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Art & Creaky Bones

Author : Sheila Reid

Publisher : Sheila Reid

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 11,50 MB

Release : 2019-12-08

Category : Art

ISBN : 1729874630

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ART & CREAKY BONES by Sheila Reid, with a French translation by Anne Marchou 4 Awards -- Winner & Finalist, International Book Awards 2020 (American Book Fest) Finalist, National Indie Excellence Awards & Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2020 Why are some people vibrant and active as they age, while others become tired and depressed? The author whose own bones are a little creaky these days, came across a story about a 102 year old artist in the glory of her first success at the Whitney Museum in New York. This set Reid off reading neuroscience reports about how creativity helps people live longer and stay in better health. The author, who has spent her whole life making art twelve hours a day and exhibiting in museums around the world, was overjoyed to learn how and why her favorite activity is such a super remedy for aging well. She found that anything creative, dancing or singing, drawing or even beginning a new language, will keep you healthier and lengthen your life. You will probably also make new friends. After 50 is maybe the best time of your life for creating something new, because the wisdom and experience you've gained over the years make you much more innovative. As you age you're freer and you have only your own pleasure to think of. The brain changes with time and you tend to be braver too, and more likely to produce something that is completely unexpected. One reason is that you worry less about what the world thinks. You gain a certain peacefulness. This creates fertile ground for your imagination to flourish as you get older. The increase of self-esteem these activities bring is nourishing to the soul and to the body. Isn't it wonderful to find some good news in the world today.? The people who awarded it 4 Book Awards, think you'll love Art & Creaky Bones.



"Art, History and the Senses "

Author : Gabriel Koureas

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 38,89 MB

Release : 2017-07-05

Category : Art

ISBN : 1351575465

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Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present questions whether the authority of the visual in 'visual culture' should be deconstructed, and focuses on the roles of touch, taste, smell, and sound in the materiality of works of art. From the nineteenth century onward, notions of synaesthesia and the multi-sensorial were important to a series of art movements from Symbolism to Futurism and Installations. The essays in this collection evaluate works of art at specific moments in their history, and consider how senses other than the visual have (or have not) affected the works' meaning. The result is a re-evaluation of sensory knowledge and experience in the arts, encouraging a new level of engagement with ideas of style and form.



Foucault on the Arts and Letters

Author : Catherine M. Soussloff

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 29,77 MB

Release : 2016-10-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1783485752

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As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault’s reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the contemporary subject in a neo-liberal and globalized society. This book offers insight into the role of the arts in Foucault’s thought as a means to better understanding his contribution to larger debates concerning contemporary existence. Visual culture, literary, film and performance studies have all engaged with Foucauldian theories, but a full examination of Foucault’s significance for aesthetic discourse has been lacking until now. This book argues that Foucault’s particular approach to philosophy as a way of thinking the self through the work of art provides significant grounds for rethinking his impact today. The volume moves across as many disciplinary boundaries as Foucault himself did, demonstrating the value of Foucault’s approach to aesthetic discourse for our understanding of how the arts and humanities reflect upon contemporary existence in a globalized society.



CINEMA 4D

Author : Anne Powers

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 366 pages

File Size : 30,75 MB

Release : 2012-10-12

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 113606141X

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Make the creative leap to 3D. Realize your artistic vision with this treasure chest of instructional projects. Get the essential concepts and techniques without drowning in the technical complexities. This new edition is an artist's sourcebook for the visionary in you that wants to master 3D-and have fun in the process. It serves as a complete guide for the creative use of CINEMA 4D R10 and all of its modules. This new edition features an engaging full-color presentation of short, playful projects show you how to put this powerful toolset to work. You will master R10's improved workflow, scene management, enhanced animation timeline and searchable object manager, as well as its: * MOCCA 3 system, including Joints, Skin Objects, the Weight Tool, the Morph Tool, Visual Selector and Clothilde * MoGraph module for motion graphics, type manipulation and the animation of multiple forms * Bodypaint 3D for applying 2D drawing and painting skills to 3D models * Advanced modeling tools such as the Brush tool * Interface with third-party applications including Z-Brush, and Adobe's Creative Suite You also get inventive quick starts for other modules including Hair, Sketch and Toon, Advanced Render, Dynamics and Thinking Particles. The companion DVD is bursting to the brim with project source files, extra projects, tutorial movies, guest artist tutorials, inspirational galleries and unique C4D Teacher Files (C4D scenes with embedded step-by-step instruction).



