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Book Elemental Landscapes

Download or read book Elemental Landscapes written by Katherine Ware and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay by Katherine Ware. Foreword by Anne d'Harnoncourt.

Book Elemental Solitude

Download or read book Elemental Solitude written by Clyde Aspevig and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acting and Being

Download or read book Acting and Being written by Elizabeth Hess and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique. This hybrid approach is a fusion of physical theater modalities culled from Western practices (Psycho-physical actions, Viewpoints) Eastern practices (Butoh, Kundalini yoga) and related performance disciplines (Mask, Puppetry). Behavioral, physiological and psychological ‘states of being’ are engaged to unlock impulses, access experience and enlarge the imagination. Through individual, partnered and collective explorations, actors uncover a character’s essence and level of consciousness, their energy center and body language, and their archetype and relationship to universal themes. Magic (to pretend, as if), Metaphor (to compare, as like) and Myth (to pattern after, as in) provide the foundation for generating transformative, empathetic and expansive artistic expression. Explorations can be adapted to character work, scene study and production, including original/devised work and established text, to illuminate singular and surprising work through collaborative creativity that is inventive, inclusive and alive.

Book Elemental Philosophy

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  • Author : David Macauley
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2010-09-29
  • ISBN : 1438432461
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Elemental Philosophy written by David Macauley and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the four elements through the history of ideas, Macauley generates a new vocabulary for and a fresh vision of the environment while engaging the elemental world directly with reflections on their various manifestations.

Book The Language of Landscape

Download or read book The Language of Landscape written by Anne Whiston Spirn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, argues that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound aesthetic and environmental mistakes. Offering examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors--Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lawrence Halprin--and of less well known pioneers, including Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Danish landscape artist C. Th. Sørensen. She discusses instances of great landscape designers using landscape fluently, masterfully, and sometimes cynically. And, in a probing analysis of the many meanings of landscape, Spirn shows how one person's ideal landscape may be another's nightmare, how Utopian landscapes can be dark. There is danger when we lose the connection between a place and our understanding of it, Spirn warns, and she calls for change in the way we shape our environment, based on the notions of nature as a set of ideas and landscape as the expression of action and ideas in place.

Book Earth mapping

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  • Author : Edward S. Casey
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0816643326
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Earth mapping written by Edward S. Casey and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how contemporary artists re-envision the earth in innovative painterly, sculptural, and architectural ways.

Book The New International Encyclop  dia

Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drawing Landscapes

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  • Author : Barrington Barber
  • Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
  • Release : 2018-10-25
  • ISBN : 1788885937
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Drawing Landscapes written by Barrington Barber and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, landscapes have captivated the imaginations of artists. For the amateur artist, the sheer scope of the landscape may seem daunting - whether it's a stunning view of unspoilt countryside, a city street, or the view outside your window. So where do you start? In Drawing Landscapes, artist and teacher Barrington Barber outlines the key areas to master and guides you through the skills you need to become an accomplished landscape artist. • Includes information on materials, techniques, and styles • Explains the core fundamentals of perspective, foreground, middleground, and background • Looks at the basic elements of a landscape such as sky, water, mountains, and vegetation • Offers step-by-step drawings and exercises to practise

Book Zarathustra s Children

Download or read book Zarathustra s Children written by Raymond Furness and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the enormous influence of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche on turn-of-the-century German literature. The aim of this book is to explore "that post-Nietzschean archipelago of German literature which no one mind can hope to map, let alone inhabit" (Michael Hamburger) and to introduce it to the English-speaking reader for the firsttime, in accessible form. The study starts from the assumption that the daring imagery and cosmic sweep of Thus Spake Zarathustra provided the impetus for the creation of visionary epics and cosmological poetic universes. The book is original in that it presents for the first time a selection of writers hitherto regarded as impossible of access and reduces their epic scope to manageable proportions while preserving their essential meaning. Among thewriters treated are Alfred Mombert, Theodor Däubler, Rudolf Pannwitz, Ludwig Derleth, Alfred Schuler, Ludwig Klages, Christian Morgenstern, and the members of the Friedrichshagen Circle. Furness draws on the most recent scholarship and provides a fascinating account of a 'lost generation.' The book will be of interest to Nietzsche scholars, to students of Lebensphilosophie, and to those interested in German literature around the turn of the century. It will be of special interest to those drawn to the creation of myths and to radical religious thought. Raymond Furness is professor and former chair of German at St.Andrews University, Scotland. He has published widely on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German literature.

Book The Wisdom Walk to Self Mastery

Download or read book The Wisdom Walk to Self Mastery written by JojopahMaria Nsoroma and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any pain not transformed will be transferred. • The Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery invites you to take a virtual and spiritual journey through your inner landscape – that invisible and most powerful part of who you are, to uncover, accept, transform and heal emotional pain. Traumatic and unwanted experiences teach fear. The Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery teaches love, and how to choose love over fear. The information contained in this book is rooted in ancient wisdom from West Africa and can transport you away from the belief that the world is out to ‘get’ you, and into the truth that the world is out to ‘gift’ you. Created as a continuous learning tool for graduates of The Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery program, this book can be of service to anyone committed to learning how to stop transferring pain and become the best version of themselves.

