded Entertainment 16. Virtual Reality, Film Marketing and Value 17. For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn:What Has Hemingway Ever Done For Us?

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Book SynopsisSmall-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities. This book argues that including power dynamics, symbolism, and aesthetics in our understanding of the human relationship to urban nature can help us create places that nurture ecological and human health and promote successful and equitable urban communities. Using an interdisciplinary approach to current research debates and new comparative case studies on community perceptions of these urban greening projects and policies, this book explores how small-scale urban greening projects can impact our sense of place, health, creativity, and concentration while also being part of a successful urban greening program. Arguing that wildness, emotion, and sense of place are key components of our humannature relationship, this book will be of interest to designers, academics, and policy makers.Trade Review"Small-Scale Urban Greening provides an excellent summary of the literature regarding human interaction with nature, ranging from a thorough explication of research to a detailed discussion of public policy. The examples involving green infrastructure, roofs, vacant lots and industrial corridors enhance our understanding of the impact of urban nature interventions."Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, D.Arch., FAIA, Chair and Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor Design + Environmental Analysis, CORNELL UNIVERSITY"Angela Loder masterfully shines a light on the opportunity for the leftover, marginal and abandoned spaces in our urban environments to become green spaces that connect us to nature. Small-Scale Urban Greening is a comprehensive review of the research, case studies, and policy that can make these opportunities come to life and provide the critical links between health, equity and community that are so badly needed in our cities."Amanda Sturgeon, FAIA, Head if Regenerative Design, Mott MacDonaldTable of ContentsIntroduction: Re-imagining the city: urban greening as creative solution to social and ecological challengesChapter 1: Nature, Health, Well-being and Sense of Place: what do we know? What don’t we agree on?Biological paradigm: adaptive and utilityThe Social Construction Paradigm: constructed, political, and relationalNew directions in nature, health, and well-being researchMoving forward: research, policy, and practice on nature and health in citiesChapter 2: Ecology in the margins: Green Infrastructure and stormwater managementIntroductionEcosystem services, green infrastructure, and stormwater: a short history of re-thinking water in citiesCity-wide approaches to urban greening and stormwater: the case of PhiladelphiaPiece-by-piece layering and conversion: urban greening and stormwater in TorontoSmall-scale urban greening and green infrastructure: reflectionsLinks to research and moving forwardChapter 3: Meadows in the sky: a green roof case study IntroductionWhat do we know about green roofs, health, and well-being? MethodsResults: what did they think and feel about green roofs? Implications for policy, research, and the human relationship to natureAsking the same questions in a different way: a surveyLessons learned from quantitative versus qualitative methodsConclusionChapter 4: Reclaiming the city: vacant lots and post-industrial corridorsIntroductionMarginal spaces: regreening neglected areasCase studies: Chicago and PhiladelphiaChicago and vacant lotsVacant lots: PhiladelphiaPost-industrial urban greening: elevated parksCase study: Philadelphia’s Rail ParkCase study: Chicago’s The 606Small-scale urban greening, interstitial, and post-industrial space: reflections and moving forwardResearch and the real-world: opportunities for collaboration and changeConclusion: Policy lessons and Research Implications: Connecting urbanites to nature and re-thinking urban greenspaceIntroductionPolicyReview of case study conclusionsLessons learned, looking aheadFrame the issueGovernance, funding, and legislationTactical urbanism, community outreach, and researchA way forward: learning by doing, adaptive planningResearch contextHow do we value urban nature as experienced with SSUG projects?How we experience SSUG: implications for researchEducation and design implications for health, well-being, and ecological sustainabilityLooking ahead

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Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated survey of American Art Deco architecture.

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Book SynopsisElegant by design and spectacular in performance, thirty-six iconic Herreshoff boats are showcased in magnificent photographs and original drawings.Trade Review"... outstanding written history including hundreds of inspiring images and archival drawings for many of HMC's most iconic designs." -- Classic Boat

