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Download or read book Beginning Anew written by Jan de Vries and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Anew is a work of memory and history, a distinguished historian’s account of his family’s immigration to the United States in the aftermath of World War II and of his coming of age and education in a new land. The author, Jan de Vries, raised in Minnesota, is Professor Emeritus of History and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also served as a dean and vice provost. In Beginning Anew he reconstructs the world of his Dutch parents and ponders the factors pushing them to leave Holland and pulling them toward the United States. From a distance it seems almost inevitable; up close it was anything but. Chance factors resulted in the family landing as farm laborers on a Minnesota farm in the cold, snowy January of 1948. What resources were available to them as they made their way in their adopted land? What makes the difference between success and failure? Their community, church, and personal resources all played a role. As did chance, or was it Providence? The author uses memory and history to delve in to the process of his becoming American – or perhaps Minnesotan – while finding that certain influences held him back from a full conversion. He considers the spirit of the communities in which he lived, the ethos that pervaded the public schools in which he was educated, the influence of the Dutch Calvinist church in which he was raised – but also the radio stations to which he listened and his many years of summer work as a construction laborer, working side by side with his father. All these elements formed a world now lost but brought to life in this book in an evocative work of historical reconstruction that is respectful of the past but unsentimentally direct in its assessments. All the while, Holland, the country left behind, continued to make its presence felt: Letters and old magazine sent by relatives, stories told and retold of Dutch life’s pleasures and problems, and finally an important trip to visit relatives after years of absence. If the parents began anew with their decision to emigrate, the son begins anew in a different way, when he rejects more cautious paths and pursues higher education in New York City, at Columbia University. The first of his family to enter higher education, the author has his own take on the academic and social life he experienced in the 1960s and this is revealed in candid accounts of his encounters with teachers and fellow students. College life was transformative in many respects, but not in all ways. Beginning Anew essays the limits of transformation by education as De Vries is alternately exposed to luminaries of mid twentieth century American society and immersed every summer in construction labor with his father. College led De Vries to an interest in history and economics. The book’s final section is an account of graduate study at Yale and the revolution then underway in the study of economic history. Studying both history and economics, De Vries is introduced to two distinct academic worlds and learns to appreciate and to critique them both. His interests lead him back to the Netherlands, where he encounters a very different academic environment and a circle of new colleagues who simultaneously influence his scholarship and his sense of identity. All the while, the Vietnam War, social upheaval, and marriage are intertwined with the launching of an academic career as the 1960s reach a point of climax and exhaustion.
Download or read book Mondrian Evolution written by Sam Keller and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piet Mondrian hat die Entwicklung der Malerei von der Figuration zur Abstraktion maßgebend geprägt. Anlässlich seines 150. Geburtstags widmet sich Mondrian Evolution seinem vielgestaltigen Werk und seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung. Zunächst in der Tradition der niederländischen Landschaftsmalerei des späten 19. Jahrhunderts arbeitend, gewannen bald Symbolismus und Kubismus große Bedeutung für ihn. Erst seit Anfang der 1920er Jahre konzentrierte sich der Künstler auf eine komplett gegenstandslose Bildsprache, die sich auf die rechtwinklige Anordnung von schwarzen Linien mit Flächen in Weiß und den drei Grundfarben Blau, Rot und Gelb konzentriert. In einzelnen Kapiteln wird dieser Weg anhand von Motiven wie Windmühlen, Dünen und das Meer, sich im Wasser spiegelnden Bauernhöfen und Pflanzen in verschiedenen Formen der Abstraktion nachverfolgt.
Download or read book Nature Artforms and the World Around Us written by Robert E. Wood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience. Each chapter displays the regional ontology of the form considered: the comprehensive set of eidetic features that limn the space of the art. It draws upon artists' statements, writings of key figures in the history of philosophy--including Plato, Hegel, Dewey, and Heidegger—and writings from various commentators on art. This volume is unique in its systematic and phenomenological approach, and in how it addresses aesthetics writ large.
Download or read book Magic for Longevity written by Antonina Duridanova and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book At seventy-three years old, Antonina Duridanova is asked all the time how it is she looks twenty years younger. After all the comments and questions, Duridanova has decided to record her daily routine and goals to obtain a fit and healthy lifestyle. In this insightful read, she emphasizes the importance of a healthy diet, finding types of exercise that work for you, maintaining rich, fulfilling hobbies, and doing all of the combined through travel. Duridanova explores first the role of diet and how to maintain healthy eating habits, moving on to physical and mental exercises to keep your body and mind in top condition. Duridanova explores familial and friend relationships and their importance in achieving a positive balance in your life, and how travel and exploration can bring new friends along the way. With all this and much more, you, too, can begin now to incorporate these habits to live a long and healthy life for mind, body, and soul.