Book Faking Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : Penny Cousineau-Levine
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780773528260
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Faking Death written by Penny Cousineau-Levine and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Faking Death Penny Cousineau-Levine examines the work of over 120 Canadian photographers, revealing important aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. Contrasting Canadian photography with American and European traditions, she shows that Canadian photographers are often preoccupied with a place that is "elsewhere," a doubling and duality that also occurs in Canadian literature, film, and political life. Subverting the documentary tradition and other stylistic idioms for their own distinctive ends, Canadian photographers exhibit an ambivalent preoccupation with death and dying, bondage, and entrapment. Cousineau-Levine argues that this is characteristically a 'faked' death that expresses a collective Canadian wish for a symbolic passage to national maturity. Faking Death includes 16 colour reproductions and 150 duotones by artists such as Raymonde April, Jeff Wall, Lynne Cohen, Charles Gagnon, Evergon, Michel Lambeth, Thaddeus Holownia, Geoffrey James, Geneviève Cadieux, Shelley Niro, Diana Thorneycroft, Jin-me Yoon, Ian Wallace, and Ken Lum. By bringing together this many Canadian works Faking Death provides a compelling visual introduction to one of Canada's most vibrant and internationally recognized artistic media. It is an invaluable tool for curators, artists, teachers, students, and scholars in art history, fine arts, Canadian studies, film, communications, literature, and cultural studies.

Book Senses of Landscape

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  • Author : John Sallis
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2015-07-09
  • ISBN : 0810131080
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Senses of Landscape written by John Sallis and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, in Senses of Landscape the philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and in particular to their representation in painting, to present a powerful synthetic work. Senses of Landscape proffers three kinds of analyses, which, though distinct, continually intersect in the course of the book. The first consists of extended analyses of distinctive landscapes from four exemplary painters, Paul Cezanne, Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Klee, and Guo Xi. Sallis then turns to these artists’ own writings—treatises, essays, and letters—about art in general and landscape painting in particular, and he sets them into a philosophical context. The third kind of analysis draws both on Sallis’s theoretical writings and on the canonical texts in the philosophy of art (Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Heidegger). These analyses present for a wide audience a profound sense of landscape and of the earthly abode of the human.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983-10-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-10-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Living with the Royal Academy

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  • Author : Professor John Barrell
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-12-16
  • ISBN : 9781409403180
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Living with the Royal Academy written by Professor John Barrell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with the Royal Academy directs attention to the textures of artists' relationships with the Royal Academy in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This essay collection considers the Academy as a lived organism, one whose most effective role was as a reference point around which artists operated in their relationships with each other and with artistic practice itself.

Book Surface Subsurface

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  • Author : Michael Manfredi
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781568987330
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Surface Subsurface written by Michael Manfredi and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two decades the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi has practiced outside the traditional boundaries of architecture. Their work with complex sites and programs benefits from an interdisciplinary approach and a dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. Surface/Subsurface presents nine major projects that have been completed since their first monograph Site Specific, published in 2000. Their design processexemplary of the best contemporary architectural practicesreveals potential in subsurface conditions with the goal of generating an entirely new language for the surface. Projects include the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, which wanders over a highway and train lines; the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York, which manipulates the movement of water, cars, and visitors; and the Smith College Campus Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, whichtransforms the brick campus into a luminous terracotta surface. Each project is fully documented through project photographs, drawings, details, and texts.

Book Living with the Royal Academy

Download or read book Living with the Royal Academy written by Sarah Monks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768-1848 offers a range of case studies which consider individual artists' personal, professional and artistic relationships with the Royal Academy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, bringing together the research of leading historians of British artistic culture during this period. Over its introduction and nine essays, this collection considers the Academy as a lived organism whose most effective role, following its establishment in 1768, was as a reference point towards, around and against which artists operated in their relationships with each other and with artistic practice itself. In so doing, this collection also considers the relationship between Academic ideals and individual practice (as well as lived experience) during this period of art?s increasingly public manifestation at the Academy. Individual artists examined include Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wright of Derby, Benjamin West and William Etty. Thinking beyond the dichotomy of loyalism and rebellion - and complicating notions of the Academy as a monolithic ossifying institution from which progressive artists would be ?liberated? in the wake of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?s emergence in 1848 - this volume investigates the Academy?s varied impact upon the lives, experiences and ideals of its diverse artistic communities.

Book Handbook of Modern British Painting and Printmaking 1900 90

Download or read book Handbook of Modern British Painting and Printmaking 1900 90 written by Alan Windsor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1998, The Handbook of Modern British Painting and Printmaking 1900-1990 has been designed for people who enjoy, study and buy British art. The only portable dictionary-style guide to the life and work of modern British painters and printmakers, the book provides information on some 2,000 artists, as well as entries on schools of art, on museums, galleries and collections, on societies and groups, and critics and patrons who have influenced the development of modern art in Britain. Compiled by scholars, the entries are cross-referenced and each concise biographical outline provides the relevant facts about the artist's life, a brief characterisation of the artist's work, and major bibliographic references. Wherever possible, one or two suggestions for further reading are cited.