The arts: general topics Books
WW Norton & Co Tears of Salt A Doctors Story of the Refugee
Book Synopsis"This is a personal, urgent, and universal book." —Gloria SteinemTrade Review"Tears of Salt is a tender personal memoir.… It is also a damning indictment of the broader, collective indifference of humankind to both the drowned and the saved." -- Philip Gourevitch"A work not to be missed.… [Bartolo] limns his narrative with great compassion and humanity." -- Marjorie Kehe - Christian Science Monitor"Heart-wrenching and relevant." -- Marion Winik - Minneapolis Star Tribune"Poignant." -- Uzodinma Iweala - New York Times Book Review"Through Dr. Bartolo we understand that it is impossible to do nothing in the face of such great human need." -- Vanity Fair"Equal parts memoir, celebration of [Lampedusa] and report from the front. Above all, though, it is a plea for compassion." -- Edward Morris - BookPage"At a time when our broken world seems to be encouraging, and lauding, the worst of humanity, along comes the remarkable Dr. Bartolo to show us what courage, integrity, and compassion look like. His life is a manual of what it means to be human." -- Rabih Alameddine"Tears of Salt…reveals the human side of suffering through the life of one man." -- Adele Annesi - Washington Independent Review of Books"Dr. Bartolo’s spare, poignant, angry account of his life as doctor to the refugees arriving on the shores of Italy is an unusual and important addition to the growing literature of migration. Anyone wanting to understand the disaster of what is happening around us should read this book." -- Caroline Moorehead
£12.99
W. W. Norton & Company Visual Design on the Computer 2e
Book SynopsisThe computer is in every design professional's studio and in every design classroom, the primary tool for those entering the field and for old hands alike.
£26.59
WW Norton & Co Arthur Brown Jr.
Book SynopsisArthur Brown Jr. (1874-1957) is one of the most important, yet underpublished, architects of the twentieth century.Trade Review"[C]onsummate text and…lavish yet functional production…[W]ill go far to restore a significant episode in American architectural culture…Recommended." -- R. W. Liscombe - Choice
£45.59
WW Norton & Co Smashing Statues The Rise and Fall of Americas
Book SynopsisA leading expert's exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in America
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Writing Research Papers A Norton Guide
Book SynopsisThis in-depth, process-oriented guide takes students through the research process step-by-step, following five students from across the disciplines throughout their research projects—from developing interests, investigating sources, and focusing ideas to drafting, revising, and producing finished papers.
£53.04
Penguin Putnam Inc Looking at Mindfulness TwentyFive Paintings to
Book SynopsisA book to help you achieve mindfulness and practice meditation while looking at the world's greatest works of art.Psychiatrist and leading meditation practitioner Christophe André guides you through the art of mindfulness, beginning with art itself. Looking at Mindfulness collects classic and esoteric paintings, from Rembrandt to Hopper to Magritte, and offers a lucid commentary on the inner workings of each. André describes the dynamic on the canvas, and turns to the viewer's own reactions, exploring the connection between what we see and what we feel. Moving beyond the art on the page, André teaches us what it means to consider our surroundings, our daily interactions and obligations, and their effect on our inner well-being and mental clarity. The paintings are a visual and tangible first step to understanding mindfulness and the benefits of living in the moment. In practicing mindfulness, within ourselves and out in the worl
£18.90
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Vanlife Diaries Finding Freedom on the Open Road
Book SynopsisA photography book celebrating the nomadic lifestyle and community of vanlife through interviews, essential advice for living on the road, and more than 200 photos of tiny rolling homes.Inspired by the blog and Instagram account, Vanlife Diaries is an inspiring and detailed look into the world of the rolling homes built and occupied by a new generation of modern nomads: a range of professionals and creatives who have ditched conventional houses for the freedom of the road and the beauty of the outdoors. More than 200 photographs feature the vanlifers, their pets, and their converted vans and buses--VWs, Sprinters, Toyotas, and more--with the interiors uniquely customized and decorated for their work and hobbies, as well as the stunning natural locations that are the movement's inspiration. Interviews and narrative captions share the stories of these nomads and how they decided to pursue vanlife, and provide practical tips and inspiration for downsizing, finding an
£18.04
Ten Speed Press My Tiny Atlas Our World Through Your Eyes
Book SynopsisA wanderlust-inspiring and transporting collection of photos from some of the world's most astounding places, organized thematically—vistas, sunrises and sunsets, city streets and urban life, tropical jungles, dramatic architectural facades, food stalls and restaurants, and more—from the premier online curator of travel photography.As much an armchair travel companion as a guide to planning your next trip, My Tiny Atlas contains more than 200 lush, surprising, and stunning photos, along with stories about far-flung locales and tips for experiencing a new location like a local. From Tiny Atlas Quarterly—one of the most trusted sources for authentic, unusual, and inspiring travel photography—this book takes you to every continent and all corners of the world, from Paris, San Francisco, London, and Buenos Aires to the Arctic Circle, Tanzania, Tahiti, and Mongolia. My Tiny Atlas visually explores new destinations with an intimate,
£22.50
Random House USA Inc Draw Your Weapons
Book SynopsisA single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference. “How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?” Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to wa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Commedia DellArte An Actors Handbook
There has been an enormous revival of interest in Commedia dell''arte. And it remians a central part of many drama school courses. In Commedia dell''arte in the Twentieth Century John Rublin first examines the orgins of this vital theatrical form and charts its recent revival through the work of companies like Tag, Theatre de Complicite and the influential methods of Jacques Lecoq. The second part of the book provides a unique practical guide for would-be practitioners: demonstrating how to approach the roles of Zanni, Arlecchion, Brighella, Pantalone, Dottore, and the Lovers in terms of movement, mask-work and voice. As well as offering a range of lazzi or comic business, improvisation exercises, sample monologues,and dialogues. No other book so clearly outlines the specific culture of Commedia or provides such a practical guide to its techniques. This immensely timely and useful handbook will be an essential purchase for all actors, students, and teachers.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis The Most Radical Gesture
Book SynopsisTracing the history, ideas and influences of the Situationist International, from dada to postmodernism, this book illustrates how situationist ideas continue to inform political events, cultural movements and theoretical debate.Trade Review`Plant's book is a timely and important interrogation of the relationshiop between situationism and postmodernism, ...' - Modern & Contemporary France`An analysis of Situationism is long overdue, and Sadie Plant's rigorous account finally gives it credit for its enormous contribution to postwar theory and revolutionary politics.' - New Statesman and Society`This is the first accessible study of the situationists, one of the 20th century's more arcane and avante-garde political groups.' - Sunday TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction: `Now, the SI' 1. `The More You Concern' 2. `A World of Pleasures to Win' 3. `A Single Choice' 4. `Those Who Create Disorder' 5. `Flee, but while fleeing' In Conclusion: `The Bad days will end' References Bibliography
£52.24
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Space Between the Notes
Book SynopsisThe Space Between the Notes examines a series of relationships central to sixties counter-culture: psychedelic coding and rock music, the Rolling Stones and Charles Manson, the Beatles and the `Summers of love'', Jimi Hendrix and hallucinogenics, Pink Floyd and space rock. Sheila Whiteley combines musicology and socio-cultural analysis to illuminate this terrain, illustrating her argument with key recordings of the time: Cream''s She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow, Hendrix''s Hey Joe, Pink Floyd''s Set the Controls For the Heat of the Sun, The Move''s I Can Hear the Grass Grow, among others.The appropriation of progressive rock by young urban dance bands in the 1990s make this study of sixties and seventies counter-culture a timely intervention. It will inform students of popular music and culture, and spark off recognition and interest from those that lived through the period as well as a new generation that draw inspiration from its iconTable of ContentsList of examples, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Cream, Hendrix and Pink Floyd, 3 The Beatles, 4 1967 and Psychedelic Rock, 5 The Rolling Stones, 6 Pink Floyd:Dark Side of the Moon, Notes, Index
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Unmarked
Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film, theatre and anti-abortion demonstrations.