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Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of the iconic twentieth-century photographer, pioneering documentary modernist, author and inventor.Trade Review"The founding curator of the New York Public Library photography collection offers an insightful biography of a pioneering photographer whose work over six decades helped define the modernist tradition... Van Haaften offers a sophisticated take on Abbott’s personal and artistic tragedies and triumphs." -- Ten books to read in April - BBC Culture"Berenice Abbott captures a large and star-studded life... A vital work of American cultural history." -- The New York Times"Absorbing... Abbott's integrity and sense of honor, her restless and fearless nature, and her absolute devotion to telling the truth of her experience, come through loud and clear." -- The Washington Post"Insightful... A sophisticated take on Abbott's personal and artistic tragedies and triumphs." -- Jane Ciabattari, BBC"This finely observed and assiduously researched book manages to pin down an artist who was, in her own words, “a little rebel from beginning to end”." -- The Art Newspaper

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Book SynopsisThe authors examine buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes like Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state-of-the-art Hartford Civic Arena. Their subjects range from the man-caused destruction of the Parthenon to the earthquake damage of 1989 in Armenia and San Francisco.

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Book SynopsisFour extraordinary autobiographical stories from a legend in American comics.

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Book SynopsisThe final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling.

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Book SynopsisIn the tradition of John Berger and Susan Sontag, Fred Ritchin analyzes photography’s failings and reveals untapped potentials for this evolving medium.Trade Review"Starred Review. A supple, politically astute and fascinating account of the dizzying impact of the digital revolution on the trajectory of the photographic image." -- Publishers Weekly

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Book Synopsis"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesTrade Review"An important and frequently surprising book… could be read as the foundation for a post-avant-garde aesthetics… Nelson, who is also a poet, is such a graceful writer that I…just sat back and enjoyed the show." -- Laura Kipnis - New York Times Book Review"[Nelson’s] critiques of individual artists are delightfully fierce without being mean spirited… Fascinating and bracingly intelligent…The Art of Cruelty’s prose is often gorgeous." -- Troy Jollimore - Boston Globe"A lean-forward experience, and in its most transcendent moments, reading it can feel like having the best conversation of your life." -- Rachel Syme - NPR Books"I hope that critics, and aspiring critics, and those who are interested in the relationship between art and ethics, read [The Art of Cruelty]." -- Susie Linfield - New Republic"[Nelson] dexterously, and creatively, manages to hold a mirror to our culture’s fascination with cruelty and invites us to reflect on our personal reasons for indulging it." -- Eleni Theodoropoulos - Literary Hub

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Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.Trade Review"Years in the making, Barber’s far-roaming, gracefully interpretive, and sprightly study of European dance will be the go-to resource for many years to come." -- Booklist (starred review)

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Book SynopsisThe fascinating backstories of four women painted by John Singer Sargent come alive in this seductive, multi-layered biography.Trade Review"Ingenious." -- Frances Wilson - Times Literary Supplement"Straight from the pages of a novel by Edith Wharton or Henry James." -- The Times"[Lucey pieces together] lost stories, and the stormy brew of scandal and repression that affected these women—and Sargent himself." -- Elle"As rich as [Sargent’s] portraits are, the textural evidence in which Ms. Lucey ensnares them is finer still." -- The Wall Street Journal"It [Sargent's Women] tells of an era long gone yet still fascinating." -- Choice"[These women] were smart, passionate, willful, adventurous and striking-looking.… Lucey’s prose is invitingly conversational and quick-flowing." -- The Washington Post"... these four well-researched mini-biographies are vibrant and never less than engaging." -- The Herald

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Book SynopsisA narrative of intrigue, gossip and colourful artistic rivalry, The Collector of Lives presents a lively introduction to a seminal figure in the very human story of art itself.Trade Review"The authors' greatest service to their subject is to reestablish him as a tireless artist and a central witness to an epic period of Italian history." -- Michael Prodger - The Sunday Times"... an insightful and gripping new book... Ms Rowland and Mr Charney draw a panoramic view of the art-world during the Renaissance, placing Vasari at the centre... This is an important book and long awaited. The authors have done a commendable job of returning to his rightful place the man who inflated the reputation of art and artists so successfully that he himself was squeezed out of the picture." -- The Economist"... absorbing... a page-turningly compelling overview of Giorgio Vasari and his age…" -- Literary Review"Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney give full measure to his [Georgio Vasari's] artistic skills (and the diplomatic adroitness he needed to exercise them) and place him again at the centre of 16th-century Italian art." -- Michael Prodger, Art Books of the Year 2017 - The Sunday Times"Ingrid Rowland, a prominent scholar of Renaissance art and history, and her fellow writer and historian Noah Charney, wear their erudition lightly in their gracefully written biography." -- Deborah Solomon - New York Times Book Review"Readers curious about the making of Renaissance art, its cast of characters and political intrigue, will find much to relish in these pages. This is a lively, highly readable point of entry into an important and fascinating text." -- Cammy Brothers - The Wall Street Journal"[Rowland and Charney's] account of Vasari’s Tuscany, and of the facts (and fictions) that went into his “Lives,” is a fitting tribute to their subject’s biographical achievements." -- The New Yorker

