Art of the Ordinary

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720155
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Art of the Ordinary by : Richard Deming

Download or read book Art of the Ordinary written by Richard Deming and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to perceive it and become fully aware of it. The ordinary he argues, is what most needs to be discovered and yet is something that can never be approached, since to do so is to immediately change it. Art of the Ordinary explores how philosophical questions can be revealed in surprising places—as in a stand-up comic’s routine, for instance, or a Brillo box, or a Hollywood movie. From negotiations with the primary materials of culture and community, ways of reading "self" and "other" are made available, deepening one’s ability to respond to ethical, social, and political dilemmas. Deming picks out key figures, such as the philosophers Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, and Richard Wollheim; poet John Ashbery; artist Andy Warhol; and comedian Steven Wright, to showcase the foundational concepts of language, ethics, and society. Deming interrogates how acts of the imagination by these people, and others, become the means for transforming the alienated ordinary into a presence of the everyday that constantly and continually creates opportunities of investment in its calls on interpretive faculties. In Art of the Ordinary, Deming brings together the arts, philosophy, and psychology in new and compelling ways so as to offer generative, provocative insights into how we think and represent the world to others as well as to ourselves.

Blue Jeans

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520272188
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Blue Jeans by : Daniel Miller

Download or read book Blue Jeans written by Daniel Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on an everyday item - blue jeans - to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of the normative.

The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770483071
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life by : Thomas Leddy

Download or read book The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life written by Thomas Leddy and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of art, but places special emphasis on neglected aesthetic terms such as ‘neat,’ ‘messy,’ ‘pretty,’ ‘lovely,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘pleasant.’ The author advances a general theory of aesthetic experience that can account for our appreciation of art, nature, and the everyday.

Out of the Ordinary

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ISBN 13 : 9780896722354
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Out of the Ordinary by : Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser

Download or read book Out of the Ordinary written by Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proving that everyday, ordinary sights and objects are the icons that comprise the heart and soul of our lives is painter Paul Milosevich's strength."—Santa Fe New Mexican Under Milosevich's extraordinary eye and hand, the workworn objects and everyday heroes of his beloved landscape become realistic paintings that tell the story of life in West Texas. In this 30-year retrospective, Sasser traces the various themes of Milosevich's work and provides biographical insights into the artist's development of West Texas Realism.

Painting Out of the Ordinary

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Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Painting Out of the Ordinary by : David H. Solkin

Download or read book Painting Out of the Ordinary written by David H. Solkin and published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its plethora of illustrations, many of works published here for the first time, 'Painting Out of the Ordinary' will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in British art and society of the Romantic era.

Embracing the Ordinary

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 184983914X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Book Synopsis Embracing the Ordinary by : Michael Foley

Download or read book Embracing the Ordinary written by Michael Foley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely book' Guardian It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity - draws on the works of writers, thinkers and artists who have celebrated and examined the ordinary life, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of the everyday. With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think. Intelligent, funny and entertaining, Foley shows us how to find contentment and satisfaction by embracing the ordinary things in life. 'A convincing argument for the beauty of the seemingly banal… ' Scotsman

Magritte

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ISBN 13 : 9780870708657
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Magritte by : René Magritte

Download or read book Magritte written by René Magritte and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014, the Menil Collection, Houston, Feb. 14-June 1, 2014, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29-Oct. 12, 2014.

Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520248155
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans by : John R. Clarke

Download or read book Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans written by John R. Clarke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans is superbly out of the ordinary. John Clarke's significant and intriguing book takes stock of a half-century of lively discourse on the art and culture of Rome's non-elite patrons and viewers. Its compelling case studies on religion, work, spectacle, humor, and burial in the monuments of Pompeii and Ostia, which attempt to revise the theory of trickle-down Roman art, effectively refine our understanding of Rome's pluralistic society. Ordinary Romans-whether defined in imperialistic monuments or narrating their own stories through art in houses, shops, and tombs-come to life in this stimulating work."—Diana E. E. Kleiner, author of Roman Sculpture "John R. Clarke again addresses the neglected underside of Roman art in this original, perceptive analysis of ordinary people as spectators, consumers, and patrons of art in the public and private spheres of their lives. Clarke expands the boundaries of Roman art, stressing the defining power of context in establishing Roman ways of seeing art. And by challenging the dominance of the Roman elite in image-making, he demonstrates the constitutive importance of the ordinary viewing public in shaping Roman visual imagery as an instrument of self-realization."—Richard Brilliant, author of Commentaries on Roman Art, Visual Narratives, and Gesture and Rank in Roman Art "John Clarke reveals compelling details of the tastes, beliefs, and biases that shaped ordinary Romans' encounters with works of art-both public monuments and private art they themselves produced or commissioned. The author discusses an impressively wide range of material as he uses issues of patronage and archaeological context to reconstruct how workers, women, and slaves would have experienced works as diverse as the Ara Pacis of Augustus, funerary decoration, and tavern paintings at Pompeii. Clarke's new perspective yields countless valuable insights about even the most familiar material."—Anthony Corbeill, author of Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome "How did ordinary Romans view official paintings glorifying emperors? What did they intend to convey about themselves when they commissioned art? And how did they use imagery in their own tombstones and houses? These are among the questions John R. Clarke answers in his fascinating new book. Charting a new approach to people's art, Clarke investigates individual images for their functional connections and contexts, broadening our understanding of the images themselves and of the life and culture of ordinary Romans. This original and vital book will appeal to everyone who is interested in the visual arts; moreover, specialists will find in it a wealth of stimulating ideas for further study."—Paul Zanker, author of The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity

Extra/Ordinary

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822347628
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Extra/Ordinary by : Maria Elena Buszek

Download or read book Extra/Ordinary written by Maria Elena Buszek and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting.

The Ordinary Acrobat

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307472264
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ordinary Acrobat by : Duncan Wall

Download or read book The Ordinary Acrobat written by Duncan Wall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scary story of what happens when one average American joins a host of gifted—and flexible—international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.

The Ordinary

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Publisher : Columbia Univ Graduate School
ISBN 13 : 9781941332061
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ordinary by : Rem Koolhaas

Download or read book The Ordinary written by Rem Koolhaas and published by Columbia Univ Graduate School. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rem Koolhaas : in conversation with Enrique Walker -- Denise Scott Brown : in conversation with Enrique Walker -- Yoshiharu Tsukamoto : in conversation with Enrique Walker -- Enrique Walker : retroactive manifestoes

Art and Interpretation

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155111190X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Interpretation by : Eric Dayton

Download or read book Art and Interpretation written by Eric Dayton and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-02-02 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Interpretation is a comprehensive anthology of readings on aesthetics. Its aim is to present fundamental philosophical issues in such a way as to create a common vocabulary for those from diverse backgrounds to communicate meaningfully about aesthetic issues. To that end, the editor has provided selections from a wide variety of challenging works in aesthetic theory, both classical and modern. The approach is often cross-disciplinary. Within the discipline of philosophy it seeks to balance readings from the analytic tradition with continental European, hermeneutical postmodern (including deconstructionist), and feminist readings. The anthology is thus broadly conceived, but by grouping the readings into sections such as ‘Expression and Aesthetic object,’ ‘Psychology and Interpretation,’ ‘Marxist Theory,’ and ‘Culture, Gender, and Difference,’ it aims as well to provide depth of coverage for each topic or issue. The book opens with a historical section containing substantial selections from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Shelley and Nietzsche; these readings introduce themes that recur and are developed in the remainder of the anthology.

Rupam

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Rupam written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews".

Art and the Market

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472109029
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and the Market by : Roger Fry

Download or read book Art and the Market written by Roger Fry and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major Bloomsbury figure writes about the art market, and an economist interprets his ideas

The Philosophy of Plato

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136358099
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Plato by : Rupert C. Lodge

Download or read book The Philosophy of Plato written by Rupert C. Lodge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. This is Volume VI of ten in the International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient Philosophy. Written around 1956, this book looks at Plato and his works on the biological, social, physical and intellectual background as well as his ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of religion and education, in comparison to his predecessors.

Introducing Aesthetics

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057419
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Introducing Aesthetics by : David E. Fenner

Download or read book Introducing Aesthetics written by David E. Fenner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise yet comprehensive introduction to the discipline of western aesthetical philosophy is focused directly on the central questions of aesthetics. Fenner arranges his analysis around four general themes—Experiences, Objects and Events, Meaning, and Judgment—that progress from issues of everyday experience to subjects of greater subtlety. Within these broader themes, Fenner explores such issues as The Aesthetic Attitude, Defining Art, and Reviewing Art Criticism. Although a historical organization is employed wherever a particular movement unfolds from earlier movements, the text's main organization is not motivated by an academic or historical treatment of the various topics. Instead, the topics themselves are of primary concern, in such a way that readers will come away with a complete overview of the canon of this highly significant area of western philosophy.

Tom Stoppard

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349206032
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Book Synopsis Tom Stoppard by : P. Delany

Download or read book Tom Stoppard written by P. Delany and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every four or five years Britain's most prominent dramatist pulls out all the stops and writes a major stage play of his own. Between plays, Stoppard the craftsman does translations, screenplays, light entertainments, and work for hire. Delaney's book is the first to focus on the major plays. Spanning Stoppard's career from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967) to Hapgood (1988), this study shows the figure which Stoppard from the first has been weaving in his theatrical tapestry. That there is development in Stoppard is clear but - as Delaney demonstrates - the development is from moral affirmation to moral application, from the assertion of moral principles to the enactment of moral practice. Such development from precept to praxis demonstrates organic growth rather than radical metamorphosis. Using Stoppard's words in a number of little-known interviews as a starting-point, Delaney shows how the major plays bear out Stoppard's contention that he 'tries to be consistent about morality'. The volume contains the most extensive bibliography and discography of Stoppard interviews (over 200 including print and broadcast sources) ever compiled.