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Book Synopsis The Romantic Minimalist by : Atlanta Bartlett
Download or read book The Romantic Minimalist written by Atlanta Bartlett and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Atlanta and Dave's unique blend of nostalgic romanticism combined with a thoughtful approach to sustainability and slow living, makes this book a dream for anyone interested in how to live with vintage and antiques without succumbing to clutter or consumerism.' Paula Sutton - Hill House Vintage 'A book for those who fall between the all-out riot that is maximalism and the rigidity of minimalism, the authors lead you gently down a middle path where it's about layering textures to create comfort and character without overwhelming the senses. If there is such a thing as mindful decorating this is it.' Kate Watson-Smyth - Mad About the House 'Atlanta and Dave have a unique talent to build, rework and decorate properties with a functional and romantic flow. Using reclaimed and authentic elements is a signature of their work and creates charming and timeless homes.' Rachel Ashwell - Founder of Shabby Chic 'Atlanta and Dave prove that their beautiful beachy aesthetic is easy to achieve in this stylish book, which is a celebration of pared back, timeless interiors. I'd love to live in every one.' Sarah Tomczak - Editor in Chief Red Magazine 'I have admired Atlanta and Dave for many years! They stand as a true trailblazers in British vintage interiors. Her aesthetic exudes a sense of timeless beauty and sophistication.' Pearl Lowe In this timely interiors book, design duo Atlanta Bartlett and Dave Coote explore a new type of minimalism. The emphasis is on appreciating the imperfect, encouraging self-expression and never compromising on comfort. This new minimalism has romance and nostalgia at its heart. It celebrates the plain and simple things in life; loves old, time-worn treasures; shuns materialism in favour of sustainability and creates a home to soothe the soul. The book includes stunningly photographed case studies of homes, alongside chapters on topics ranging from working with colour and textiles, to sustainability and sourcing found objects from nature. This is the perfect manual for curating elegant and soothing living spaces.
Download or read book ROMANTIC MINIMALISM. written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Romantic Minimalism written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music by : Keith Potter
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music written by Keith Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known contemporaries such as Phill Niblock and Eliane Radigue, or to second and third generation minimalists such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman and William Duckworth, whose range of styles may undermine any sense of shared aesthetic approach but whose output is still to a large extent informed by the innovative work of their minimalist predecessors. Attempts have also been made by a number of academics to contextualise the work of composers who have moved in parallel with these developments while remaining resolutely outside its immediate environment, including such diverse figures as Karel Goeyvaerts, Robert Ashley, Arvo Pärt and Brian Eno. Theory has reflected practice in many respects, with the multimedia works of Reich and Glass encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, associations and interconnections. Minimalism’s role in culture and society has also become the subject of recent interest and debate, complementing existing scholarship, which addressed the subject from the perspective of historiography, analysis, aesthetics and philosophy. The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music provides an authoritative overview of established research in this area, while also offering new and innovative approaches to the subject.
Book Synopsis Two Generations of Color Painting by : University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art
Download or read book Two Generations of Color Painting written by University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sound of Silence: Exploring Minimalism in Music by : Harry Tekell
Download or read book The Sound of Silence: Exploring Minimalism in Music written by Harry Tekell and published by Richards Education. This book was released on with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Silence: Exploring Minimalism in Music delves deep into the captivating world of minimalist music, a genre that emphasizes simplicity, repetition, and gradual change. This comprehensive guide explores the origins, evolution, and key figures of minimalism, uncovering the techniques and structures that define this influential movement. From the pioneering works of La Monte Young and Terry Riley to the contemporary innovations of modern minimalists, this book provides a thorough understanding of how minimalism has shaped and continues to influence the music landscape. Each chapter examines different aspects of minimalist music, from its application in instrumental and vocal compositions to its impact on popular and electronic music. The book also explores the global reach of minimalism, its intersections with other art forms, and its ongoing evolution in the digital age. Through personal reflections, interviews, and case studies, The Sound of Silence offers both an academic and intimate look at the minimalist approach to music, making it an essential read for music enthusiasts, scholars, and anyone intrigued by the power of simplicity in sound.
Book Synopsis Minimalism:Origins by : Edward Strickland
Download or read book Minimalism:Origins written by Edward Strickland and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped down sculpture of artists like Donald Judd. This volume investigates the origins of Minimalism in post-war American culture. The author redefines it as a movement that developed reductive stylistic innovations.
