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Taylor & Francis Ltd Physical Theatres
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction continues to provide an unparalleled overview of non-text-based theatre, from experimental dance to traditional mime. It synthesizes the history, theory and practice of physical theatres for students and performers in what is both a core area of study and a dynamic and innovative aspect of theatrical practice. This comprehensive book: traces the roots of physical performance in classical and popular theatrical traditions looks at the Dance Theatre of DV8, Pina Bausch, Liz Aggiss and Jérôme Bel examines the contemporary practice of companies such as Théatre du Soleil, Complicite and Goat Island focuses on principles and practices in actor training, with reference to figures such as Jacques Lecoq, Lev Dodin, Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, Etienne Decroux, Anne Bogart and Joan Littlewood. Extensive cross referencTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Genesis, Contexts, Namings 2. Routes: Roots 3. Contemporary Practices 4. Preparation and Training 5. Physicality and the Word 6. Bodies and Cultures 7. The Body and Technology 8. Conclusion by Way of Lexicon
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Tate Publishing Gathering of Strangers
Book SynopsisA powerful, timely and thought-provoking exploration of the transformative role of the museum—and of art—in society today. As the world adapts to the consequences of a global pandemic, museums continue to experience unprecedented disruption and change. At the same time, there is a growing debate and dissent over what museums are for, who they speak to, and what the histories, objects, and ideas they are tasked with holding reflect—all taking place within a public sphere that feels increasingly dynamic and volatile. Taking a wide-ranging and thought-provoking look at the roles and responsibilities of some of our most well-known and best-loved public institutions, Gathering of Strangers explores the critical challenges and opportunities for the museum at this point in the twenty-first century. Moving from the historical origins of the gallery to important current debates taking place around art and public engagement, the climate emergency, race
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The University Press of Kentucky Cesar Romero
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Cernunnos Border Bang (Bilingual edition)
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed director of The Book of Life returns with an original art book celebrating the mix between American pop culture and Mexican folklore. This bilingual (English-Spanish) book is a loving reflection of Mexican artist Jorge R. Gutiérrez’s childhood narrative of the re-appropriated pop culture references he grew up with, seeing them on his daily walks across the Mexico–U.S. border. Gutiérrez created more than 100 paintings in his unique style, each proposing a bootleg version of popular characters, artists, and musicians, from Spiderman and the Powerpuff Girls to David Bowie and Tupac Shakur; homage is also paid to Mexican icons, including Frida Kahlo, Pancho Villa, Lucha Libre, and the 1986 Mexican World Cup mascot. As the new American administration’s politics raises awareness about migrants all over the world, Border Bang is a love letter to diversity and cross-cultural dialogue,with appeal to fans of both American pop culture and traditional Mexican folklore.
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DruckVerlag Kettler Pizza is God
Book SynopsisWhether pizza is served as high-end cuisine or a poor man's food, this global product transcends the boundaries of culture and social class. The circular piece of dough has long become an established superfood. It is so much more than just something we eat. Aside from culinary considerations, the preparation, consumption and ubiquity of pizza involves at least as many social aspects. These must be taken into account in order to understand the entirety of this phenomenon. For instance, in sociology the "pizza effect" refers to reciprocal processes of reception and exchange and thus to the constant transformation of cultures. Only recently did the UNESCO in Paris allow Italy to formally register the preparation of pizza as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. That's iconic! The collection "Pizza is God" accompanies the eponymous international group exhibition. Situating a cultural phenomenon in the world of contemporary art, the exhibition will be staged by NRW-Forum Dusseldorf in 2018. This feast for the eyes, which combines painting, photography, net art, as well as video and performance, is complemented in the book by texts and essays written by renowned experts from the fields of food history, culture and science. Text in English and German.
