Author: Patricia EmisonPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031667018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Long Picturesque, or Unraveling the Rules of Art
Author: Patricia EmisonPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031667018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Relicts of a Beautiful Sea
Author: Christopher NormentPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469618672
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story of persistence--for as much as ten million years--amid the changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and why should we care?
My Body is a Book of Rules
Author: Elissa WashutaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781597099691
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In My Body Is a Book of Rules, Elissa Washuta corrals the synaptic gymnastics of her teeming bipolar brain, interweaving pop culture with neurobiology and memories of sexual trauma to tell the story of her fight to calm her aching mind and slip beyond the tormenting cycles of memory.
The Long Picturesque, or Unraveling the Rules of Art
Author: Patricia EmisonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783031667008
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a Renaissance art historian’s view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in painting, but with ramifications for printmaking, landscape design, and architecture), and further, how the picturesque aesthetic fundamentally changed the relationship between art and nature, between viewer and image. The book's argument is based on wide reading of obscure yet piquant critical texts, mostly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, together with consideration of varied works of art, ranging from Fra Angelico to Raphael and Michelangelo, and from Rubens to Canaletto, and from James Gibbs to Jacques Demy, all of them studied not for their place in the history of style, but for their spatial imagination.
The Etude
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Includes music.
Etude Music Magazine
Author: Theodore PresserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Includes music.
MotorBoating
Author: Harry Potter Drawing Book Step-By-Step
Author: Leonardo RicciPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781724060501
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Why teach your kid to draw? There are so many reasons. Not only is it a relaxing and enjoyable experience for a child, but it improves their skills. Many children assume that you can either draw or you can't, but of course this isn't true. All great artists start somewhere - by observing instructions and practicing. The idea of this book is to provide an easily accessible starting point.Often, seeing an elaborate drawing is intimidating for kids. It is important to break down the process into smaller steps, so that they can learn that the finished product is made up of different elements. Through doing this, they understand that creating impressive art is a journey in itself. Like all skills, it doesn't happen immediately.However, with the right amount of practice and encouragement, your child will improve. It takes weeks, months or even years but the path will be exciting and rewarding for both you and your child. Who knows where it may lead? Maybe there is a budding painter, photographer or sculptor waiting to shine. The only way to find out is to allow them to express themselves and enjoy the process.Use this book to encourage them, amuse them and most importantly let them explore the possibilities that learning to draw has to offer!
The Forum
Author: The Unraveling
Author: Benjamin RosenbaumPublisher: Erewhon Books
ISBN: 1645660060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
“A wildly inventive, funny, and ultimately quite heartfelt novel, The Unraveling is a chaotic romp of gender deconstruction packaged up in a groovy science-fictional coming-of-age tale.” —Chicago Review of Books In a society where biotechnology has revolutionized gender, young Fift must decide whether to conform or carve a new path. In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a Staid-gendered youth with three bodies is just trying to figure life out. Fift is struggling to maintain zir position in Fullbelly’s rigid social system, which is only made more difficult as ze develops an intriguing—and controversial— friendship with the acclaimed Vail-gendered bioengineer Shria. When Fift and Shria wind up at the center of a scandalous art spectacle that precipitates a multilayered Unraveling of society,. Fift is torn between zir attraction to Shria and the safety of zir family, between staying true to zir feelings and social compliance . . . all while zir personal crises suddenly take on global significance. What’s a young Staid to do when the whole world is watching?