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Book Revelry and Risk  Approaches to Social Practice  Or Something Like That

Download or read book Revelry and Risk Approaches to Social Practice Or Something Like That written by Sara Thacher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revelry and Risk" inaugurates the publication program of the Social Practice Area at the California College of the Arts. It features the work of Bridget Barnhart, Anne Devine, Jennifer Durban, Amanda Herman, and Carly Troncale with essays by Ted Purves and Randall Szott. The projects presented in this book span such disparate practices as urban and rural interventions, curation, guerilla architecture, social sculpture, project-based community practice, service dispersals and performance. These varied forms of public strategy are critically linked by theories of relational art, social aesthetics, pluralism and democracy.

Book England s Revelry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Griffin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2005-08-11
  • ISBN : 9780197263211
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book England s Revelry written by Emma Griffin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the poor lacked land of their own, public spaces were needed for their sports and pastimes.

Book How to Draw Cartoon Animals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Hart
  • Publisher : Watson-Guptill
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780823023608
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book How to Draw Cartoon Animals written by Christopher Hart and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 1995 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instructional guide for drawing cartoon animals.

Book Capolavoro Di Uomo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kennedy Projects
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-05-15
  • ISBN : 9781620506264
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Capolavoro Di Uomo written by Kennedy Projects and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supervisions

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781435212497
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Supervisions written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Proven Strategy for Creating Great Art

Download or read book A Proven Strategy for Creating Great Art written by Dan McCaw and published by International Artist Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan McCaw is one of America's most respected artists, and with this book he reveals his oil-painting approach for creating great art, from thumbnail ideas to finishing touches. Readers will gain an understanding on the principles of light, the two basic ways to design a painting, an explanation of colour, his 5-stage development process, the art of seeing, outdoor painting, troubleshooting, and ways to broaden their thinking. Full-length, step-by-step demonstrations with generous captions, examples and explanatory sidebars ensure its value as a teaching aid for artists of all levels of ability.

Book Dirty Little Drawings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Queer Men's Erotic Art Workshop
  • Publisher : Bruno Gmuender GMBH
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9783861874485
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dirty Little Drawings written by Queer Men's Erotic Art Workshop and published by Bruno Gmuender GMBH. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City six years ago, a small group of 14 young and restless gay artists got bored of drawing courses with only nudes in academic poses, and joined forces. In the following years, their group expanded to almost 100 gay artists, and the collaboration proved fruitful. Together they produced thousands of dirty little drawings - and this anthology is the outstanding result.

Book Distinction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Bourdieu
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-04-15
  • ISBN : 113587316X
  • Pages : 641 pages

Download or read book Distinction written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.

Book What We Want Is Free

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ted Purves
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780791462898
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book What We Want Is Free written by Ted Purves and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the way recent artists have incorporated concepts of generosity into their work.

Book Slaves Tell Tales

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  • Author : Sara Forsdyke
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012-07-22
  • ISBN : 0691140057
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Slaves Tell Tales written by Sara Forsdyke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that various forms of popular culture in ancient Greece--including festival revelry, oral storytelling, and popular forms of justice--were a vital medium for political expression and played an important role in the negotiation of relations between elites and masses, as well as masters and slaves, in the Greek city-states. Although these forms of social life are only poorly attested in the sources, she suggests that Greek literature reveals traces of popular culture that can be further illuminated by comparison with later historical periods. By looking beyond institutional contexts, she recovers the ways that groups that were excluded from the formal political sphere--especially women and slaves--participated in the process by which society was ordered.

Book The Psychedelic Explorer s Guide

Download or read book The Psychedelic Explorer s Guide written by James Fadiman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use • Presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide • Reviews the value of psychedelics for healing and self-discovery as well as how LSD has facilitated scientific and technical problem-solving • Reveals how microdosing (ultr-low doeses) improve cognitive functioning, emotional balance, and physical stamina • This year 600,000 people in the U.S. alone will try LSD for the the first time, joining the 23 million who have already experimented with this substance Called “America’s wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use,” James Fadiman has been involved with psychedelic research since the 1960s. In this guide to the immediate and long-term effects of psychedelic use for spiritual (high dose), therapeutic (moderate dose), and problem-solving (low dose and microdose) purposes, Fadiman outlines best practices for safe, sacred entheogenic voyages learned through his more than 40 years of experience--from the benefits of having a sensitive guide during a session (and how to be one) to the importance of the setting and pre-session intention. Fadiman reviews the newest as well as the neglected research into the psychotherapeutic value of visionary drug use for increased personal awareness and a host of serious medical conditions, including his recent study of the reasons for and results of psychedelic use among hundreds of students and professionals. He reveals new uses for LSD and other psychedelics, including microdosing, extremely low doses, for improved cognitive functioning and emotional balance. Cautioning that psychedelics are not for everyone, he dispels the myths and misperceptions about psychedelics circulating in textbooks and clinics as well as on the internet. Exploring the life-changing experiences of Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, and Huston Smith as well as Francis Crick and Steve Jobs, Fadiman shows how psychedelics, used wisely, can lead not only to healing but also to scientific breakthroughs and spiritual epiphanies.

Book Ritual

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Bell
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-12-29
  • ISBN : 0199739471
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Ritual written by Catherine Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.

Book Bed and Bondage

Download or read book Bed and Bondage written by Rich Larson and published by SQP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Larson has had a long and successful career putting pretty girls in terrible danger... on PAPER of course! When we asked him to get in touch with his kinkier side, the gloves came off (and the ropes came out!). Still imbued with his trademark sense of humour and naughty young ladies, 'Bed & Bondage, Volume 1' takes the reader on a non-stop journey through the darker and more sinister side of Mister Larson's limitless imagination! So, agree ahead of time on a 'safe word', and come play in Rich's happy-time dungeon of delights!

Book Kink

    Book Details:
  • Author : R.O. Kwon
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-02-09
  • ISBN : 1982110228
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Kink written by R.O. Kwon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. A Most-Anticipated book of 2021 as selected by * Marie Claire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Cosmopolitan * Time * The Millions * The Advocate * Autostraddle * Refinery29 * Shape * Town & Country * Book Riot * Literary Hub * Kink is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors. The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates, therapists’ offices, underground sex clubs, and even a sex theater in early-20th century Paris. While there are whips and chains, sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires, as portrayed by some of today’s most exciting writers.

Book The Production of Space

Download or read book The Production of Space written by Henri Lefebvre and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992-04-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.

Book John Dewey and the Artful Life

Download or read book John Dewey and the Artful Life written by Scott R. Stroud and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey to argue that art and the aesthetic have a close connection to morality. Dewey gives us a way to reconceptualize our ideas of ends, means, and experience so as to locate the moral value of aesthetic experience in the experience of absorption itself, as well as in the experience of reflective attention evoked by an art object.

Book Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Download or read book Good Strategy Bad Strategy written by Richard Rumelt and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.