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Book Tyra Tingleff  Of Course I m Not Sorry

Download or read book Tyra Tingleff Of Course I m Not Sorry written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swirling abstractions inspired by the Norwegian landscape Norwegian painter Tyra Tingleff (born 1984) experiments with dripping, spraying, staining and scrubbing to create colorful, swirling abstractions on canvas that reflect the dynamism of light, color and movement, and the immensity of nature in her native Norway.

Book The Economic Naturalist

Download or read book The Economic Naturalist written by Robert H. Frank and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world-which they do everywhere, all the time. Once you learn to think like an economist, all kinds of puzzling observations start to make sense. Drive-up ATM keypads have Braille dots because it's cheaper to make the same machine for both drive-up and walk-up locations. Travelers from Kansas City to Orlando pay less because they are usually price-sensitive tourists with many choices of destination, whereas travelers originating from Orlando typically choose Kansas City for specific family or business reasons. The Economic Naturalist employs basic economic principles to answer scores of intriguing questions from everyday life, and, along the way, introduces key ideas such as the cost-benefit principle, the “no cash on the table” principle, and the law of one price. This is as delightful and painless a way to learn fundamental economics as there is.

Book Duty Free Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hito Steyerl
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2017-11-21
  • ISBN : 1786632462
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Duty Free Art written by Hito Steyerl and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization? How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience is pumped for tweets to a future of “neurocurating,” in which paintings surveil their audience via facial recognition and eye tracking to assess their popularity and to scan for suspicious activity. In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.

Book The Politics of Consumption   The Consumption of Politics

Download or read book The Politics of Consumption The Consumption of Politics written by Dhavan V. Shah and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2006, an international conference titled "The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics" drew leading scholars from Europe and North America. Using theory and research, the conference spurred lively discussion as well as the insightful papers included in this special volume of The ANNALS. Drawing from a myriad of disciplines, including political science, sociology, communication, media studies, and economics, this volume is a must-have for scholars, professionals, and policymakers who want to better understand modern consumer society and its implications for the political and civic arena.

Book The Constituent Museum

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Byrne
  • Publisher : Valiz/L'Internationale
  • Release : 2018-06-26
  • ISBN : 9789492095428
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Constituent Museum written by John Byrne and published by Valiz/L'Internationale. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a diverse, rigorous, and experimental analysis of what is commonly known as education, mediation, or interpretation within museum institutions. It takes the visitor not as a passive receiver of predefined content, but as a member of a constituent body, one who facilitates, provokes, and inspires. The publication situates these practices within the socio-political context and the physical and organisational structure, and attempts to understand this change in an integral, interdisciplinary manner. It addresses such issues as ownership and power dynamics, collective pedagogy, co-curation, crowdsourcing, digital cultivation, activating archives, and more.

Book Ilit Azoulay  No Thing Dies

Download or read book Ilit Azoulay No Thing Dies written by Maurin Dietrich and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panoramic photographs by Ilit Azoulay relate the silenced histories of objects in Jerusalem's Israel Museum Here, Israeli photographer Ilit Azoulay (born 1972), known for panoramic photomontages, collects stories from those in charge of museum collections. Her "archive pages"--numerous high-resolution shots of objects mentioned in these stories, stitched together in Photoshop--are collected here alongside essays.

Book Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents

Download or read book Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents written by Jack Drescher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely gender variant children and adolescents (minors), increasingly referred to as 'trans' or 'transgender children,' are small in number. In recent years, their situation has become highly sensationalized, whilst the matter of how to best treat them remains an area of controversy. A growing body of research supports emerging treatment approaches, but more research is still needed to answer a host of questions: Do trans minors have a psychiatric disorder or a normal variation of gender presentation? Should treatment be aimed at helping them accept the bodies into which they were born or should parents, clinicians and schools accommodate their wishes of transition? At what age should transition begin? What are the implications – physical, psychological, social and ethical – of various treatment approaches? The first part of this volume explores different clinical approaches to transgender minors in the USA and abroad. The second part contains responses to these approaches by commentators from various fields including biology, child psychiatry, civil rights activism, ethics, law, gender studies, queer theory and psychoanalysis. The work will be an invaluable source for parents and families looking at how to proceed with a trans child, as well as clinicians seeking to make appropriate referrals. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality.

Book The Economic Naturalist

Download or read book The Economic Naturalist written by Robert H Frank and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Or why soft drink cans are cylindrical, but milk cartons are square? The answer is simple: economics. For years, economist Robert Frank has been encouraging his students to ask questions about the conundrums and strange occurrences they encounter in everyday life and to try to explain them using economics. Now in this bestselling book, he shares the most intriguing - and bizarre - questions and the economic principles that answer them to reveal why many of the most puzzling parts of everyday life actually make perfect (economic) sense.

Book The Freedom Artist

Download or read book The Freedom Artist written by Ben Okri and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this : Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the Prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth.

