Dave Alber: Travel Art 2018: Part 1: Intimations
Dave Alber: Travel Art 2018: Part 1: Intimations

Author: Dave Alber

Publisher: Dave Alber

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1724953346

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Dave Alber: Travel Art 2018: Part 1: Intimations is TRAVEL ART AND TRAVEL WRITING BY DAVE ALBER “What started out as one simple painting for a friend has led me to invest my days painting travel experiences in vibrant colors.” Dave’s 2018 travel writing and travel paintings are collected in the art catalogue Dave Alber: Travel Art: 2018 Part 1: Intimations. Only the rare art catalogue can take you on journeys to faraway places and help you bridge cultural understanding with an immersed experience in the traveler’s journey. Travel Art: 2018 Part 1: Intimations contains: • 23 paintings reflecting life in China, Myanmar, and Nepal • 4 travel articles • 2 pages of hand painted comic art • as well as the artist’s statement and biography Receive your art catalogue: • Sign up at davealber.com for The Travel Art Adventurer’s Club and receive your free 2018 art catalogue • Also you receive a discount on Portrait Painting commissions and special Travel Art • And you earn advance notice about auctions, exhibitions, and events • Plus you’ll collect Travel Art catalogues, books, prizes, and more • Finally — during select times of the year — you give yourself the opportunity to invest in Travel Art because the cultural traditions encountered in world travel need to be seen and celebrated Articles include: A Brief Introduction to Chinese Temples, The Floral Mandarin Fish, Ancestors and Immortals: a Foreigner’s Introduction to Ching Ming Festival, Getting Social at Suzhou’s Night Market Paintings include: Approaching Dongwu Temple on Chinese New Years Eve (Suzhou, China), Nepalese Tongba, Little Tiger at the Fruit Stand, Bupaya Pagoda (Bagan Myanmar), Bund in Shanghai China, Burning Joss Paper During Ching Ming Festival, Paper Mansion For Ancestors During Ching Ming Festival, Lady He (He Xiangu) of the Eight Immortals, Chinese Garuda , Suzhou Center Mall in the Rain, East Side, Suzhou Center Mall in the Rain (East Entrance) , Eating With Friends at Dachengfang Guanqian Night Market (Suzhou China), “WAIGUARAN!” , Dushu Lake Church (Suzhou, China), Peacock Window (Bhaktapur, Nepal) , Dave Alber, Self-Portrait at Swayambunath (Kathmandu Nepal). The two-page comic is “Bedding Shanghai”.

Travel Art & Travel Writing: A Curious Heart’s Wanderlust in China
Travel Art & Travel Writing: A Curious Heart’s Wanderlust in China

Author: Dave Alber

Publisher: Dave Alber

Published: 2019-08-12

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1086903560

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Travel Art & Travel Writing: A Curious Heart’s Wanderlust in China brings to life a curious traveler’s experiences in China. You’ll taste the food and enjoy the outdoor social life of China. You’ll know how to identify the different temple types by their names and architectural features. You’ll learn about Chinese structures, both traditional and contemporary. And you’ll dive deep into the mythology and folklore of China: exploring the layers of history, ritual, and myth that underlie the customs and folk traditions of China. Travel with me through China and explore its culture: • Chinese travel sites (Chasing an Elusive Ideal in Modern Day Shangri-la), • Chinese customs (Getting Social in Suzhou’s Night Markets), • Chinese holidays and festivals (Ancestors and Immortals: a Foreigner’s Introduction to Ching Ming Festival), • Chinese temples and religious life (A Brief Introduction to Chinese Temples), • Chinese mythology (The Story of the Nian & Myth and Mooncakes: The Cosmological Symbolism of the Zhou Revolution), • Chinese cooking (The Floral Mandarin Fish & Snow Fish), • Chinese contemporary architecture (Post-Modern Architectural Irony in Suzhou’s The Gate To the East). Dave Alber creates Hybrid VR Paintings ™, Travel Art, and Travel Writing. His Travel Art shares an experience of wonder at our cultural continuity and universal humanity. Dave Alber is the inventor of Hybrid VR Paintings ™, which are physical/virtual hybrid paintings that occupy a physical space in the gallery while simultaneously manifesting within the virtual world of 360° panoramic technology. Books by Dave Alber include: • Travel Art: Intimations, • The Heart of Myth: Wisdom Stories of Endangered People, • The Taotie in Chinese Art, Culture, and Cosmology. You can receive Dave Alber’s art book for free at http://DaveAlber.com.

