Author : Francesca Bonazzoli
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art and popular culture
ISBN : 9783791348773
Examines how thirty artistic masterpieces were conceived, achieved cult status, and attained eternal fame by inspiring other artworks, advertisements, cartoons, and book and album covers.
Author : Margaret S. Livingstone
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781419706929
A Harvard neurobiologist explains how vision works, citing the scientific origins of artistic genius and providing coverage of such topics as optical illusions and the correlation between learning disabilities and artistic skill.
Author : Mark Leffert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317336135
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy have, in one way or another, focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring Positive Experience into patients’ lives. Positive Psychoanalysis moves away from this traditional focus on negative experience and problems, and instead looks at what makes for a positive life experience, bringing a new clinical piece to what psychoanalysts do: Positive Psychoanalysis and the interdisciplinary theory and research behind it. The envelope of functions entailed in Positive Psychoanalysis is an area of Being described as Subjective Well-Being. This book identifies three particular areas of function encompassed by SWB: Personal Meaning, Aesthetics, and Desire. Mark Leffert looks at the importance of these factors in our positive experiences in everyday life, and how they are manifested in clinical psychoanalytic work. These domains of Being form the basis of chapters, each comprising an interdisciplinary discussion integrating many strands of research and argument. Leffert discusses how the areas interact with each other and how they come to bear on the care, healing, and cure that are the usual subjects of psychoanalytic treatment. He also explores how they can be represented in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. This novel work discusses and integrates research findings, phenomenology, and psychoanalytic thought that have not yet been considered together. It seeks to inform readers about these subjects and demonstrates, with clinical examples, how to incorporate them into their clinical work with the negative, helping patients not just to heal the negative but also move into essential positive aspects of living: a sense of personal meaning, aesthetic competence, and becoming a desiring being that experiences Subjective Well-Being. Drawing on ideas from across neuroscience, philosophy, and social and culture studies, this book sets out a new agenda for covering the positive in psychoanalysis. Positive Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, neuroscientists and philosophers, as well as academics across these fields and in psychiatry, comparative literature, and literature and the mind.
Author : Russel Frederick Ahrens
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1478790024
When Marge and Norman, two hikers who have never met, converge at a trailhead, they are surprised to find two packets next to the trail map at the wood kiosk—and each has their respective names written on them. How’d they get there? And who placed them there? Marge notices that the trailhead name has been changed, and although she’s hiked the trail many times, she’s never seen the sign that says, You need to know who you are before you know where you’re going. Marge is slim, strong, and principled. Norman is overweight and self-centered. Together they must complete the exercises contained in each packet—exercises designed to answer three questions: What are your values? What is your mission? What is your vision? The two hikers follow their instructions, guided by the trail markers, to a boat dock on Blue Gem Lake, where two chairs just happen to be awaiting them. And a surprise ending follows to cap off this mysterious and intriguing adventure!
Author : Michele Robecchi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 3791386204
The world's most famous portraits and the hidden stories behind their subjects are explored in this fascinating and highly entertaining book. Portraiture is one of the oldest and most studied genres of art. While most scholars will look at a painting's composition, style, and themes, often questions remain unanswered--who were these people and why were they painted? This entertaining book reveals the identities and lives of some of the most famous characters that populate art history--from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Readers will learn how the fifteen-year-old subject of da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine nearly destroyed a marriage; that van Dyck's depiction of Prudence in wild clothes is actually one of the most controversial aristocrats of the seventeenth century; and that Francis Bacon's character George Dyer was a man he met in a Soho nightclub. These and other stories behind works by Picasso, Klimt, Rubens, Warhol, and dozens of other artists show how portraiture remains one of the most enthralling genres. Based on art scholarship and conveyed in an accessible tone, these fascinating tales of power, lust, intrigue, jealousy, vengeance, and romance will help readers understand masterpieces of art history in an entirely new light.
Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674039068
In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, whites sought renewed status in the romance of Old World travails and New World fortunes. Ellis Island replaced Plymouth Rock as the touchstone of American nationalism. The entire culture embraced the myth of the indomitable white ethnics—who they were and where they had come from—in literature, film, theater, art, music, and scholarship. The language and symbols of hardworking, self-reliant, and ultimately triumphant European immigrants have exerted tremendous force on political movements and public policy debates from affirmative action to contemporary immigration. In order to understand how white primacy in American life survived the withering heat of the Civil Rights movement and multiculturalism, Matthew Frye Jacobson argues for a full exploration of the meaning of the white ethnic revival and the uneasy relationship between inclusion and exclusion that it has engendered in our conceptions of national belonging.
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Art
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Author : Alice Wexler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351175564
Promoting the expansion of art in society and education, this book highlights the significance of the arts as an instrument of social justice, inclusion, equity, and protection of the environment. Including twenty-seven diverse case studies of socially engaged art practice with groups like the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ community, and Rikers Island, this book guides art educators toward innovative, transdisciplinary, and diverse methodologies. A valuable resource on creating spaces for change, it addresses the relationships between artists and educators, museums and communities.
Author : Blake Hendon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595256163
The word "family" seems to carry more weight in a small town or rural setting. Without the fast pace and crowded conditions, people with blood ties accumulate and tend to turn to their own for the things that are gained elsewhere from bowling teams, the performing arts, soup kitchens or support groups. The need to be entertained or helpful or competitive or cared for (and about) seems to be more easily and simply met where time and space are plentiful. Those two ingredients are the magnets that always draw family-like friends Noble Stone and Hampton Wormant to South Georgia for healthy doses of kinship and nature, especially the week of the Stone Family Reunion. But even on the trip from Athens, Georgia, trouble starts brewing for the young men and it turns into nightmarish battles in the Okefenokee Swamp to stop the flow of drugs through a protected wilderness. With timing ever a factor and the vastness ever present, it becomes a constant attempt for both sides not to emerge victorious, but to simple endure the harsh treatment of man and nature. Grab your canoe paddle and insect spray and join Noble, Hamp, Jar, Chase, Ty and Byron on the tea-colored water in the Land of the Trembling Earth.
Author : Jenny Slate
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698198999
One thing about a new day--you really never know where it will go, even if you know where it starts. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is walking on the blanket when he is unexpectedly launched high into the air. Tumbling through space, the bird's-eye view offers our small friend not only a glimpse of the important things in life--his beloved Nana who sleeps in a fancy French bread, a stinky shoe, and a monstrous baby--but also a much bigger picture. Sometimes the most wonderful discoveries are the ones we least expect.
