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LEGARE STREET PR Un autre monde
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LEGARE STREET PR Guide to the Pergamon Museum
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm
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Valiz Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
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LEGARE STREET PR Natures Harmonic Unity
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LEGARE STREET PR Lorfèvrerie française aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
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Demeter Press An Artist and a Mother
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LEGARE STREET PR The Stûpa of Bharhut
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University of Minnesota Press Out of Breath: Vulnerability of Air in
Book SynopsisExplores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art In Out of Breath, Caterina Albano examines the cultural significance of breath and air to a wide array of forces in our midst, including economy, politics, infection, and ecological violence. Through a consideration of recent art practices and projects, including the dance project Breath Catalogue, which makes visible the breathing patterns of dancers, and Forensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies video, which investigates eight different kinds of clouds from airstrikes to herbicides to tear gas, Albano focuses on breath as both an intuitive process and a conveyer of meanings.Conceived in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and systemic inequalities that it has laid bare, Out of Breath shows the potential of artistic practices to mobilize affect as a form of cultural and political critique. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
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Blurb, Inc. Vintage Art
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University of Minnesota Press Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of
Book SynopsisExamines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to people, buildings, and cities. Alongside this material growth, image-making practices embedded within the fields of art and architecture have proven to be fertile, mobile, and capacious. Images of accumulation help open up the climate to cultural inquiry and political mobilization and have formed a cultural infrastructure focused on the relationships between humans, other species, and their environments.The essays in Accumulation address this cultural infrastructure and the methodological challenges of its analysis. They offer a response to the relative invisibility of the climate now seen as material manifestations of social behavior. Contributors outline opportunities and ambitions of visual scholarship as a means to encounter the challenges emergent in the current moment: how can climate become visible, culturally and politically? Knowledge of climatic instability can change collective behavior and offer other trajectories, counteraccumulations that draw the present into a different, more livable, future.Contributors: Emily Apter, New York U; Hans Baumann; Amanda Boeztkes, U of Guelph; Dominic Boyer, Rice U; Lindsay Bremner, U of Westminster; Nerea Calvillo, U of Warwick; Beth Cullen, U of Westminster; T. J. Demos, U of California, Santa Cruz; Jeff Diamanti, U of Amsterdam; Jennifer Ferng, U of Sydney; Jennifer Gabrys, U of Cambridge; Ian Gray, U of California, Los Angeles; Gökçe Günel, Rice U; Orit Halpern, Concordia U; Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford U; Cymene Howe, Rice U; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser U; Robin Kelsey, Harvard U; Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris; Hannah le Roux, U of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Stephanie LeMenager, U of Oregon; Nashin Mahtani; Kiel Moe, McGill U; Karen Pinkus, Cornell U; Stephanie Wakefield, Life U; McKenzie Wark, The New School; Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary U of London.
