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Book Subliming Vessel

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Skira
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0847839761
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Subliming Vessel written by and published by Skira. This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accompanying catalogue to the largest exhibition of Matthew Barney's extraordinary drawings to date explores this central aspect of the artist's important body of work. | Exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 10 May -8 September 2013.

Book Performance Drawing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maryclare Foá
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-09-03
  • ISBN : 1350113018
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Performance Drawing written by Maryclare Foá and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Through conversation, interviews and essays, the authors illuminate these questions, and what it might mean to perform, and what it might mean to draw, in a diverse and expressive contemporary practice since 1945. The term 'performance drawing' first appeared in the subtitle of Catherine de Zegher's Drawing Papers 20: Performance Drawings, in particular with reference to Alison Knowles and Elena del Rivero. In this book, it is used as a trope, and a thread of thinking, to describe a process dedicated to broadening the field of drawing through resourceful practices and cross-disciplinary influence. Featuring a wide range of international artists, this book presents pioneering practitioners, alongside current and emerging artists. The combination of experiences and disciplines in the expanded field has established a vibrant art movement that has been progressively burgeoning in the last few years. The Introduction contextualises the background and identifies contemporary approaches to performance drawing. As a way to embrace the different voices and various lenses in producing this book, the authors combine individual perspectives and critical methodology in the five chapters. While embedded in ephemerality and immediacy, the themes encompass body and energy, time and motion, light and space, imagined and observed, demonstrating how drawing can act as a performative tool. The dynamic interaction leads to a collective understanding of the term, performance drawing, and addresses the key developments and future directions of this applied drawing process.

Book Matthew Barney

Download or read book Matthew Barney written by Matthew Barney and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Form can only take shape when it struggles against resistance.' (Matthew Barney) Begun in 1988 and regularly expanded since, Drawing Restraint, a complex of works by American artist Matthew Barney (born 1967) takes this notion as its starting point. Battling against self-imposed physical and psychological impairments, Barney performs artistic actions from which drawings, sculptures, vitrines, photographs and films emerge, known as 'secondary forms'.The exhibition at Schaulager will be based on the archive of this cycle of performances, sixteen to date, acquired by the Laurenz Foundation, the Foundation that operates Schaulager, together with the Museum of Modern Art, New York. They will be accompanied by two new Drawing Restraint actions. The exhibition's curator, Neville Wakefield from New York, will juxtapose these works, alongside four large-scale sculptures by Barney, with a selection of northern renaissance paintings and works on paper containing Christian iconography.In the book accompanying the exhibition, Drawing Restraint will be documented extensively in numerous illustrations and supporting written contributions. A section of photographs shot in the exhibition will present a view of the works in situ at Schaulager. Essays by Neville Wakefield (on the exhibition) and Bodo Brinkmann (addressing cross-references to the art of the Northern Renaissance), along with a conversation between the artist and the British psychiatrist and author Adam Phillips will add weight to the documentation. The catalogue will also contain an illustrated index of all works exhibited and a bibliography for further reading.

Book Restraint in International Politics

Download or read book Restraint in International Politics written by Brent J. Steele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive examination of restraint in international politics, considered across a range of contexts as a political process, device, and strategy.

Book Rules and Restraint

Download or read book Rules and Restraint written by David M. Primo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Drawing Life

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  • Author : Thomas J. Cottle
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2013-11-21
  • ISBN : 0761862234
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Drawing Life written by Thomas J. Cottle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Drawing Life, Thomas J. Cottle examines the ways people interpret their life experiences and construct meanings for the events they have encountered. In this manner, they discover their various identities and the essence of what we call the self. In reading the sixteen life studies contained in this volume, we encounter both inner reflections as well the power of culture to shape the meanings people give to their circumstances and the events that befall them. The stories also reflect the role of human relationships and social institutions in defining our personal identities and sense of justice. What makes us unique, therefore, is the personal story we tell as it reveals our constructions of the world and of ourselves. The stories recounted in Drawing Life illuminate not only our past, but also our perceptions of the present and our imaginings of the future. In this way, they become anthologies of our life experiences.

Book Stag Film

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  • Author : Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-07-10
  • ISBN : 9780982640623
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Stag Film written by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequence of images culled from Klein's larger photographic series on horse studding.

Book Matthew Barney   Mitologie contemporanee   Fondazione Merz   Torino  31 10 2008   11 01 2009

Download or read book Matthew Barney Mitologie contemporanee Fondazione Merz Torino 31 10 2008 11 01 2009 written by Matthew Barney and published by Hopeful Monster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman has called Matthew Barney "the most important American artist of his generation." Most known for his epic film series Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002) and Drawing Restraint (2005), a feature film made with his partner, Björk, Barney's technically and conceptually fastidious work conflates various personal and universal mythologies into narratives that are famously difficult to unravel. This volume compiles work from Barney's solo exhibitions at Turin's Fondazione Merz and National Museum of Cinema, as well as coverage of the International Festival of Philosophy of Contemporary Art, a collaboration between the Fondazione Merz and the University of Turin for which Barney was featured in conversation with Richard Flood and Arthur C. Danto.