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Hannibal Books The Goldfinch Friends
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Vales Technique of Screen and Television Writing
Book SynopsisVale''s Technique of Screen and Television Writing is an updated and expanded edition of a valuable guide to writing for film and television. Mr. Vale takes the aspiring writer through every phase of a film''s development, from the original concept to the final shooting script. Teachers of the craft as well as writers and directors have acclaimed it as one of the best books ever written on how to write a screenplay.This book combines practical advice for the aspiring or established writer with a lucid overview of the unique features of this most contemporary art form, distinguishing film and video from other media and other kinds of storytelling. It teaches the reader to think in terms of the camera and gives practical advice on the realities of filmmaking. At the same time, Vale, who began his own career as a scriptwriter for the great French director Jean Renoir, provides a solid grounding in the history of drama from the Classical Greek theater through the greaTrade Review'Eugene Vale, who knows whereof he speaks, has summed up the screen writer's problems in a book that is brilliant, and loaded with common sense.'The New York Times Book Review'Extremely interesting, for the layman as well as for the professional.'Billy Wilder'The definitive book on this subject, and of immense value to anyone, amateur or professional.'Carl ForemanTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Exciting New Media* Part I: The Form* The Film and TV Language* The Sources of Information* Enlargement and Composition* The Scene* Selection of Information* Division of Knowledge* Three Types of Storytelling* Part II: The Story* Characterization* Transition of Action* Disturbance and Adjustment* Main Intentions and Subintentions* The Effect Upon the Audience* Television, Cable and Pay TV, Video, Satellite Broadcasts* Part III: The Dramatic Construction* From Idea to Final Form* How to Choose Story Material* Understandability, Probability, Identification* Story Content* The Writing of the Script* The Young Filmmakers* The Daring Conviction* Glossary* Appendix on Script Formatting
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nature Photography Insider Secrets from the
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered what it is that professional photographers do day in and day out that enables them to take consistently compelling images? Or thought that unravelling the insider secrets of the professionals could inspire you? This book takes a contemporary and innovative approach to revealing the day-to-day habits of the world''s most successful wildlife, landscape and macro photographers, divulging the core skills and techniques through which they excel. This book is crammed full with expert advice taken from the world''s leading pros directly from the field. It will empower the development of your skills to a professional level and fire your imagination. Starting with the basics of how to plan a rewarding field trip (whether locally or afar) for one day or a month, and covering all aspects of camera handling and photographic technique including: how to make perfect exposures every time, ensure pin-sharp images of moving subjects, decipher the complexities ofTable of ContentsPlan for the Perfect Picture; Know Your Camera; See What Your Camera Sees; Take Control of Your Camera; Learn the Rules (and When NOT to Apply Them); Capture the Moment (Putting Everything into Practice); Practice (Makes Perfect)
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MIT Press Ltd Turks Jews and Other Germans in Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisThe first book to examine multicultural visual art in Germany, discussing more than thirty contemporary artists and arguing for a cosmopolitan Germanness.With Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art, Peter Chametzky presents a view of visual culture in Germany that leaves behind the usual suspects--those artists who dominate discussions of contemporary German art, including Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, and Rosemarie Trockel--and instead turns to those artists not as well known outside Germany, including Maziar Moradi, Hito Steyerl, and Tanya Ury. In this first book-length examination of Germany's multicultural art scene, Chametzky explores the work of more than thirty German artists who are (among other ethnicities) Turkish, Jewish, Arab, Asian, Iranian, Sinti and Roma, Balkan, and Afro-German.With a title that echoes Peter Gay's 1978 collection of essays, Freud, Jews and Other Germans, this book, like Gay's, rejects the idea of us and
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MIT Press Ltd Voidopolis
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MIT Press Ltd Very Fantastically Arranged
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MIT Press Ltd Propositions for NonFascist Living Tentative and
Book SynopsisArtists, theorists, activists, and scholars propose concrete forms of non-fascist living as the rise of contemporary fascisms threatens the foundations of common life.Propositions for Non-Fascist Living begins from the urgent need to model a world decidedly void of fascisms during a time when the rise of contemporary fascisms threatens the very foundations of a possibility for common life. Borrowing from Michel Foucault's notion of “non-fascist living” as an “art of living counter to all forms of fascism,” including that “in us all… the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us,” the book addresses the practice of living rather than the mere object of life.Artists, theorists, activists, and scholars offer texts and visual essays that engage varied perspectives on practicing life and articulate methods that support multiplicity and difference rather than vaunting
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Yale University Press The Painted Face Portraits of Women in France
Book SynopsisCharts the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century. This book focuses on six canonic paintings and how they illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century.
