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Washington Art Matters

Author : Washington Arts Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615828268
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Washington Art Matters written by Washington Arts Museum and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final project of the Washington Arts Museum (WAM) looks back at a seminal half- century in the city's cultural history -from federal arts projects and the influx of newcomers in war and post-war times to heady acclaim for the Washington Color School and ambitious experimentation in the 1960s, from artists' mobilizing on behalf of social and political causes in the 1970s to diversity and exuberant optimism of the 1980s. Authors Jean Lawlor Cohen (editor, independent curator, arts writer), Elizabeth Tebow (art historian) and Sidney Lawrence (artist, writer and critic) create a lively history of the art, personalities and social scenes. Benjamin Forgey, drawing from many years as art and architecture critic for The Washington Star and The Washington Post, contributes an afterword assessing the more recent years. Based on primary sources, the art press and personal interviews, their accounts are illustrated with, in many cases, rarely seen candid photographs of artists, art openings, installations, and parties.Washington Art Matters serves as capstone for WAM, whose primary mission during its 10 years as a nonprofit organization brought attention to Washington art. May this book be a valuable addition to the city's historical record and an inspiration for future scholarship.

Art Matters

Author : Peter de Bolla
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674011104
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters written by Peter de Bolla and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Countering contemporary assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter De Bolla gives a voice - and vocabulary - to the wonder art can inspire.

Art Matters

Author : Julie Ault
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814793510
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters written by Julie Ault and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of intensive discussions about the role of visual arts in public life The past decade has seen American culture deeply divided by debates over social identity, public morality, communal values and freedom of expression. A key focus of these polarizing discussions has been the role of visual arts in public life. In Art Matters, five leading cultural critics and two prominent contemporary artists show the ways that this debate has profoundly reshaped our view of American culture. Lucy Lippard investigates the extraordinary recent transformations in visual art; Michele Wallace takes on high art, popular culture, and African American identity; David Deitcher discusses queer culture and AIDS; Carole S. Vance ponders censorship and sexually explicit imagery; and Lewis Hyde considers democracy and culture. Projects by artists Julie Ault and Andrea Fraser provide a context for these debates. Art Matters also offers a close examination of attempts to develop alternative funding sources for artists, focusing specifically on the influential private foundation Art Matters-a foundation which became an important proponent for new forms of art and for protecting freedom of expression through its funding and advocacy efforts.

Art Matters

Author : K. Harries
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402099894
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters written by K. Harries and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about a possible death of art. As the title of Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” suggests, the essay challenges such talk, just as it in turn is challenged by such talk, talk that is supported by the current state of the art-world. It was Hegel, who most profoundly argued that the shape of our modern world no longer permits us to grant art the significance it once possessed. Hegel’s proclamation of the end of art in its highest sense shadows this commentary, as it shadows Heidegger’s essay. Heidegger’s problematic turn from the philosopher Hegel to the poet Hölderlin is born of the conviction that we must not allow Hegel to here have the last word. At stake is the future of art. But more importantly, if we are to accept Heidegger’s argument, at stake is the future of humanity. But all who are eager to find in Heidegger’s essay pointers concerning where not just art, but we should be heading, should be made wary by Heidegger’s politicizing of art and aestheticizing of politics. Both remain temptations that demand a critical response. This commentary demonstrates the continued relevance of Heidegger’s reflections.

Art Matters

Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472260109
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters written by Neil Gaiman and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art Matters 2nd Edition

Author : Gordon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197620647
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters 2nd Edition written by Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott

Author : Raphaela Platow
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847866955
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott written by Raphaela Platow and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive volume devoted to the life and work of pioneering African American artist Robert Colescott, accompanying the largest traveling exhibition of his work ever mounted. Robert Colescott (1925-2009) was a trailblazing artist, whose august career was as unique as his singular artistic style. Known for figurative satirical paintings that exposed the ugly ironies of race in America from the 1970s through the late 1990s, his work was profoundly influential to the generations of artists that have followed him, such as Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Henry Taylor, among many others. This volume surveys the entirety of Colescott's body of work, with contributions by more than ten curators and writers, including a substantive essay by the show's cocurator, the renowned Lowery Stokes Sims. It provides a detailed stylistic analysis of his politically inflected oeuvre, focusing on Colescott's own consideration of his work in the context of the grand traditions of European painting and contemporary polemic. In addition, the book features reminiscences and thought pieces by a variety of family, friends, students, curators, dealers, and scholars on his work as well as a selection of writings by the artist himself. Relying on previously unpublished transcripts of lectures, reviews, and archival materials provided by institutions and individuals, the book will provide a fuller story of the artist's life and career.