Book Diana Policarpo  Nets of Hyphae

Download or read book Diana Policarpo Nets of Hyphae written by Stefanie Hessler and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Policarpo?s new work highlights feminist intersectional concerns and draws geographical connections between Norway, Portugal, and Spain, where similar subspecies of a fungus, Claviceps purpurea, are found. Also known as ergot, the parasite infects the ovaries of rye plants, creating purple protrusions. These knobs have been used traditionally by women for abortions and to initiate labor in childbirth. The mushroom is also the organic base from which LSD is synthesized. When consumed in larger doses, often unknowingly?for instance, in bread?it caused long-lasting states of hallucination referred to today as medieval dancing plagues. And, allegedly, during the witch trials in Finnmark and other places, women and Sámi shamans were said to have had visions of the devil after ingesting a purple substance?possibly Claviceps, as Policarpo speculates. The contributors to this book discuss Policarpo?s research in the context of ancestral knowledge, the capitalization of health, women?s and LGBTQ+ rights, witchcraft, and alchemy from artistic, curatorial, and historical perspectives. Making connections across times, geographies, and scales, Nets of Hyphae humbly points to shared habitats and, in the words of the anthropologist Anna Tsing, to possibilities of earthly survival on a precarious planet. Co-published by Galeria Municipal do Porto, Kunsthall Trondheim, and Mousse Publishing with support from the Arts Council Norway. Design by João M. Machado.

Book Dark Satellites

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clemens Meyer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9781913097141
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book Dark Satellites written by Clemens Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Luke Jerram

Download or read book Luke Jerram written by Gemma Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, Science & Play provides a fascinating insight into the evolving practice of international artist Luke Jerram. Seen worldwide, the publication coincides with the homecoming of the universally engaging work 'Museum of the Moon' displayed at London's Natural History Museum from May 2019. Other well-known artworks featured include the playful; such as his much-loved world-wide street piano project Play Me, I'm Yours and the urban-waterslide Park and Slide, as well as those that explore our fascination with science; such as the beautifully rendered Glass Microbiology series of transparent sculptures. Drawing together Jerram's extensive practice for the first time, the book includes the artist's personal reflections on over thirty artworks and projects, providing a unique insight into the continual process of reinvention that inspires his ever-changing approach to art.

Book Tatjana Danneberg  Caught Up

Download or read book Tatjana Danneberg Caught Up written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatjana Danneberg?s preoccupation with the nature of images and the possibilities that unfold through their manipulation and deconstruction commences with photography ? low-fi images taken with simple automatic cameras that depict her immediate surroundings, friends, and acquaintances in a familiar, often intimate manner. After developing the images, she prints them on specific foils using an inkjet printer, then paints on them with gesso in broad strokes. Finally she glues the works ? each one a symbiosis of printed image and primer ? to canvas. Loosely cropped, showing bodily details or contortions, the images have an eventful feeling, depicting moments of action ? or a lack of it. Their presence is almost brutal, and yet they are dominated by an atmosphere of intimacy. ?They show fragile arrays,? writes Vanessa Joan Müller, ?ephemeral constellations or moments that seem unimportant when experienced but significant when remembered.?0The book, featuring three newly commissioned essays along with extensive color illustrations, is published on the occasion of Danneberg?s first solo presentation at a public institution, Wait a Minute, at Salzburger Kunstverein. Relating to youth culture movements, the new large-scale paintings and site-specific floor poster installation revolve around the states of bewilderment, uncertainty, and alienation, as well as enthusiasm and hope, that accompany the process of growing up.00Exhibition: Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (08.05-11.07.2021).

Book Cold Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jérôme Bazin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9788867494507
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Cold Revolution written by Jérôme Bazin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold Revolution. Central and Eastern European Societies in Times of Socialist Realism, 1948?1959' is the outcome of an international conference organized by the Zach?ta ? National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, in January 2020, and an exhibition project.0Both the conference and the show deal with Socialist Realism, a sensitive and problematic period in contemporary art history. The publication inquires about the relationship between the visual culture of the 1950s and the radical social revolution that took place in Central and Eastern Europe in the ?cold? climate of growing international tensions and the strengthening of communist dictatorships. Covering and linking together a wide range of areas of study?art history, but also social, political, and cultural history?thirty contributors explore deeply the 1950s? social transformations, presenting intersectional essays on cultural and art history, short key study texts and profound analysis examples from the fields of painting, architecture and urban planning, design, photography, film and graphic design, representative of different countries, such as Poland, GDR, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.00Exhibition: Zach?ta ? National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (23.04 ? 01.08.2021).

Book Supporting Transgender   Gender Creative Youth

Download or read book Supporting Transgender Gender Creative Youth written by Elizabeth J. Meyer and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth brings together cuttingedge research, social action methods, and theory on the topic of transgender youth and gender creative children. Organized in three sections covering theoretical and clinical, educational, and community perspectives, the chapters specifically address issues and challenges in education, social work, medicine, and counseling as well as recommendations that are relevant for parents, families, practitioners, and educators alike. The result is a well-researched and accessible book that will provide support and knowledge to a broad audience of individuals invested in improving the social worlds of gender diverse children and youth.

Book Rethinking Normal

Download or read book Rethinking Normal written by Katie Rain Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this Young Adult memoir, a transgender girl shares her personal journey of growing up as a boy and then undergoing gender reassignment during her teens"--

Book Oreet Ashery  How We Die Is How We Live Only More So

Download or read book Oreet Ashery How We Die Is How We Live Only More So written by Oreet Ashery and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer death and digital afterlife: responses to Oreet Ashery's Revisiting Genesis This publication gathers artists' written responses to London-based Israeli artist Oreet Ashery's (born 1966) film Revisiting Genesis--a fictional story of a dying artist--alongside conversations with artists with critical medical conditions.