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Open University Press GENDERING OF ART EDUCATION
Book SynopsisThis book traces the main gendered themes of modernist art education from the nineteenth century to the present day.In the period of industrial modernization, art education emphasised the importance of productive modes of creativity in 'making and doing' and promoted rational 'design processes' productive of masculine identities.With the decline of industrial production and with the rise in leisure, services and consumption, art education has shifted its relevance to the more feminine skills of flexibility, management, responsiveness and combinatory modes of creativity. The Gendering of Art Education looks at the way art education has always been implicated in producing gendered identities for modernity's gendered divisions of labour.Table of ContentsIntroductionTheoretical perspectivesNineteenth century contextsPsychology in art educationModernist art, and design educationThe feminization of art educationBeyond genderingtactics and strategiesReferencesIndex.
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University of California Press Mesopotamia
Book SynopsisAn illustrated guide to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, covering the broad areas of life, such as people, politics, religion, the world of the dead, and places and monuments. It emphasizes the archaeological and literary evidence pertaining to Mesopotamia during the period before the arrival of Alexander the Great.Trade Review"These are visual, broadly oriented guides." Choice "A fascinating collection... All you have ever wanted to know about ancient Mesopotamian civilization is here and so well done!" European Legacy
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Penguin Random House India The Spirit of Enquiry
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Skyhorse Publishing The Quiet Eye
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Silman-James Press,U.S. Theatre Management Producing and Managing the
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Monash University Publishing Seize The Day Exhibitions
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IFAA Media Work of Art Artists in the 21st Century
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Blurb Halrai 25
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Cambridge University Press Michelangelos Art of Devotion in the Age of
Book SynopsisThis offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo's sculpture and graphic works in his late period. Emily Fenichel argues that much of Michelangelo's late oeuvre was engaged in solving the religious and artistic problems presented by the Counter-Reformation.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Public: criticism, penance, and the portrait medal; 2. Public: collaboration and religious art in Rome; 3. Private: Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and meditation; 4. Private: the Jesuits, the body, and meditation; 5. Conclusion.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Game Dev Stories
Book SynopsisGame Dev Stories: Interviews About Game Development and Culture Volumes 1 and 2 are a collection of interviews from renowned author David L. Craddock as he explores all corners of the video game industry. Collected from the author''s archives, Game Dev Stories gathers conversations with individuals from all corners of the industry: Who they are, the paths they paved, and their contributions to this multibillion-dollar industry. This text offers viewpoints from well-known individuals like John Romero, Tom Hall, and Matt Householder. From artists and writers to programmers and designers, Game Dev Stories offers amazing insights and understanding to what occurs behind the screens of your favorite games and may help inspire future game developers in pursuing their dreams.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts
Book SynopsisThe psychology of aesthetics and the arts is dedicated to the study of our experiences of the visual arts, music, literature, film, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world. The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts is a foundational volume presenting an overview of the key concepts and theories of the discipline where readers can learn about the questions that are being asked and become acquainted with the perspectives and methodologies used to address them. The psychology of aesthetics and the arts is one of the oldest areas of psychology but it is also one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas. This is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook featuring essays from some of the most respected scholars in the field.Trade Review'This book is a significant contribution to furthering our understanding about the importance and value of aesthetics within different art forms and contexts. It has cross-disciplinary appeal and helps to promote both theoretical development and applied research, while opening the study of aesthetics to a broader audience.' Paul M. Camic, Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent'This volume is impressive in both its breadth and depth. I work in this area, yet I learned something from each and every chapter about the psychology of aesthetics and art, and - perhaps more importantly - how aesthetics and art contribute to the human condition. This book will be kept on my desk so I can