Gray Matters

Author : Brett McCracken
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441242759
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Gray Matters written by Brett McCracken and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is in right now for Christians. Engaging it, embracing it, consuming it, and creating it. Many (younger) evangelicals today are actively cultivating an appreciation for aspects of culture previously stigmatized within the church. Things like alcohol, Hollywood's edgier content, plays, art openings, and concerts have moved from being forbidden to being celebrated by believers. But are evangelicals opening their arms too wide in uncritical embrace of culture? How do they engage with culture in ways that are mature, discerning, and edifying rather than reckless, excessive, and harmful? Can there be a healthy, balanced approach--or is that simply wishful thinking? With the same insight and acuity found in his popular Hipster Christianity, Brett McCracken examines some of the hot-button gray areas of Christian cultural consumption, helping to lead Christians to adopt a more thoughtful approach to consuming culture in the complicated middle ground between legalism and license. Readers will learn how to both enrich their own lives and honor God--refining their ability to discern truth, goodness, beauty, and enjoy his creation.

Art Matters

Author : Eileen S. Prince
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613746318
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters written by Eileen S. Prince and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ideas and lesson plans will help classroom and homeschool teachers integrate art into their general curriculum. These inventive and effective methods use the visual arts to inspire creative writing and drama; explore math, music, science, and history; and cultivate critical thinking skills. Art instructors will learn strategies for incorporating other areas of study into the art classroom. Ranging from thought-provoking suggestions to concrete, hands-on lesson plans, these activities include an extensive resource list for classroom teachers without an art background.

Art Matters

Author : Robert Paul Lamb
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807140031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters written by Robert Paul Lamb and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, Lamb insightfully charts the evolution of the unique style and innovative techniques that would forever change the nature of short fiction. Art Matters opens with an analysis of the authorial effacement Hemingway learned from Maupassant and Chekhov, followed by fresh perspectives on the author's famous use of concision and omission. Redefining literary impressionism and expressionism as alternative modes for depicting modern consciousness, Lamb demonstrates how Hemingway and Willa Cather learned these techniques from Crane and made them the foundation of their respective aesthetics. After examining the development of Hemingway's art of focalization, he clarifies what Hemingway really learned from Stein and delineates their different uses of repetition. Turning from techniques to formal elements, Art Matters anatomizes Hemingway's story openings and endings, analyzes how he created an entirely unprecedented role for fictional dialogue, explores his methods of characterization, and categorizes his settings in the fifty-three stories that comprise his most important work in the genre. A major contribution to Hemingway scholarship and to the study of modernist fiction, Art Matters shows exactly how Hemingway's craft functions and argues persuasively for the importance of studies of articulated technique to any meaningful understanding of fiction and literary history. The book also develops vital new ways of understanding the short story genre as Lamb constructs a critical apparatus for analyzing the short story, introduces to a larger audience ideas taken from practicing storywriters, theorists, and critics, and coins new terms and concepts that enrich our understanding of the field.

Earth Matters

Author : Karen E. Milbourne
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 158093370X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Earth Matters written by Karen E. Milbourne and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 100 extraordinary works of art from 1800 to the present, Earth Matters reveals how African individuals and communities have visually mediated their most poignant relationships with the land—whether it be to earth as a sacred or medicinal material, as something uncovered by mining or claimed by burial, as a surface to be interpreted and turned to for inspiration, or as an environment to be protected. Both internationally recognized and emerging contemporary artists are represented, from the continent and diaspora, including El Anatsui, Ghada Amer, Sammy Baloji, Ingrid Mwangi and William Kentridge. Highlights include a pair of rare Yoruba onile figures, a one-of-a-kind Punu reliquary from Gabon, and 3 bocio figures from the personal collection of legendary French dealer Jacques Kerchache. The text includes statements by contemporary African artists including Wangechi Mutu, Clive van den Berg, Allan de Souza, and George Osodi. National Museum of African Art curator Karen E. Milbourne explores how diverse African concepts of healing, the sacred, identity, memory, history, and environmental sustainability have all been formed in relation to the land in this pioneering scholarly study.

Pine

Author : Eirik Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732124134
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Pine written by Eirik Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural and political climate of the US is at a high point of polarization, when simultaneously there have never been more tools of instantaneous global communication. We've never been more connected, and we've never been further apart. And so, as social creatures, many people seek community, and a sense of belonging, not only found in companionship and collaboration with others, but in solitary time, and in nature, tuning into ourselves.Therein lie the origins of Pine. Coming upon a rough tree carving (the words "make out tree, with an arrow guiding the viewer in the correct direction), Johnson made a snapshot, but the moment and the marker stayed with him, and he returned with his 4x5 camera to take it in again, slowly. Over the last few years he has scouted trees of all environs, looking for human traces upon them, and musing on the (often) adolescent emotions and explorations that lead to poignant sentiments recorded within a living surface. Rather than essays, Johnson envisioned and realized a sonic set of reflections to accompany his photographs, revisiting his own history as a musician and bringing in a varied group of collaborators who responded to the photographs with their compositions and recordings.