£38.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Thinking About Exhibitions
An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians which address the contradictions posed by museum and gallery staged exhibitions, and the challenge of staging art presentations and displays.
£35.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Early Christianity
Book SynopsisExamining sources and case studies, this book explores early Christianity, how it was studied, how it is studied now, and how Judaeo-Christian values came to form the ideological bedrock of modern western culture.Looking at the diverse source materials available, from the earliest New Testament texts and the complex treaties of third century authors such as Lactantius, to archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology, the book examines what is needed to study the subject, what materials are available, how useful they are, and how the study of the subject may be approached.Case study chapters focus on important problems in the study of early Christianity including: the book of Acts as a text revelatory of the social dynamics of cities and as a text about the inherent tensions in Hellenistic Judaism orthodoxy and organization in early Christianity early Christianity and the Roman empire. Also including a comprehensive guide for studentTrade Review'[An] ideal text for undergraduate students' – Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: How to Use this Book 1. What is Early Christianity and Why Does it Deserve Study? 2. Tradition and Revelation: The Historical Quest for Early Christianity 3. The Search for Early Christianity: Sources and their Interpretation 4. Messiahs and Missions: Contexts for the Origins and Spread of Christianity 5. Doctrine and Power: Orthodoxy and Organization in Early Christianity 6. Confronting Babylon: Early Christianity and the Roman Empire 7. Discovering Early Christianity
£96.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Art History
The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely under the term ''the new art history''. He distinguishes between these and earlier forms of ''radical'' or ''critical'' analysis, explores the influence of other disciplines and traditions on art history, and relates art historical ideas and values to social change. Structured around an examination of key texts by major contemporary critics, including Tim Clarke, Griselda Pollock, Fred Orton, Albert Boime, Alan Wallach and Laura Mulvey, each chapter discusses a key moment in the discipline of art history, tracing the development and interaction of Marxist, feminist and psychoanalytic critical theories. Individual chapters include: * Capitalist Modernity, the Nation-S
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Taylor & Francis Modern Art A Critical Introduction
Book SynopsisModern Art: A Critical Introduction traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of looking at the ways in which art has been understood. The editors investigate the main developments in art interpretation and draw examples from a wide range of genres including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance art.This new edition has been restructured to focus on key themes. It has also been fully updated to include many more examples of recent art practice, as well as an expanded glossary and comprehensive marginal notes providing definitions of key terms. Extensively illustrated with a wide range of visual examples, Modern Art: A Critical Introduction is the essential textbook for students of Art History.Trade Review'An excellent introduction, well-written and superbly illustrated.' Gaby Esser-Hall, University College Northampton, UK'Modern Art: A Critical Introduction does exactly what it says on the cover ... An excellent comprehensive introduction to the subject.' History of Art and Visual CultureTable of Contents1 What, When and Where was Modernism? 2. Retreats from the Urban 3. Monuments, Modernism and the Public Space 4. The Nude in Modernity and Postmodernity 5. From the Machine Aesthetic to Technoculture 6. Modernism and Realism in US Art 7. The Artist and the Museum: Muse or Nemesis? 8. Identity Politics in Photography and Performance Art
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Taylor & Francis MultiMedia Video Installation Performance
Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the worldâs foremost artists. Nick Kaye explores the interdisciplinary history and character of experimental practices shaped in exchanges between music, installation, theatre, performance art, conceptual art, sculpture and video. The book sets out key themes and concerns in multi-media practice, addressing time, space, the resurgence of ephemerality, liveness and âauraâ. These chapters are interspersed with documentary artwork and essays by artists whose work continues to shape the field, including new articles from: Vito Acconci The Builders Association John Jesurun Pipilotti Rist Fiona Templeton. Multi-media also reintroduces a major documentary essay by Paolo Rosa of Studio Azzurro in a new, fully illust
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Digital Currents
Book SynopsisDigital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator.Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each media, describes their projects, and discusses the issues and theoretical implications of each to create a foundation for understanding this developing field. Digital Currents fills a major gap in our understanding of the relationship between art and technology, and the exciting new cultural conditions we are experiencing. It will be ideal reading for students taking courses in digital art, and also for anyone seeking to understand these new creative forms.Trade Review"Delineates the relationship between today's electronic technologies and cultural change, thereby formulating a comprehensive and forceful social philosophy of our technical civilization." Dr Joseph Nechvatal, School of Visual Arts"...provides a much needed analysis of the art-historical roots and the larger cultural and social context for understanding art in the electronic age."Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum of American Art"Provides a strong overview of electronic media artists, as well as images from the projects. Its mix of visual documentation and clear writing about the works in suitable depth is a great aid in providing a foundation for understanding digital art. Indeed, it could be called 'the bible' of electronic art." Mary Flanagan, Hunter College, CUNYTable of ContentsPart One: Sources 1 Vision, Representation and Invention 2 The Machine Age and Modernism 3 The Electronic Era and Postmodernism Part Two: Media 4 Video as Time, Space, MOtion 5 Art in the Age of Digital Simulation 6 Art as Interactive Communications: Networking Global Culture 7 Transaesthetics
£999.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Playwriting
Book SynopsisPlaywriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance. It contains a wealth of exercises for amateur and professional playwrights. Usable in a range of contexts, the book works as: a step-by-step guide to the creation of an individual play a handy resource for a teacher or workshop leader a stimulus for the group-devised play. The result of Noël Greig''s thirty years'' experience as a playwright, actor, director and teacher, Playwriting is the ideal handbook for anyone who engages with playwriting and is ultimately concerned with creating a story and bringing it to life on the stage.Trade Review'!!!! Must Read.'- Today's BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Getting Going and Warming Up 2. Theme 3. Issue 4. Building a Character 5. Finding the Story 6. Location 7. The Individual Voice 8. Draft Two 9. Performance Projects Appendix
£131.67
Taylor & Francis SelfImage
Book SynopsisIncluding over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book explores how technology has affected artists' abilities and forms to express themselves.From analogue photography to more recent artistic practices including digital imaging, performance robotics and video installations, Self/Image is one of the first full length studies to investigate the complex relations among these diverse artistic practices.This will make an excellent companion to studies of contemporary art history, and media and cultural studies in the post-1960 period.Trade Review'Self/Image... generat[es] an ethically responsible space that continues opening gaps for the emergence of differing subjectivities and bodies as well as their recognition.' - Ignaz Cassar, "The Self, the Slash, the Image", in Photography & Culture'Self/Image... generat[es] an ethically responsible space that continues opening gaps for the emergence of differing subjectivities and bodies as well as their recognition.' - Photography and CultureTable of Contents1. The Body and/in Representation: Hoc Est Corpus Meum Redux 2. "Beneath this Mask Another Mask": "No Movies"…. (No) Bodies, (No) Cities 3. (Post)Urban Self Image: "Your Greatest Creation is the Life You Lead" 4. Cinematic Self Imaging and the Televisual Body: "Happiness is Over-Rated" 5.The Body is Not Obsolete: "Desire and Action, Digital Era" 6. The Televisual Architecture of the Dream Body. Epilogue: Flanagan’s Corpse and the Limits of Representation
