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Book Shows and Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Lignel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-03-11
  • ISBN : 9780986422904
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Shows and Tales written by Benjamin Lignel and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge of showing contemporary jewelry - under the pressure of creative competition, institutional inertia, and claims of curatorial legitimacy by non-affiliated curators - has given rise to a bubbling exhibition landscape, with amateurs and professionals playing musical chairs to a very D.I.Y. score. Artists mount their own exhibitions. Museums invite amateurs to curate shows from their collection, and visitors to handle work. Collectors issue exhibition lists and detailed press releases. Meanwhile, the trend towards ever more experimental scenographies continues, with set-ups that never cease to negotiate with our expectations: works are shown on plinths, window sills, chairs, tables, floors; suspended, hung, or nailed; in set-ups in turn immersive, meditative, performative, artefactual, or theatrical. While the question of exhibition making occupies an ever more important place in art theory, there has never been, thus far, a publication on the subject with jewelry as its focal point. Given how extremely busy jewelry curators have been over the last 60 years, it is surprising that the variety of their approaches, and the implied notion that the exhibition space is a space of production, are so rarely acknowledged, nor is the extent to which curation transforms our perception. This publication aims to remedy this absence, and provide an overview of jewelry exhibition history, an understanding of the challenges inherent to showing jewelry in public spaces (whether commercial, institutional or ephemeral), and some insight into what curation can do to jewelry objects. It aims to help professional and amateur curators articulate the relative importance of selection, mediation and experience design, and question their assumptions about display conventions. This publication addresses the question of 'exhibiting jewelry' in three different ways: it features a series of commissioned articles on landmark exhibitions, to plot the evolution of the field, using the exhibition space as a historical marker. It includes commissioned essays by and discussions with curators on the challenges of curating craft. It incorporates, finally, a series of exhibition reviews from Art Jewelry Form's archives that track some recent experimentation with display strategies.

Book War and Religion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jolyon Mitchell
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0198803214
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book War and Religion written by Jolyon Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the history of religion and war, and a framework for analysing it. Ranging from ancient history to modern day conflicts, and touching on both religiously incited violence and pacifism, it offers a nuanced view on these issues that have had such weight in the past, and which continue to shape our present and future.

Book Tales from Regular Show

Download or read book Tales from Regular Show written by Jake Black and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yea-uhh! Follow Mordecai and Rigby on a bunch of crazy, awesome adventures as they do whatever it takes to get out of doing their work in this 64 page full color novel. Along the way, you’ll meet the hilarious characters that make the Regular Show the most awesome show on television! From the Trade Paperback edition.

Book Channeling Wonder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pauline Greenhill
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-06
  • ISBN : 0814339239
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Channeling Wonder written by Pauline Greenhill and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of cultural studies, fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy this first-of-its-kind volume.

Book The Handmaid s Tale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Atwood
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2011-09-06
  • ISBN : 0771008791
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Handmaid s Tale written by Margaret Atwood and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Book Telephone Tales

Download or read book Telephone Tales written by Gianni Rodari and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator must be some sort of magician, the next, it's a land filled with butter men who melt in the sunshine Awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Gianni Rodari is widely considered to be Italy's most important children's author of the 20th century. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali​ (The Forest)​, Telephone Tales​ entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.

Book Fairy Tales and Feminism

Download or read book Fairy Tales and Feminism written by Donald Haase and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales and broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries. Now, after three decades of provocative criticism and controversy, this book reevaluates the feminist critique of fairy tales.

Book Harbour Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Cleeves
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2015-12-01
  • ISBN : 1466881054
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Harbour Street written by Ann Cleeves and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—comes Harbour Street. “Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.”—Louise Penny As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence. Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along in the jostling crowd onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, and the other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the holiday festivities. As she stands on the silent, snow-covered station platform, Vera feels a familiar buzz of anticipation, sensing that this will be a complex and unusual case. Then, just days later, a second woman is murdered. Vera knows that to find the key to this new killing she needs to understand what had been troubling Margaret so deeply before she died - before another life is lost. She can feel in her bones that there's a link. Retracing Margaret's final steps, Vera finds herself searching deep into the hidden past of this seemingly innocent neighborhood, led by clues that keep revolving around one street...Harbour Street. Told with piercing prose and a forensic eye, Ann Cleeves' gripping novel explores what happens when a community closes ranks to protect their own-and at what point silent witnesses become complicit.

Book Dork Diaries  Volume 12 of 12

Download or read book Dork Diaries Volume 12 of 12 written by Rachel Renee Russell and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Chinese and English bilingual edition of Dork Diaries 12: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe

Book Further Tales of the City

Download or read book Further Tales of the City written by Armistead Maupin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park.