The Life & Art of Dave Cockrum
The Life & Art of Dave Cockrum

Author: Glen Cadigan

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781605491141

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"From the letters pages of Silver Age comics to his 2021 induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, the career of Dave Cockrum started at the bottom and then rose to the top of the comic book industry. Beginning with his childhood obsession with comics and continuing through his years in the Navy, The Life and Art of Dave Cockrum follows the rising star from fandom (where he was one of the "Big Three" fanzine artists) to pro-dom, where he helped revive two struggling comic book franchses: the Legion of Super-Heroes and the X-Men. His later work on his own property, The Futurians, as well as childhood favorite Blackhawk and T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents, cemented his position as as an industry giant. Featuring artwork from fanzines, unused character designs, and other rare material, this is the comprehensive biography of the legendary comic book artist, whose influence is still felt on the industry today!"--Back cover.

Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense
Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense

Author: Janet Carsten

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1800080387

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Marriage globally is undergoing profound change, provoking widespread public comment and concern. Through the close ethnographic examination of case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense places new and changing forms of marriage in comparative perspective as a transforming and also transformative social institution. In conditions of widespread socio-political inequality and instability, how are the personal, the familial and the political co-produced? How do marriages encapsulate the ways in which memories of past lives, present experience and imaginaries of the future are articulated? Exploring the ways that marriage draws together and distinguishes history and biography, ritual and law, economy and politics in intimate family life, this volume examines how familial and personal relations, and the ethical judgements they enfold, inform and configure social transformation. Contexts that have been partly shaped through civil wars, cold war and colonialism – as well as other forms of violent socio-political rupture – offer especially apt opportunities for tracing the interplay between marriage and politics. But rather than taking intimate family life and gendered practice as simply responsive to wider socio-political forces, this work explores how marriage may also create social change. Contributors consider the ways in which marital practice traverses the domains of politics, economics and religion, while marking a key site where the work of linking and distinguishing those domains is undertaken.

Modernist Idealism
Modernist Idealism

Author: Michael J. Subialka

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1487528655

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Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.

Rolling Thunder
Rolling Thunder

Author: Dave Dorman

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781600106736

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Presenting this retrospective volume devoted to the entire career of one of today's most popular science-fiction and comic artists, Dave Dorman. This book offers readers and fans a chance to witness his immense and phenomenal career from the early days to the present, offering glimpses of previously never-before-seen material from his files and sketchbooks, his enormously popular comic and science-fiction work, magazine and book illustrations, as well as beautifully reproduced images of his personal favorites with insights into his life and creative process.

Thinking with Soils
Thinking with Soils

Author: Juan Francisco Salazar

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1350109584

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This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil, and is representative of the rising interest in 'the material' in social sciences. Bringing together new modes of 'critical description' with speculative practices and methods of inquiry, it contributes to the exploration of current transformations in socioecologies, as well as in political and artistic practices, in order to address global ecological change. The chapters in this edited volume challenge scholars to attend more carefully to the ways in which they think about soil, both materially and theoretically. Contributors address a range of topics, including new ways of thinking about the politics of caring for soils; the ecological and symbiotic relations between soils; how the productive capacities and contested governance of soils are deployed as matters of political concern; and indigenous ways of knowing and being with soil.

The Taotie Image in Chinese Art, Culture, and Cosmology
The Taotie Image in Chinese Art, Culture, and Cosmology

Author: Dave Alber

Publisher: Dave Alber

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1497355206

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The Taotie Image in Chinese Art, Culture, and Cosmology by Dave Alber. The taotie, also known as the “beast mask”, is the most distinctive feature of Shang dynasty art. It is a fascinating motif in Chinese art and, for centuries, has inspired curiosity as to its meaning. In this book, cultural scholar, Dave Alber, explores the many meanings of the taotie image. • What was the meaning of the taotie among traditional Chinese art historians? • What is the taotie’s influence in Chinese art history? • What is the most probable cultural origin of the taotie? • What function did the taotie image serve in Shang dynasty cosmology and psychology? • What is the Pan-Asian diffusion of the original motif? • How does this art motif enrich our experience of Chinese architecture, history, and contemporary music? Dave Alber, MA originally presented the content of this book as a lecture at Henan Polytechnic University (HPU) in Mainland China. The Taotie Image in Chinese Art, Culture, and Cosmology is written in dual-language English and Chinese. Thus, it is a great tool for learning either English or Traditional Chinese. With almost one hundred photographs from Dave Alber’s travels in China and Asia, it is also an ideal book for studying Chinese and Pan-Asian art.