Art And Intimacy
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Art And Intimacy
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Author : Ellen Dissanayake
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2015-08-17
Art And Intimacy written by Ellen Dissanayake and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-17 with Art categories.
To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love. It all begins with the human trait of birthing immature and helpless infants. To ensure that mothers find their demanding babies worth caring for, humans evolved to be lovable and to attune themselves to others from the moment of birth. The ways in which mother and infant respond to each other are rhythmically patterned vocalizations and exaggerated face and body movements that Dissanayake calls rhythms and sensory modes. Rhythms and modes also give rise to the arts. Because humans are born predisposed to respond to and use rhythmic-modal signals, societies everywhere have elaborated them further as music, mime, dance, and display, in rituals which instill and reinforce valued cultural beliefs. Just as rhythms and modes coordinate and unify the mother-infant pair, in ceremonies they coordinate and unify members of a group. Today we humans live in environments very different from those of our ancestors. They used ceremonies (the arts) to address matters of serious concern, such as health, prosperity, and fecundity, that affected their survival. Now we tend to dismiss the arts, to see them as superfluous, only for an elite. But if we are biologically predisposed to participate in artlike behavior, then we actually need the arts. Even -- or perhaps especially -- in our fast-paced, sophisticated modern lives, the arts encourage us to show that we care about important things.
The Art Of Intimacy
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Author : Thomas Patrick Malone
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1988
The Art Of Intimacy written by Thomas Patrick Malone and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Family & Relationships categories.
The authors, both psychiatrists, illustrate the profound causes and consequences of the persistent failure of individuals in relationships to achieve real intimacy. They provide crucial guidance to living and loving in a fulfilling way.
Centering And The Art Of Intimacy
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Author : Gay Hendricks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Centering And The Art Of Intimacy written by Gay Hendricks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Centering (Psychology) categories.
Pop Song
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Author : Larissa Pham
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2021-07-08
Pop Song written by Larissa Pham and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book '...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the melted? How to turn the ground powder back into a person? This idea points to a knowledge that I don't have: how to love without losing the self.' Plumbing the well of culture for clues about love and loss - from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde - this brilliant work of debut nonfiction explores the state of falling in love, whether with a painting or a person. Pham creates a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy, triumphant in its vulnerability and restlessness. Pop Song is a book about distances: the miles we travel to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Here is a map to all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home.
Centering And The Art Of Intimacy
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Author : Gay Hendricks
language : en
Publisher: Fireside
Release Date : 1993-03-08
Centering And The Art Of Intimacy written by Gay Hendricks and has been published by Fireside this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-08 with Psychology categories.
With this enlightening book, readers can conquer the most common obstacles to satisfying love--the twin fears of aloneness and closeness. The keys to surmounting these fears lie in developing awareness, honesty and commitment. The authors offer activities and exercises to help readers develop these relationship skills.
Forever And Always
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Author : Celestia G. Tracy
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2011-04-07
Forever And Always written by Celestia G. Tracy and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with Religion categories.
This book reflects a multi disciplinary, integrative approach to the theology and practice of relational intimacy. It combines biblical data on sexuality and relationships with marriage and bonding research. The reader is then guided in applying the research to his or her relationships. In essence, this is a handbook for understanding and deepening the stages involved in bonding or attaching closely to another human being. Marriage, the most intimate of all human relationships, is described in Scripture as a "one-flesh mystery" (Eph 5:31-32). This mystery of human bonding is as beautiful as it is complex, particularly in a post-Eden world. Many of us are woefully aware of our relational deficits, yet lack vibrant marriages around us to emulate. Those of us who have not experienced relationships of health, safety, and security particularly find we need roadmaps along the way. Our desire is that in the pages of this book readers will find personal encouragement and direction that is both biblically precise and practical for their relational journeys. Our intimacy model is built upon God's bold promises to heal and redeem. His pathways bring life; he is the one true lover of our souls. Our intimacy with him is foundational to all other relationships.
Modern Couples
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Author : Jane Alison
language : en
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Release Date : 2018
Modern Couples written by Jane Alison and has been published by Prestel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Art, Modern categories.
Featuring the biggest names in Modern Art, Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. Meet the artist couples that forged new ways of making art and of living and loving. The exhibition illuminates these creative and personal relationships, from the obsessional and fleeting to the life-long. Including Dora Maar & Pablo Picasso; Salvador Dalí & Federico García Lorca; Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin; Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera; Emilie Flöge & Gustav Klimt - plus many more.--
The Art Of Intimacy
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Author : Stacey D'Erasmo
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2013-07-09
The Art Of Intimacy written by Stacey D'Erasmo and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky Below "What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it on the page?" Stacey D'Erasmo's insightful and illuminating study examines the craft and the contradictions of creating relationships not only between two lovers but also between friends, family members, acquaintances, and enemies in fiction. She argues for a more honest, more complex portrait of the true nature of the connections and missed connections among characters and, fascinatingly, between the writer and the reader. D'Erasmo takes us deep into the structure and grammar of these intimacies as they have been portrayed by such writers as Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and William Maxwell, and also by visual artists and filmmakers. She asks whether writing about intimacy is like staring straight into the sun, but it is her own brilliance that dazzles in the piercing and original book, The Art of Intimacy.
Making Love Better Twogether
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Author : Yolanda "Yanni" Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-11
Making Love Better Twogether written by Yolanda "Yanni" Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-11 with Family & Relationships categories.
Have you ever wondered how intimate your relationship could be if you awakened the senses by taking away the sense of sight? "Making Love Better TwoGether: The Art of Intimacy" is the follow-up to Yanni Brown's popular debut, "Making Love Better Begins Within". With this book, you and your mate are encouraged to participate in a palate-pleasing journey filled with verbal and non-verbal foreplay, mental penetration, physical stimulation, sweet nothing whispers, intimate discussions, and a new appreciation for each other - all meant to elevate your love for one another, your relationship, your intimacy, and so much more.
What Is Art For
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Author : Ellen Dissanayake
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
What Is Art For written by Ellen Dissanayake and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Social Science categories.
Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species’ four-million-year evolutionary history. This book offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary significance of art. Art, meaning not only visual art, but music, poetic language, dance, and performance, is for the first time regarded from a biobehavioral or ethical viewpoint. It is shown to be a biological necessity in human existence and fundamental characteristic of the human species. In this provocative study, Ellen Dissanayake examines art along with play and ritual as human behaviors that “make special,” and proposes that making special is an inherited tendency as intrinsic to the human species as speech and toolmaking. She claims that the arts evolved as means of making socially important activities memorable and pleasurable, and thus have been essential to human survival. Avoiding simplism and reductionism, this original synthetic approach permits a fresh look at old questions about the origins, nature, purpose, and value of art. It crosses disciplinary boundaries and integrates a number of divers fields: human ethology; evolutionary biology; the psychology and philosophy of art; physical and cultural anthropology; “primitive” and prehistoric art; Western cultural history; and children’s art. The final chapter, “From Tradition to Aestheticism,” explores some of the ways in which modern Western society has diverged from other societies--particularly the type of society in which human beings evolved--and considers the effects of the aberrance on our art and our attitudes toward art. This book is addressed to readers who have a concerned interest in the arts or in human nature and the state of modern society.