Author: Janey Bennett
Publisher: Janey Bennett
ISBN: 0973400722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A fast moving novel in a Cretan village - kidnappings and killings, prayers and healing, ethics and ritual...and a darn good tale.
The Pale Surface of Things
Author: Janey Bennett
Publisher: Janey Bennett
ISBN: 0973400722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A fast moving novel in a Cretan village - kidnappings and killings, prayers and healing, ethics and ritual...and a darn good tale.
Publisher: Janey Bennett
ISBN: 0973400722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A fast moving novel in a Cretan village - kidnappings and killings, prayers and healing, ethics and ritual...and a darn good tale.
On the Surface of Things
Author: Felice Frankel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026889
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Using innovative photographic technology, Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George M. Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026889
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Using innovative photographic technology, Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George M. Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.
The Surface Breaks: a reimagining of The Little Mermaid
Author: Louise O'Neill
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407186272
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Deep beneath the sea off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of being human... but at what terrible price? Hans Christian Andersen's dark original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407186272
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Deep beneath the sea off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of being human... but at what terrible price? Hans Christian Andersen's dark original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans.
Beneath the Surface
Author: Barbara Garay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578458663
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Beneath the surface is a collection of poetry about overcoming trauma, navigating love, enduring heartbreak, dealing with depression and anxiety, and coping through it by becoming emotionally resilient. The book is split into five chapters: Roots. Love. Hear break. Internal Struggle. Resilience.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578458663
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Beneath the surface is a collection of poetry about overcoming trauma, navigating love, enduring heartbreak, dealing with depression and anxiety, and coping through it by becoming emotionally resilient. The book is split into five chapters: Roots. Love. Hear break. Internal Struggle. Resilience.
Surface
Author: Giuliana Bruno
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022611483X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
What is the place of materiality—the expression or condition of physical substance—in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world. Arguing that materiality is not a question of the materials themselves but rather the substance of material relations, Bruno investigates the space of those relations, examining how they appear on the surface of different media—on film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on the skins of buildings and people. The object of visual studies, she contends, goes well beyond the image and engages the surface as a place of contact between people and art objects. As Bruno threads through these surface encounters, she unveils the fabrics of the visual—the textural qualities of works of art, whether manifested on canvas, wall, or screen. Illuminating the modern surface condition, she notes how façades are becoming virtual screens and the art of projection is reinvented on gallery walls. She traverses the light spaces of artists Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Tacita Dean, and Anthony McCall; touches on the textured surfaces of Isaac Julien’s and Wong Kar-wai’s filmic screens; and travels across the surface materiality in the architectural practices of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Herzog & de Meuron to the art of Doris Salcedo and Rachel Whiteread, where the surface tension of media becomes concrete. In performing these critical operations on the surface, she articulates it as a site in which different forms of mediation, memory, and transformation can take place. Surveying object relations across art, architecture, fashion, design, film, and new media, Surface is a magisterial account of contemporary visual culture.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022611483X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
What is the place of materiality—the expression or condition of physical substance—in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world. Arguing that materiality is not a question of the materials themselves but rather the substance of material relations, Bruno investigates the space of those relations, examining how they appear on the surface of different media—on film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on the skins of buildings and people. The object of visual studies, she contends, goes well beyond the image and engages the surface as a place of contact between people and art objects. As Bruno threads through these surface encounters, she unveils the fabrics of the visual—the textural qualities of works of art, whether manifested on canvas, wall, or screen. Illuminating the modern surface condition, she notes how façades are becoming virtual screens and the art of projection is reinvented on gallery walls. She traverses the light spaces of artists Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Tacita Dean, and Anthony McCall; touches on the textured surfaces of Isaac Julien’s and Wong Kar-wai’s filmic screens; and travels across the surface materiality in the architectural practices of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Herzog & de Meuron to the art of Doris Salcedo and Rachel Whiteread, where the surface tension of media becomes concrete. In performing these critical operations on the surface, she articulates it as a site in which different forms of mediation, memory, and transformation can take place. Surveying object relations across art, architecture, fashion, design, film, and new media, Surface is a magisterial account of contemporary visual culture.
Fewer, Better Things
Author: Glenn Adamson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632869640
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them. In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us. Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632869640
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them. In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us. Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.
Things We Don't Talk about
Author: Pandora Owl
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781794173279
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Things we don't talk about is a collection of words, thoughts and poetry about love, anxiety, depression and overall mental health. It can get a little too raw for some and a little too real for others.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781794173279
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Things we don't talk about is a collection of words, thoughts and poetry about love, anxiety, depression and overall mental health. It can get a little too raw for some and a little too real for others.
Wallace Stevens
Author: Wallace Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571237937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania in 1879. Harmonium, published in 1923, became a landmark in modern American poetry with its startling imagery and meditations on art, reality and imagination. It was followed by Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Transport to Summer and The Necessary Angel. Stevens died in 1955.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571237937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania in 1879. Harmonium, published in 1923, became a landmark in modern American poetry with its startling imagery and meditations on art, reality and imagination. It was followed by Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Transport to Summer and The Necessary Angel. Stevens died in 1955.
Playing with Surface Design
Author: Courtney Cerruti
Publisher:
ISBN: 1631590367
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Whether you want to marble paper, stamp on fabric, or etch into wood, Playing with Surface Design: Modern Techniques for Painting, Stamping, Printing and More will provide endless inspiration.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1631590367
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Whether you want to marble paper, stamp on fabric, or etch into wood, Playing with Surface Design: Modern Techniques for Painting, Stamping, Printing and More will provide endless inspiration.
The Classical Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description