Download or read book Complete Mondrian written by Marty Bax and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 2001 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single volume reproduces all of Mondrian's work. The illustrations, arranged in major chronological periods, give a visual impression of the development of his art and also depict the range of media in which he worked: drawings, paintings, prints and three-dimensional works.
Download or read book The Ekphrastic Writer written by Janée J. Baugher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common definition of ekphrasis is descriptive writing influenced by the visual arts. Beyond the written word, however, responding to art can engender self-reflection, creativity, and help writers to build characters, plot, and setting. This book unites the history and tradition of ekphrasis, its conventions, the writing process, and multi-genre writing prompts. In addition to subjects such as early art engagement, psychology, and the eye-brain-perception relationship, this book discusses artists' creative processes, tools, and techniques, and offers instruction on how to read art by way of deep-looking.
Download or read book Soundscapes Humans and Their Acoustic Environment written by Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the “Soundscapes” includes all of the sounds in one’s environment and focuses not only on the sounds itself. Instead, it focuses on the interrelationships between person and activity and place, both in space and time. Soundscape also include influences on the acoustic environment through auditory sensation, its interpretation, and the responses to the acoustic environment in context. The conceptual framework of Soundscape describes the “process of perceiving or experiencing and/or understanding an acoustic environment, highlighting general concepts and their relationships: context, sound sources, acoustic environment, auditory sensation, interpretation of auditory sensation, responses, and outcomes” (International Organization for Standardization, ISO 12913-1:2014 Acoustics Soundscape Part Definition and Conceptual Framework, ISO, Geneva, 2014). With soundscape, one achieves a deeper understanding of acoustic environment and its effects on people. The ISO standard 12931-1 on soundscape provides an important, and rigorous, distinction in the use of “Soundscape.” But, it is recognizable that some individuals, particularly planners, designers, lay persons, and even those primarily interested in management of the acoustic environment through environmental noise control, will find it convenient to use “Soundscape” as a synonym for the physical acoustic environment. When it comes to noise management and urban planning, soundscape research has the potential to promote healthy urban environments by sharing and incorporating the significant knowledge of all concerned parties. Understandably, this shows that the communication with regard to noise management has to be forced to guarantee that the specifics of Soundscapes (i.e., the relevance of perception) are seriously considered alongside the whole. This book will bridge the gap between soundscape theory and practice and therefore it will be different from our earlier publications as “Soundscape and the built environment” (ed. by J. Kang and B. Schulte-Fortkamp CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, Fl 2016) and also from the respective Special Issues on Soundscapes in 2012 in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (ed. by B. Schulte-Fortkamp and J. Kang), and also the Special Issue in Acta Acustica 2006 *(ed. by B. Schulte-Fortkamp and D. Dubois), and the E-book on soundscape This volume will be driven by the difficult process of standardization of Soundscape and its evaluation procedures. The main goal of the proposed volume is to present and review the developments in Soundscape, reflecting the standardization procedure and the diverse inputs. the needs in management and planning in urban acoustic environments, the book will also focus on the difficulties, as well as the solutions, in interdisciplinary grounded communication, that is, on the one hand, related to science, but on the other to application, that needs guidance.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Chicago written by Rich McHugh and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest, illustrated, detailed guide to the quintessential American city. Full coverage of all the neighbourhoods, including the downtown Loop and its prominent skyline, and ethnic enclaves like Greektown and Pilsen, plu ssighs from the Art Institute of Chicago to the shops on Michigan Avenue and all the Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Oak Park. Listings of restaurants, nightlife and accomodation cater for all budgets and include places to hear the Chicago Blues and engage in local pastimes such as rooting for the doomed Cubs baseball team. Tours and excursions to the North Shore are also listed.
Download or read book Piet Mondrian s Early Career written by Robert P. Welsh and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Piet Mondrian and a Preface written by Piet Mondrian and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Piet Mondrian written by Piet Mondrian and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Painting Index written by Patricia Pate Havlice and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Piet Mondrian Life and Work written by Michel Seuphor and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Provocations written by John Coplans and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provocations, edited and introduced by the art critic and curator Stuart Morgan, is a selection from 1963 to 1981 of writings by John Coplans and includes essays on Classic Modernism, Photography, and Pop Art, chapters from his books Kurt Schwitters (written with Walter Hopps) and Serial Imagery, and his controversial report on the decline of the Pasadena Art Museum"--
Download or read book Mondrian written by Piet Mondrian and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
