Carole A. Feuerman


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"Carole A. Feuerman's sculpture combines superrealist technique with a humanist approach to her subjects. This first monograph on her work is filled with David Finn's dramatic photographs covering two decades of her work, including many enlarged details and multiple views, providing a cinematic, almost three-dimensional experience. The work - in resin, cast marble, bronze, and other materials, often painted - ranges from early erotic reliefs through full-scale sculptures of athletes and nudes. Her women at their toilette are sculptural tours-de-force, yet their intimacy recalls Degas's works on similar themes. Recent fragments and body mappings are experiments with abstraction, deconstruction and conceptualism, at the same time that they explore the emotional life of their subjects penetrating to their spirit." "All of Feuerman's work reflects the two aspects of her vision. Her work is motivated by questions about the nature of reality, and her remarkable skill as an artist leads the viewer to the same questions. Yet beyond the simulacrum of reality, Feuerman also manages to convey the feeling behind the intense physicality, the passion and sensuality behind the seemingly mundane pose."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved




Swimmers


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"Expressing a refreshing viewpoint on potentially mundane and ordinary activities, realistic sculptor Carole A. Feuerman's human figure sculptures are anything but commonplace. Her versatility working with marble, bronze, vinyl, and painted resins incorporates both ancient and contemporary methods. This gorgeous book presents a captivating glimpse at a transitory, contemplative moment in time."--Jacket flap.




Psychedelic


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"This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility. In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and "teashades," but it first manifested itself in the extreme colors and kaleidoscopic compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn't die at the end of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces it through the day-glo colors of painters Peter Saul, Alex Grey, and Kenny Scharf, the pill and hemp leaf paintings of Fred Tomaselli, the intensified palettes of Douglas Bourgeois and Sharon Ellis, and mixed-media and new media works by younger artists in the new millennium." "Although the term "psychedelic" was coined to describe hallucinatory experiences produced by drugs used psychotherapeutically, the story these images tell is about the influence of psychedelic culture on the art world - not necessarily the influence of drugs. As contemporary art evolved into a diverse and pluralistic discipline, the psychedelic evolved into a language of color and light. In Psychedelic, more than seventy-five vivid color images chart this development, exploring the art chronologically, from early Op Art through recent work using digital technology. The book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art, includes three essays that set the works in historical and cultural context." --Book Jacket.




Skin Graf


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This groundbreaking book gets up close and personal to show how two urban styles have melded together. Famed graffiti tattoo artist Kaves and tattoo documentarian Burke introduce, one by one, the masters of graffiti tattoo art, their personal stories, and their diverse handiwork..




The Language of Beauty in African Art


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This ambitious publication centers indigenous perspectives on traditional artworks from Africa by focusing on the judgments and vocabularies of members of the communities who created and used them. It explores cross-cultural affinities spanning the African continent while respecting local contexts; it also documents an exhibition that is extraordinary in scope and scale. The project's overriding goal is to reconsider Western evaluations of these arts in both aesthetic and financial terms. The volume features nearly 300 works from collections around the world and from the important holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago. Although it emphasizes the sculptural legacy of sub-Saharan cultures from West and Central Africa, it also includes examples of artistic traditions associated with eastern and southern Africa as well as textiles and objects designed for domestic, ritual, and decorative functions.00Exhibition: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA (03.04. - 31.07.2022) / Art Institute of Chicago, USA (20.11.2022 - 27.02.2023).




Muses


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Since drawing his first muse as a student of Fine Arts until today, Conrad Roset (Terrassa, 1984) has been tracing his style about women0;s bodies with this desire to fix a own style, a unique and non-transferable aesthetic, which has already located as a world reference illustrator. Technique, game, trial and error, the beauty of the female body, the merge in this book that brings together the work of an artist who has fascinated people from all over the world.