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of the key writings of the best-known and arguably most prolific landscape architect in U.S. history.Trade Review"[A]n important book…An excellent introduction surveys Olmsted’s life and work and provides a general context for the well-chosen essays…Highly recommended." -- S. Hammer - CHOICE"[A]n ideal reference for students and professionals." -- Landscape Architecture"Olmsted, the most recognized landscape architects in United States history and the author of these papers, was celebrated as a member of the literati, way before he was connected with the field of landscape design. Historian Robert Twombly examines this background and Olmsted’s work, bringing the reader’s attention to some insightful remarks that put a different slant on this revered figure." -- Current Books and Reviews, Chicago Botanic Garden"[A]n important addition to Olmsted literature in print." -- National Association for Olmsted Parks"With this definitive new anthology, readers can delve into Olmsted’s personal thoughts on cities, urban parks, residential sites, and his theory of landscape architecture. These timeless writings have meaning for Olmsted’s era and our own." -- Lillian Civantos - Contract Magazine's "Talk Contract" blog

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Book SynopsisA trusted reference, a popular teaching text and a well-written history is now bolder, briefer and better than ever.

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Book SynopsisA practical handbook that combines a critical analysis of contemporary devised theatre practice with descriptions of selected companies, and suggestions for any group devising theatre from scratch.Trade Review'This book should certainly act as an intellectual and practical stimulus to persons involved in experimental theatre or to teaches of drama in general.' - Reference Reviews'Devising Theatre provides an excellent insight into a particular way of making theatre and will be of interest both to those who wish to devise theatre and those who simply want to find out how some of the most exciting theatre in Britain over the past twenty years has been created.' - Theatre ScotlandTable of ContentsList of illustrations. Preface. 1. An Introduction to Devised Theatre 2. Beginnings: How and where to start 3. Process: Ways and means of making theatre 4. From Process to Product: Relationship and practice 5. From Process to Product: The participatory theatre-in-education programme 6 .Space: Site-specific theatre 7. Theory and Practice 8. Learning to Devise: Practical ideas and suggestions Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisIn this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to resist the phallocentric binary and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire - subjectivity and sexuality - to shape the readings of art that constantly displace the present gender demarcations?Trade Review'The flow of the book is wondrous, as Pollock buils each new idea onto the next, rounded out with rigorous research.' - Elizabeth Millard, ForeWardo'If you like psychoanalytic feminism accompanied by committed, sensitive writing, then you will enjoy this read.' - Professor Gen Doy, The Art BookTable of ContentsPreface PART I Firing the canon 1 About canons and culture wars 2 Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon PART II Reading against the grain: reading for ... 3 The ambivalence of the maternal body: re/drawing Van Gogh 4 Fathers of modern art: mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec PART III Heroines: setting women in the canon 5 The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia 6 Feminist mythologies and missing mothers: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, Artemisia Gentileschi and Cleopatra 7 Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories PART IV Who is the other? 8 Some letters on feminism, politics and modern art: when Edgar Degas shared a space with Mary Cassatt at the Suffrage Benefit Exhibition, New York 1915 9 A tale of three women: seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet

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Book Synopsis`I consider this book a precious report that permits one to assimilate some of those simple and basic principles which the self-taught at times come to know, yet only after years of groping and errors. The book furnishes information regarding discoveries which the actor can understand in practice, without having to start each time from zero. Thomas Richards has worked with me systematically since 1985. Today he is my essential collaborator in the research dedicated to Art as Vehicle.'' - from the Preface by Jerzy GrotowskiTrade Review'This book is extremely concise and makes the work of Grotowski something students understand.' - Jane Hanna, Roehampton Institute, UK'An essential text for anyone interested in the work of Polish theatre-maker and teacher Jerzy Grotowski.' - Total TheatreTable of ContentsAt Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions by Thomas Richards, Stanislavski And Grotowski: The Connection, Ryszard Cieslak At Yale, The Workshop At The Objective Drama Program, In New York, Grotowski Speaks At Hunter College, The Work At Botinaccio: An Attack On Dilettantism, One Year With Grotowski In Objective Drama, At The Workcenter Of Jerzy Grotowski, Beginning Stages, Grotowski Vs. Stanislavski: The Impulses, "Realistic" Actions In Everyday Life, Conclusion On "Realistic" Actions, Quoted texts From the Theatre Company to Art as Vehicle