have easy access to it!' Jonathan Plucker, Raymond Neag Professor of Education, University of Connecticut'This volume brings together important scholarship and groundbreaking methodological approaches for understanding the fundamental question of how and why art moves us. Although an individual's experience of art is inherently subjective, these collected essays draw on research in psychology and aesthetics to bring new insights to a topic that historically many scholars in the field had considered too indefinable to analyze or quantify.' Kathryn Potts, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education, Whitney Museum of American ArtTable of ContentsPart I. Concepts, Theories and Methods: 1. Introduction by the editors Jeffrey K. Smith and Pablo P. L. Tinio; 2. Empirical aesthetics: hindsight and foresight Oshin Vartanian; 3. Philosophy of art and empirical aesthetics: resistance and rapprochement William P. Seeley; 4. Theoretical foundations for an empirical aesthetics Gerald C. Cupchik; 5. Aesthetics assessment Aaron Kozbelt and James C. Kaufman; Part II. Perspectives and Approaches to Art and Aesthetics: 6. Beyond perception: information processing approaches to art appreciation Helmut Leder; 7. Psychodynamics and the arts Pavel Machotka; 8. Evolutionary approaches to art and aesthetics Marcos Nadal and Gerardo Gómez-Puerto; 9. The walls do speak: psychological aesthetics and the museum experience Pablo P. L. Tinio, Jeffrey K. Smith and Lisa F. Smith; Part III. Objects and Media: 10. Empirical investigation of the elements of composition in paintings: a painting as stimulus Paul J. Locher; 11. 'Mute, motionless, variegated rectangles': aesthetics and photography I. C. McManus and Katharina Stöver; 12. Aesthetic responses to design: a battle of impulses Paul Hekkert; 13. From music perception to an integrative framework for the psychology of aesthetics Stefan Koelsch; 14. Theater and dance: another pathway to understanding human nature Thalia R. Goldstein and Rebecca Yasskin; 15. Arts education, academic achievement and cognitive ability Swathi Swaminathan and E. Glenn Schellenberg; 16. Aesthetics and the built environment: no painting or musical piece can compare Andréa Livi Smith; 17. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? Influencing factors and effects of facial attractiveness Gernot Gerger and Helmut Leder; 18. An aesthetics of literary fiction David Carr; Part IV. Contemporary Issues and Debates: 19. Neuroaesthetics: descriptive and experimental approaches Anjan Chatterjee; 20. How emotions shape aesthetic experiences Stefano Mastandrea; 21. Unusual aesthetic states Emily C. Nusbaum and Paul J. Silvia; 22. Personality and aesthetic experiences Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham; 23. Hokusai and Fuji: cognition, convention and pictorial invention in Japanese pictorial arts David Bell; Part V. Pulling it All Together: 24. And all that jazz: rigour and relevance in the psychology of aesthetics and the arts Pablo P. L. Tinio and Jeffrey K. Smith.
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Cambridge University Press Danse Macabre
Book SynopsisThe visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning field to a new maturity through extended close readings of major works by artists from Pieter Bruegel and Gustav Klimt to Gordon Bennett and Rafael Cauduro. At each point, the author puts these works of art into a complex dance with legal and social history, and with recent developments in legal and art theory. Manderson uses the idea of time and temporality as a focal point through which to explore how the work of art engages with and constitutes law and human lives. In the symmetries and asymmetries caused by the vibrating harmonic resonances of these triple forces - time, law, art - lies a way of not only understanding the world, but also transforming it.Trade Review'This book dances indeed. Moving deftly from one angle of the triangle of time, law, and art, to the other, this book shows - through a great variety of artworks, all taken up in detail - the complexities and the consequences of these pluralities. There is no other book which does this in such depth in all three fields. We know that law does not equal justice, that the line between law and genocide is flint-thin, and that the time of the clock is very different from the temporalities we experience. That law's dance has death at its heart is a fact of life, but that so many artists in so many different cultural places and moments have been able to make this sensuously perceptible and deploy it as a cry for a justice that is, precisely, not blind: this is what Manderson demonstrates in this utterly enjoyable book.' Mieke Bal, Cultural theorist, critic, video artist and curator'Quondam musician and part-time playwright, full-time jurist, artisan and aesthete, Manderson extracts, expounds and exemplifies the reinvention and relocation of law in its artistic context. Danse Macabre bravely overcomes the jurist's twin fears: of the image, and of theory. This book brilliantly interprets the art that surrounds law as a compelling narrative of justice and of failing legality.' Peter Goodrich, Director of Law and Humanities, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York'Drawing on recent psychoanalytical, hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches to the histories of art, Manderson weaves a history of the law from 1500 to the present day - a history that neither progresses nor unravels but keeps returning to the archetypal, indeed holy, trinity of law, death and time, which he argues inhabits and manifests in art. Through a close and extended reading of his chosen artworks, and through the innovative methodologies he uses to unpack them, Manderson's chapters build like symphonic movements into a veritable masterclass in the historiography of art. Art, Manderson argues, cannot escape the deathly grip of the law and its temporality - a grip, he argues, that will always entice and elude us.' Ian McLean, Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History, University of MelbourneTable of ContentsForeword; 1. Bruegel's 'Justice': anachronic time; 2. Reynolds's justice, Blackstone's laws: diachronic time; 3. Governor Arthur's proclamation: utopian time; 4. Turner's 'Slave Ship': now time; 5. Klimt's 'Jurisprudence': suspended time; 6. Bennett's laws: colonial time; 7. Cauduro's crimes: ectoplasmic time; Afterword.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AntiMuseum
Book SynopsisAnti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the New Museum and PS1 in New York, Mona in Australia, Art42 in Paris and Donald Judd's Marfa, the book assesses their potential to engage museum publics in new ways.Anti-museums seek to breathe relational and theatricalised vitality into the objects they exhibit, by connecting them to the contexts of their making, to their social life outside the museum, to visitors'' lives via their transformative capacities for change, and by being a place of dialogue, exchange and transformation, rather than instruction. Documenting the ways in which they have been created by artists, collectors, and curators, the book also examines the extent to which anti-museums connect with other museums through the exchange of values and resources. Critically, it asks whether, after some 40 years of new museology', such institutions Table of Contents1. Introduction: anti-museum – imagining the unthinkable; 2. Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne; 3. Donald Judd’s Marfa: state of dialogue; 4. New York, New York: PS1 and the New Museum; 5. Mona (Museum of Old and New Art), Hobart; 6. Art42, Paris; 7. Conclusion: the art of museums beyond convention
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McGraw-Hill Education The Humanities through the Arts 2026 Release ISE
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McGraw-Hill Education Living with Art ISE
Book SynopsisArt is part of our lives, from the monuments in our communities, to the fashions we wear and the media images we take in, to the exhibits on display in museums and galleries. It permeates our daily life. But why do we study art? How do we talk about art?Living with Art helps students see art in everyday life by fostering a greater understanding and appreciation of art. Taking a step further, Getlein equips students with the tools necessary to analyze, digest, and maintain a life-long enthusiasm for art. Table of ContentsPart One: Introduction 1 Living with Art 2 Artists and Audiences3 Themes of Art Part Two: The Vocabulary of Art 4 The Visual Elements5 Principles of Design Part Three: Two-Dimensional Media6 Drawing 7 Painting 8 Prints 9 Camera and Computer Arts 10 Graphic Design Part Four: Three-Dimensional Media 11 Sculpture and Installation 12 Arts of Ritual and Daily Life 13 Architecture Part Five: Arts in Time 14 Ancient Mediterranean Worlds15 Christianity and the Formation of Europe 16 The Renaissance17 The 17th and 18th Centuries18 Arts of Islam and of Africa 19 Arts of Asia: India, China, and Japan 20 Arts of the Pacific and of the Americas21 The Modern World: 1800–1945 22 From Modern to Postmodern23 Contemporary Art around the World
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Gibbs M. Smith Inc Gotcha Day
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Orion Publishing Co Making a Noise
Book SynopsisJohn Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa''s memoir is etched with candour. His account of two years of internecine warfare at the top of the BBC under the Chairman, ''Dukey'' Hussey will go down as a major contribution to BBC history. His recollections of a hilarious and petty-minded few months as head of a Cambridge college will be read as a case study of the absurdities of academic life; while running the rejected and maligned Barbican Centre, Tusa led its recovery into the major cultural centre that it is today.Trade ReviewA real contribution to British cultural history. -- Brian Morton * THE HERALD *
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Art and Music: Past, Present and Future
Book SynopsisHow, under the condition of radical ambiguity, can a work of art be political? In Art and Music: Past, Present and Future Perspectives, the authors begin by arguing that this question only yields a satisfying answer if we look at contextual conditions, both of production and of reception. Using the case of street-art, the central claim of the opening chapter is that risk can be framed as one central, distinctive fault line. After some general remarks concerning morphogenesis and Darwinism, the following chapter considers the transition from biological morphogenesis to semiogenesis, the impact if individuation and the relevance of tradigenetic and ratiogenetic processes. The morphogenesis of basic cognitive schemata enabling the formation of sentences is also described. Next, the authors explore the characteristics of Korean artists cultural practices in the context of globalization in which the influences of global capitalism dominate. This book aims to interpret artists concern with universality in art, the most significant priority for Korean artists who live both within and outside Korea, employing French philosopher Deleuzes theories. Focusing predominantly on women illustrators beyond Eyvind Earles iconic 1959 work on the Disney film Sleeping Beauty, the authors also examine key artistic representations of Sleeping Beauty stories, comparing and contrasting elements of gender, culture, and aesthetics. Given the context of Sleeping Beauty as childrens literature, the authors also take into account art education considerations of her representation through the ages. In the final chapter, the authors present a literature review on musical performance anxiety in singers, their teachers self-perception and their own in the different phases of their formation. The main signs and symptoms characteristic of musical performance anxiety and the possible implications to the voice during musical performance, including its treatment, are also addressed.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Arts Biomechanics
Book SynopsisAttitudes toward the role of the Arts in society are as varied as they are numerous, ranging from the Arts are a (nice) diversion'' to while many things may be necessary to make living possible, it is the Arts that make life worth living''. In the last few decades, research in the areas of psychology, neuroscience and sociology have underpinned the positive health benefits of the arts as well as artists'' roles in encouraging innovative thinking and the development of novel persectives for the betterment of society. But, artists work within the existence of boundary conditions. For even the most subversive of artistic creations, the act of subversion is inherently referential to the condition that is being subverted. Furthermore, adaptation of "our modes of perception borrowed from the sensations" are hindered by the reality that "every word in the language refers to our ordinary perceptions" (Neils Bohrs, Nature Supplement, 14 April 1928), and is thus mediated by both the design capacities and limitations of the human form and the ways in which we express that experience. Hence, by examining multiple facets of the commonality of bodily experience Arts Biomechanics explores the human capacity to translate between the perspectives of self and other. Arts Biomechanics as a field of study uses the tools and methods of science to understanding the bodily experience within artistic creation. Desired aesthetic outcomes are influenced by: 1) how an artist might use metaphor or symbolism rooted in bodily experience, 2) how an artist might experience the act of creation, 3) how a performance of an artistic act may be better understood through analysis of physical skills necessary for that act, 4) how the act of challenging creative boundaries might challenge the capacity of the body, and 5) how representations and perception of the human condition are mediated by technology ... "the medium is the message" (Marshal McCluhan, Undertanding Media: the Extensions of Man, 1964). In all of these areas Arts Biomechanics allows a deeper discourse, rooted in the commonality of bodily experience, exploring the relationships between modes of perception and communication of our individual experiences. Advances in Arts Biomechanics has twelve chapters covering music, dance, and the visual & media arts. It is organized in three parts. The first part, music research, has articles covering fundamental theory, proof of principles, musicians'' health, motor control/learning and its application in practice. Many of these are meaningful for both pedagogy and performance. The second part, dance articles, examines the biomechanics of dancing, kinematics and kinetics, injury prevention, and biomechanical foundations of intercultural representations of gender roles. Finally, two visual & media arts articles discuss motion capture use in performance and artistic creation as well as its communication to an audience, linking bodily gesture to the performative act whether on stage or on canvas. These innovative articles represent advances in thinking regarding biomechanics and the arts. By their very nature, using the tools and methods of science to better understand the visual and performance arts, all are interdisciplinary. We hope that the included articles challenge and inspire researchers and artists in the pursuit of transdisciplinary ways of knowing and creating in the arts.
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Wonderful Singapore: Adult Coloring Book
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Giorgione
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Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Close to the edge... The Work of Gerald Ferguson:
Book SynopsisClose to the edge... contains seven essays and statements by Gerald Ferguson that define this important conceptual artist''s approach to his art and his times. Beginning with his first works in Halifax in the late 1960s and ending with his statement for his last exhibition, New Paintings -- Landscapes, held in Toronto in 2009, Ferguson''s collected writings are a unique document in Canadian art history. Ferguson''s writings are accompanied by 20 plates of his key works.