Download or read book The Horizon written by Didier Maleuvre and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With this book Maleuvre does not so much intervene in contemporary debates in the humanities as challenges us to reconsider our investment in some of the existential questions that have long motivated humanistic inquiry. Whatever one’s position with respect to the questions Maleuvre raises, the reader is sure to be wonderstruck, provoked, or stirred at some point along the way.”—Paul A. Kottman, author of Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare and A Politics of the Scene “Maleuvre’s approach is innovative and intriguing. The questions raised in each chapter are absolutely critical to general discussions on the meaning and potentiality of the arts in cultural, political, and social history.”—Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Religious Art & Cultural History, Georgetown University "Maleuvre has a poetic touch. He offers new and surprising insights on artists, thinkers, and writers we have either read or heard of often, but now are invited to view from a new perspective. This work challenges readers to new dimensions of creative thought."—Clifford W. Edwards, author of Mystery of The Night Café: Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent Van Gogh "Written by an academic but not just for other academics, The Horizon is a rollicking romp through four millennia of humanity's ever-continuing attempt to confront—through art, philosophy, literature and science—death, the universe, and everything. Intellectual history on steroids, The Horizon, stalwartly grand in its sweep and studded with steely insights each cultural step of the way, aims to liberate the reader's mind from the confines of the here and now and enables it to be what it was always meant to be: truly human."—Vijay Mascarenhas, Metro State College Denver
Book Synopsis The Names of Minimalism by : Patrick Nickleson
Download or read book The Names of Minimalism written by Patrick Nickleson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories—but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in tension collaborative composers in the period of their collaboration, as well as the musicological policing of authorship in the wake of their eventual disputes. Through examinations of the droning of the Theatre of Eternal Music, Reich’s Pendulum Music, Glass’s work for multiple organs, the austere performances of punk and no wave bands, and Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca’s works for massed electric guitars, Nickleson argues for authorship as always impure, buzzing, and indistinct. Expanding the place of Jacques Rancière’s philosophy within musicology, Nickleson draws attention to disciplinary practices of guarding compositional authority against artists who set out to undermine it. The book reimagines the canonic artists and works of minimalism as “(early) minimalism,” to show that art music histories refuse to take seriously challenges to conventional authorship as a means of defending the very category “art music.” Ultimately, Nickleson asks where we end up if we imagine the early minimalist project—artists forming bands to perform their own music, rejecting the score in favor of recording, making extensive use of magnetic type as compositional and archival medium, hosting performances in lofts and art galleries rather than concert halls—not as a utopian moment within a 1960s counterculture doomed to fail, but as the beginning of a process with a long and influential afterlife.
Download or read book Silenced Facts written by Bianca Theisen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the silence that continues to shroud Austria’s historical past, Austrian literature after 1950 wants to retrace an untold history that left its marks in mental schemata and cultural clichés. The question how literature can refer to the facts silenced by a political unconscious, the question of literary reference and reality description, lies at the core of Austrian literature since the 1950’s. This book traces the development of contemporary Austrian fiction from the 1950s to the 1990s, showing how the Vienna Group’s literary reductionism led to gesture of mere pointing in happening and performance. While strongly indebted to the experimental techniques of the Vienna Group, later Austrian authors such as Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Peter Rosei, and Gerhard Roth employ literary forms and extra-literary media prone to the indexical in an attempt to cut through the net of linguistic and cultural clichés, alluding to the microfascisms latent in common percepts, and indexing a reality that eludes plain description.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music by : Björn Heile
Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music written by Björn Heile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from prominent scholars associated with the ‘new musicology’. Yet these critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application to practically any and all music of a certain period. In addition to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies such as aesthetics, history, institutions, place, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, production and performance, communication technologies and the interface with postmodernism, this volume also explores topics that are less established; among them: modernism and affect, modernism and comedy, modernism versus the ‘contemporary’, and the crucial distinction between modernism in popular culture and a ‘popular modernism’, a modernism of the people. In doing so, this text seeks to define modernism in music by probing its margins as much as by restating its supposed essence.