£31.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Exhausting Dance
Book SynopsisThe only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US. Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by exhausting the concept of movement. Their work demands to be read as performed extensions of the radical politics implied in performance art, in post-structuralist and critical theory, in post-colonial theory, and in critical race studies. In this far-ranging and exceptional study, Andre Lepecki brilliantly analyzes the work of the choreographers: * Jerome Bel (France)* Juan Dominguez (Spain)* Trisha Brown (US)* La Ribot (Spain)* Xavier Le Roy (France-Germany)* VeTrade Review'In this book Andre Lepecki aims to bring dance studies up to speed with an extensive examination of a diverse group of contemporary choreographers who since the early 1990s have explored the mobilising potentialalities of standing still.' - Dance Theatre Journal'Lepecki is at his best when describing the work and engaging with its curious circumstances and contingencies.' - Michal Sapir, writer, academic and musician, London'musings on loss and rage, colonialist pasts, ghostly knockings, and white melancholia offer the reader productive strategies for responding to performances' - Thomas F. DeFrantz, The Dance ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Political Ontology of Movement 2. Masculinity, Solipsism, Choreography: Bruce Nauman, Juan Dominguez, Xavier Le Roy 3. Choreography’s 'Slower Ontology': Jérôme Bel’s Critique of Representation 4. Toppling Dance: The Making of Space in Trisha Brown and La Ribot 5. Stumbling Dance: William Pope L.’s crawls 6. The Melancholic Dance of the Post-Colonial Spectral: Vera Mantero Summoning Josephine Baker 7. Concluding Note: Exhausting Dance - To be Done with the Vanishing Point References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sound Media
Book SynopsisSound Media considers how music recording, radio broadcasting and muzak influence people''s daily lives and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that have developed in music and journalism throughout the twentieth century. Lars Nyre starts with the contemporary cultures of sound media, and works back to the archaic soundscapes of the 1870s.The first part of the book devotes five chapters to contemporary digital media, and presents the internet, the personal computer, digital radio (news and talk) and various types of loudspeaker media (muzak, DJ-ing, clubbing and PA systems). The second part examines the historical accumulation of techniques and sounds in sound media, and presents multitrack music in the 1960s, the golden age of radio in the 1950s and back to the 1930s, microphone recording of music in the 1930s, the experimental phase of wireless radio in the 1910s and 1900s, and the invention of the gramophone and phonograph in the late nineteeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Soundtrack Figures 1. Theoretical Introduction to Sound Media Part I: The Present Time 2. The Acoustic Computer. Nervous experiments with Sound Media 3. Synthetic Music. Digital Recording in Great Detail 4. The Mobile Public. Journalism for Urban Navigators 5. Phone Radio. Personality Journalism in Voice Alone 6. Loudspeaker Living. Pop Music is Everywhere Part II: Backwards History 7. Tape Control. A Revolution in Music Recording 1970s – 1950s 8. The Acoustic Nation. Live Journalism 1960s – 1930s 9. Microphone Moods. Music Recording 1940s – 1930s 10. The Live Public. Experiments in Broadcasting 1920s – 1900s 11. The Repeating Machine. Music Recording 1920s – 1870s. Literature. Soundtrack Supplement. Index
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd JB Priestley Routledge Modern and Contemporary
Book SynopsisJ. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre. Priestley was often criticised for being either too populist or too experimental and this study unpicks the contradictions of a playwright and theatre theorist popular with audiences but too often dismissed by critics; describing and analysing in detail not only his plays but also their specific historical and contemporary productions.Using a combination of archive, review and critical materials, the book re-locates Priestley as a theatre theorist of substance as well as a playwright who challenged theatre conventions and assumptions about audience expectations, at a time when theatre was considered both conservative and lacking in innovation. Table of ContentsSection I: Life, Politics and Theory Chapter 1: Life Career and Politics Chapter 2: The Function and Practice of Theatre: visions, theories and critical responses Section II: Key Plays Chapter 3: The Family, Gender and Sexual Relations Chapter 4: Time and the Time Plays Chapter 5: Work and Visions of Dystopia/Utopia Section III: Key Plays/Productions Chapter 6: The Good Companions Chapter 7: An Inspector Calls Chapter 8: Johnson Over Jordan
£104.50
Taylor & Francis Museums in a Digital Age Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
Book SynopsisThe influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site. However, âdigital heritageâ (as an area of practice and as a subject of study) does not exist in one single place. Its evidence base is complex, diverse and distributed, and its content is available through multiple channels, on varied media, in myriad locations, and different genres of writing.It is this diaspora of material and practice that this Reader is intended to address. With over forty chapters (by some fifty authors and co-authors), from around the world, spanning over twenty years of museum practice and research, this volume acts as an aggregator drawing selectively from a notoriously distributed network of content. Divided into seven parts (on information, space, access, interpretation, objects, production and futures), the book presents a series of cross-sections through the body of digital heritage literature, each revealing how a different aspect of curatorship and museum provision has been informed, shaped or challenged by computing.Museums in a Digital Age is a provocative and inspiring guide for any student or practitioner of digital heritage.Trade Review“Museums in a Digital Age is thus a timely consideration of the role of the digital in the entire spectrum of museum activities…The…volume is…something much more attuned to the digital age which is its basis – a highly diverse, even eclectic, collection of papers broadly centred around the subject of the work.” – Historic Environment Table of Contents1. The practice of digital heritage and the heritage of digital practice, Ross Parry Part 1: Information: data, structure and meaning Introduction to Part 1, Ross Parry 2. A brief history of museum computerisation, David Williams 3. The changing role of information professionals in museums, Andrew Roberts 4. What is information in the museum context? Elizabeth Orna and Charles Pettitt 5. The world of (almost) unique objects, Robert Chenhall and David Vance 6. Standards for networked cultural heritage, David Bearman 7. Database as symbolic form, Lev Manovich 8. The museum as information utility, George Macdonald and Stephen Alsford 9. Museum collections, documentation and shifting knowledge paradigms, Fiona Cameron 10. Semantic dissonance: do we need (and do we understand) the Semantic Web? Ross Parry, Nick Poole and Jon Pratty 11. Building a universal digital memory, Piere Lèvy Part 2: Space: visits, virtuality and distance Introduction to Part 2, Ross Parry 12. On the Origins of the Virtual Museum, Erkki Huhtamo 13. From Malraux's imaginary museum to the virtual museum, Antonio M. Battro 14. Virtual spaces and museums, Andrea Bandelli 15. The virtual visit: towards a new concept for the electronic science centre, Roland Jackson 16. Empowering the remote visitor, Areti Galani and Matthew Chalmers 17. Museums outside walls: mobile phones and the museum of the everyday, Konstantinos Arvanitis Part 3: Access: ability, usability and connectivity Introduction to Part 3, Ross Parry 18. Access to digital heritage in Africa: bridging the digital divide, Lorna Abungu 19. My dream of an accessible Web culture for disabled people, Carey, Kevin 20. My dream of an accessible Web culture for disabled people: a re-evaluation, Carey, Kevin 21. Implementing a holistic approach to e-learning accessibility, Brian Kelly, Lawrite Phipps and Caro Howell 22. Usability Evaluation for Museum Web Sites, Danial