Machine Art in the Twentieth Century

Author : Andreas Broeckmann

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 42,82 MB

Release : 2016-12-23

Category : Art

ISBN : 0262035065

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An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods. “Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate people's relationships with machines. In the course of his investigation, Broeckmann traces historical lineages that connect art of different periods, looking for continuities that link works from the end of the century to developments in the 1950s and 1960s and to works by avant-garde artists in the 1910s and 1920s. An art historical perspective, he argues, might change our views of recent works that seem to be driven by new media technologies but that in fact continue a century-old artistic exploration. Broeckmann investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that characterized machine art until the 1960s and then turns to specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms and machine autonomy, looking in particular at the work of the Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image, and the advent of technical imaging; and the human body, using the work of the Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the machine to the body, mechanically or cybernetically. Finally, Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology, which has brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a range of artworks, including those by the Japanese artist Seiko Mikami, whose work exemplifies the shift.



The Artist and the Eternal City

Author : Loyd Grossman

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 10,93 MB

Release : 2021-08-03

Category : History

ISBN : 1643137417

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This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history. By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome—celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)—had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist—no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.



Helen Kemp Frye’s Writings on Art

Author : Robert D. Denham

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 115 pages

File Size : 29,54 MB

Release : 2017-03-07

Category : Art

ISBN : 144387857X

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Helen Kemp Frye (1910–1986) was an accomplished artist and musician, and she was also the wife of the distinguished Canadian literary critic, Northrop Frye. During the 1940s and 1950s, she played an important role in art education, particularly with the programs at the Art Gallery of Toronto, and even more particularly with art education for children. Her writings on art, collected in this volume, give voice to a very creative individual whose contributions to the cultural life of Ontario are in danger of being forgotten.



The Bone Artists

Author : Madeleine Roux

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 89 pages

File Size : 42,54 MB

Release : 2015-08-04

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0062367285

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In this bone-chilling digital original story set in the world of Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, a Louisiana teen tries to make tuition money working for a sinister organization but finds that leaving comes at a terrible cost. When Dan, Abby, and Jordan meet Oliver in Catacomb―the third book in the Asylum series―he is a mysterious young antiques dealer with a dark past. But before he was stuck in America's most haunted city, he was a teenager with a bright future ahead of him. In this story, we find Oliver saving up to attend his dream college in the fall and leave behind his family's New Orleans antique shop for good. And if his job just happens to involve robbing graves for a group calling themselves the Bone Artists, well—money is money, and it's only for now. But Oliver soon learns that the Bone Artists don't take kindly to deserters. And there are some debts that can never be repaid. With a mounting sense of dread that builds to a terrible end, The Bone Artists is a thrilling installment in the Asylum series that can stand on its own for new readers or provide a missing piece of the puzzle for series fans. Epic Reads Impulse is a digital imprint with new releases each month.



The Fat Artist and Other Stories

Author : Benjamin Hale

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 36,30 MB

Release : 2016-05-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1476776229

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“Oddly beautiful and impossible to look away from”​ (Los Angeles Times), the stories in The Fat Artist are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the voices in Benjamin Hale’s The Fat Artist and Other Stories speak from the margins: a dominatrix whose longtime client, a US congressman, drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art. From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippy in Colorado in the summer before 9/11 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis, these stories rove freely across time and place, carried by haunting, peculiar narratives that form the vast tapestry of American life. “A steadily growing…talent” (Kirkus Reviews), Hale’s prize-winning fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling, earning accolades from writers such as novelist Jonathan Ames, who compared discovering his work to watching Mickey Mantle play ball for the first time; Washington Post critic Ron Charles, who declared him “fully evolved as a writer,” and bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who simply called him “brilliant.” Pairing absurdity with philosophical musings on the unnerving intersections between life and death, art and ridicule, consumption and creation, “the audacious imagination evident in Hale’s acclaimed debut, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, shines again in this…provocative collection that takes a unique view of the human condition” (Booklist).



Montana Memories

Author : Juanell Moore

Publisher : Author House

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 47,12 MB

Release : 2009-06-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1467057118

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As a New York journalist, Hayden Powell got caught up in a dangerous drug conspiracy. His wife had committed suicide because of it and he became a wanted man. He fled his notoriety, changed his name and became anonymous as a ranch hand on a dude ranch in remote Montana. He hadn't figured on Dana O'Neal. Thrust together in the confines of a few thousand acres, they work hard to deny growing feelings for each other. But can she be trusted with what she knows about Dow Hayden?