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Book SynopsisCommunity theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. It is practised all over the world by growing numbers of people.Published at the same time as a video of the same name, this is a unique record of these theatre groups in action. Based on van Erven's own travels and experiences working with community theatre groups in six very different countries, this is the first study of their work and the methodological traditions which have developed around the world.Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction 2. Philippine Community Theatre in the Nineties, Case Study: Teatro Balangaw, Marinduque 3. Community Theatre in the Netherlands, Case Study: Stut's Tears in the Rain 4. Community Theatre in Los Angeles, USA, Case Study: Teatro de la Realidad's Saquen la sopa ya 5. Collective Creation in Costa Rica Community Theatre, Case Study: Aguamarina, Puntarenas 6. Community Theatre in Kenya, Case Study: Kawuonda Women's Group, Sigoti, Kisumu District 7. Community Theatre in Australia, Case Study: Urban Theatre Project's Trackwork 8.Conclusions. Index.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general introduction to The Social History of Art, Jonathan Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture. In addition, an introduction to each volume provides a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a critical guide to the text, identifying major themes, trends and arguments.Trade Review'Arnold Hausers Social History of Art - a very important and under-appreciated text.' - Whitney Davis, John Evans Professor of Art History, Northwestern University'It is no exaggeration to say that more than any other work Hauser's four volumes inspired my interest in art history.' - Alan Wallach, Ralph H Wark Professor of Art History, College of William and Mary'This work has great value in a contemporary context. I look forward to seeing what Jonathan has done with the introduction, but I cannot think of anyone better suited to the task.' - Johanna Drucker, Professor of Art History, Yale UniversityHausers extraordinary energy and subtlety wave a brilliant synthesis of the interaction between the aesthetic and societal, giving us at one and the same time a wealth of artistic detail and a consistent and fully elaborated exposition of the social process. - Albert Boime, UCLA, author of The Social History of Modern Art, 1750-1989Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction; Introduction to Volume IV; I: Naturalism and Impressionism; II: The Film Age

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Book SynopsisSikh Art and Literature introduces Sikhism through its rich artistic culture. Using an assembly of rare imagery and literature, we are given the chance to explore the fruitful world of the Sikhs.Trade Review'An appealing overview of 500 years achievement.' - The Scotsman'Sikh Art and Lierature is a timely addition to much needed scholary work on Sikhism ...[it] will prove to be a valuable resource for those who are engaged in teaching Sikh studies courses in colleges and universities ... I strongly recommend that all Sikh families should buy a copy ...' - Sewa Singh, World Faiths Encounter'... it is to the credit of Routledge ... that it has brought out this absorbing book ...' - Financial TimesTable of ContentsContents List of Colour Plates and Illustrations Art Foreword Literature Foreword AcknowledgementsIntroduction, Narinder Singh Kapany, Founding Chair of Sikh Foundation and Kerry Brown, The Sikh FoundationArt1. From Gurus to Kings: Early and Court Painting Gursharan Singh Sidhu, President of The Society for Art and Cultural Heritage for India 2. An Illustrated Life: Guru Nanak in Narrative Art Robert J.Del Bonta, Asian Art Museum 3. The Sikh Treasury: The Sikh Kingdom and the British Raj Susan Stronge, V&A Curator, Museum 4.Golden Temple, Marble Forum: Form and Meaning in Sacred Architecture Henry J.Walker, Bates College, MaineLiterature1. The Unstruck Melody: Mystical Mysticism in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Gobind Singh Mansukhani, former chair of Sikh Studies at Chandigarh University 6. The Western Gateway toSikhism: The Life and Works of M.A.Macauliffe Harbans Lal, trustee of the Academy of Guru Granth Studies 7. Poetry Urges Poetry: From the Guru Granth to Bhai Vir Singh Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh, Colby College 8. Critical Ecstacy: The Modern Poetry of Puran Singh Surjit Singh Dulai, Michigan State University 9. Old Culture, New Knowledge: The Writings of Bhai Mohan Singh Vaid Ardaman Singh, writer, Delhi and Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz 10. A Mirror to Our Faces: The Short Stories of Khushwan Singh Abdul Jabbar, City College of San FranciscoAppendices 1. The Ten Sikh Gurus 2. The Contributors to Sri Guru Granth Sahib 3. The Structure of Sri Guru Granth Sahib 4. Custodians of Sikh Art Recommended Reading Glossary.

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Book SynopsisA Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdom of the courage required to create ''art with great presence''. Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and potential obstacle to art-making. They are Violence; Memory; Terror; Eroticism; Stereotype; Embarrassment; and Resistance. Each one can be used to generate extraordinary creative energy, if we know how to use it. A Director Prepares offers every practitioner an extraordinary insight into the creative process. It is a handbook, Bible and manifesto, all in one. No other book on the art of theatre comes even close to offering this much understanding, experience and inspiration.Trade Review'This is a revolutionary insight into the often misunderstood process of directing.' – Manchesteronstage.comTable of ContentsIntroduction Preface: Story and anti-story 1 Memory 2 Violence 3 Eroticism 4 Terror 5 Stereotype 6 Embarrassment 7 Resistance

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Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture provides an original, visual approach to the study of landscape architecture by creating a spatial morphology based on use and experience of landscapes. It explores aesthetic, spatial and experiential concepts by providing a structure through which landscapes can be understood and conceived in design. ''Fabric'' is the integrated structure of whole landscapes, while ''form'' refers to the components that make up this fabric. Together form and fabric create a morphology of landscape useful for the development of visual-spatial design thinking and awareness. This book is intended as both an introduction to the discipline for students of landscape architecture, architecture and planning, and a source of continuing interest for more experienced environmental designers.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. The case studies presented focus on photographs active in different institutional, political, religious and domestic spheres, where physical properties, the nature of their use and the cultural formations in which they function make their ''objectness'' central to how we should understand them.The book''s contributions are drawn from disciplines including the history of photography, visual anthropology and art history, with case studies from a range of countries such as the Netherlands, North America, Australia, Japan, Romania and Tibet. Each shows the methodological strategies they have developed in order to fully exploit the idea of the materiality of photographic images.Table of ContentsList of illustrations, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: photographs as objects, 2 Un beau souvenir du Canada: object, image, symbolic space, 3 Ere the substance fade: photography and hair jewellery, 4 Mixed box: the cultural biography of a box of ‘ethnographic’ photographs, 5 Making meaning: displaced materiality in the library and art museum, 6 Making a journey: the Tupper scrapbooks and the travel they describe, 7 Photographic playing cards and the colonial metaphor: teaching the Dutch colonial culture, 8 ‘Under the gaze of the ancestors’: photographs and performance in colonial Angola, 9 The photograph reincarnate: the dynamics of Tibetan relationships with photography, 10 ‘Photo-cross’: the political and devotional lives of a Romanian Orthodox photograph, 11 Print Club photography in Japan: framing social relationships, 12 Photographic materiality in the age of digital reproduction, References, Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details.Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book offers a more profound understanding of decision making through all stages of the design process. The book includes the study of the choice of materials and techniques of construction, and explores the cultural and symbolic significance of such choices, as well as questions of environmental sustainability.With projects analyzed and evaluated here that have won international acclaim, or have been awarded national prizes, European Landscape Architecture is a core book in the study and understanding of the subject.Table of ContentsIntroduction Denmark The Harbour Park, Islands Brygge, Copenhagen Ireland Smithfield, Dublin. GPO Plaza, O’Connell Street, Dublin France Bay of Somme Motorway Service Station, Normandy Germany Riem Landscape Park, Munich Hungary The Garden of Somogy, Bonnya. Erzsebet Square, Budapest Netherlands Quay on the River IJssel, Doesburg. Portland Neighbourhood Park, Albrandswaard Spain Jardi Botanic de Barcelona Sweden Daniaparken, Malmo United Kingdom The Blue Carpet, Laing Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. The Peace Garden, Sheffield