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University of Minnesota Press Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisInterpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment Amid xenophobic challenges to America’s core value of welcoming the tired and the poor, Irina Aristarkhova calls for new forms of hospitality in her engagement with the works of eight international artists. In this first monograph on hospitality in contemporary art, Aristarkhova employs a feminist perspective to critically explore the artworks of Ana Prvački, Faith Wilding, Lee Mingwei, Kathy High, Mithu Sen, Pippa Bacca, Silvia Moro, and Ken Aptekar and asks who, how, and what determines who is worthy of our welcome. Spanning a diverse range of contemporary art practices, Arrested Welcome shows how artists challenge our existing notions of hospitality—culturally, philosophically, and politically. From the role of “microcourtesies” in social change to the portrayal of waiting as a feminist endeavor, Aristarkhova looks deeply into topics such as gender stereotypes of welcome, ways to reclaim civility, and the means by which guests (sometimes human, sometimes animal) push the limits of our hosting traditions. Blending a feminist analysis of hospitality with in-depth case studies on how contemporary artists stimulate personal reflection and political engagement, Aristarkhova initiates these important conversations at a critical time of national and international hospitality crises.Trade Review"A thought-provoking and accessible analysis of the ways that contemporary performance and exhibition artists address a theme of great contemporary importance: hospitality. Linking that theme to a cluster of related issues—fear, courtesy and etiquette, the act of waiting, the act of welcoming—Arrested Welcome offers a series of engaging examples of ways that artists can stimulate personal reflection and political engagement without being didactic or preachy."—Susan Merrill Squier, author of Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as MetaphorTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Welcome as Resistance1. Reclaimed Civility: Ana Prvački2. Undoing Waiting: Faith Wilding3. The Man Who Welcomes: Lee Mingwei4. Hosting the Animal: Kathy High5. Welcome Withdrawn: Mithu Sen6. A Leap of Faith: Pippa Bacca and Silvia MoroConclusion. Hospitality Now: Ken AptekarAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Yale University Press Shinto
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De Gruyter Waffensammlung Dreger: Mit Einer Einführung in
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Editorial Gg Kirigami Para Principiantes: 224 Modelos Para
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University of California Press William Kentridge
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a persuasive new monograph..." * New York Review of Books *"...presents a formidable argument for Kentridge’s realignment in relation to global culture, providing us with an exhilarating image of what it means to be ‘contemporary up south’, and a more nuanced understanding of Kentridge’s unique body of work." * Burlington Contemporary *"By examining the centrality of metaphor to Kentridge’s creative processes, Maltz-Leca weaves a dense tapestry in which individual works from throughout his oeuvre are explicated in terms of the complex ways in which they relate to history, South African history in particular." * H-Net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments On the Southern Tip of Africa 1 The Politics of Metaphor Erasing 2 History as Process, or Chasing Hegel out of Africa Animating 3 Process/Procession Processing Regime Change 4 Thinking/Doubting/Doubling Drawing (Up) 5 The Most Promiscuous of Metaphors Projecting Being Contemporary Up South World Time and Other Doubtful Enterprises Notes List of Illustrations Index
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Galison Michael Storrings Classic 12 x 12 Wall Calendar
Book SynopsisWALL CALENDAR – Introducing Galison's Michael Storrings Classic 12 x 12 Wall Calendar featuring enchanting artwork by Michael Storrings. Designed to brighten your days and inspire your year, this calendar showcases the whimsical and vibrant illustrations of one of today's most beloved artists. Each month of the calendar features a different masterpiece by Michael Storrings, known for his charming depictions of bustling cityscapes, quaint neighborhoods, and festive celebrations. BRIGHT AND BOLD ARTWORK – The significance of Storrings' artwork lies in its ability to capture the essence of urban life and cultural landmarks, while also evoking a sense of warmth, joy, and whimsy. His unique style and attention to detail create a visual feast for the eyes, inviting you to explore every corner of his enchanting illustrations. It's a celebration of art, culture, and the magic of everyday life, reminding you to cherish each moment and embrace the beauty that surrounds you. PERFECT FOR GIFTING – Suitable for a wide range of recipients, including friends, family, coworkers, and acquaintances, this calendar appeals to people of all ages and interests. Whether given as a holiday gift, birthday present, or token of appreciation, it's sure to be well-received and appreciated. A wall calendar is a practical and useful gift that helps recipients stay organized and on schedule. With large, easy-to-read date grids and plenty of space for notes and reminders, this calendar serves as a functional tool for managing appointments, birthdays, and special events. HIGH QUALITY – Crafted with the highest quality materials, our wall calendar features thick, premium paper that is resistant to tearing and ink bleed-through. The pages are beautifully printed with vibrant colors and crisp details, ensuring that each illustration pops with life and energy. With its generous 12 x 12 size, this calendar provides ample space for jotting down appointments, birthdays, and special occasions. Its sturdy wire binding and reinforced hanger ensure easy hanging and flipping, so you can enjoy Storrings' delightful artwork all year long. GALISON – Since 1979, our vision at Galison has been to inspire people by bringing art into daily life with home office supplies, home décor, stationery, puzzles, and games. Whether you're seeking relaxation or a creative escape, our puzzles promise hours of enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment with every fitting piece.