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co The Persuasive Actor: Rhetorical Power on the
Book Synopsis"A must-have for all actors who encounter speeches that are longer than three sentences. On the surface, that would be classic works from Sophocles through Shakespearewith the 17th and 18th centuries thrown in. Dig deeper and the book's value to actors of modern and contemporary drama is inescapable. Ibsen, Shaw, Williams, Miller, Shepard, Wilson, Kushner, and Suzan-Lori Parks all wrote plays that are filled with powerful rhetorical devices that demand lively, thorough, and specific consideration. This book is a guide that unfolds the mysteries of classical rhetoric in a clear, concise, and effective manner, a book for speakers who want to move their audiences. It is aimed at actors, but also belongs on the shelf of lawyers, advertising copywriters, and, of course, public officials. I will use it in my classes and workshops and enthusiastically recommended it to all actors and actor trainers." Leslie Reidel, Department of Theatre, University of Delaware
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Mouchette
Book SynopsisOne of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art.“Nothing but a little savage” is how the village school-teacher describes fourteen-year-old Mouchette, and that view is echoed by every right-thinking local citizen. Mouchette herself doesn’t bother to contradict it; ragged, foulmouthed, dirt-poor, a born liar and loser, she knows herself to be, in the words of the story, “alone, completely alone, against everyone.” Hers is a tale of “tragic solitude” in which despair and salvation appear to be inextricably intertwined. Bernanos uncompromising genius was a powerful inspiration to Flannery O’Connor, and Mouchette was the source of a celebrated movie by Robert Bresson.
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Quirk Books Fill in the Blank: An Inspirational Sketchbook
Book SynopsisWith more than 100 different spreads to envision, design, and draw, "Fill in the Blank" lets you create everything from new products (cars, shoes, vegetables) to new works of architecture (houses, skyscrapers, and cityscapes), from new works of art (statues, masterpieces) to new graphics (posters, billboards, packaging), from new icons (flags, road signs) to new forms of entertainment (roller coasters, book covers) and much, much more! Each spread offers you a visual starting place, using photographs more often than illustration to add realism. Want to design a tattoo? Here's the body. Want to build a new castle on a cliffside? Here's the landscape. Want to create a new constellation? Here's your night sky. Simultaneously inspirational and fun for all ages, "Fill in the Blank" has great potential as a gift for aspiring creative types, and would even make a great icebreaker at corporate retreats.Trade Review“Innovative riff on the classic sketchbook.”—Jezebel Magazine
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Shanghai Press An Illustrated Guide to 50 Masterpieces of
Book SynopsisOver thousands of years, the art of Chinese painting has evolved, while also staying loyal to its traditional roots. Despite various schools of thought, styles and techniques, three primary categories have emerged across the discipline: landscape, figure and bird-and-flower. Using fine ink and water brush strokes on paper or silk, Chinese artists have developed a unique style—one that's famous throughout the world.This book highlights 50 Chinese paintings, pulled from museum collections in China and around the world, including: British Museum, London Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas Osaka City Museum of Art, Osaka Palace Museum, Beijing Palace Museum, Taipei Shanghai Museum, Shanghai The paintings shown are representative of the categories, historical periods and styles of this artistic tradition.Detailed professional interpretations and notes allow readers to learn more about the pieces themselves, the artists and the context in which they were created. Plus, photo enlargements of key details get readers up close to these masterpieces. As one of the world's oldest continuous art forms, Chinese painting has a truly special history. This comprehensive guide allows modern readers to travel through time, experiencing important moments in Chinese history and society through beautiful pieces of artwork.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Participation in the Arts & the Role of
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Live & Local: A Study of U.S. Outdoor Arts
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Arts Education in America: Declines & the Need
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Design Studio Press Nuthin' But Mech 4
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Pickwick Publications Handling Dissonance
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£23.55
Nova Science Publishers Inc Condition of Arts Education: Select Research
Book SynopsisStudent access to arts education and the quality of such instruction in the nation''s public schools continue to be of concern to policy-makers, educators, and families. This book examines the extent to which students received instruction in the arts; the facilities and resources available for arts education instruction; and the preparation, work environments, and instructional practices of music and arts education activities outside of regular school hours and the presence of school-community partnerships in the arts. In addition, this book provides broader coverage of arts education instructors by including two new surveys for secondary music and visual arts specialists; with a focus on providing a more comprehensive description of the current status of arts education and changes from a decade ago.
