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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or., Oct. 1, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012.
Author : Portland Art Museum (Or.)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781883124328
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or., Oct. 1, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012.
Author : Richard Sennett
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0141919418
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, instead, that there is a craftsman in every human being, which can sometimes be enormously motivating and inspiring - and can also in other circumstances make individuals obsessive and frustrated. The Craftsman shows how history has drawn fault-lines between craftsman and artist, maker and user, technique and expression, practice and theory, and that individuals' pride in their work, as well as modern society in general, suffers from these historical divisions. But the past lives of crafts and craftsmen show us ways of working (using tools, acquiring skills, thinking about materials) which provide rewarding alternative ways for people to utilise their talents. We need to recognise this if motivations are to be understood and lives made as fulfilling as possible.
Author : Patricia C. Pitcher
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
L'auteure aborde la question du leadership, de l'initiative du gestionnaire dans l'entreprise et dans les services publics. Elle montre, par l'analyse fouillée et lucide d'une grande institution bancaire, comment les technocrates ont détruit ce qu'avaient bâti les artistes et préservé les artisans. Nous devons comprendre ces différents styles de gestion et l'effet qu'ils peuvent exercer sur l'entreprise (Henry Mintzberg).
Author : Fred Miller (decorative artist.)
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Artisans
ISBN :
Author : John Paul II
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781568543383
Meeting House Essays in a series of papers reflecting on the mystery, beauty and practicalities of the place of worship. This popular series was begun in 1991, and each resource focuses on a particular aspect of space, design or materials and how they relate to the liturgy.
Author : Jonathan Ferrara
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 194175872X
In the 1990s, the New Orleans murder rate exploded. In 1996, 350 people were killed—the highest number in the city’s history, and the highest rate in the nation. In response to this crisis, gallery owner and artist Jonathan Ferrara and artist Brian Borrello, launched a powerful project: Guns in the Hands of Artists. Over sixty artists, including painters, glass artists, sculptors, photographers, and poets, used decommissioned guns taken off the city streets via a gun buyback program to express a thought, make a statement, open a discussion, and to stimulate thinking about guns and gun violence in America. As gun violence continues to devastate the nation on a daily basis, Guns in the Hands of Artists reemerged in 2012 as a community-based social activist art project that has since traveled to six cities across the US. Using art as a mirror for life and interweaving the works of thirty diverse artists with the voices of seventeen national thought leaders, this book is an important outgrowth of the exhibition and an extension of its efforts to employ art as a vehicle for dialogue, as a call to action, and—ultimately—as an agent of change. Essays by: Walter Isaacson, Senator Tim Kaine, Lupe Fiasco, Richard Ford, Joe Nocera, Trymaine Lee, Lolis Eric Elie, John M. Barry, Dan Cameron, Lucia McBath, Harry Shearer, Jonathan Ferrara, Brian Borrello, Maria Cuomo Cole, Michael Waldman, E. Ethelbert Miller, Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN :
Author : Angelica Goodden
Publisher :
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0199683832
Rousseau's Hand explores Rousseau's involvement in and promotion of craft in the context of the technological developments of the Enlightenment and his own European celebrity as a writer.
Author : Sharon Bolton
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250300045
Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive. Florence was able to solve the mystery and get a confession out of Larry before more children were murdered, and he spent the rest of his life in prison. But now, decades later, he's dead, and events from the past start to repeat themselves. Is someone copying the original murders? Or did she get it wrong all those years ago? When her own son goes missing under similar circumstances, the case not only gets reopened... it gets personal. In master of suspense Sharon Bolton's latest thriller, readers will find a page-turner to confirm their deepest fears and the only protagonist who can face them.
Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :