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Material Inspirations

Author : Jonah Siegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198858000
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Material Inspirations written by Jonah Siegel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts of art's nature and value. Fundamental questions about the effects of material conditions on the creation and reception of art arose as early as the nineteenth century, and put important pressures on later eras. The place of class distinctions in the making and reception of art, the relationship between copy and original, the effects of display on art appreciation, even the role of pleasure itself: this book treats these and related issues as productive conceptual challenges with an unresolved relationship to matter at their core. Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of art and its institutions, Material Inspirations places cultural developments such as the emergence of new sites for exhibition and the astonishing proliferation of printed reproductions alongside a wide range of texts including novels, poems, travel guidebooks, compendia of antiquities, and especially the great line of critical writing that emerged in the period. The study vivifies a dynamic era, which is still too often seen as static and unchanging, by emphasizing the transformations taking place throughout the period in precisely those areas that have appeared to promise little more than repetition or continuity: collection, exhibition, and reproduction. The book culminates with the two great critics of the period, John Ruskin and Walter Pater, but it also includes close analysis of other prose writers, as well as poets and novelists ranging from William Blake to Robert Browning, George Eliot to Henry James. Significant developments addressed include the vogue for the representation of Old Masters in the first half of the century, ongoing innovations in the creation and diffusion of reproductions, and the emergence of the field of art history itself. At the heart of each of these the book identifies a material pressure shaping concepts, texts, and works of art.

Materials and Design

Author : Michael F. Ashby
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080949401
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Materials and Design written by Michael F. Ashby and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, Second Edition, discusses the role of materials and processes in product design. The book focuses on the materials that designers need, as well as on how and why they use them. The book's 10 chapters cover topics such as function and personality, factors influencing product design, the design process, materials selection, and case studies in materials and design. Appendices for each chapter provide exercises for readers, along with detailed charts of technical attributes of different materials for reference. This book will be particularly useful to both students and working designers. Students are introduced to the role of materials in manufacturing and design, with the help of familiar language and concepts. Working designers can use the book as a reference source for materials and manufacturing. - The best guide ever published on the on the role of materials, past and present, in product development, by noted materials authority Mike Ashby and professional designer Kara Johnson--now with even better photos and drawings on the Design Process - Significant new section on the use of re-cycled materials in products, and the importance of sustainable design for manufactured goods and services - Enhanced materials profiles, with addition of new materials types like nanomaterials, advanced plastics and bio-based materials

Material Inspirations

Author : Jonah Siegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192599976
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Material Inspirations written by Jonah Siegel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts of art's nature and value. Fundamental questions about the effects of material conditions on the creation and reception of art arose as early as the nineteenth century, and put important pressures on later eras. The place of class distinctions in the making and reception of art, the relationship between copy and original, the effects of display on art appreciation, even the role of pleasure itself: this book treats these and related issues as productive conceptual challenges with an unresolved relationship to matter at their core. Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of art and its institutions, Material Inspirations places cultural developments such as the emergence of new sites for exhibition and the astonishing proliferation of printed reproductions alongside a wide range of texts including novels, poems, travel guidebooks, compendia of antiquities, and especially the great line of critical writing that emerged in the period. The study vivifies a dynamic era, which is still too often seen as static and unchanging, by emphasizing the transformations taking place throughout the period in precisely those areas that have appeared to promise little more than repetition or continuity: collection, exhibition, and reproduction. The book culminates with the two great critics of the period, John Ruskin and Walter Pater, but it also includes close analysis of other prose writers, as well as poets and novelists ranging from William Blake to Robert Browning, George Eliot to Henry James. Significant developments addressed include the vogue for the representation of Old Masters in the first half of the century, ongoing innovations in the creation and diffusion of reproductions, and the emergence of the field of art history itself. At the heart of each of these the book identifies a material pressure shaping concepts, texts, and works of art.

Victorian Material Culture

Author : Victoria Mills
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315400243
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Material Culture written by Victoria Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This volume on ‘Victorian Arts’ will include sources on painting sculpture, book illustration, photography and the much-neglected area of Victorian stained glass.

Reflections on the World of Human Inspirations

Author : Gabriel Bekö
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527556271
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the World of Human Inspirations written by Gabriel Bekö and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration is the initial spark that puts us on track towards our beliefs, attitudes, and actions. It partly defines who we are and whom we will become. But what are the sources of our inspirations, what governs them, how do they take shape in our lives and how are our lives shaped by them? Can they be right and wrong, and do we have the power to control them? This book provides an analysis of the historical, geographical, and cultural aspects of those countless moments that ignite our passions, guide our efforts, or cause the lack of both. Through the study of human inspirations, the author elaborates a variety of issues, including current societal, political, and global challenges, spirituality, human character, individualism, education, as well as the contrast between what used to be the political East and West, communism and capitalism. The book offers an intriguing look at the inflation of inspirations in our rapidly changing societies and its global implications. It fuses numerous fields to offer a refined view of the world and ourselves in it. Do advanced societies consist of advanced individuals, or is it time to reassess our values, redefine our principles, and seek inspirations that dare to question the status quo and introduce us to a category of dignity that moves us closer to a truly advanced world?

The God Behind the Marble

Author : Alice Goff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226827100
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The God Behind the Marble written by Alice Goff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of how Germans struggled to make art an autonomous instrument of social progress in the face of real-world challenges between 1790-1850. For philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller, a work of art was governed by its own laws and soared above trivial constraints; thus, a painting or sculpture could both model and stimulate the moral autonomy of its beholders. This "aesthetic education" (to be conducted in the newish institution of museums) would yield an "aesthetic state," born of the measured reason of its citizens rather than the fractious antagonisms of mobs and tyrants. But highbrows like Schiller failed to consider the tough realities facing art "on the ground." Not only were there no proper museums in the German states for presenting art to the public, the systematic looting of their art collections during the Napoleonic wars had thrown the very ontological status of art into serious question: What was a painted altarpiece supposed to be once it had been torn out of a Church and reinstalled in a secular space? How would a marble statue of a nude Apollo impact modern viewers-especially unmarried young ladies not used to such sights? And how could a stolen object symbolize freedom? As art works fell prey to the very violence they were supposed to transcend, social theorists began to wonder how art could deliver liberation if it could so quickly end up a spoil of war. Among the specimens considered are forty porphyry columns from the tomb of Charlemagne in Aachen; the Quadriga from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; the Laocoön group from Rome; a bronze medieval reliquary from Goslar; a Last Judgment from Danzig; and, last, but surely not least, the mummified body of an official from the Rhenish hamlet of Sinzig"--

On Sacks

Author : Robin James Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656106
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book On Sacks written by Robin James Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks’s original analyses – concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in members’ actual activities – demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a range of different fields, including sociology, human geography, communication and media studies, social psychology, and linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks’s approach, as well as how their current research is taking Sacks’s legacy forward in new directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary society.

Materials Design Inspired by Nature

Author : Peter Fratzl
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 184973755X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Materials Design Inspired by Nature written by Peter Fratzl and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inner architecture of a material can have an astonishing effect on its overall properties and is vital to understand when designing new materials. Nature is a master at designing hierarchical structures and so researchers are looking at biological examples for inspiration, specifically to understand how nature arranges the inner architectures for a particular function in order to apply these design principles into man-made materials. Materials Design Inspired by Nature is the first book to address the relationship between the inner architecture of natural materials and their physical properties for materials design. The book explores examples from plants, the marine world, arthropods and bacteria, where the inner architecture is exploited to obtain specific mechanical, optical or magnetic properties along with how these design principles are used in man-made products. Details of the experimental methods used to investigate hierarchical structures are also given. Written by leading experts in bio-inspired materials research, this is essential reading for anyone developing new materials.

Teaching Writing in Chinese Speaking Areas

Author : Mark Shiu-Kee Shum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387263922
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Writing in Chinese Speaking Areas written by Mark Shiu-Kee Shum and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most civilized nations in history, China has a long-standing writing tradition and many Chinese texts have become world treasures. However, the way the Chinese teach writing in various countries in contemporary times is little known to the outside world, especially in Western countries. Undoubtedly, the Chinese have had an established traditional method of writing instruction. However, recent social and political developments have created the perception amongst both practitioners and researchers of a need for change. Whilst certain socio-political changes, both in Mainland China and in the territories, acted as agents for reform of the teaching of composition, the shape these reforms are taking has been due to many different influences, coming both from inside the countries themselves and from foreign sources. Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore have each developed their own approach to the teaching of composition. Teaching Writing in Chinese Speaking Areas aims to provide an accurate picture of the diverse composition teaching contexts and approaches in these four regions and countries. This is the first book that systematically introduces recent developments in teaching composition in Chinese-speaking areas. It outlines current theories and paradigms originating both in the West and in China and Chinese-speaking territories and the way in which these have been adapted to suit the various cultural contexts and learning environments. The overview is of relevance not only to the East, but throughout the world.

By the Batch

Author : Judi Kauffman
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780823045082
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book By the Batch written by Judi Kauffman and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to create twenty-five batches of homemade cards and envelopes, with time-saving techniques, material suggestions, and a wide variety of designs.

The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity

Author : Jörg Frey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110388308
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity written by Jörg Frey and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christian claims to the Holy Spirit arose in a vibrant cultural matrix that included Stoicism, Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman medicine, and the perspectives of Plutarch. In a range of articles, this multidisciplinary volume discovers in these texts rich cultural connections related to inspiration and the Holy Spirit. Essential reading for scholars of Judaism and the New Testament, as well as classicists and theologians.

Me and My House

Author : Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372347
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Me and My House written by Magdalena J. Zaborowska and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” In Me and My House Magdalena J. Zaborowska employs Baldwin’s home space as a lens through which to expand his biography and explore the politics and poetics of blackness, queerness, and domesticity in his complex and underappreciated later works. Zaborowska shows how the themes of dwelling and black queer male sexuality in The Welcome Table, Just above My Head, and If Beale Street Could Talk directly stem from Chez Baldwin's influence on the writer. The house was partially torn down in 2014. Accessible, heavily illustrated, and drawing on interviews with Baldwin's friends and lovers, unpublished letters, and manuscripts, Me and My House offers new insights into Baldwin's life, writing, and relationships, making it essential reading for all students, scholars, and fans of Baldwin.

Globalization against Democracy

Author : Guoguang Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107190657
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Globalization against Democracy written by Guoguang Wu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how global capitalism has reconfigured state-market relations, and how interactions among capital, labor and consumption threaten democracy. It is for specialists in political economy, political science, economics, sociology, international relations and development studies, and for supplemental use on undergraduate and graduate courses on globalization, capitalism, development, and democracy.

The Original Plymouth Pulpit

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Original Plymouth Pulpit written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plymouth Pulpit

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plymouth Pulpit written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love Color

Author : Anna Starmer
Publisher : Ivy Press
ISBN 13 : 1782405798
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Love Color written by Anna Starmer and published by Ivy Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing colors for your home can become an overwhelming and confusing process—there is just so much on offer. Love Color will help you to bring your favorite colors to life by successfully making all those challenging decisions. Renowned international color expert Anna Starmer takes you by the hand and guides you through this lavishly illustrated rainbow world of color combinations, teaching you everything you need to know about hues, tones, accents, and foundation colors along the way. Start by simply choosing a color you love, then take your inspiration from our accessible and practical palettes to create your own color combinations. This book also includes removable color chart booklet so you can note and match your perfect colors anytime you are out and about.