Performance Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732124172
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Performance Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Review, the first monograph by North Carolina-based artist, educator and activist Endia Beal, brings together work from first-hand experiences that highlight the realities and challenges for women of color in the corporate workplace. Beal's widely-published videos and photographic series, including "Am I What You're Looking For?" "Office Scene," "Can I Touch It?" and "9 to 5" are presented in a book sequence that highlights the ambitions, challenges and negotiations that women of color navigate within the workplace.Beal's signature directness and visual intelligence engages viewers of varying generations and backgrounds in dialogues that accept there is much to questions we push forward during the social evolutions of our time.The book includes an introduction by Beal's contemporary and colleague Whitney Richardson, former producer and writer for The New York Times "Lens" photography column among other roles, and now Global Events Manager for The New York Times in London.

Weather Matters

Author : Bernard Mergen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weather Matters written by Bernard Mergen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kaleidoscopic book that illuminates our obsession with weather--as both physical reality and evocative metaphor--focusing on the ways in which it is perceived, feared, embraced, managed, and even marketed.

Art and Intimacy

Author : Ellen Dissanayake
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029599746X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Art and Intimacy written by Ellen Dissanayake and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love. It all begins with the human trait of birthing immature and helpless infants. To ensure that mothers find their demanding babies worth caring for, humans evolved to be lovable and to attune themselves to others from the moment of birth. The ways in which mother and infant respond to each other are rhythmically patterned vocalizations and exaggerated face and body movements that Dissanayake calls rhythms and sensory modes. Rhythms and modes also give rise to the arts. Because humans are born predisposed to respond to and use rhythmic-modal signals, societies everywhere have elaborated them further as music, mime, dance, and display, in rituals which instill and reinforce valued cultural beliefs. Just as rhythms and modes coordinate and unify the mother-infant pair, in ceremonies they coordinate and unify members of a group. Today we humans live in environments very different from those of our ancestors. They used ceremonies (the arts) to address matters of serious concern, such as health, prosperity, and fecundity, that affected their survival. Now we tend to dismiss the arts, to see them as superfluous, only for an elite. But if we are biologically predisposed to participate in artlike behavior, then we actually need the arts. Even -- or perhaps especially -- in our fast-paced, sophisticated modern lives, the arts encourage us to show that we care about important things.

Finding the Bright Side

Author : Shannon Bream
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1524763497
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Bright Side written by Shannon Bream and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the host of Fox News @ Night, a deeply personal book about finding purpose and growth amid life’s unpredictability. “What a gift this book will be to your soul.”—Lysa TerKeurst Whether it's her work today as a reporter and host for Fox News, her years in law school, or the time she spent competing in pageants like Miss America, Shannon Bream has spent her entire adult life navigating high-pressure environments where perfection is expected and competition is the name of the game. But in this laugh-out-loud book of stories and inspiration, Shannon shares the moments away from the cameras and the halls of government, in which she learned that the values and faith of her blue-collar upbringing could keep her grounded in a world where everyone wants you to be something other than who you are. In Finding the Bright Side, Shannon continues a conversation about authenticity, humility, and trusting in God that she's already begun with her followers on social media. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from Washington, D.C., revelations from her time reporting on the Supreme Court, and lessons learned from the most challenging moments of her life—from the time she was fired from her first job and told, “You’re the worst person I’ve ever seen on TV,” to the time she heard “There is no cure.” But through all of this, faith (and a little bit of stubbornness!) has helped Shannon to keep hope, find purpose in the pain, and find laughs along the way. Praise for Finding the Bright Side “Integrity. Faith. Diligence. Success. Shannon’s book—and life—elevate these cherished values. For anyone hoping to move forward without compromising convictions, this book is a must read.”—Max Lucado, pastor and bestselling author “In Finding the Bright Side, Shannon reveals that her sunny face and disposition is not just from good genetics. Her success is long in coming and well-deserved. She is sheer joy in a bottle.”—Kathie Lee Gifford, bestselling author of The Rock, the Road and the Rabbi

Cork Dork

Author : Bianca Bosker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698195906
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Cork Dork written by Bianca Bosker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK “Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably a shade closer.” —Jennifer Senior, The New York Times Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn’t know much about wine—until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a “cork dork.” With boundless curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist’s fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: what’s the big deal about wine? What she learns will change the way you drink wine—and, perhaps, the way you live—forever. “Think: Eat, Pray, Love meets Somm.” —theSkimm “As informative as it is, well, intoxicating.” —Fortune