Cunliffe, Efmorphia Kritou and Douglas Tudhope 23. Culture as a Driver of Innovation, Ranjit Makkuni Part 4:Interpretation: communication, interactivity and learning Introduction to Part 4, Ross Parry 24. The Web and the Unassailable Voice, Peter Walsh 25. When the object is digital: properties of digital surrogate objects and implications for learning, Olivia C. Frost 26. Learning by doing and learning through play, Maria Roussou 27. Misconstruing Interaction, Christian Heath and Dirk Vom Lehn 28. Visitors’ use of computer exhibits: findings from 5 grueling years of watching visitors getting it wrong, Ben Gammon Part 5:Object: authenticity, authority and trust Introduction to Part 5, Ross Parry 29. Museums and virtuality, Klaus Miller 30. When all you’ve got is ‘The Real Thing’: museums and authenticity in the networked world, Jennifer Trant 31. Authenticity and integrity in the digital environment: an exploratory analysis of the central role of trust, Clifford Lynch 32. Why Museums Matter, Marc Pachter 33. Defining the problem of our vanishing memory: background, current status, models for resolution, Peter Lyman and Howard Besser 34. Curating new media, Matthew Gansallo Part 6: Delivery: production, evaluation and sustainability Introduction to Part 6, Ross Parry 35. Managing new technology projects in Museums and Galleries, Matthew Stiff 36. Rationale for Digitization and Preservation, Paul Conway 37. Speaking for themselves: new media and ‘Making of the Modern World, Frank Colson and Jean Colson 38. The evaluation of museum multimedia applications: lessons from research, Maria Economou 39. A survey on digital cultural heritage initiatives and their sustainability concerns, Diane M. Zorich Part 7: Futures: priorities, approaches and aspirations Introduction to Part 7, Ross Parry 40. Making the total museum possible, Tomislav Šola 41. Museums in the information era: cultural connectors of time and space, Manuel Castells 42. The shape of things to come: museums in the technological landscape, Simon Knell 43. Digital heritage and the rise of theory in museum computing, Ross Parry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anton Chekhov
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this canonical playwright, examining the genius of Chekhov''s writing, theatrical representation and dramatic philosophy.Emphasising Chekhov's continued relevance and his mastery of the tragicomic, Rose Whyman provides an insightful assessment of his life and work. All of Chekhov's major dramas are analysed, in addition to his vaudevilles, one-act plays and stories. The works are studied in relation to traditional criticism and more recent theoretical and cultural standpoints, including cultural materialism, philosophy and gender studies.Analysis of key historical and recent productions, display the development of the drama, as well as the playwright's continued appeal. Anton Chekhov provides readers with an accessible comparative study of the relationship between Chekhov''s life, work and ideological thought.Table of ContentsPART 1 LIFE AND CONTEXTOVERVIEW LIFE, CONTEXT AND IDEAS CHEKHOV’S ART AND WORLDVIEW PART 2 PLAYS AND PRODUCTIONS VAUDEVILLES AND ONE ACT PLAYS SUICIDE AND SURVIVAL: IVANOV AND THE SEAGULL SPACE AND CONFINEMENT: UNCLE VANYA WORK AND WOMEN; THREE SISTERS MODERNIZATION AND CHANGE: THE CHERRY ORCHARD AFTERWORD
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Taylor & Francis Photography
Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form. Stephen Bull considers our media-saturated society and the place of photography in everyday life, introducing the theories used to analyse photographs and exploring the impact of digital technology.The text is split into short, accessible chapters on the broad themes central to the study and analysis of photography, and key issues are explained and applied to visual examples in each chapter. Topics covered include: the identity of photography the meanings of photographs photography for sale snapshots the photograph as document photography as art photographs in fashion photography and celebrity. Photography is an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive introduction to debates about photography now and is particularly useful to media, photography and visual cultur
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Young People New Theatre A Practical Guide to an
Book SynopsisYoung People, New Theatre is a how-to' book; exploring and explaining the process of collaborating creatively with groups of young people across cultural divides.Organized into exercises, case studies and specific topics, this book plots a route for those wishing to put this kind of theatre into practise. Born out of the hugely successful Contacting the World' festival, it is the first practical handbook in this field. Topics include: debating the shared world What is collaboration? different ways of working adapting to specific age groups and abilities post-project evaluations. Trade Review'an inspiring reminder of the reasons that we do what we do' - Youth Drama IrelandTable of Contents1. The Twinning Process 2. A Creative Dialogue 3. Collaborative Exchange 4. Getting the Story 5. Working Methods 6. Full Participation 7. Form and Style 8. Structure 9. Adaptation 10. Broadening the Horizons
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Whats So Important About Music Education
Book SynopsisWhat's So Important About Music Education? presents a new philosophy of music education for the United States, rooted in history and current perspectives from ethnomusicology. J. Scott Goble explores the societal effects of the nation''s foundations in democracy and capitalism, the constitutional separation of church and state, and the rise of recording, broadcast, and computer technologies. He shows how these and other factors have brought about changes in the ways music teachers and concerned others have conceptualized music and its importance in education. In demonstrating how many of the personal and societal benefits of musical engagement have come to be obscured in the nation's increasingly diverse public forum, Goble argues for the importance of musical engagement in human life and for the importance of music in education. An ideal text for courses in music education foundations, the book concludes with recommendations for teaching the musical practices of the nationTrade Review"What’s So Important About Music Education? is a thoroughly engaging, insightful, and detailed exploration of the history, philosophy, and significance of music education . . . This is unquestionably a valuable book that every serious music student, teacher, and school administrator should read. . . . Truly admirable and inspiring. . . . Goble has presented a new – and perhaps even inevitable – direction for American music schools in the twenty-first century. Let us hope that the nation’s music educators, as well as the general public, will embrace and choose to strongly support Goble’s challenge. It is a positive and essential change that our democratic society truly deserves."– Ernest Kramer, Teachers College Record"A rich text that seeks to address some of the most difficult questions in music education. Its primary purpose of promoting intercultural understanding is deeply admirable, its superb organization and range of ideas make it a most compelling book . . . Although written for music educators in the United States, it will just as easily be of interest to readers from other countries with diverse communities." – Leonard Tan, Philosophy of Music Education Review"For me, dedicated to the historicity of disciplinarity, Goble’s study . . . of the intellectual history of music education in the United States . . . is exemplary."– William Pinar, Conversations on Curriculum & Pedagogy"Goble . . . provides a philosophical, historical, pragmatic study of the public school music curriculum as it relates to the new diverse student population. This resource gives readers a perspective on the development of past curricula and provides them with guidance going forward. . . . Recommended [for] graduate students, researchers, and professionals."– V. S. Xenakis, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Music as an Academic Subject in the Public Schools of the United States: An Inherent Cultural Tension 2. "Culture," "Worldview," and Pragmatism: The Philosophy and Semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce 3. A Pragmatic Conception of Musical Practices: "Music" as a Sign of Worldview 4. Conceptions of Music in the United States 5. A Brief Historical Survey of Concepts of Music in Music Education in the United States 6. Community, Autonomy, and Music Education in the Postmodern United States: Summary and Recommendations
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Taylor & Francis The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader
