The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

Author: Michael Clarke

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0199569924

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Searchable database of over 1,900 terms used in the wide variety of visual media that makes up the art world.


Ockham on Concepts

Ockham on Concepts

Author: Claude Panaccio

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1351914146

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William of Ockham (c.1287-1347) is known to be one of the major figures of the late Middle Ages. The scope and significance of his doctrine of human thought, however, has been a controversial issue among scholars in the last decade, and this book presents a full discussion of recent developments. Claude Panaccio proposes a richly documented and entirely original reinterpretation of Ockham's theory of concepts as a coherent blend of representationalism, conceptual atomism, and non reductionist nominalism, stressing in the process its special interest for current discussions in philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences.


Swinging and Rolling

Swinging and Rolling

Author: Jochen Büttner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-08-08

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9402415947

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This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes. It has revealed the challenging objects that motivated and shaped Galileo's thinking and closely followed the knowledge reorganization engendered by theses challenges. It has thus turned out, for example, that the problem of reducing the properties of pendulum motion to the laws governing naturally accelerated motion on inclined planes was the mainspring for the formation of Galileo's comprehensive theory of naturally accelerated motion.


Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook

Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook

Author: Dr Angela Bartram

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-06-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1409468682

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Bringing together a broad range of contributors including art, architecture, and design academic theorists and historians, in addition to practicing artists, architects, and designers, this volume explores the place of the sketchbook in contemporary art and architecture. Drawing upon a diverse range of theories, practices, and reflections common to the contemporary conceptualisation of the sketchbook and its associated environments, it offers a dialogue in which the sketchbook can be understood as a pivotal working tool that contributes to the creative process and the formulation and production of visual ideas. Along with exploring the theoretical, philosophical, psychological, and curatorial implications of the sketchbook, the book addresses emergent digital practices by way of examining contemporary developments in sketchbook productions and pedagogical applications. Consequently, these more recent developments question the validity of the sketchbook as both an instrument of practice and creativity, and as an educational device. International in scope, it not only explores European intellectual and artistic traditions, but also intercultural and cross-cultural perspectives, including reviews of practices in Chinese artworks or Islamic calligraphy, and situational contexts that deal with historical examples, such as Roman art, or modern practices in geographical-cultural regions like Pakistan.


Seeking the Favor of God

Seeking the Favor of God

Author: Mark J. Boda

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1589833899

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Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)