Book Tacita Dean   antigone

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  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9788774523697
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Tacita Dean antigone written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Performance Drawing

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  • Author : Maryclare Foá
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-09-03
  • ISBN : 135011300X
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Performance Drawing written by Maryclare Foá and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Through conversation, interviews and essays, the authors illuminate these questions, and what it might mean to perform, and what it might mean to draw, in a diverse and expressive contemporary practice since 1945. The term 'performance drawing' first appeared in the subtitle of Catherine de Zegher's Drawing Papers 20: Performance Drawings, in particular with reference to Alison Knowles and Elena del Rivero. In this book, it is used as a trope, and a thread of thinking, to describe a process dedicated to broadening the field of drawing through resourceful practices and cross-disciplinary influence. Featuring a wide range of international artists, this book presents pioneering practitioners, alongside current and emerging artists. The combination of experiences and disciplines in the expanded field has established a vibrant art movement that has been progressively burgeoning in the last few years. The Introduction contextualises the background and identifies contemporary approaches to performance drawing. As a way to embrace the different voices and various lenses in producing this book, the authors combine individual perspectives and critical methodology in the five chapters. While embedded in ephemerality and immediacy, the themes encompass body and energy, time and motion, light and space, imagined and observed, demonstrating how drawing can act as a performative tool. The dynamic interaction leads to a collective understanding of the term, performance drawing, and addresses the key developments and future directions of this applied drawing process.

Book On the Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Storr
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780810961784
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book On the Edge written by Robert Storr and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Girl Psycho Handled with Restraint

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  • Author : Irving Klaw
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781986498180
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Girl Psycho Handled with Restraint written by Irving Klaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult BDSM novel from the 1960s with illustrations and pictures. Black-and-white facsimile edition. Although it has been checked manually, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Book Power and Restraint in China s Rise

Download or read book Power and Restraint in China s Rise written by Chin-Hao Huang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2024 T.V. Paul Best Book in Global International Relations, Global International Relations Section, International Studies Association Conventional wisdom holds that China’s rise is disrupting the global balance of power in unpredictable ways. However, China has often deferred to the consensus of smaller neighboring countries on regional security rather than running roughshod over them. Why and when does China exercise restraint—and how does this aspect of Chinese statecraft challenge the assumptions of international relations theory? In Power and Restraint in China’s Rise, Chin-Hao Huang argues that a rising power’s aspirations for acceptance provide a key rationale for refraining from coercive measures. He analyzes Chinese foreign policy conduct in the South China Sea, showing how complying with regional norms and accepting constraints improves external perceptions of China and advances other states’ recognition of China as a legitimate power. Huang details how member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have taken a collective approach to defusing tension in maritime disputes, incentivizing China to support regional security initiatives that it had previously resisted. Drawing on this empirical analysis, Huang develops new theoretical perspectives on why great powers eschew coercion in favor of restraint when they seek legitimacy. His framework explains why a dominant state with rising ambitions takes the views and interests of small states into account, as well as how collective action can induce change in a major power’s behavior. Offering new insight into the causes and consequences of change in recent Chinese foreign policy, this book has significant implications for the future of engagement with China.

Book The Commander s Dilemma

Download or read book The Commander s Dilemma written by Amelia Hoover Green and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some military and rebel groups commit many types of violence, creating an impression of senseless chaos, whereas others carefully control violence against civilians? A classic catch-22 faces the leaders of armed groups and provides the title for Amelia Hoover Green’s book. Leaders need large groups of people willing to kill and maim—but to do so only under strict control. How can commanders control violence when fighters who are not under direct supervision experience extraordinary stress, fear, and anger? The Commander’s Dilemma argues that discipline is not enough in wartime. Restraint occurs when fighters know why they are fighting and believe in the cause—that is, when commanders invest in political education. Drawing on extraordinary evidence about state and nonstate groups in El Salvador, and extending her argument to the Mano River wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Amelia Hoover Green shows that investments in political education can improve human rights outcomes even where rational incentives for restraint are weak—and that groups whose fighters lack a sense of purpose may engage in massive violence even where incentives for restraint are strong. Hoover Green concludes that high levels of violence against civilians should be considered a "default setting," not an aberration.

Book Uncharitable

Download or read book Uncharitable written by Dan Pallotta and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A courageous call to free charity from its ideological and economic constraints

Book Bjork

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  • Author : Bjork
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-06-05
  • ISBN : 9781785585517
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Bjork written by Bjork and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 34 Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Celeste is the first ever sheet music to be published by Bjork.

Book Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing

Download or read book Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing written by Selwyn Leamy and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demystifies the art and practice of drawing. Through fifty drawings by great masters past and present, the techniques and ideas behind their master sketches will put you on the path to making your own great drawings. The entries also feature exercises with step-by-step instructions as well as simple diagrams providing further visual explanation to the jargon-free discussion. For aspiring artists of all ages and abilities, Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing will motivate and strengthen your drawing talent.