Book SynopsisFeminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader assembles a wide array of writings that address art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields from a feminist perspective. The essays, 40% of which are new to the second edition, are informed by the authorsâ deep attention to historical, geographical, and disciplinary contexts as well as by cutting edge concerns such as globalization, diasporic cultural shifts, developments in new media technologies, and intersectional identity politics.The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader combines classic texts with six specially commissioned pieces, all by leading feminist critics, historians, theorists, artists, and activists. Articles are grouped into thematic sections, each oTrade Review'The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader is a useful inspiring reference work.' –MuseTable of ContentsList of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Permissions. 1. Provocations 2. Representation 3. Differences 4. Histories 5. Readings / Interventions 6. Bodies 7. Technologies. Index
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Taylor & Francis The Sound Handbook
Book Synopsis'Tim Crook has written an important and much-needed book, and its arrival on our shelves has come at a highly appropriate time.' Professor SeÃn Street, Bournemouth UniversityThe Sound Handbook maps theoretical and practical connections between the creation and study of sound across the multi-media spectrum of film, radio, music, sound art, websites, animation and computer games entertainment, and stage theatre. Using an interdisciplinary approach Tim Crook explores the technologies, philosophies and cultural issues involved in making and experiencing sound, investigating soundscape debates and providing both intellectual and creative production information. The book covers the history, theory and practice of sound and includes practical production projects and a glossary of key terms. The Sound Handbook is supported by a companion website, signposted throughout the book, with further practical and theoretical resourcesTable of ContentsSelected Contents: Preface 1. Sound Philosophies 2. Sound Technologies 3. Sound practice and theory in Radio 4. Sound practice and theory in Stage Theatre 5. Sound practice and theory in Music 6. Sound practice and theory in Film 7. Sound practice and theory in Animation and Games 8. Sound practice and theory in Art exhibition and installation 9. Sound Practice and Theory in Internet Broadcasting and Podcasting Glossary Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ctte 233
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ORLAN
Book SynopsisORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN''s pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN''s practices describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the body as artistic material. Edited by Simon Donger with Simon Shepherd and ORLAN herself, the collection highlights her artistic impact from the perspectives of both performance and visual cultures. The book features: vintage texts by ORLAN and on ORLAN''s work, including manifestos, key writings and critical studies ten new contributions, responses and interviews by leading international specialists on performance and visual arts over fifty images demonstrating ORLAN''s art, with thirty full colour pictures a new essay by ORLAN, written specially for this volume Trade Review ‘Rather than a single, overarching account of ORLAN’s oeuvre, what this book valuably provides is a range of texts exploring overlapping ideas, myriad mouthpieces returning to and unpacking certain qualities of ORLAN’s practice in distinctly different ways, suturing and dissecting these into fascinatingly autonomous analyses. For me, quite purposefully, the undisciplined collection of texts in this rigorous and exciting volume morphs in a multitude of ways, much like the artist’s own marvellously monstrous practice.’ – Rachel Zerihan, Contemporary Theatre Review Table of ContentsPreface 1: Restless Corporealities - Simon Donger Preface 2: The Matter of ORLAN - Simon Shepherd The Triumph of the Folds - Christine Buci-Glucksmann 1 SEMINAL ARCHIVES 2 OPEN BODIES 3 HYBRID BODIES 4 CURRENT DIALOGUES
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Taylor & Francis Dance Studies The Basics
Book SynopsisA concise introduction to the study of dance ranging from the practical aspects such as technique and choreography to more theoretical considerations such as aesthetic appreciation and the place of dance in different cultures. This book answers questions such as: Exactly how do we define dance? What kinds of people dance and what kind of training is necessary? How are dances made? What do we know about dance history? Featuring a glossary, chronology of dance history and list of useful websites, this book is the ideal starting point for anyone interested in the study of dance.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Training for Dance 2. Making Dances 3. Dance Theatre History 4. Performing Dances 5. Appreciating Dance 6. Applied Dance Studies First steps in Studying Dance. Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd To Design Landscape Art Nature Utility
Book SynopsisTo Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using the concept of aesthetics of thrift.Employing numerous case studies-as diverse as Hellerup Rose Garden in Denmark; Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, USA; Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire, UK and Tofuku-ji, in Kyoto, Japan - to illustrate her ideas, the book is a beautiful portfolio of Dee's drawings, which are both evocative and to the point.The book begins with a 'Foundations' section, which sets out the basis of the approach. 'Principles' chapters then elaborate eleven significant considerations applicable to any design project, regardless of context and scale. Following on, 'Strategies' chapters reinforce the principles, and suggest further ways of designing, adaptable to different conditions. Dee ends with a focus on 'Elements', case studies and verb lists providing sources for the designer to consider how the components - vegetation, water, terrain, structures, soils, weather, and the sky - might be engaged, mediated and joined.Catherine Deeâs book is for all those who would craft landscape, from the gardener, to the professional landscape architect, to the student of designTable of ContentsPart 1: To Design Landscape 1. The designed landscape 2. Craft 3. Form and Formlessness 4. The Aesthetics of Thrift: Art, Nature and Utility Part 2: Principles 5. Sculpting Time 6. All Possible Forms 7. Nature, Culture, Both 8. Soft, Rock-hard, and Evergreen Time 9. Elemental Register 10. Hand and Machine 11. Modesty and Ingenuity as Art 12. Economy of Means 13. Utilitarian Form 14. Context is All 15. Raking Part 3: Strategies 16. Abstraction 17. Hardly 18. Intervention 19. Keep 20. Absence 21. Lucky 22. Interplay Part 4: Actions 23. Survey 24. Indoor Craft 25. Outdoor Craft Part 5: Elements 26. Green 27. Terrain 28. Wet 29. Furnish 30. Dirty, Rotten 31. Wind 32. Sky
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Taylor & Francis Acting Power
Book SynopsisRobert Cohen's book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last quarter century.' David Krasner, Emerson CollegeThis book, above all else, is an attempt to explore the qualities of acting power.... to suggest to you, the actor, an approach toward not merely good acting but powerful acting. Great actors display the power to frighten and the power to seduce and can shift between the one and the other like a violinist can her notes.' From the PrefaceThe first edition of Acting Power was a groundbreaking work of acting theory which applied sociological and psychological principles to actor training. The book went on to influence a generation of theatre and performance studies students and academics, and was translated into five languages. This carefully revised 21st Century Edition (re)considers, iTrade Review' [It is] easy to recognise why the first edition of Acting Power became a seminal text for practitioners in this field. The new edition is written in a lucid, observant and often amusing prose and provides practical exercises to allow the reader to grasp the logic of the theories and to experiment...Cohen's revised edition of Acting Power with its focus on process and craft retains its currency for the 21st century practitioner.' -Jayne Richards, Stanislavski Studies'Informative, instructive, and prescriptive, the volume addresses creating and sustaining a powerful and authentic acting presence...Cohen's book is marked by his personalized style and his ability to illuminate elusive aspects of acting as both craft and art. Including quotes by professional directors and actors, this masterful book remains relevant and offers a distinctive voice for performance studies and a new generation of actors. Summing Up: Recommended.' - J. Artman, Chapman University, CHOICE'Acting Power is...a refreshing read... I have certainly benefited from rereading him [Cohen], once again realising how detrimental being too attached to any one method, system or technique can be when appraising the art of acting.' - Rufus Swart, Stellenbosch University, South African Theatre JournalTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction the Actor’s Viewpoint; Chapter 2 Out of the Self; Chapter 3 Into the Other; Chapter 4 Playing Character; Chapter 5 Playing Style; Chapter 6 Playing the Performance; Chapter 7 Acting Power: a Synthesis;