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments in artificial intelligence, with a new preface, introduction and conclusion by the author.Trade Review'Margaret Boden is compelling reading. In The Creative Mind, she brings her lucid intelligence to bear on demystifying creativity and manages to be highly informative without obscuring the great darkness of her subject.' - Jerome Brunner, Research Professor of Psychology, New York University'If you've ever wondered whether computers are creative, read this thought provoking and timely book.' - Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind and Intelligence Reframed'[Boden] is committed to thoughtfully analysing thought and is one of the world's best commentators on these matters.' - Douglas Hofstadter, Nature'Margaret A. Boden, has been at the forefront of efforts to exorcise Cartesian superstition and establish that the brain is a wonderfully subtle machine.' - George Johnson, New York Times Book Review'A demystifying, up-to-the-minute report, wide-ranging and accessible.' - Kirkus ReviewsPraise for the first edition: 'Enormously enjoyable ... More readable and more literate than the average new novel.' - Christina Hardyment, The Independent'A model of how to popularise current research.' - Times Literary Supplement'I think this text is refreshingly engaging and well written, with plenty of real-life examples to consolidate and extend learning.' - Anthony Curtis'The style is just right - a chatty style to introduce novices to psychology... gives confidence that this is not going to be beyond them.' - Diana Dwyer, South Nottingham College'A fascinating and well argued book, which I recommend to others without reservation: the list of references alone is worth the cover price.' - The Philosophers' Magazine'Boden makes a persuasive case that a computational approach will help explain human creative processes ... written in clear and engaging style.' - Ken Gilhooly, The Psychologist'Margaret A. Boden has been at the forefront of efforts to exorcise Cartesian superstition and establish that the brain is a wonderfully subtle machine.' - George Johnson, New York Times Book Review'Boden makes a persuasive case that a computational approach will help explain human creative processes ... written in clear and engaging style.' - Ken Gilhooly, The Psychologist'[Boden] is committed to thoughtfully analysing thought and is one of the world's best commentators on these matters.' - Douglas Hofstadter, NatureTable of ContentsPreface to the Revised Edition Preface Acknowledgments In a Nutshell 1. The Mystery of Creativity 2. The Story So Far 3. Thinking the Impossible 4. Maps of the Mind 5. Concepts of Communication 6. Creative Connections 7. Unromantic Artists 8. Computer-Scientists 9. Chance, Chaos, Randomness, Unpredictability 10. Elite or Everyman? 11. Of Humans and Hoverflies 12. Epilogue References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArchitecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind that arranges, organizes and establishes relationships between the parts and the whole. It is also seen as the art of designing spaces, which we experience through movement and use. Conceptual ordering, spatial and social narrative are fundamental to the ways in which buildings are shaped, used and perceived. Examining and exploring the ways in which these three dimensions interact in the design and life of buildings, this intriguing book will be of use to anyone with an interest in the theory of architecture and architecture''s relationship to the cultural human environment.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction 1. The Parthenon and the Erechtheion – The Spatial Formation of Place, Politics and Myth 2. Invisible Surface – Reflections in Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion Part 2 3. ‘The Book and the Labyrinth Were One and the Same’ – Narrative and Architecture in Borges’ Fictions 4. (Th) Reading the Library – Spatial and Mathematical Journeys in Borges’ Library of Babel Part 3 5. Soane Through the Looking Glass – The House-Museum of Sir John Soane 6. Victorian Knowledge – The Natural History Museum, London and the Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow 7. Contemporary Experience – The Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Burrell Collection, Glasgow 8. Tracing the Modern – Space, Display and Exploration in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) Part 4 9. A Comparative Synthesis 10. The Formation of Space and Meaning

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Book SynopsisPublished in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Ãtienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautrà celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.Trade Review"...this is an important addition to the growing body of scholarship treating Lecoq's work, and any student of 20th-century theatre or the use of movement in performance will find this book invaluable." --TDRTable of Contents1 Imitation: from mimicry to miming 2 The gestures of life 3 From pantomime to modern mime 4 Has mime become separated from theatre? 5 Mime, the art of movement 6 The explosion of mime 7 The theatre of gesture and image