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University of California Press Hans Hofmann
Book SynopsisHans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist's prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on paper by Hofmann from 1930 through the end of his life in 1966, including works from public and private collections across North America and Europe. Curator Lucinda Barnes builds on new scholarship published over the past ten years and the 2014 catalogue raisonné to present Hofmann as a unique synthesis of student, artist, teacher, and mentor who transcended generations and continents. His singular artistic achievement drew on artistic influences and innovations that spanned two world wars and transatlantic avant-gardes. Over the last fifty years Hofmann has come to be understood primarily from the vantage of his late color-plane abstractions. Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction expands our understanding and reinvigorates our apprecia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Graphic Design for Board Games
Book SynopsisBoard games are increasingly recognized as an artform of their own, but their design and aesthetics are just as important as their gameplay mechanics. In this handbook, art director and graphic designer Daniel Solis offers his 20+ years of expertise in graphic design in tabletop gaming.With a sense of humor, plenty of examples, and simple tips, Graphic Design for Board Games covers everything from typography to retail presence. Learn how to effectively use graphic design elements to enhance player experience. Create stunning game components, clear rulebooks, and effective game boards that will keep players engaged.Key Features: Highlights unique challenges and solutions of graphic design for board games Includes commentary from over a dozen board game graphic designers Explains complex concepts with numerous visual examples Trains designers to incorporate heuristics, accessibility, and semiotics Newcom
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Taylor & Francis Running the Show
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Photography
Book SynopsisFinally, here is a photography textbook authored in the 21st century for 21st century audiences.Photography: A 21st Century Practice speaks to the contemporary student who has come of age in the era of digital photography and social media, where every day we collectively take more than a billion photographs. How do aspiring photographers set themselves apart from the smartphone-toting masses? How can an emerging photographic artist push the medium to new ground?The answers provided here are innovative, inclusive, and boundary shattering, thanks to the authors' framework of the 4Cs: Craft, Composition, Content and Concept. Each is explored in depth, and packaged into a toolbox the photographic student can immediately put into practice. With a firm base in digital imaging, the authors also shed new light on chemical-based photographic processes and address the ways in which new technology is rapidly expanding photographic possibilities.In addition, <Table of Contents1. Device 2. Optics 3. Exposure 4. Composition 5. Light 6. From Capture to Post Production 7. Traditional Process in 21st Century 8. Image Manipulation 9. Content and Concept 10. Video 11. New Technology, New Possibility 12. Interdisciplinary Collaborations 13. Presentation and Installation 14. The Talk
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Valiz Beautiful Madness
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Yale University Press Beyond Aesthetics
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wole Soyinka always guarantees challenging and lively reading.”—Tom Phillips, Times Literary Supplement“Wole Soyinka, the great Afro-Atlantic master, speaks with authority and compassion about the art and literature of the black world. Beyond Aesthetics is insightful, essential reading.”—Robert Farris Thompson, author of Flash of the Spirit and Tango: The Art History of Love
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University of California Press Drawing from Life
Book SynopsisDrawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People's Republic of China (19491965) in order to discoverhow artists created a national form of socialist realism.Tracing the development of seminal works by the major painters Xu Beihong, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Li Xiongcai, Dong Xiwen, and Fu Baoshi, author Christine I. Ho reconstructs how artists grappled with the representational politics of a nascent socialist art.The divergent approaches, styles, and genres presented in this study reveal an art world that is both heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. Through a history of artistic practices in pursuit of Maoist cultural ambitionsto forge new registers of experience, new structures of feeling, and new aesthetic communitiesthis original book argues that socialist Chinese art presents a critical, alternative vision for global modernism.Trade Review"Marvelous. . . . Drawing from Life offers both essential and sophisticated conceptual understandings of the categories of mass art that promise to enrich a multitude of medium-specific examinations." * Art Journal *"Christine Ho's Drawing from Life is a must-read for anyone working on Chinese modern art or on the transnational histories of