Getting There & Staying There: Coaching Questions to Get There and Stay


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You have just been tapped on the shoulder, your hard work has paid off-it's time to celebrate getting there and quickly adjust to new expectations. Now comes the challenge: staying there! Now is when you learn that the skills that got you there-to a level in your career-are different from the ones you need to stay there. Priscilla Douglas has been there, as an executive herself and as a leadership coach to C-suite executives in a broad range of industries. In this book she shares her unique approach to accelerating your career progress, using a model based on agility. It takes agility to see opportunities and move into them, then stay there and move forward every day towards ever-higher objectives. Like athletes, agile executives recognize what is going on, they adjust their thinking, they align themselves with the situation, then they act. Getting There and Staying There is built around questions. As you read, you will ask yourself questions and discover the answers that work for you at this time in your career. You can revisit these questions at another time and the answers might be different. The important thing is to keep asking the questions. Getting There and Staying There is your take-anywhere "coach in your briefcase." Use it on an airplane or a weekend afternoon-anytime you have an hour or two to devote to improving your performance, your relationships, and your capacity to lead. Each chapter is a mini session with one of the country's best leadership coaches. Priscilla Douglas doesn't give you the answers. She asks you the hard questions, provides true-story examples, and helps you find your own answers-the ones that are unique to you and your situation.




Bathing in art


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Across time and in every culture, bathing represents a primal urge. This book provides a broad historical and thematic overview of the bath, examining its traditions in the Orient and Japan, looking at modern spas and illuminating the bath as a scene often depicted in movies as the setting in which mayhem is committed. Throughout the world, a ritual bath is linked to traditions, and social, cultural and religious practices. Art often connects bathing with biblical and mythological stories, such as Susanna and the Old, of Bathsheba or Diana and Aktaion. Bathing in art reflects different perceptions of the body, highlighting beauty and vulnerability ? and linking them to perceptions of intimacy. Water has metamorphic powers:: rejuvenating and transformative, capable of returning original innocence. Featuring 140 works of art dating from the 15th century to the modern, the book casts a spell of suspense and intimacy through paintings, drawings, prints, photography, sculpture and video.




Personal Structures


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This publication accompanies the exhibitions Personal Structures and Culture. Mind. Becoming, both part of the 55th Biennale di Venezia, 1 June - 24 November 2013, Venice, Italy.Initiated in 2002 by the Dutch artist Rene Rietmeyer, the project Personal Structures at Palazzo Bembo presents artists from six continents, a combination of established artists and others whose oeuvre is less known. What they have in common is a dedication to the concepts time, space and existence.The participating artists have their roots in diverse cultures and have very different ages. The core concepts are highlighted in very personal ways and from unusual points of view. Culture. Mind. Becoming also brings together a variety of Chinese artists.At Palazzo Mora numerous well-known artists are presented under the theme Re-discover and a selection of upcoming artists under Ingrandimento. In addition, the exhibition includes a presentation of paintings by Fang Lijun at Palazzo Marcello. The exhibition aims to show different statements of Chinese culture today.Culture. Mind. Becoming features over 80 artists including Gotthard Graubner, Helmut Lemke, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Otto Piene, The Icelandic Love Corporation, VALIE EXPORT, Arnulf Rainer, Zhang Huan, Xu Bing, and many others.English and Chinese text.




My Hyperrealist Life And Legacy


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My autobiography dives deep into the experiences I faced in my life. It highlights my struggles to survive the odds, through balance, perseverance, and independence, on my journey to fulfilling my true calling, as one of the most successful, sought after, and prosperous artists today. By telling my real-life stories, I hope to educate my readers and help them to overcome their difficulties and live a satisfying life. I give practical strategies that will teach them how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. Whether by finding new work, achieving financial success, or contemplating failure, fear has a special place in our emotional life. Feeling anxious, uncertain, and overwhelmed? Our minds are designed to let fear in; without it, we’d never survive. But how do we keep suspicion away from restricting our ability to fulfil our goals? Conquering fear is about self-awareness and understanding our inner strengths, often in the face of overcoming odds. My book can be your guide to practicing and cultivating the personality traits needed to be successful.