The Art of Looking
The Art of Looking

Author: Lance Esplund

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0465094678

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A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury "drip" paintings; Chris Burden's "Shoot" (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle; Urs Fischer's "You" (2007), a giant hole dug in the floor of a New York gallery; and the conceptual and performance art of today's Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramovic. The shifts have left the art-viewing public (understandably) perplexed. In The Art of Looking, renowned art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they might seem. With patience, insight, and wit, Esplund guides us through the last century of art and empowers us to approach and appreciate it with new eyes. Eager to democratize genres that can feel inaccessible, Esplund encourages viewers to trust their own taste, guts, and common sense. The Art of Looking will open the eyes of viewers who think that recent art is obtuse, nonsensical, and irrelevant, as well as the eyes of those who believe that the art of the past has nothing to say to our present.

Daughters of Arraweelo
Daughters of Arraweelo

Author: Ayaan Dahir

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781681341828

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In this remarkable collection, fourteen Somali women tell their stories, sharing experiences of love, war, displacement, family, identity, and everyday life. After civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991, thousands fled and sought asylum all over the world. Many Somali women carried the responsibility for finding safe passage and new homes for their families in the wake of the war.

Open Studio
Open Studio

Author: Sharon Coplan Hurowitz

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781838661281

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The book invites you into the private studios of seventeen of the most celebrated contemporary artists as they draw, paint, sculpt, or design an original project for readers to recreate at home. It demystifies the studio practice through the fun, accessible format of D.I.Y., leading you step-by-step through each artist's project. Eight inserts specially designed by the artists for completing their projects - from stencils to cut-outs - are included. The result can inspire people everywhere to blaze their own creative trails

Keeping an Eye Open
Keeping an Eye Open

Author: Julian Barnes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1101874791

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An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting … But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.” This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. In his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Barnes had a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin. The seventeen essays gathered here help trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism; they are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.

The Art of Relevance
The Art of Relevance

Author: Nina Simon

Publisher: Museum 2.0

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780692701492

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What do the London Science Museum, California Shakespeare Theater, and ShaNaNa have in common? They are all fighting for relevance in an often indifferent world. The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case studies, research-based frameworks, and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community. Whether you work in museums or libraries, parks or theaters, churches or afterschool programs, relevance can work for you. Break through shallow connection. Unlock meaning for yourself and others. Find true relevance and shine.

The Art of Getting Started
The Art of Getting Started

Author: Lee Crutchley

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0399164073

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Popular illustrator Lee Crutchley is no stranger to creative blocks. Whether he's working for a corporate client or creating his own art, Crutchley has faced that blank page (and tablet screen) more times than he can count -- and through trial and error and sheer force of will, he's come up with a range of lively prompts, activities, and challenges that help to shift the perspective and get those creative juices flowing again in new and surprising ways. This upbeat, interactive, and very cool book will be any creative person's best friend -- filled with inspiration, humor, wisdom, commiseration, and help whenever the reader needs it most.

Spilling Open
Spilling Open

Author: Sabrina Ward Harrison

Publisher: Villard Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780375756481

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"We are all facing choices that define us. No choice, however messy, is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it is only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself. This book is my life in progress." Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself is the creative expression of one young woman's attempt to understand herself as she grows into adulthood. Sabrina Ward Harrison shares her private journal and art, offering us lessons in life and empowerment that resonate with fresh, youthful wisdom. Written when Harrison was between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, Spilling Open captures the artist's journey of self-discovery with a powerful and courageous voice. This book is an intimate and moving picture of what it means to enter a contemporary adult world that is filled with contradictions about womanhood. Harrison reveals with tender honesty that, in spite of the women's movement, she has found more questions than answers about growing up female. Harrison's writing and multimedia art explore questions about love, faith, growing pains, being true, peer groups, and identity. A truly unique experience, Spilling Open will help open your heart and your mind.

Suture
Suture

Author: Nic Brewer

Publisher: Book*hug Press

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781771667029

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To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word processor. Suture shares three interweaving stories of artists tearing themselves open to make art. Each artist baffles their family, or harms their loved ones, with their necessary sacrifices. Eva's wife worries about her mental health; Finn's teenager follows in her footsteps, using forearms bones for drumsticks; Grace's network constantly worries about the prolific writer's penchant for self-harm, and the over-use of her vitals for art. The result is a hyper-real exploration of the cruelties we commit and forgive in ourselves and others. Brewer brings a unique perspective to mental illness while exploring how support systems in relationships--spousal, parental, familial--can be both helpful and damaging. This exciting debut novel is a highly original meditation on the fractures within us, and the importance of empathy as medicine and glue.

The Everything Blogging Book
The Everything Blogging Book

Author: Aliza Risdahl

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-07-13

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1440538212

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If you have access to a computer, you can start your own online journal, or blog--if you know how to do it right. With your own blog, you'll have a voice in the exciting world of the Internet. This one-stop resource shows you how to publish your ideas, get feedback, and create your own worldwide network! With this book you'll learn how to: Create buzz marketing for your business. Get amateur poetry, short stories, and prose published. Create a worldwide network of people. Share unique hobby ideas with thousands of other hobbyists. This easy-to-use guide will help you to create and maintain a creative and unique blog that readers the world over can enjoy. With The Everything Blogging Book, you'll learn how to make your mark on the World Wide Web—and beyond!