realism and socialist culture. It is an important and intellectually stimulating book that substantially deepens our understanding of the multifaceted nature of art production in socialist China and successfully counters the notion that art was merely a political tool by showing how artists explored exciting new ground along their sketching tours." * Sehepunkte *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: DRAWING CONCEPTS 1. Within the Studio: Drawing Pedagogy, European-Soviet Transnationalism, and Academic Realism 2. Going into Life: The Anti-Academic Impulse, Social Investigation, and the Peasant Portrait 3. A Socialist Huang Gongwang: Between Brushstroke and Wash, between Brush-and-Ink and Watercolor Sketching PART TWO: SKETCHING NEW CHINA 4. Going into the Construction Landscape: Sketching Labor and Panoramas of the Maoist Technological Sublime 5. Going into Revolutionary History: Military Landscape, Authenticity, and the Impressionism Salons 6. Going into the World: The Artist as Diplomat 7. In Search of Revolutionary Romanticism: Great Famine and the Collective Landscape of New China Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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Princeton University Press Marketing Maximilian The Visual Ideology of a
Book SynopsisLong before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority. The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, this title argues, the first ruler to exploit the propaganda power of printed images and text. It explores how Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts.Trade Review"Marketing Maximilian is an excellent study of the first ruler to exploit print for verbal and visual propaganda and an appropriately triumphant example of what can be achieved when, allowing the risk of anachronism, modern perspectives are applied to past problems."--Kevin Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement "Silver's book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the political culture of late medieval and early modern Europe."--Joachim Whaley, H-Net Reviews "[I]n its attention to detail and its interpretation of complex iconography, Silver's study of Maximilian and his artistic entourage makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the early stages of the Habsburg imperium."--Lindsay Diggelmann, Parergon "One of the particular virtues of this intellectual biography is the way in which Silver illuminates connections between the intellectual and the spiritual, the visual and the physical worlds... He also makes accessible to English readers much previous research available only in German."--Susan Foister, Print Quarterly "Larry Silver's Marketing Maximilian is an invigorating contribution to the literature on Maximilian I from one of the foremost scholars on this topic. Silver's numerous articles on Maximilian's artistic patronage have formed a foundation for study of this major, yet idiosyncratic figure, and this book provides a comprehensive summation of Silver's decades of study. Yet the book reaches beyond his previous work as well, providing a larger, synthetic framework for understanding Maximilian's ideology and its visual representations as well as offering new information and insights into his various commissions."--Heather Madar, Sixteenth Century Journal "Silver's book makes important contributions to our understanding of Maximilian as a political actor... Silver ... provide[s] the finest study to date on Maximilian's efforts to reformulate political practice. Marketing Maximilian provides more than simply a study of Maximilian; it offers insights into the changing political culture in early modern Europe."--Darin Hayton, Austrian History YearbookTable of ContentsPreface vii Chapter 1: Introduction: Maximilian's Artworlds 1 Chapter 2: Family Ties: Genealogy as Ideology for Emperor Maximilian I 41 Chapter 3: Translation of Empire 77 Chapter 4: Caesar Divus: Leader of Christendom 109 Chapter 5: Shining Armor: Emperor Maximilian, Chivalry, and War 147 Chapter 6: Magnifi cence and Dignity: Princely Pastimes 169 Chapter 7: Conclusions: Dynasty and/or Nation? 215 Notes 237 Bibliography 289 Index 301
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Taylor & Francis Directing
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MIT Press Ltd Science Fiction
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Taylor & Francis Early Christianity
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University of Illinois Press African Art Reframed Reflections and Dialogues on
Book SynopsisAn essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art. Read to explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.Trade Review"At just under 400 pages, this splendid and impressively researched book has eight chapters that divide thematically into three parts. . . . The main themes centre around artworks, artists, museum exhibits and others, while interviews with artists and curators close each chapter." --Theory, Culture, and Society"The authors' enthusiasm for their analytical approach is admirable . . . very timely and insightful work." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Jules-Rosette and Osborne succeed in their intention to illustrate a historical reconstituting of public perception of the African object--from ethnographic curiosity, to influence on other artistic movements, to embrace of the gamut of creative expression." --Choice"African Art Reframed is a qualitative study of the circulation and exhibition of African art in ethnographic and art museums and galleries in Europe, Africa, and the United States. Drawing on years of ethnographic observations, interviews with museum professionals and artists, and extensive archival and visual materials such as museum catalogs, Jules-Rosette and Osborn examine how African art is created, framed, and reframed in museums across three continents." --Symbolic Interaction”An important intervention featuring new approaches to 'unmixing' in the exhibitionary complex of African and African American Art. It features interviews with French and US-based curators and museum directors engaged in emerging contexts and legacies of ethnographic display.”—Peter J. Bloom, author of French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism"African Art Reframed is a masterwork that interweaves theoretical innovations and critical analyses of the power dynamics in museum displays of African art." --Journal of African American History”This book is nothing less than a major breakthrough in museum studies. It is the first to systematically connect museum display practice to the recalibration of 'ethnic identity' that happens after colonialism. Its focus is on the global display of art and crafts from Africa and the African diaspora. But it is essential reading for anyone who wonders about what we want to hear from our forebears as we compel them to speak from behind glass, standing on plinths, and hanging on walls.”—Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure ClassTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Simon Njami Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reframing African Art PART I: ENTERING MUSEUMS AT THE THRESHOLD CHAPTER 1. Lost and Found: Postcolonial Reflections on Colonial Museums CHAPTER 2. Revisiting the Storeroom: Collections and Cultural Surplus CHAPTER 3. Reaching Out: Museums, Audiences, and the Public Sphere PART II: DIALOGUES ON MUSEUM PRACTICES AND ART WORLDS CHAPTER 4. Museums Speak Out: Curators' Dialogues CHAPTER 5. Agitating African Art: Artists' Voices and Audience Responses PART III: UNMIXING AFRICAN ART AND REMIXING THE RESULTS CHAPTER 6. The Theory and Method of Unmixing CHAPTER 7. Remixing the Results and Looking Ahead CHAPTER 8. Personal Journeys and Reflections on African Art Chronology Notes Bibliography Index
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Earth Aware Editions Trees: Between Earth and Heaven
Book SynopsisArt Wolfe’s immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia.From the ancient Assyrian Tree of Life to the Iroquois peoples’ Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal role in human culture and spirituality since time immemorial. An integral part of a variety of faiths—from Buddhism and Hinduism to Nordic and aboriginal religions—trees were venerated long before any written historical records existed. This sense of reverence and wonder is beautifully evoked in these vivid images from legendary photographer Art Wolfe. The new, giftable format of his celebrated book on the topic, Trees, focuses on both individual specimens and entire forests, offering a sweeping yet intimate look at an arboreal world that spans six continents. To accompany these timeless images, author Gregory McNamee weaves a diverse and global account of the myths, cultures, and traditions that convey the long-standing symbiosis between trees and humans, and renowned ethnobotanist Wade Davis anchors the text with a penetrating introduction. Humans have always shared this planet with trees, and this book is both a breathtaking journey through and an homage to that relationship and its past, present, and future—now in a new, beautiful, and highly giftable format.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CC
Book SynopsisWhether you are creating an animated short, catchy and fun mobile game, or an innovative app, save time and money with a new edition of the bestselling How to Cheat in Adobe Flash, the real world guide to Flash content written by renowned Flash Expert, Chris Georgenes with all new content for the Flash CC revision. Table of ContentsDesign Styles; Transformation and Distortion; Masking; Motion tips tricks; Character animation; Flash to video; Animation Examples; Working with sound; Working with Video; Interactivity; Going Mobile; Extending Flash; Time-Saving Tips
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Hardpress Publishing Malerische Fussreise Durch Das Sdliche Frankreich und Einen Theil Von OberItalien 4 Bde in 8 Pt With an Atlas of 86 Plates 1
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Transcript Verlag Let Them Haunt Us – How Contemporary Aesthetics
Book SynopsisLet Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as "unrepresentable". Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Omer Fast, Forensic Architecture, and Paul McCarthy this book proposes to redefine trauma as a productive framework to exploring individual, collective, and cultural conflicts addressed in current artistic and curatorial practices. Anna-Lena Werner considers the aesthetic realm as a potential forum that provides methods of understanding the humanitarian consequences of violence and warfare, and to reveal the effects of trauma on visual culture, collective memory, and politics.