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Taylor & Francis The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing
Book SynopsisThe Hamburg Dramaturgy's collection of 104 short essays represents one of the eighteenth-century’s most important critical engagements with the theater and its potential to promote humanistic discourse. This is the first complete English translation of this text, with extensive annotations that place the work in its historical context.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsA Note on the Original AuthorMissions, Misunderstandings, and Mythologies: The Relationship between the Hamburg Dramaturgy and the Hamburg National Theater by Natalya Baldyga"We have actors, but no art of acting": Performance Theory and Theatrical Emotion in the Hamburg Dramaturgy by Natalya BaldygaThe Legacy of the Hamburg Dramaturgy by Michael M. ChemersNote on the Translation by Wendy Arons and Sara FigalVolume I EssaysVolume II EssaysParalipomenaNotes to essays 1–104Notes to the ParalipomenaWorks CitedSubject indexName indexTitle index
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade.Contributions are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in the arts, and more widely in the universities, in the strategic and political environment of national research funding, and in the international environment of trans-national cooperation and communication. The book is divided into three principal sections â Foundations, Voices and Contexts â each with an introduction from the editors highlighting the main issues, agreements and debates in each section.The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts<Trade Review'In view of the quality of the chapters as well as the overall diversity and content of the book, it is difficult to find some weak spots.' – Johan Verbeke, vice-dean FAK 'This book is a wonderful volume of high quality contributions which make this obligatory reading for all researchers and PhD supervisors active in the domain of artistic research and research through design(ing). The book also nicely shows that artistic research merits now its own place in academia and should be given the necessary funds to develop its own discourse and methods.' – Johan Verbeke, vice-dean FAK 'The practice-led PhD, which began in the U.K., is now ubiquitous in several parts of the world. As the doctorate becomes more settled in university life, it becomes increasingly important to reach a balanced understanding of its basic concepts, methods, and outcomes. What is artistic research? How does art create new knowledge? How can a PhD-level art exhibition be assessed for quality? This book is the first comprehensive look at concepts such as research, knowledge, creativity, the visual, experiment, quality, and assessment, as they are used in practice-based programmes influenced by the U.K. and E.U. models of higher education. Now that art is being taught in universities at the doctoral level, it may spur a fundamental rethinking of the university’s basic concepts of professionalism, community, and purpose. For that reason this book is also an irreplaceable resource for those interested in the coherence and idea of the university as a whole.' – James Elkins, The Art Institute of Chicago 'This book is the first comprehensive look at concepts such as research, knowledge, creativity, the visual, experiment, quality, and assessment, as they are used in practice-based programmes influenced by the U.K. and E.U. models of higher education.' – James Elkins, The Art Institute of Chicago 'this book is a wonderful volume of high quality contributions which make this obligatory reading for all researchers and PhD supervisors active in the domain of artistic research and research through design(ing).' – Johan Verbeke, vice-dean FAK 'The Routledge Companion is a rich resource for those engaged in research as academic practitioners, and those teaching masters or supervising doctoral students. In these latter contexts it is useful to those engaged in the discussion of research methods in the arts and provides students with an important sense of context in which their research outputs might find their voice. For academic practitioners, the essays provide a way to consider how practice might be articulated as research, and evidence of a shared research environment in which they can approach this with some authenticity. Each essay is packed with references to what is now becoming a rich literature on arts research and a useful resource through which to explore the complexity and diversity of approaches in the field.' – Dr Tracy Piper-Wright, Glyndwr University, UK Table of ContentsPart I: Foundations Chapter 1: University Politics and Practice-based Research Chapter 2: Pleading for Plurality: artistic and other kinds of research Chapter 3: The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research Chapter 4: Some Notes on Mode 1 and Mode 2: adversaries or dialogue partners? Chapter 5: Communities, Values, Conventions and Actions Chapter 6: Artistic Cognition and Creativity Chapter 7: The Role of the Artefact and Frameworks for Practice-based Research Chapter 8: Embodied Knowing Through Art Part II: Voices Chapter 9: Rhetoric: Writing, Reading and Producing the Visual Chapter 10: Research and the Self Chapter 11: Addressing the ‘Ancient Quarrel’: creative writing as research Chapter 12: The Virtual and the Physical: a phenomenological approach to performance research Chapter 13: Navigating in Heterogeneity: architectural thinking and art based research Chapter 14: Insight and Rigour: a Freudo-Lacanian approach Chapter 15: Transformational Practice: on the place of material novelty in artistic change Chapter 16: Time and Interaction: research through non-visual arts and media Chapter 17: Thinking About Art after the Media: research as practised culture of experiment Part III: Contexts Chapter 18: Characteristics of Visual and Performing Arts Chapter 19: Differential Iconography Chapter 20: Writing and the PhD in Fine Art Chapter 21: Research Training in the Creative Arts and Design Chapter 22: No Copyright and No Cultural Conglomerates: new opportunities for artists Chapter 23: Evaluating Quality in Artistic Research
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hybrid Drawing Techniques Design Process and
Book SynopsisHybrid Drawing Techniques: Design Process and Presentation reaffirms the value of traditional hand drawing in the design process by demonstrating how to integrate it with digital techniques; enhancing and streamlining the investigative process while at the same time yielding superior presentation images. This book is a foundations guide to both approaches: sketching, hardline drawing, perspective drawing, digital applications, and Adobe Photoshop; providing stepbystep demonstrations and examples from a variety of professional and student work for using and combining traditional and digital tools. Also included are sections addressing strategies for using color, composition and light to further enhance one's drawings. An eResource offers copyright free images for download that includes: tonal patterns, watercolor fields, people, trees, and skies.Trade Review‘Gorski conducts a masterclass in situating digital and analog methods of drawing in this richly illustrated paean to the art of representation in contemporary times. From the scratch of a pen to the click of a mouse, this book teaches not only proven technique but strategic thinking about the new ways of rendering the image. This is a must-have manual for all those wrestling with the transformative role of hand drawing in a digital age.’ – Gil Snyder, Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA'Gilbert Gorski's pioneering work in combining traditional and digital media, elucidated in this timely and important book, places him at the forefront of contemporary visualization.' - Paul Stevenson Oles, FAIA, Principal, Interface Architects, New Mexico, USA'One of the finest architectural illustrators practicing today, Gilbert Gorski commands an exceptional talent for creating beautiful, powerful, and enlightening images. And he is a pathfinder. In your hands, you hold a brilliantly drawn map, a dedicated course, designed to empower digital innovation to evoke the sublime—building on the best of the old masters.' - Henry E. Sorenson, Jr., Professor, School of Architecture, Montana State University, USA'With the keen sense of the artistic genius, Gorski uninhibitedly and passionately mates hand-drawn architectural drawing with the boundless possibilities of computer generated methods, resourcefully proving what interdisciplinary stands for. With this simple, yet fundamental, credo this volume is a standard reference for all students of architectural representation.' - Sergei Tchoban, Architekt BDA, Germany'Gilbert Gorski presents an invaluable treatise acknowledging that great architecture is inextricable to a mastery of techné invoked in multiple delineation processes of great design. That is to say, because what we draw is in fact what we build – how we draw becomes a critical modality of aesthetic intelligence implicit to the way by which great design is crafted, evaluated and made. I believe masterful drawing is our most useful tool in building well once again.' - Duncan McRoberts, Principal, Duncan McRoberts Associates, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: Architecture in the Age of Digitalism 1. Getting Started 2. Traditional Drawing Techniques 3. Perspective Drawing 4. Digital Scanning Techniques 5. Digital Coloring 6. Hybrid Coloring Techniques 7. Process: Hybrid Design Techniques 8. Light and Shadow 9. Composition Strategies 10. Color Strategies 11. Collection of Illustrations Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Animate to Harmony
Book SynopsisWant to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create animation that can be published on a variety of platforms and formats.Animate to Harmony guides you through Toon Boom's Animate, Animate Pro and Harmony programs, teaching you how to create high-quality 2D animation of all complexities. The main text focuses onfeatures that are common across all three programs while Advanced Techniques boxes throughout the book elaborate on Pro and Harmony features, appealing to all levels of experience with any of the three main Toon Boom products.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: InterfaceChapter 2: ToolsChapter 3: AnimationChapter 4: EffectsChapter 5: CameraChapter 6: AudioChapter 7: RenderingAppendix A: Advanced ToolsAppendix B: Technical Stuff
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dorothy Heathcote on Education and Drama
Book SynopsisDorothy Heathcote MBE was a unique educator whose practice had a vital influence on the international development of Drama in Education. For more than half a century she inspired generations of teachers and educators all over the world by her original and authentic approach to teaching and learning. This new collection of the essential writings of Dorothy Heathcote traces the development of her practice over her long professional life. It combines the most important and influential articles from the first edition with more recent pieces to show the significant development in Heathcote's thinking and practice. The book reveals the increasing complexity of her engagement with Mantle of the Expert as an approach to the curriculum and revisits earlier themes that are central to her work in such pieces as Productive Tension and Internal Coherence. In everything she writes she is concerned with introducing teachers to the power of drama as a means of activating the cuTable of ContentsSection One - Teachers and Teaching Excellence in Teaching, Subject or System, Creativity Section Two – Drama in Practice Introduction, Notes on Drama, Drama and learning, Productive Tensions, Chamber TheatreApproaching Hamlet, Signs and Portents, Notes on Signs and Portents, Meeting Dr. Lister, Conventions in Mantle of the Expert, The Authentic Teacher and the Future, Section Three - Mantle of the Expert IntroductionMantle of the Expert - Key Elements, Contexts for Active learning, Using Stories in Mantle of the Expert, Encounters with Power Givers and Power Takers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art Culture and Enterprise Routledge Revivals
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1990, this investigative overview of the politics of arts' and cultural funding examines the question of public support for the arts. Looking at both popular commercial forms of culture, including radio, pop music and cinema, and the more traditional highbrow arts such as drama and opera, Art, Culture and Enterprise was the first book of its kind to deal systematically with the politics of contemporary culture. Drawing examples from specific British venues, Justin Lewis shows how innovative projects work in practice, and considers arts marketing and the promotion of culture as an economic strategy. A particularly relevant title in the context of the debate surrounding Arts Council funding, this reissue will prove valuable for artists, administrators and students of media and cultural studies, alongside those with a general interest in the future of public art and culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. But What Does it Mean? 2. Public Arts Funding – Who Benefits? 3. Reaching the Parts Other Arts Don’t… 4. Commercial Culture 5. The Subsidized Culture 6. From Mass Production to Popular Production 7. Money, Money, Money 8. Changing the System; References; Index
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Taylor & Francis Focus Scottish Traditional Music
Book SynopsisFocus: Scottish Traditional Music engages methods from ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, and media studies to explain how complex Scottish identities and culture are constructed in the traditional music and culture of Scotland. This book examines Scottish music through their social and performative contexts, outlining vocal traditions such as lullabies, mining songs, Scottish ballads, herding songs, and protest songs as well as instrumental traditions such as fiddle music, country dances, and informal evening pub sessions. Case studies explore the key ideas in understanding Scotland musically by exploring ethnicity, Britishness, belonging, politics, transmission and performance, positioning the cultural identity of Scotland within the United Kingdom.Visit the author''s companion website at http://www.scottishtraditionalmusic.org/ for additional resources.Table of ContentsPart 1. Understanding Scotland Musically 1.Auld Lang Syne 2. Introduction to understanding Scotland musically 3. Brief definitions in Scottish music Part 2. Traditional Scottish Music Today 4. The People of Scottish Music 5. The Place of Scottish Music 6. The Politics of Scottish Music Part 3. Focus in on Scottish Music 7. The White Heather Club and ‘media-folk’ 8. The notes of tradition 9. Sounding Scotland’s Diaspora Conclusion. Understanding Scotland Musically
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Taylor & Francis Ltd PaintShop Pro X6 for Photographers
Book SynopsisWritten for photographers of all levels, PaintShop Pro X6 for Photographers is packed with inspirational, full-color images and easy-to-follow step-by-step projects that will have you producing great images in PaintShop Pro in no time! Everything you need to enhance and improve your digital photography is right here in this Corel endorsed guide.In this new edition, Ken McMahon looks at the pros and cons of the new, faster 64-bit version of the software and covers new features, including working with the Instant Effects palette, using the Smart selection brush, mapping photos, automatically tagging people, and uploading to Facebook, Flickr, and Google+. Other program featuresâselections, masking, layers, adjustments and effects, HDR, and scriptingâare explained through practical examples that are just as relevant for older versions of the software.This book has everything a photographer needs to take their photos to the next level with PaintShop Pro. Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Basics: Introducing PaintShop Pro X6 Chapter 2: The Manage Workspace: Organizing Your Photos Chapter 3: Improving Your Photos: Basic Editing Chapter 4: Image Manipulation: Beyond the Basics Chapter 5: Using Selections: Controlling Change Chapter 6: Combining Images: Layers and Masks Chapter 7: Text and Shapes: Understanding Vector Graphics Chapter 8: Special Effects: Advanced Editing Techniques Chapter 9: Printing Chapter 10: The Web: Optimizing Images Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeare Spenser Donne
First published in 1971. This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultural history. Contents include: Spenser and the Allegorists; The Faerie Queene, I and V; The Cave of Mammon; The Banquet of Sense; John Donne; The Patience of Shakespeare; Survival fo the Classic; Shakespeare''s Learning; The Mature Comedies; The Final Plays.
