Masonry

Masonry

Author: Harry A. Harris

Publisher: ASTM International

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0803111681

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This title provides a thorough theoretical and practical introduction to the application of neural networks to pattern recognition and intelligent signal processing. It has been tested on students, unfamiliar with neural networks, who were able to pick up enough details to successfully complete their masters or final year undergraduate projects. The text also presents a comprehensive treatment of a class of neural networks called common bandwidth spherical basis function NNs, including the probabilistic NN, the modified probabilistic NN, and the general regression NN.


American Studio Ceramics

American Studio Ceramics

Author: Martha Drexler Lynn

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0300212739

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A landmark survey of the formative years of American studio ceramics and the constellation of people, institutions, and events that propelled it from craft to fine art


Smoke Firing

Smoke Firing

Author: Jane Perryman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2008-02-20

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780812240894

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This handsomely illustrated survey of contemporary international artists and their approaches to smoke-fired pottery is an inspirational resource for ceramics devotees, from seasoned practitioners to curious collectors.


Choosing Craft

Choosing Craft

Author: Vicki Halper

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 080788992X

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Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices. The anthology is organized according to four activities that ground a professional life in craft--inspiration, training, economics, and philosophy. Halper and Douglas mined a wide variety of sources for their material, including artists' published writings, letters, journal entries, exhibition statements, lecture notes, and oral histories. The detailed record they amassed reveals craft's dynamic relationships with painting, sculpture, design, industry, folk and ethnic traditions, hobby craft, and political and social movements. Collectively, these reflections form a social history of craft. Choosing Craft ultimately offers artists' writings and recollections as vital and vivid data that deserve widespread study as a primary resource for those interested in the American art form.


Art and Social Justice Education

Art and Social Justice Education

Author: Therese M. Quinn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1136976752

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This imaginative, practical, and engaging sourcebook offers inspiration and tools to craft critical, meaningful, transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons.


New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles

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Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 1740

ISBN-13:

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.


When Art Disrupts Religion

When Art Disrupts Religion

Author: Philip S. Francis

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 019027977X

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The stories gathered in these pages lay bare the power of the arts to unsettle and rework deeply ingrained religious beliefs and practices. This book grounds its narrative in the accounts of 82 Evangelicals who underwent a sea-change of religious identity through the intervention of the arts. "There never would have been an undoing of my conservative Evangelical worldview" confides one young man, "without my encounter with the transcendent work of Mark Rothko on that rainy afternoon in London's Tate Modern." "The characters in The Brothers Karamazov began to feel like family to me," reports another individual, "and the doubts of Ivan Karamazov slowly saturated my soul." As their stories unfold, the subjects of the study describe the arts as sources of, by turns, "defamiliarization," "comfort in uncertainty," "a stand-in for faith" and a "surrogate transcendence." Drawing on memoirs, interviews, and field notes, Philip Salim Franics explores the complex interrelationship of religion and art in the modern West, and offers an important new resource for on-going debates about the role of the arts in education and social life.