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Art Annotated
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MIT Press Ltd The Storm of Creativity Simplicity Design
Book SynopsisThe stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. In this book, Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher, student, maker, writer, and architect to describe the workings of the creative process. Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us—if we are willing to let it. It is dynamic, continually in motion; it starts, stops, rages and abates, ebbs and flows.
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The University of Chicago Press What Do Pictures Want
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Taylor & Francis Sound System Engineering 4e
Book SynopsisLong considered one of the key books on the well-informed audio engineerâs shelf, Sound System Engineering provides an accurate, complete, and concise tool for all those involved in designing, implementing, and testing sound reinforcement systems. This new fourth edition includes eight new chapters leading the reader through both cutting-edge topicsâe.g., IBMâs proposed thought-controlled sound systemâand solid basics, such as loudspeaker specifications, wave equations, and digital audio.Topics covered include: Psychoacoustics and how the brain processes sound Digital theory Mathematics for audio systems Using the decibel Interfacing electrical and acoustical systems Audio and acoustic measurements Large room and small room acoustics Designing for acoustic gain Designing for speech intelligibility Table of Contents Chapter 1 Why Sound System Engineering? Chapter 2 Voices Out of the Past Chapter 3 Sound and Our Brain Chapter 4 Psychoacoustics Chapter 5 Digital Theory Chapter 6 Mathematics for Audio Systems Chapter 7 Using the Decibel Chapter 8 Interfacing Electrical and Acoustic Systems Chapter 9 Loudspeaker Directivity and Coverage Chapter 10 The Acoustic Enviroment Chapter 11 Audio and Acoustic Measurements Chapter 12 Large Room Acoustics Chapter 13 Small Room Acoustics Chapter 14 Designing for Acoustic Gain Chapter 15 Designing for Speech Intelligibility Chapter 16 What is Waving and Why Chapter 17 Microphones Chapter 18 Loudspeakers and Loudspeaker Arrays Chapter 19 Power Ratings for Amplifiers and Loudspeakers Chapter 20 Computer-Aided System Design Chapter 21 Signal Delay and Signal Synchronization Chapter 22 Signal Processing Chapter 23 Digital Audio Formats and Transports Chapter 24 Sound System Equalization Chapter 25 Putting It All Together Appendix
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Taylor & Francis The Basics of Filmmaking
Book SynopsisThe Basics of Filmmaking is an introductory textbook tailored to the needs of beginning and intermediate film students and independent filmmakers that expertly guides you through the entirety of the craft, from screenwriting all the way through to editing, with detailed chapters covering each department involved in the filmmaking process.The book takes a behind-the-scenes look at every aspect of the filmmaking process: writing the screenplay (and getting it critiqued by a professional), pre-production, cinematography, lighting, the shooting process, getting good audio, editing, and even going to a pitch meeting to sell it. It addresses the real fundamentals, the mechanics and the basic concepts of how to write, produce, direct, shoot, record, and edit your movie.Written by Blain Brown, a seasoned expert who has worked professionally as a cinematographer, screenwriter, director, producer, line producer, assistant director, gaffer, grip, and editor; this is a mTable of ContentsFILMMAKING THE BASICSWRITING YOUR STORYPRODUCTIONTHE AD TEAMCONTINUITY AND COVERAGETHE WORK OF THE DIRECTORCINEMATOGRAPHYLIGHTING AND GRIPTHE ART DEPARTMENT SLATING AND SCRIPTYAUDIO BASICSTHE WORK OF THE EDITORSAFETYGETTING STARTED IN THE BUSINESSTERMINOLOGYRESOURCES
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University of California Press Essays on Music