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Taylor & Francis The Sound Studies Reader
Book SynopsisThe Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as âsound studiesâ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches on key themes like noise and silence; architecture, acoustics and space; media and reproducibility; listening, voices and disability; culture, community, power and difference; and shifts in the form and meaning of sound across cultures, contexts and centuries. Writers reflect on crucial historical moments, difficult definitions, and competing accounts of the role of sound in culture and everyday life. Across the essays, readers will gain a sense of the range and history of key debates and discussions in sound studies.The collection begins with an introduction to welcome novice readers to the field and acquaint them the main issues in sound studies. Individual section introductions give readers further background on the essTrade Review"Throughout the development of sound studies from both technological and aesthetic corners, the voice has accompanied the bolstering of the sonic and the new emphasis on listening and noise as an exemplifying force. Nowehere has that been clearer than in Jonathan Sterne's The Sound Studies Reader... In many instances, the articles contained within this volume offer a taste of a scholar's great theoretical expanse and can act as gateways for interested readers to dive into further research." - Gelsey Bell, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies"The Reader is an excellent collection and source of inspiration for all – newcomers as well as old hands – in sound studies research that crosses disciplines, methodologies and theories. It is also a “must” for academics in the humanities and sociology who have not yet encountered or dared to incorporate sound studies in their interdisciplinary study and research." - Ansa Lønstrup, Associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark"The Sound Studies Reader manages to contain, in one (albeit fairly large) book, an amazing breadth of scholarly approaches to the study of sound. From phenomenological to anthropological to cultural studies to science and technology studies, the approaches range across disciplines, fields, and methodologies to offer a broad spectrum of thought on this very current topic. Alongside all of that, the choices also reflect care for writing and communication; they are accessible, readable, well-written. I have no doubt that I will be recommending this book to students frequently and for a long time to come. For those with any interest in this field, it needs to be on your shelf, if it isn't open and being actively consulted." Anahid Kassabian, University of Liverpool, UK'The Sound Studies Reader provides so much food for thought that, in this brief space, I could only give some hints of its reach, the issues it addresses and the problems it raises. Needless to say, it will likely become a benchmark for anyone interested in this topic.' - Carlo Nardi, Dancecult'...we begin by recommending what we think is the most useful collection on sound studies to date...The result of Sterne's stance is a refreshingly balanced anthology that unflinchingly includes a variety of critical, historical, and theoretical perspectives.' Joshua Gunn, Greg Goodale, Mike M. Hall and Rosa A. Eberly, Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Sonic Imaginations Part 1: Hearing, Listening, Deafness 2. The Auditory Dimension 3. Noise: The Political Economy of Music 4. Contradicting Media: Toward a Political Phenomenology of Listening 5. The Three Listening Modes 6. Cassette Sermons, Aural Modernities and the Islamic Revival in Cairo 7. The Ontology of Vibrational Force 8. Hearing Aids and the History of Electronics Miniaturization 9. Following You: Disciplines of Listening in Social Media Part 2: Spaces, Sites, -Scapes 10. The Soundscape 11. The Walkman Effect 12. Sound, Modernity and History 13. No Corner for the Devil to Hide 14. The Soundproof Study 15. Listening to Machines: Industrial Noise, Hearing Loss and the Cultural Meaning of Sound 16. Anthropologist Underwater: Immersive Soundscapes, Submarine Cyborgs and Transductive Ethnography 17. Auditory Awareness as an Extension of Religion 18. The Audio-Visual iPod Part 3: Transduce and Record 19. The Sound of Music in the Era of Its Electronic Reproducibility 20. Four and a Half Film Fallacies 21. Gramophone 22. Fidelity Versus Intelligibility 23. Shaping the Synthesizer 24. The Recording Studio as Fetish 25. New Media Publics 26. Deadness: Technologies of the Intermundane Part 4: Collectivities and Couplings 27. This is the Voice of Algeria 28. The Culture of the Telephone 29. Radiating Culture 30. Reach Out Someone: the Telephonic Uncanny 31. Cellular Disability: Consumption, Design and Access 32. Social Transculturation, Epistemologies of Purification and the Aural Public Sphere in Latin America Part 5: The Sonic Arts: Aesthetics, Experience, Interpretation 33. Desire, Power and the Sonorous Landscape 34. Science, Technology and the Avant-Garde 35. Noises of the Avant-Garde 36. Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality 37. Starship Africa 38. Auditory Relations 39. Toward a Feminist Historiography of Electronic Music Part 6: Voices 40. The Voice the Keeps Silence 41. The Grain of the Voice 42. "Feenin": Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music 43. Multiple Voices 44. The Frenzy of the Audible: Pleasure, Authenticity and Recorded Laughter 45. The Linguistics of the Voice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reframing Photography
Book SynopsisTo fully understand photography, it is essential to study both the theoretical and the technical. In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history and technique to bring photographic education up-to-date with contemporary photographic practice. Reframing Photography is a broad and inclusive rethinking of photography that will inspire students to think about the medium across time periods, across traditional themes, and through varied materials. Intended for both beginners and advanced students, and for art and non-art majors, and practicing artists, Reframing Photography compellingly represents four concerns common to all photographic practice: vision light/shadow reproductive processes editing/ presentation/ evaluation. Each part includes an extensive and thoughtful essay, providing a broad cultural context for each topic, alongside discussion of pTrade Review'Reframing Photography is excellent – very well-written, beautifully designed, clear and innovative in its structure – an ideal introduction to the current debates about theory and practice in photography.' – Louise Milne, Edinburgh Napier University, UK'Reframing Photography is a wonderful accomplishment with its seamless treatments of theory and a liberated sense of photographs, how they can be made, and how they can look. It will end the senseless separation of photography and art, and technique from idea, right from the beginning. It reframes photography education.' – Terry Barrett, University of North Texas, USA'The essays effortlessly link photography to a history of ideas, not simply a history of cameras and chemical processes. The book does not separate historical work from contemporary work, nor does it separate technique from theory. Past and present are in constant communication with the reader who becomes aware of inter-generational, historical, technological, cultural and transdisciplinary influences in photographic practice. This is how the best teachers understand the world and relate information to their students. A contemporary education in photographic practice has come of age with this book.' – Barbara DeGenevieve, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA'This is a timely book which will be of enormous help to photography and arts students. It combines photography history, useful descriptions of artist’s practices and ideas, and technical information and tips, and encourages experimentation. The volume and website demystify a lot of aspects of practice that are not covered in more conventional books, and make it clear how enjoyable fine art photography can be.' – Michelle Henning, University of the West of England, UK'Modrak and Anthes' handbook has all the qualities to become a pioneer in the effors to bridge the gap between the technical and the theoretical. Their work strikes a perfect balance between what one can find in technical handbooks on photography and what one should expect from a theoretically well-inspired study of the medium.' – Leonardo On-line'Reframing Photography, the 560-page encyclopedic book on the subject includes everything about photography and then some. The book is for students, teachers and those in the self-taught orbit who want to do it themselves with a little help... There are fabulous essays written by the two authors, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes, in each of the four subject parts, and they live up to the encyclopedia: dense, with history, science, and an interweaving of anecdotes of present day usage that reverberate with photography’s past.' – the art blog‘...the content [of Reframing Photography] is literally mind-blowing. Bringing together rigorous theory, idiot proof "how to" tutorials, artistic works that illustrate each concept and method might sound a bit too much for a sole book written by only two authors but somehow, it works. Theory, techniques and illustrative works complement each other efficiently.’ – we make money not artTable of ContentsSelected Contents: Part 1: Vision Essay: Vision: The Eye, Perception and Conventions of Sight Essay: Mediated Vision: Photography & Optical Devices Tools, Materials & Processes: Vision Part 2: Light and Shadow Essay: Light and Shadow Tools, Materials & Processes: Light and Shadow Part 3: Copying, Capturing and Reproducing Essay: Copying, Capturing & Reproducing Tools, Materials & Processes: Reproductive Processes Part 4: Editing, Presentation and Evaluation Essay: Series and Sequence Essay: Word and Image Tools, Materials & Processes: Editing, Presentation and Evaluation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Telling the Design Story
Book SynopsisWhen presenting projects in competitive design environments, how you say something is as important as what youâre actually saying. Projects are increasingly complex and designers are working from more sources, and many designers are familiar with the struggle to harness this information and craft a meaningful and engaging story from it. Telling the Design Story: Effective and Engaging Communication teaches designers to craft cohesive and innovative presentations through storytelling. From the various stages of the creative process to the nuts and bolts of writing for impact, speaking skills, and creating visuals, Amy Huber provides a comprehensive approach for designers creating presentations for clients. Including chapter by chapter exercises, project briefs, and forms, this is an essential resource for students and practicing designers alike.Table of Contents1. Human Response to Story2. Presenter Meet Audience3. Story Design4. Writing for Impact5. Speaking for Impact6. Visual Storytelling7. Storytelling with Information8. Storytelling with Ideas9. Storytelling with VideoAppendix
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