£126.74
Greenleaf Book Group LLC The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times
Book SynopsisSeeing the World Through Shape How do humans make sense of the world? In answer to this timeless question, award winning documentary filmmaker, Lois Farfel Stark, takes the reader on a remarkable journey from tribal ceremonies in Liberia and the pyramids in Egypt, to the gravity-defying architecture of modern China. Drawing on her experience as a global explorer, Stark unveils a crucial, hidden key to understanding the universe: Shape itself. The Telling Image is a stunning synthesis of civilization's changing mindsets, a brilliantly original perspective urging you to re-envision history not as a story of kings and wars but through the lens of shape. In this sweeping tour through time, Stark takes us from migratory humans, who imitated a web in round-thatched huts and stone circles, to the urban ladder of pyramids and skyscrapers, organized by hierarchy and measurements, to today's world of interconnected networks . aIn The Telling Image Stark reveals how buildings, behaviors, and beliefs reflect humans' search for pattern and meaning. We can read the past and glimpse the future by watching when shapes shift. Stark's beautifully illustrated book asks of all its readers: See what you think.Trade Review"Stark explains all of this using photographs and images to prove her point. You can clearly see what she is saying: 'We are what we build.'" --Manhattan Book Review "Author and photographer, Stark has put together an astonishing book that shows her vision of the world as it has been and is today and what the world might be come in the future." --Seattle Book Review "There is real worth in another facet of thinking, another way to view things and the people who engender them." --Tulsa Book Review "It is human nature to look for and recognize patterns and shapes in our environment; it is what helps us learn about and categorize our surroundings. In The Telling Image, Lois Farfel Stark explores the shapes that define humanity through photography, illustration, and words in a unique and beautifully structured book." --San Francisco Book Review "In considering how innovations have helped humans see how the world is changing and how they can build new social structures, Lois Farfel Stark reveals that many clues about that decision-making lie in images and architecture." --Midwest Book Review, Donovan's Literary Services "Lavishly illustrated and thought-provoking, The Telling Image should appeal to anyone interested in the world of ideas and the shapes that reflect them." --Blue Ink Review "The Telling Image is an all-encompassing vision of the world and meaning making; it is engrossing and inescapable." --Foreword Reviews "The physical contours of technology, architecture, and settlement intertwine with humanity's understanding of society and the universe, according to this debut photo essay." --Kirkus Review "Lois Stark has the skill to find order in the vast chaos of our collective history. This book is like donning an old pair of glasses to better see history unfolding before our eyes. It shows us the seeds of change now taking hold and critical clues marking civilization's next step forward." --George Kaufman, vice-chairman, Omega Institute "One of the ways to imagine the potential and scope of this project is to think of Lois Stark as a 'Female Joseph Campbell.' A book of great depth and originality." --Eli N. Evans, president emeritus, Charles H. Revson Foundation; steward and funder of PBS Projects "Stark allows images to form their own story. This book will be a lot of fun. It will start conversations. It will delight both the eye and the mind." --John H Lienhard, commentator, National Public Radio; author, Engines of Our Ingenuity and Inventing Modern "Lois Stark's committed intelligence brings pictures and stories to life and enables people to see and interpret the world with an enlightened perspective that is increasingly rare in this fragmented and scattered society. Watching her 'connect the dots' is a great learning experience. Stark brings words and pictures full of common sense but confronting the most complex challenges. She presents ideas of extraordinary value to artists, businessmen, and scientists." --Barry Munitz, former president and CEO, The J. Paul Getty Trust "Lois Stark is an imaginative thinker--an insightful artist who takes the particular and makes it universal. She is an inspiring guide who discerns patterns and tells a compelling human story." --Edward Hirsch, poet, president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
£21.15
Nova Science Publishers Inc Future of Post-Human Visual Arts: Towards a New
Book SynopsisAre the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, "people under 60, raised on television remember by what they see [F]ilm and television are really the language of today"? (TE 2013) This central view on the visual arts can be contrasted with an opposing view by Camille Paglia, who wrote that "the visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images." (TE 2013a) Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), the visual arts (in relation to techniques and spirits) are neither possible (nor impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe. Needless to say, this questioning of the opposing views on the visual arts does not mean that the study of techniques and spirits is useless, or that those fields (related to the visual arts)like drawing, cosmetics, manicure, painting, landscape, calligraphy, photography, digital art, computer technology, advertisement, graphic design, filmmaking, fashion, sculpture, architecture, and so onare unimportant. (WK 2013) Of course, neither of these extreme views is reasonable. Instead, this book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of the visual arts in regard to the dialectic relationship between techniques and spiritswhile learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the ephemeral theory of the visual arts) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way and is organized in four chapters. This seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think about the visual arts in relation to techniques and spirits from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its "post-human" fate.
£166.49