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Book SynopsisRather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, Rethinking Architectural Historiography begins by renegotiating foundational and contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other fields, such as art history and archaeology. It then goes on to critically engage with past and present histories, disclosing assumptions, biases and absences in architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring the possibilities provided by new perspectives, reframing the discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics.This timely and illustrated title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice, exploring potential openings that may contribute further transformation of the disciplines and theories on architectural historiography andTable of Contents1. Mapping Architectural Historiography Part I: Boundaries 2. Art History and Architectual History 3. Buildings Archaeology: Context and Points of Convergence 4. Architecture as Evidence 5. Program and Programs 6. Hercules at the Roundabout: Multidisciplinary Choice in History of Architecture 7. Frontiers of Fear: Architectural History, the Anchor and the Sail Part II: Critical Engagements 8. Questions of Ottoman Identity and Architectural History 9. In Ordinary Time: Considerations on a Video Installation by ICigo Manglano Ovalle and the New National Gallery in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe 10. Reopening the Question of Document in Architectural Historiography: Reading (Writing) Filarete's Treatise on Architecture for (in) Piero De Medici's Study 11. From Architectural History to Spatial Writing 12. Presenting Ankara: Popular Conceptions of Architecture and History Part III: Reframings 13. Space, Time, and Architectural History 14. Visuality and Architectural History 15. Digital Disciplinary Divide: Reactions to Historical Virtual Reality Models 16. The Afterlife of Buildings: Architecture and Walter Benjamin's Theory of History 17. Beyond a Boundary: Towards an Architectural History of the Non-East

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Book SynopsisDesign is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change (from telephones to weapon systems).The Design Culture Reader brings together an international array of writers whose work is of central importance for thinking about design culture in the past, present and future. Essays from philosophers, media and cultural theorists, historians of design, anthropologists, cultural historians, artists and literary critics all demonstrate the enormous potential of design studies for understanding the modern world. Organised in thematic sections, The Design Culture Reader explores the social role of design by looking at the impact it has in a number of areas â especially globalisation, ecology, and the changing experiences oTrade Review'[An] attempt to push the concept of design into new territories... It will certainly challenge its readers to question any assumptions they may have about design culture and to reconstitute their understanding with a broader, richer frame of reference. If that is the purpose of a reader, then Highmore's will certainly be a resounding success.' – Journal of Design History'[An] attempt to push the concept of design into new territories... It will certainly challenge its readers to question any assumptions they may have about design culture and to reconstitute their understanding with a broader, richer frame of reference. If that is the purpose of a reader, then Highmore's will certainly be a resounding success.' – Journal of Design HistoryTable of ContentsSection 1: Materials and Methods 1. Karl Marx (1867) 'The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret'. 2. Jonathan Crary (1989) 'Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory'. 3. Vilem Flusser (1993) 'About the word Design'. 4. Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Benjamin Gianni and Scott Weir (1994) 'Queers in (Single-Family) Space'. 5. Pauline Madge (1997) 'Ecological Design: A New Critique'. 6. Hal Foster (2002) 'The ABCs of Contemporary Design'. Section 2: Actors and Agents 7. Marcel Mauss (1934) 'Techniques of the Body'. 8. Michel Foucault (1982) 'Space, Knowledge, and Power'. 9. Friedrich A. Kittler (1986) 'Introduction' to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. 10. Lana F. Rakow (1988) 'Women and the Telephone: the gendering of a communication technology'. 11. Ellen Lupton (1996) 'Power Tool for the Dining Room: The Electric Carving Knife'. 12. Tobin Siebers (2003) 'What can disability studies learn from the culture wars?' Section 3: Object Life 13. Stuart Cosgrove (1984) 'The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare'. 14. Mihay Csikszentmihalyi (1991) 'Design and Order in Everyday Life'. 15. Celik, Zeynep (1996) 'Gendered Spaces in Colonial Algiers'. 16. Celine Rosselin (1999) 'The Ins and Outs of the Hall: A Parisian Example'. 17. Svetlana Boym (2001) 'Immigrant Souvenirs'. Section 4: Sense and Sensibilities 18. Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1983) 'Shop Windows'. 19. Nicholson Baker (1986) from The Mezzanine. 20. C. Nadia Seremetakis (1996) 'The Memory of the Senses, Part 1: Marks of the Transitory'. 21. Koichi Iwabuchi (1998) 'Marketing "Japan": Japanese cultural presence under a global gaze'. 22. Jonathan Sterne (2003) 'Hello'. Section 5: Designing (in) the World 23. John McHale (1969) 'An Ecological Overview'. 24. Krzysztof Wodiczko (1999) 'Designing for the City of Strangers'. 25. Celeste Olalquiaga (1999) 'The Crystal Palace'. 26. Tony Fry (1999) 'From War to Warring' 27. Ashoke Chatterjee (2005) 'Design in India: The Experience of Transition' Section 6: Design Time 28. Siegfried Giedion (1948) 'Anonymous History' 29. Evan Watkins (1993) 'Social Position and the Art of Automobile Maintenance' 30. Michel Serres (with Bruno Latour) (1995) 'The Past is no longer out-of-date' 31. N. Katherine Hayles (1999) 'The materiality of informatics: Audiotape and Its Cultural 32. Peter Hitchcock (2003) 'Chronotope of the Shoe'