Book The Days of Anna Madrigal

Download or read book The Days of Anna Madrigal written by Armistead Maupin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. 'Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been’ Booklist (starred review) ____________________ Now ninety-two, Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her ‘logical family’ in San Francisco. Some members of that family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert but Anna has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. There she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to some unfinished business she has long avoided. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Book Harsh Reality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andy Binder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-05
  • ISBN : 9781681570730
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Harsh Reality written by Andy Binder and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality television: a loaded phrase if ever there was one. To some, it connotes trash: Snooki, Honey Boo-Boo, the Kardashians. People who are pathetic, immoral and disgusting. To others, it says irresistible entertainment: passion, hilarity, love and obsession. Whatever your feelings about it, there's no doubt that somewhere, somehow, you have come in contact with some form of reality TV. The very first reality television program premiered on MTV in 1992--The Real World. That one show spawned an entire industry, and created a new kind of celebrity-- what author Andy Binder calls "The Z-list Celebrity". In Andy's world, reality television and the Z-list celebrity is neither trash nor passion, but a way of life. Reality shows, despite their claims of unplanned spontaneity, are carefully crafted vehicles populated by various familiar "types." There's the cocky attention-getting male who has appeared on eight reality shows and calls himself "Mr. Beautiful." The sweet country girl with a boyfriend of five years back home. The Guido-loving girl, who tries to bring home a different guy every night. The Mormon from Utah who has never seen a naked girl in person. And the list goes on. These characters represent the full spectrum of American society, and they all play their parts with conviction and relish. But what happens when the cameras stop rolling? What are the real lives of these reality stars like? Does it mirror in any way what we see on their TV shows? Harsh Reality will take a look at the hidden world of reality TV fame, a world Andy Binder witnessed first-hand while running Tobinder Talent Booking.

Book Otto s Tales

Download or read book Otto s Tales written by Dennis Prager and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Otto the bulldog and his best friend Dennis on their journey back in time to learn about the origins of the American National Anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance. Traveling from 1814 to 1954, Otto and Dennis encounter Francis Scott Key and learn history galore! Celebrate patriotism, tradition, and God alongside Otto and Dennis as they share their true love for our country. Otto's Tales books are part of PragerU Resources for Educators and Parents (PREP), which offers educational resources for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. These beautifully illustrated storybooks star young Dennis Prager and his sidekick--PragerU's Otto the Bulldog mascot. Dennis and Otto go on exciting adventures and travel through time to learn important values through American holidays and traditions. This stylish series answers the needs of young families looking for fun, educational, pro-America content. Please consider supporting PREP and joining our community by becoming a member at PragerU.com/PREP. You can help keep PragerU videos free and our kids books available at a low cost by making a donation at PragerU.com/SupportBooks.

Book The Romance of London Supernatural Stories  Sights and Shows  Strange Stories  Sight and Shows  Strange Adventures  and Remarkable Persons by John Timbs  F  S  A

Download or read book The Romance of London Supernatural Stories Sights and Shows Strange Stories Sight and Shows Strange Adventures and Remarkable Persons by John Timbs F S A written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book There s Never Been a Show Like Veggie Tales

Download or read book There s Never Been a Show Like Veggie Tales written by Hillary Warren and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociological examination of the production and audiences of Veggie Tales, a popular evangelical video series for children.

Book The Bard of the North  a Series of Poetical Tales Illustrative of Highland Scenery and Character

Download or read book The Bard of the North a Series of Poetical Tales Illustrative of Highland Scenery and Character written by Dugald MOORE (Scottish Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cleveland TV Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Olszewski
  • Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
  • Release : 2014-10-15
  • ISBN : 1938441583
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Cleveland TV Tales written by Mike Olszewski and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember when TV was just three channels and the biggest celebrities in Cleveland were an outrageous movie host named Ghoulardi, a gentle elf named Barnaby, and a tough-as-nails newswoman named Dorothy Fuldheim? These pioneering entertainers invented television programming before our very eyes while we watched from our living rooms. Revisit the early days of local TV in these fun and fact-filled stories featuring . . . Paige Palmer, the fitness host who smoked four packs a day . . . Smooth-voiced Captain Penny, who reminded us, “You can’t fool mom” . . . Volatile talk show host Alan Douglas, who pushed guests’ hot buttons—sometimes until they punched back . . . Gene Carroll, longtime king of the amateur hour . . . Woodrow, the Woodsman . . . Romper Room’s Miss Barbara . . . Jungle Larry . . . and many other local favorites.