Robert Genn : in Praise of Painting
Author: Robert Genn
Publisher: Merritt Publishing Company
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780920886151
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Author: Robert Genn
Publisher: Merritt Publishing Company
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780920886151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Genn
Publisher: Merritt
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780920886175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Genn
Publisher: Studio Beckett Publications
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781550564792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Douglas Eby
Publisher: Douglas Eby
Published: 2011-09-16
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781463663964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a brief overview of some of the key aspects of our personality and inner life that can affect how well we access and express creative talents. Especially for teens and adults with multipotentiality. Included are references to creativity research, perspectives of psychologists, creativity coaches and personal development leaders, as well as comments by a wide range of actors, directors, writers and other creative people. A free PDF version of the book is available to purchasers of the paperback.
Author: Ellen Wiley Todd
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780520074712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters--Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop--placed their images of modern "new women." Bargain stores, cheap movie theaters, pinball arcades, and radical political organizations were the backdrop for the women shoppers, office and store workers, and consumers of mass culture portrayed by these artists. Ellen Wiley Todd deftly interprets the painters' complex images as they were refracted through the gender ideology of the period. This is a work of skillful interdisciplinary scholarship, combining recent insights from feminist art history, gender studies, and social and cultural theory. Drawing on a range of visual and verbal representations as well as biographical and critical texts, Todd balances the historical context surrounding the painters with nuanced analyses of how each artist's image of womanhood contributed to the continual redefining of the "new woman's" relationships to men, family, work, feminism, and sexuality.
Author: Alex van der Tuuk
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first complete examamination of Paramount Records - the label that introduced Ma Rainey, Charley Patton, Skip James, and other blues greats to the world - and the company that produced it.
Author: Mark Kistler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1988-09-15
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0671656945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a series of lesson on foreshortening, surface, shading, shadow, density, contour, overlapping, and size, and suggests that daily practice is important for developing one's artistic skills.
Author: Gregory Bateson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780226039053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.
Author: Denis Dutton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0199539421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dinka have a connoisseur's appreciation of the patterns and colours of the markings on their cattle. The Japanese tea ceremony is regarded as a performance art. Some cultures produce carving but no drawing; others specialize in poetry. Yet despite the rich variety of artistic expression to be found across many cultures, we all share a deep sense of aesthetic pleasure. The need to create art of some form is found in every human society.In The Art Instinct, Denis Dutton explores the idea that this need has an evolutionary basis: how the feelings that we all share when we see a wonderful landscape or a beautiful sunset evolved as a useful adaptation in our hunter-gather ancestors, and have been passed on to us today, manifest in our artistic natures. Why do people indulge in displaying their artistic skills? How can we understand artistic genius? Why do we value art, and what is it for? These questions have long been asked by scholars in the humanities and in literature, but this is the first book to consider the biological basis of this deep human need.This sparking and intelligent book looks at these deep and fundamental questions, and combines the science of evolutionary psychology with aesthetics, to shed new light on longstanding questions about the nature of art.
Author: John Carey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0199735972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo the arts make us better people? Why should "high" art be thought higher than "low"? In the first part of this spirited polemic, Carey returns startling answers to these and related questions. In the second part he makes a provocative case for the superiority of literature to all other arts.