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Resisting Abstraction
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Author : Gordon Hughes
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-11-25
Resisting Abstraction written by Gordon Hughes and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Art categories.
The first English-language study of the influential French painter Robert Delaunay to appear in thirty years. Delaunay has long been appreciated as one of the leading Parisian artists of the early twentieth century. And art historians have consistently viewed his vibrantly colored paintings starting in 1912 as early experiments in abstraction. Hughes, however, tautly argues that Delaunay was not just one of the earliest artists to work in pure abstraction, but the earliest one to do so. The colorful, optically driven canvases that Delaunay produced set him apart from the more ethereal abstraction of Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich, and Kupka, with whom he is often clubbed and whose spiritual motivations he rejected. Delaunay s paintings were grounded in material sensation and reflected the modern optical science of his time. They had nothing in common with the idealism that drove Kandinsky and the others. As a result, his work set the stage not only for the kind of abstraction that would come to dominate painting in the mid twentieth century (Pollock, Stella, Still, Kline); it also inspired the critics who theorized and elevated that particular strain of modernist practice."
Resisting Abstraction
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Author : Gordon Hughes
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-11-25
Resisting Abstraction written by Gordon Hughes and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Art categories.
Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With Resisting Abstraction, the first English-language study of Delaunay in more than thirty years, Gordon Hughes mounts a powerful argument that Delaunay was not only one of the earliest artists to tackle abstraction, but the only artist to present his abstraction as a response to new scientific theories of vision. The colorful, optically driven canvases that Delaunay produced, Hughes shows, set him apart from the more ethereal abstraction of contemporaries like Kandinsky, Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, and František Kupka. In fact, Delaunay emphatically rejected the spiritual motivations and idealism of that group, rooting his work instead in contemporary science and optics. Thus he set the stage not only for the modern artists who would follow, but for the critics who celebrated them as well.
Abstract Resistance
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Author : Yasmil Raymond
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010
Abstract Resistance written by Yasmil Raymond and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 27-May 23, 2010.
Wallace Stevens And The Aesthetics Of Abstraction
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Author : Edward Ragg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Wallace Stevens And The Aesthetics Of Abstraction written by Edward Ragg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Edward Ragg's study was the first to examine the role of abstraction throughout the work of Wallace Stevens. By tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Ragg argues that Stevens only fully appreciated and refined this interest within his later career. Ragg's detailed close-readings highlight the poet's absorption of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century painting, as well as the examples of philosophers and other poets' work. Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction will appeal to those studying Stevens as well as anyone interested in the relations between poetry and painting. This valuable study embraces revealing philosophical and artistic perspectives, analyzing Stevens' place within and resistance to Modernist debates concerning literature, painting, representation and 'the imagination'.
Metrology Of Pedestrian Locomotion And Slip Resistance
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Author : Mark I. Marpet
language : en
Publisher: ASTM International
Release Date : 2003
Metrology Of Pedestrian Locomotion And Slip Resistance written by Mark I. Marpet and has been published by ASTM International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Design categories.
Papers from the June 2001 Symposium on Metrology of Pedestrian Locomotion and Slip Resistance present the latest research findings on both how much friction pedestrians require during ambulation and how to measure the friction available between the walkway surface and the shoe bottom. Some specific
But I Meant Well
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Author : James Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Ethics International Press
Release Date : 2025-05-29
But I Meant Well written by James Thomas and has been published by Ethics International Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-29 with Social Science categories.
Discussions of decolonization often only enable intellectualization of the topic, not action or transformation. But I Meant Well: Unlearning Colonial Ways of Doing Good, enables readers to see coloniality in their everyday lives, to confess their complicity, to begin to delink from colonial ways of doing good, and to detect emerging noncolonial ways. The book is written for those who want to “make the world a better place”, to lessen misery and inequality through careers in fields like global health, humanitarian aid, nonprofit charities, and harnessing market forces for good. The author, James Thomas, has worked in global health as an epidemiologist and ethicist in more than 40 countries. Not content to be just an academic, he founded an organization in East Africa that sought to provide an alternative to the typical donor-recipient model of nonprofits. Early in his career, he became aware that as a White male descendant of colonial settlers, many modern social systems, including those claiming to improve the world, were created by and for people like him. He came to see that he had uncritically adopted colonial narratives and methods. Inspired by Kenyan novelist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Thomas sought to decolonize his mind, a process he describes as unlearning colonial ways. Those who read this book will be guided on a similar journey. Drawing from a wide variety of disciplines - including sociology, history, religion, philosophy, economics, psychobiology, and political science - Thomas presents a jargon-free narrative that draws the reader in. Students of public health, social work, medicine, nursing, business and more will find the journey not just informative but personally and professionally transformative.
How Abstract Is It Thinking Capital Now
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Author : Rebecca Colesworthy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
How Abstract Is It Thinking Capital Now written by Rebecca Colesworthy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Business & Economics categories.
Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the notion that capitalism has become too abstract for all but the most rarefied specialists to understand has been widely presupposed. Yet even in academic circles, the question of abstraction itself – of what exactly abstraction is, and does, under financialisation – seems to have gone largely unexplored – or has it? By putting the question of abstraction centre stage, How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now offers an indispensable counterpoint to the ‘economic turn’ in the humanities, bringing together leading literary and cultural critics in order to propose that we may know far more about capital’s myriad abstractions than we typically think we do. Through in-depth engagement with classic and cutting-edge theorists, agile analyses of recent Hollywood films, groundbreaking readings of David Foster Wallace’s sprawling, unfinished novel, The Pale King, and even original poems, the contributors here suggest that the machinations and costs of finance – as well as alternatives to it – may already be hiding in plain sight. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
Resisting Theology Furious Hope
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Author : Jordan E. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-05-09
Resisting Theology Furious Hope written by Jordan E. Miller and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-09 with Religion categories.
This book puts radical theology and political theology into an interdisciplinary conversation with sustained and serious readings of resistance. Using an anthropology of ritual as a common thread, Jordan E. Miller explores the reality of the relationship between political theology, radical theology, and political theory, action, and power without cynicism in a creative, forward-moving way. The first half of the book develops a radical political theology and the second half applies that theory to a series of social movements, including The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), Occupy Wall Street, and #BlackLivesMatter, and includes reflections on the events at Standing Rock, ND.
The Limits Of Fabrication
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Author : Nathan Brown
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
The Limits Of Fabrication written by Nathan Brown and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with Science categories.
Poetry, or poiēsis, has long been understood as a practice of making. But how are experiments in the making of poetic forms related to formal making in science and engineering? The Limits of Fabrication takes up this question in the context of recent developments in nanoscale materials science, investigating concepts and ideologies of form at stake in new approaches to material construction. Tracing the direct pertinence of fields crucial to the new materials science (nanotechnology, biotechnology, crystallography, and geodesic design) in the work of Shanxing Wang, Caroline Bergvall, Christian Bök, and Ronald Johnson back to the midcentury development of Charles Olson’s “objectist” poetics, Nathan Brown carves out a tradition of constructivist, nonorganic poetics that has developed in conversation with science and engineering. While proposing a new approach to the relation of technē (craft, skill) and poiēsis (making, forming), this book also intervenes in philosophical debates concerning the concept of the object, the distinction between organic and inorganic matter, theories of self-organization, and the relation between “design” and “nature.” Engaging with Heidegger, Agamben, Whitehead, Stiegler, and Nancy, Brown shows that materials science and materialist poetics offer crucial resources for thinking through the direction of contemporary materialist philosophy.
Better Worlds
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Author : Peter Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013-02-21
Better Worlds written by Peter Roberts and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Education categories.
Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia provides a fresh examination of utopia and education. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, the authors explore utopia not as a model of social perfection but as the active, imaginative building of better worlds. Utopian questions, they argue, lie at the heart of education, and addressing such questions demands attention not just to matters of theoretical principle but to the particulars of everyday life and experience. Taking utopia seriously in educational thought also involves a consideration of that which is dystopian. Utopia, this book suggests, is not something that is fixed, final, or ever fully realized; instead, it must be constantly recreated, and education, as an ongoing process of reflection, action, and transformation, has a central role to play in this process.