Book SynopsisTheodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music. This title presents the full range of Adorno's music writing.Trade Review"A book of landmark importance. It is unprecedented in its design: a brilliantly selected group of essays on music coupled with lucid, deeply incisive, and in every way masterly analysis of Adorno's thinking about music. No one who studies Adorno and music will be able to dispense with it; and if they can afford only one book on Adorno and music, this will be the one. For in miniature, it contains everything one needs: a collection of exceptionally important writings on all the principal aspects of music and musical life with which Adorno dealt; totally reliable scholarship; and powerfully illuminating commentary that will help readers at all levels read and re-read the essays in question."-Rose Rosengard Subotnik, author of Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western SocietyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Translator's Note Abbreviations Introduction (by Richard Leppert) 1. LOCATING MUSIC: SOCIETY, MODERNITY, AND THE NEW Commentary (by Richard Leppert) Music, Language, and Composition (1956) Why Is the New Art So Hard to Understand? (1931) On the Contemporary Relationship of Philosophy and Music (1953) On the Problem of Musical Analysis The Aging of the New Music (1955) The Dialectical Composer (1934) 2. CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND LISTENING Commentary (by Richard Leppert) The Radio Symphony (1941) The Curves of the Neddle (1927/1965) The Form of the Phonograph Record Opera and the Long-Playing Record (1969) On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938) Little Heresy (1965) 3. MUSIC AND MASS CULTURE Commentary (by Richard Leppert) What National Socialism Has Done to the Arts (1945) On the Social Situation of Music (1932) On Popular Music [With the assistance of George Simpson] (1941) On Jazz (1936) Farewell to Jazz (1933) Kitsch (c. 1932) Music in the Background (c. 1934) 4. COMPOSITION, COMPOSERS, AND WORKS Commentary (by Richard Leppert) Late Style in Beethoven (1937) Alienated Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis (1959) Wagner's Relevance for Today (1963) Mahler Today (1930) Marginalia on Mahler (1936) The Opera Wozzeck (1929) Toward an Understanding of Schoenberg (1955/1967) Difficulties (1964, 1966) Bibliography Source and Copyright Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Word Embodied
Book SynopsisHalle O’Neal unpacks jeweled pagoda mandala paintings and their revolutionary entwining of word and image to reveal crucial dynamics underlying Japanese Buddhist art—including invisibility, performative viewing, and the spectacular visualizations of embodiment.Trade ReviewO’Neal’s new book untangles these mandalas’ visual and performative complexity. Impressively researched and broadly conceived, the five chapters of this study investigate the key aspects of the jeweled pagoda mandalas’ composition, their textual and visual content, and the historical and cross-cultural contexts of their production…The feast of visual material investigated in O’Neal’s book is so rich. -- Anna Andreeva * Journal of Japanese Studies *Lively, provocative, and ambitious…Stands out as a very impressive, well-researched, satisfying, and nearly exhaustive study of relatively undocumented paintings and their historical circumstances…Serves in many ways as a model for scholarship on premodern Japanese Buddhist icons. -- Cynthea J. Bogel * Monumenta Nipponica *
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LEGARE STREET PR The Lives of the Painters Sculptors Architects
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Taylor & Francis The Institutional Development of Podcasting
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CRC Press Teaching Video Game Design Fundamentals
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide provides educators with everything they need to teach video game design fundamentals. With ready-made lesson plans, practical examples, assignment templates, exercises, video walkthroughs and learning materials in a modular format that allows for customization, it makes it easy to tailor lesson plans to meet the unique needs of your students, turning your classroom into an immersive learning environment that inspires creativity and innovation.The book offers a variety of exercises and learning materials to engage all types of learners, additionally with materials designed for different learning speeds that help them progress at a pace that suits them. With this book, you can ensure that all students have the opportunity to succeed and reach their full potential.This book will be vital reading to both educators teaching, and students learning, game design.
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