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Book NCECA Journal

Download or read book NCECA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NCECA Resource   Membership Directory

Download or read book NCECA Resource Membership Directory written by National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masonry

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  • Author : Harry A. Harris
  • Publisher : ASTM International
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 0803111681
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Masonry written by Harry A. Harris and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a thorough theoretical and practical introduction to the application of neural networks to pattern recognition and intelligent signal processing. It has been tested on students, unfamiliar with neural networks, who were able to pick up enough details to successfully complete their masters or final year undergraduate projects. The text also presents a comprehensive treatment of a class of neural networks called common bandwidth spherical basis function NNs, including the probabilistic NN, the modified probabilistic NN, and the general regression NN.

Book American Studio Ceramics

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  • Author : Martha Drexler Lynn
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300212739
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book American Studio Ceramics written by Martha Drexler Lynn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark survey of the formative years of American studio ceramics and the constellation of people, institutions, and events that propelled it from craft to fine art

Book Smoke Firing

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  • Author : Jane Perryman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2008-02-20
  • ISBN : 9780812240894
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Smoke Firing written by Jane Perryman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsomely illustrated survey of contemporary international artists and their approaches to smoke-fired pottery is an inspirational resource for ceramics devotees, from seasoned practitioners to curious collectors.

Book New Art Examiner

Download or read book New Art Examiner written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The independent voice of the visual arts.

Book Choosing Craft

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  • Author : Vicki Halper
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-05-15
  • ISBN : 080788992X
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Choosing Craft written by Vicki Halper and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices. The anthology is organized according to four activities that ground a professional life in craft--inspiration, training, economics, and philosophy. Halper and Douglas mined a wide variety of sources for their material, including artists' published writings, letters, journal entries, exhibition statements, lecture notes, and oral histories. The detailed record they amassed reveals craft's dynamic relationships with painting, sculpture, design, industry, folk and ethnic traditions, hobby craft, and political and social movements. Collectively, these reflections form a social history of craft. Choosing Craft ultimately offers artists' writings and recollections as vital and vivid data that deserve widespread study as a primary resource for those interested in the American art form.

Book Art and Social Justice Education

Download or read book Art and Social Justice Education written by Therese M. Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative, practical, and engaging sourcebook offers inspiration and tools to craft critical, meaningful, transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons.

Book New Serial Titles

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Book When Art Disrupts Religion

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  • Author : Philip S. Francis
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-01
  • ISBN : 019027977X
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book When Art Disrupts Religion written by Philip S. Francis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories gathered in these pages lay bare the power of the arts to unsettle and rework deeply ingrained religious beliefs and practices. This book grounds its narrative in the accounts of 82 Evangelicals who underwent a sea-change of religious identity through the intervention of the arts. "There never would have been an undoing of my conservative Evangelical worldview" confides one young man, "without my encounter with the transcendent work of Mark Rothko on that rainy afternoon in London's Tate Modern." "The characters in The Brothers Karamazov began to feel like family to me," reports another individual, "and the doubts of Ivan Karamazov slowly saturated my soul." As their stories unfold, the subjects of the study describe the arts as sources of, by turns, "defamiliarization," "comfort in uncertainty," "a stand-in for faith" and a "surrogate transcendence." Drawing on memoirs, interviews, and field notes, Philip Salim Franics explores the complex interrelationship of religion and art in the modern West, and offers an important new resource for on-going debates about the role of the arts in education and social life.

Book A Potter s Workbook

Download or read book A Potter s Workbook written by Clary Illian and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Potter's Workbook, renowned studio potter and teacher Clary Illian presents a textbook for the hand and the mind. Her aim is to provide a way to see, to make, and to think about the forms of wheel-thrown vessels; her information and inspiration explain both the mechanics of throwing and finishing pots made simply on the wheel and the principles of truth and beauty arising from that traditional method. Each chapter begins with a series of exercises that introduce the principles of good form and good forming for pitchers, bowls, cylinders, lids, handles, and every other conceivable functional shape. Focusing on utilitarian pottery created on the wheel, Illian explores sound, lively, and economically produced pottery forms that combine an invitation to mindful appreciation with ease of use. Charles Metzger's striking photographs, taken under ideal studio conditions, perfectly complement her vigorous text.

Book The Potter s Art

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  • Author : Henry Glassie
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780253213563
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The Potter s Art written by Henry Glassie and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coming into being, the work of art, this very pot, creates relations--relations between nature and culture, between the individual and society, between utility and beauty. Governed by desire, the artist's work answers questions of value. Is nature favored, or culture? Are individual needs or social needs more important? Do utilitarian or aesthetic concerns dominate in the transformation of nature?" --from the Introduction The Potter's Art discusses and illustrates the work of modern masters of traditional ceramics from Bangladesh, Sweden, various parts of the United States, Turkey, and Japan. It will appeal to anyone interested in pottery and the study of folklore and folk art. Henry Glassie is College Professor of Folklore and Co-director of Turkish Studies at Indiana University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute; he has also served as President of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and of the American Folklore Society. Material Culture--Henry Glassie, George Jevremovic, and William T. Sumner, editors (Note: there is an accent egue on the c Jevremovic) Contents: The Potter's Art Bangladesh Sweden Georgia Acoma Turkey Japan Hagi Work in the Clay Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Book Dangerous Art

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  • Author : James Harold
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-08-21
  • ISBN : 0197519776
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Dangerous Art written by James Harold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards. When we think that a work is racist, or morally dangerous, what do we mean? James Harold approaches the topic from two angles. First, he takes up the moral question on its own. What could it mean to say that a work of art (rather than, say, a human being) is immoral? He then steps back and examines how moral evaluation fits into the larger task of evaluating artworks. If an artwork is immoral, what does that tell us about how to value the artwork? By tackling the issue from both sides, Harold demonstrates how many of the reasons previously given for thinking that works of art are immoral do not stand up to careful scrutiny. While many philosophers of art have simply assumed that artworks can be evaluated morally and proceeded as though such assessments were unproblematic, Harold highlights the complexities and difficulties inherent in such evaluations. He argues that even when works of art are rightly condemned from a moral point of view, the relationship between that moral flaw and their value as artworks is complex. He instead defends a moderate, skeptic version of autonomism between morality and aesthetics. Employing figures and ideas from ancient Greece, classical China, and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, he argues that we cannot judge artworks in the same way that we judge people on moral grounds. In this sense, we can judge an artwork to be both wicked and beautiful; nothing requires us to judge an artwork more or less valuable aesthetically just because we judge it to be morally bad or good. Taking up complex issues at the intersection of art and ethics, Dangerous Art will appeal to philosophers and students interested in art, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of mind.

Book Pig Notes   Dumb Music

Download or read book Pig Notes Dumb Music written by William Heyen and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays and poems. On the subject of modern poetry he writes, "Old women with children do not live in it. / It does not harvest thought or associate with farmers. / It does not serve in the army, or follow a story. / It revels in skewed cubes, elliptical appositions."

Book Aesthetics and Ethics

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  • Author : Jerrold Levinson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780521788052
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Aesthetics and Ethics written by Jerrold Levinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major collection of essays examines issues surrounding aesthetics and ethics.

Book North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century

Download or read book North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century written by Jules Heller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary was created to fill a gap of there being a comprehensive reference work like this available, even though the bibliography in English on various aspects of the history of women artists has grown exponentially during the past ten years. As researchers, the editors have been frustrated many times by being unable to locate basic information about many of the artists included in this volume—especially those working outside the United States. This leads directly to another reason for producing this particular kind of reference book—to try and create a better understanding between and among the artists and art audiences in these countries.