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Book SynopsisThird Text is an international scholarly journal dedicated to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. Third Text addresses the complex cultural realities that emerge when different worldviews meet, and the challenge this poses to Eurocentrism and ethnocentric aesthetic criteria.Table of ContentsNotes on the Internet as a Weapon of the Multitude, Notes from the Beirut Siege, Repetition and Return: The Spectator’s Memory in Abbas Kiarostami’s, Koker Trilogy, Obscene Jouissance: The Visual Poetics of Labour Exploitation, Challenging the Canon: Socialist Realism in Traditional Chinese Painting Revisited, In Conversation, Historiographies of Laughter: Poetics of Deformation in Palestinian Political Cartoon, Listening to Trauma in the Art of Everlyn Nicodemus Reviews, 2006: Yawning Cultural Gaps in Fusing Landscapes, What We Talk About When We Talk, About a Biennale in Singapore, Seeing Up and Down

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Traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. This translation of the original "A sthetik des Performativen" addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a fresh appreciation of the artistic event.

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Book SynopsisActor Training expands on Alison Hodge's highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many chapters are revised. In addition, eight more practitioners are included - and forty more photographs - to create a stunningly comprehensive study. The practitioners included are:Stella Adler; Eugenio Barba; Augusto Boal; Anne Bogart; Bertolt Brecht; Peter Brook; Michael Chekhov; Joseph Chaikin; Jacques Copeau; Philippe Gaulier; Jerzy Grotowski; Maria Knebel; Jacques Lecoq; Joan Littlewood; Sanford Meisner; Vsevolod Meyerhold; Ariane Mnouchkine; MonikTrade Review'This wide-ranging collection of essays, by British and American academics, compares the methods of more than 20 Western practitioners, chapter by chapter, from Stella Adler to Lee Strasberg. This edition has eight more practioners than the first version, published as Twentieth Century Actor Training a decade ago.' - Whatsonstage.com Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Stanislavsky’s System: pathways for the actor SHARON MARIE CARNICKE 2 Meyerhold and Biomechanics ROBERT LEACH 3 Jacques Copeau: the quest for sincerity JOHN RUDLIN 4 Michael Chekhov on the technique of acting: ‘was Don Quixote true to life?’ FRANC CHAMBERLAIN 5 Michel Saint-Denis: Training the Complete Actor JANE BALDWIN 6 The Knebel Technique: Active Analysis in Practice SHARON MARIE CARNICKE 7 Brecht and actor training: on whose behalf do we act? PETER THOMSON 8 Joan Littlewood CLIVE BARKER 9 Strasberg, Adler and Meisner: Method acting DAVID KRASNER 10 Joseph Chaikin and aspects of actor training: possibilities rendered present DORINDA HULTON 11 Peter Brook: transparency and the invisible network LORNA MARSHALL AND DAVID WILLIAMS 12 Grotowski’s vision of the actor: the search for contact LISA WOLFORD 13 Training for play, lightness and disobedience in the pedagogies of Jacques Lecoq, Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier SIMON MURRAY 14 Training with Eugenio Barba: acting principles, the pre-expressive and ‘personal temperature’ IAN WATSON 15 Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil : Theatricalising history; the theatre as metaphor; the actor as signifier. HELEN E. RICHARDSON 16 Wlodzimierz Staniewski. Gardzienice: the naturalised actor ALISON HODGE 17 Creating the Moment: Anne Bogart, SITI Company and Actor training ROYD CLIMENHAGA 18 Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed FRANCES BABBAGE

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