Download or read book How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness written by Darby English and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the 'blackness' of black art to examine the integrative and interdisciplinary practices of Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, and William Pope.L—five contemporary black artists in whose work race plays anything but a defining role. Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. Refusing to grant racial blackness—his metaphorical "total darkness"—primacy over his subjects' other concerns and contexts, he brings to light problems and possibilities that arise when questions of artistic priority and freedom come into contact, or even conflict, with those of cultural obligation. English examines the integrative and interdisciplinary strategies of five contemporary artists—Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, and William Pope.L—stressing the ways in which this work at once reflects and alters our view of its informing context: the advent of postmodernity in late twentieth-century American art and culture. The necessity for "black art" comes both from antiblack racism and resistances to it, from both segregation and efforts to imagine an autonomous domain of black culture. Yet to judge by the work of many contemporary practitioners, English writes, black art is increasingly less able—and black artists less willing—to maintain its standing as a realm apart. Through close examinations of Walker's controversial silhouettes' insubordinate reply to pictorial tradition, Wilson's and Julien's distinct approaches to institutional critique, Ligon's text paintings' struggle with modernisms, and Pope.L's vexing performance interventions, English grounds his contention that to understand this work is to displace race from its central location in our interpretation and to grant right of way to the work's historical, cultural, and aesthetic specificity.
Download or read book Total Darkness written by Mark Edward and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Total Darkness is a revealing look into the dark mentalism and séance mind of Mark Edward. A 233 page hardback book with an exclusively designed dust-jacket by artist Vincent Mattina. Featuring a foreword by Tony 'Doc' Shiels, 15 in-depth fully photo illustrated séance pieces concluding with six more effects in the first published release of The Keith Moon Séance.
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Download or read book Marijuana written by Jorge Cervantes and published by Van Patten Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge's RX column - a monthly feature in High Times Magazine - solves growers' problems with definitive clarity. Here he compiles a selection of the best questions and answers from his column, offering illuminating insights into frequently-encountered - and intriguingly rare - dope growing difficulties.
Download or read book Study of Data Sources and Processing for Radar Land Mass Simulation written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To generate input data with a 50-foot resolution and fifteen shades of gray for advanced high-resolution digital radar simulators, this research examined and defined data sources and processing techniques. Limited to the Continental United States and to unclassified information, the data sources included all known aerial mapping imagery and topographic maps. All existing image processing techniques and devices were examined to define their operating principles. This review led to the conclusion that adequate geometric information for radar simulation data could be extracted from the current data sources and that existing processing capabilities could be combined into a feasible automatic system. In related work, non-parametric three-dimensional resections were calculated on a digital computer, and mathematical concepts were developed to give a computer system the capability of interpreting the physical characteristics in photos by using cues as done by a trained photo interpreter. (Author).
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Download or read book Legumes written by Maria Ángeles Martín-Cabrejas and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legumes have high potential for improving the nutritional quality of foods, but limited data on their bioactive compounds exists. Results of clinical and epidemiological studies suggest that natural antioxidants can protect us against oxidative stress that is closely associated with cancer and cardiovascular disease. Legumes are a valuable source of bioactive compounds such as phenolic compounds, peptides and non-nutritional factors. They are rich in several important micronutrients, including potassium, magnesium, folate, iron, and zinc, and are an important source of protein in vegetarian diets. They are among the only plant foods that provide significant amounts of the amino acid, lysine. Commonly consumed legumes are also rich in total and soluble fibre as well as in resistant starch. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the antioxidant activity and health aspects of legumes. The international spread of contributors will describe the key factors that influence consumer acceptance of legumes in the diet, as well as the known functional properties of legumes and legume based food products. It will serve as an excellent and up-to-date reference for food scientists, food chemists, researchers in human nutrition, dietetics and the chemistry of natural compounds.
Download or read book The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1834 written by Charles Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book From Adam to Noah The Numbers Game written by Leonard Timmons and published by Sliding Stories LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Am Light Love Life written by Michael Hunter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that God did not kill Adam and Eve? Is death a natural and normal part of human existence? Why does everything die? Will there always be death? What happens when we die? Where do we go? Is there life after death? Will there be a “Rapture” for Christians? Did you know that the teaching of Evolution is the third oldest lie in the whole world? Which two lies are even older? Is there intelligent alien life in outer space? Is there a Devil? Did you know that God is not the One who will destroy the Earth and humanity during the coming Great Tribulation? Is Jesus Christ really coming back to Earth? Will He come for a Bride before the Judgement Day? Is He going to return to save mankind from selfannihilation? Is it the end of the world? I hope this book will be helpful, both to those who are curious about God, and also to those who are already Christian, to help you “be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you (2 Peter 3:15 KJV)
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Download or read book A Gathering Darkness written by Haruo Tohmatsu and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' involvement in World War II began with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But for Japan, the conflict began at a much earlier date. This book focuses on Japan and the events in its military history leading up to and including Pearl Harbor. Unique in its perspective, A Gathering Darkness shows how historical events in the 1920s and 1930s steered the country into war with America and its allies. A Gathering Darkness looks at what happened inside Japan in the 1920s to change its outlook on the West. There was a general repudiation of western values by Japanese society, and Japan turned its back on the outside world and an international order that were making life difficult for the country. The treaties made in Washington in the 1920s left Japan with a local supremacy that no other power, including Britain and the United States, could challenge on the account of their lack of forward bases and their commitments that precluded full deployment of forces in the western Pacific. A Gathering Darkness shows why Japan became increasingly militant in the 1930s. The authors look at Japanese military involvement in Manchuria beginning in September 1931. They cover the beginning of Japan's involvement in China in 1937, a conflict in which Japan would up in a deadlock with the China theater of operations in the period 1939–1941. The book then analyzes the first five months of the Pacific War, including the Pearl Harbor strike and the synchronization of offensive operations across more than four thousand miles of ocean. It also investigates the dilemma Japan faced as it realized in early 1942 that the United States was not going to collapse. A Gathering Darkness is the first volume in SR Books' trilogy on the Pacific War. This book offers a fascinating look at the prelude to the Pacific War and the early stages of the conflict that no one interested in World War II, military history, or Japanese history will want to miss.
Download or read book Beyond Immersive Theatre written by Adam Alston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immersive theatre currently enjoys ubiquity, popularity and recognition in theatre journalism and scholarship. However, the politics of immersive theatre aesthetics still lacks a substantial critique. Does immersive theatre model a particular kind of politics, or a particular kind of audience? What’s involved in the production and consumption of immersive theatre aesthetics? Is a productive audience always an empowered audience? And do the terms of an audience’s empowerment stand up to political scrutiny? Beyond Immersive Theatre contextualises these questions by tracing the evolution of neoliberal politics and the experience economy over the past four decades. Through detailed critical analyses of work by Ray Lee, Lundahl & Seitl, Punchdrunk, shunt, Theatre Delicatessen and Half Cut, Adam Alston argues that there is a tacit politics to immersive theatre aesthetics – a tacit politics that is illuminated by neoliberalism, and that is ripe to be challenged by the evolution and diversification of immersive theatre.
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