Download or read book On Minimalism written by Kerry O'Brien and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Minimalism changed everything. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. Hip, young listeners flocked to a genre that had long been insular and academic, packing concert halls and buying millions of records. But minimalism wasn't just a classical phenomenon: its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept through the avant-garde landscape, shaping the work of experimental mavens Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, radical improvisers John and Alice Coltrane, outre innovators Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman, and many others. This book provides a comprehensive, revisionist retelling of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. Featuring more than a hundred rare historical sources, On Minimalism moves from the style's origins in psychedelic counterculture through its arrival in the mainstream and into its present-day manifestations in doom metal and ambient jazz. O'Brien and Robin curate minimalism's history anew, documenting one of the most important musical movements of our time"--
Download or read book Agnes Martin written by Suzanne P. Hudson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close examination of Agnes Martin's grid painting in luminous blue and gold. Agnes Martin's Night Sea (1963) is a large canvas of hand-drawn rectangular grids painted in luminous blue and gold. In this illustrated study, Suzanne Hudson presents the painting as the work of an artist who was also a thinker, poet, and writer for whom self-presentation was a necessary part of making her works public. With Night Sea, Hudson argues, Martin (1912–2004) created a shimmering realization of control and loss that stands alone within her suite of classic grid paintings as an exemplary and exceptional achievement. Hudson offers a close examination of Night Sea and its position within Martin's long and prolific career, during which the artist destroyed many works as she sought forms of perfection within self-imposed restrictions of color and line. For Hudson, Night Sea stands as the last of Martin's process-based works before she turned from oil to acrylic and sought to express emotions of lightness and purity unburdened by evidence of human struggle. Drawing from a range of archival records, Hudson attempts to draw together the facts surrounding the work, which were at times obfuscated by the artist's desire for privacy. Critical responses of the time give a sense of the impact of the work and that which followed it. Texts by peers including Lenore Tawney, Donald Judd, and Lucy Lippard are presented alongside interviews with a number of Martin's friends and keepers of estates, such as the publisher Ronald Feldman and Kathleen Mangan of the Lenore Tawney archive, which holds correspondence between Martin and Tawney.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music by : John Shepherd
Download or read book The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music written by John Shepherd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings. The volume includes a comprehensive survey of the field’s history, current state and future research directions. It offers six source readings, thirteen popular contemporary essays, and sixteen fresh, new contributions, along with an extended Introduction by the editors. The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music represents a broad reference work that will be a resource for the current generation of sociologically inclined musicologists and musically inclined sociologists, whether researchers, teachers or students.
Book Synopsis Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction by : Alsen
Download or read book Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction written by Alsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but powerful circle in the academic community. It is the two-part thesis of Professor Alsen's book that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction consists of the widely read work of the Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison and other similar writers and that this mainstream fiction is essentially romantic. To support his argument, Professor Alsen analyzes representative novels by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, the later John Barth, Alice Walker, William Kennedy, and Paul Auster. Professor Alsen demonstrates that the traits which distinguish the fiction of the romantic postmodernists from the fiction of their disunctive and nihilist colleagues include a vision of life that is a form of philosophical idealism, an organic view of art, modes of storytelling that are reminiscent of the nineteenth-century romance, and such themes as the nature of sin or evil, the negative effects of technology on the soul, and the quest for transcendence.
Book Synopsis A Minimalist's Garden by : B Mitchell
Download or read book A Minimalist's Garden written by B Mitchell and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Minimalist’s Garden By: B Mitchell An eco-economic revolution is possible, but it cannot be realized until we curtail our fossil fuel driven lifestyle.. Restoring ecological balance will take place only when humans become responsible for their own carbon footprint through voluntary action. Introducing concepts developed over a career spanning five decades ‘A Minimalists’ Garden’ outlines the behavior changes and political action needed to meet the climate challenge. Climate Change also offers a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs. This book suggests ways to position business enterprise to help mitigate the effects of climate change..
Book Synopsis Love, Justice, and Autonomy by : Rachel Fedock
Download or read book Love, Justice, and Autonomy written by Rachel Fedock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have long been interested in love and its general role in morality. This volume focuses on and explores the complex relation between love and justice as it appears within loving relationships, between lovers and their wider social context, and the broader political realm. Special attention is paid to the ensuing challenge of understanding and respecting the lovers’ personal autonomy in all three contexts. Accordingly, the essays in this volume are divided into three thematic sections. Section I aims at shedding further light on conceptual and practical issues concerning the compatibility or incompatibility of love and justice within relationships of love. For example, are loving relations inherently unjust? Might love require justice? Or do love and justice belong to distinct moral domains? The essays in Section II consider the relation between the lovers on the one hand and their broader societal environment on the other. Specifically, how exactly are love and impartiality related? Are they compatible or not? Is it unjust to favor one’s beloved? Finally, Section III looks at the political dimensions of love and justice. How, for instance, do various accounts of love inform how we are to relate to our fellow citizens? If love is taken to play an important role in fostering or hindering the development of personal autonomy, what are the political implications that need to be addressed, and how? In addressing these questions, this book engenders a better understanding both of conceptual and practical issues regarding the relation between love, justice, and autonomy as well as their broader societal and political implications. It will be of interest to advanced students and scholars working on the philosophy of love from ethical, political, and psychological angles.