The Great Art of Knowing
Author: Daniel Stolzenberg
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
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The Art of Noticing
Author: Rob Walker
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0525521259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thought-provoking, gorgeously illustrated gift book that will spark your creativity and help you rediscover your passion with “simple, low-stakes activities [that] can open up the world.”—The New York Times Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen. Enter Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing—an inspiring volume that will help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises—131 of them—Walker maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague, and finally, to rediscover what really matters to you.
The Art of Knowing Yourself
Author: Yvonne Fuchs
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-03-24
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1445200066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYvonne Fuchs shares her wisdom on personal development in this engaging and practical guide to personal creativity.
Art Is a Way of Knowing
Author: Pat B. Allen
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1995-04-11
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0834823268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expert in art therapy offers this “wonderful” guide “for anyone, artistic or not, who is interested in using art to know more about himself or herself” (Library Journal) Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art-making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus practical instructions on material, methods, and activities, such as ways to: • Discover a personal myth or story • Recognize patterns and themes in one's life • Identify and release painful memories • Combine journaling and image making • Practice the ancient skill of active imagination • Connect with others through sharing one's art works Interwoven with this guidance is the intimate story of the author's own journey as a student, art therapist, teacher, wife, mother, and artist—and, most of all, as a woman who discovered a profound and healing connection with her soul through making art.
Knowing Native Arts
Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1496221923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo's Native insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global milieus. These musings, written from the perspective of a senior academic and curator traversing a dynamic and at turns fraught era of Native self-determination, are a critical appraisal of a system that is often broken for Native peoples seeking equity in the arts. Mithlo addresses crucial issues, such as the professionalization of Native arts scholarship, disparities in philanthropy and training, ethnic fraud, and the receptive scope of Native arts in new global and digital realms. This contribution to the field of fine arts broadens the scope of discussions and offers insights that are often excluded from contemporary appraisals.
Michael Polanyi
Author: Mark T. Mitchell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-10-10
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1684516811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe polymath Michael Polanyi first made his mark as a physical chemist, but his interests gradually shifted to economics, politics, and philosophy, in which field he would ultimately propose a revolutionary theory of knowledge that grew out of his firsthand experience with both the scientific method and political totalitarianism. In this sixth entry in ISI Books’ Library of Modern Thinkers’ series, Mark T. Mitchell reveals how Polanyi came to recognize that the roots of the modern political and spiritual crisis lay in an errant conception of knowledge that served to foreclose any possibility of making meaningful statements about truth, goodness, or beauty. Polanyi’s theory of knowledge as ineluctably personal but also grounded in reality is not merely of historical interest, writes Mitchell, for it proposes an attractive alternative for anyone who would reject both the hubris of modern rationalism and the ultimately nihilistic implications of academic postmodernism.
Alchemy
Author: C. J. McKnight
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9780811804738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines alchemy in the context of the Middle Ages
Julia Gillian (and the Quest for Joy)
Author: Alison McGhee
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0545033527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new school year has started for Julia Gillian, and so far, it's not going very well. Her best friend, Bonwit Kellar, doesn't seem to want to be her best friend anymore. Learning to play trumpet, once Julia Gillian's heart's desire, is much more difficult than it looks. And the school has hired an interim lunch monitor, the all-too-strict Mr. Wintz. As Julia Gillian's music teacher would say, "Where is the joy?". Thankfully, Julia Gillian soon learns that sharing problems is often the only way to solve them, and that life is only as complicated-or joyful-as we want it to be.
Artistic Ways of Knowing: Expanded Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Author: Randee Lipson Lawrence
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2005-10-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780787982843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume challenges the dominant paradigm of how knowledge is typically constructed and shared in adult education settings by focusing on ways in which adult educators can expand learning opportunities and experiences for their learners. Chapter contributors include actors, musicians, photographers, storytellers, and poets, all of who also happen to be adult educators. In each chapter, the author describes how one or more forms of artistic expression were used to promote learning in formal or informal adult education settings. In each case, the purpose of education was not to teach art (that is, not to develop expertise in acting, poetry writing, or creating great works of art). Art appeals universally to us all and and has the capacity to bridge cultural differences. Art can also foster individual and social transformation, promoting dialogue and deepening awareness of ourselves and the world around us. This volume is an essential resource for adult educators interested in artistic expression as an teaching tool. This is the 107th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education.
Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany
Author: Gerhild Scholz Williams
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780754655510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerhild Scholz Williams here introduces the modern reader to the writings of Johannes Praetorius, an educated and productive German polymath of the seventeenth century. In his work we see the early modern beginnings of ethnography, anthropology, and physical geography; gender theory, early modern and contemporary notions of intellectual property, and competing and sometimes conflicting early modern scientific and theological explanations of natural anomalies.
