E-Books → How Photography Became Contemporary Art Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age

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Free Download How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age by Andy Grundberg
English | April 6, 2021 | ISBN: 0300234104 | PDF | 296 pages | 14.5 MB
A leading critic's inside story of "the photo boom" during the crucial decades of the 1970s and '80s

E-Books → Homo aestheticus. From where art comes from and why

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Free Download Homo aestheticus. From where art comes from and why By Ellen Dissanayake
1995 | 695 Pages | ISBN: 0295974796 | PDF | 4 MB
All human societies throughout history have given a special place to the arts. Even nomadic peoples who own scarcely any material possessions embellish what they do own, decorate their bodies, and celebrate special occasions with music, song, and dance. A fundamentally human appetite or need is being expressed--and met--by artistic activity. As Ellen Dissanayake argues in this stimulating and intellectually far-ranging book, only by discovering the natural origins of this human need of art will we truly know what art is, what it means, and what its future might be. Describing visual display, poetic language, song and dance, music, and dramatic performance as ways by which humans have universally, necessarily, and immemorially shaped and enhanced the things they care about, Dissanayake shows that aesthetic perception is not something that we learn or acquire for its own sake but is inherent in the reconciliation of culture and nature that has marked our evolution as humans. What "artists" do is an intensification and exaggeration of what "ordinary people" do, naturally and with enjoyment--as is evident in premodern societies, where artmaking is universally practiced. Dissanayake insists that aesthetic experience cannot be properly understood apart from the psychobiology of sense, feeling, and cognition--the ways we spontaneously and commonly think and behave. If homo aestheticus seems unrecognizable in today's modern and postmodern societies, it is so because "art" has been falsely set apart from life, while the reductive imperatives of an acquisitive and efficiency-oriented culture require us to ignore or devalue the aesthetic part of our nature. Dissanayake's original and provocativeapproach will stimulate new thinking in the current controversies regarding multi-cultural curricula and the role of art in education. Her ideas also have relevance to contemporary art and social theory and will be of interest to all who care strongly about the arts and their place.

E-Books → Grizzly Bear Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life

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Free Download Grizzly Bear Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life: Forty Years of Research in the Flathead Valley
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1771605650 | 419 Pages | PDF | 50 MB
Coexisting with grizzly bears into the future will be an increasing challenge and require a deep understanding of these large carnivores and what factors make their populations tick. Based on perhaps the longest uninterrupted wildlife research project done by one individual, this is the intertwined story of the science underlying our understanding of grizzly bears and family life in the wilderness while following bears.

E-Books → From Garden Art to Landscape Architecture Traditions, Re–Evaluations, and Future Perspectives

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E-Books → Food with Friends The Art of Simple Gatherings A Cookbook (2024)

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E-Books → Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800

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E-Books → Egyptian Art (Focus on Civilizations and Cultures)

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E-Books → Ecoportraiture The Art of Research When Nature Matters

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Free Download Sean Blenkinsop, "Ecoportraiture: The Art of Research When Nature Matters "
English | ISBN: 143319256X | 2022 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 12 MB
What changes in education, when it is not just humans whose teaching is sought and acknowledged? And how can educational research be accountable to the voices and agency of such more-than-human teachers, interlocutors, and kin? These have become pressing questions in an era of soaring interest in forest and nature schools, place- and land-based education. Ecoportraiture offers theoretical and practical guidance into an emerging methodology with deep roots in the anti-racist, emancipatory research tradition of portraiture initiated by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffman Davis. Bracketed by the editors' wide-ranging introductory essay and a closing critical conversation, five inspiring chapters take readers deep into the thinking and action that characterize ecoportraiture research. Ideal for researchers at all levels who want to explore more deeply how human learning is shaped and informed by the more-than-human, this book also invites a wider audience into the artful practice of close listening to the many voices of the natural world.

E-Books → Don't Take It Personally The Art of Dealing With Rejection

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Free Download Don't Take It Personally: The Art of Dealing With Rejection By Elayne Savage
2016 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0595255752 | EPUB | 1 MB
Who hasn't felt the sting of rejection?It doesn't take much for your feelings to get hurt-a look or a tone of voice or certain words can set you ruminating for hours on what that person meant. An unreturned phone call or a disappointing setback can really throw you off your center. It's all too easy to take disappointment and rejection personally. You can learn to handle these feelings and create positive options for yourself.Don't Take It Personally! explores all forms of rejection, where it comes from, and how to overcome the fear of it. Most of all, you'll learn some terrific tools for stepping back from those overwhelming feelings. You'll be able to allow space to make choices about how you respond.-Understand the effect that anxiety, frustration, hurt, and anger have on your interactions with others.-De-personalize your responses and establish safe personal boundaries that protect you from getting hurt.-Practice making choices about the thoughts you think and the ways you respond to stressful situations.-Understand and overcome fear of rejection in personal and work relationships.Elayne Savage explores with remarkable sensitivity the myriad of rejection experiences we experience with friends, co-workers, lovers, and family. Because her original ideas have inspired readers around the world, Don't Take It Personally! has been published in six languages. **Review"Never before has the impact of rejection been explored to this degree. Don't Take It Personally! offers much reasurrance and inspiration." -- -Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and End the Struggle and Dance with Life. "This is a psychological education at its best. Elayne Savage has provided a thoughtful, good-humored, origianl treatment of a crucial life problem." -- -Elaine Aron, Ph.D., author of The Highly Sensitive Person "This wonderfully readable ook offers wise counsel and information...useful insights into an issue that impacts each of our lives-rejection" -- -Judy Tatelbaum, M.S.W., author of The Courage to Grieve and You Don't Have to Suffer.About the AuthorElayne Savage is an internationally known relationship expert, media guest and member of the National Speakers Association. She holds a Ph.D. in family psychology, drawing on twenty-five years of clinical experience with individuals, couples and families in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Breathing Room?Creating Space to be a Couple and can be reached through her website: www.elaynesavage.com.