אפריל 2018

 

הספרייה מציעה לקוראיה מידי חודש רשימת ספרים וכתבי-עת חדשים שנוספו לאוספיה כל רשומה מכילה:
מס' מיון, מחבר, כותר, מוציא לאור, שנת הוצאה , נושאים, מס' מערכת תוכן עיניינים ותקציר.
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159.94 DEK

 DeKoven, Bernard

 A playful path

 [Pittsburg] : ETC Press, 2014

Abstract  

A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.

Subject  

Games

 Games -- Psychological aspects.

 Play

 Play -- Psychological aspects.

 Game theory

41593

 

 

172 FAC

 Facing tragedies

 Wien : LIT, 2009.

 Abstract  

The essays in this volume grew out of the reflections and discussions conducted during the second international conference "Impulses from Salzburg" from May 6 to 9, 2008, on "Facing Tragedies". In accordance with the aims of this project, participants were asked to reflect not simply on the nature and meaning of tragedy but also on ways in which those who are the victims of tragedy make sense of, or cope with, their condition. It was recognised that abstract reflection is important in this regard, but also that such reflection must be rooted in ordinary, everyday. experience, and thus the conference had as one of its aims the attempt to ensure that philosophical reflection not lose the moorings it needs in the reality of ordinary life.

Subject  

Social ethics

Reflection (Philosophy)

41608

 

 

2-583 NOV

Sukey Novogratz and Elizabeth Novogratz

 Just sit : a meditation guidebook for people who know they should but don’t

New York : Harperwave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.

Contents

 An extremely brief history lesson -- Keep it simple: instructions for sitting -- Why aren’t you meditating? -- Just sit, no matter what -- DIY meditation: do what works for you -- The body electric -- Mind games: who is running your show? -- Meditation and you: who do you want to be in the world? -- Exercises in mindfulness: be in your life.

Abstract

 From the cofounders of The Well Daily, a playfully-illustrated, informative, and easy-to-use meditation guidebook—including an eight-week plan for busy novices—that helps even the busiest would-be meditator incorporate this practice into their lifestyle and enjoy its many physical and emotional benefits. We’ve all heard the reports about meditation: that it helps us relieve stress and anxiety, improve our moods, lose weight, and sleep better. We know that it can make us healthier, nicer, a kinder parent, a better coworker, a more thoughtful spouse. But there’s a catch—you actually have to do it. Written for the many, many people whose schedule or skepticism has kept them from trying meditation, Just Sit is an approachable and visually engaging beginner’s guide. Assuaging fears, answering questions, and providing real-world information to demystify the process, Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz provide a hands-on look at what meditation really is, what is does, and how to do it. The authors make clear that meditation doesn’t have to be complicated or follow a specific protocol. The most important part, to "just sit," can lead to a lifelong practice, tailored to anyone’s lifestyle. A perfect blend of information and instruction, Just Sit covers everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask. Sukey and Elizabeth address meditation myths and realities, offer advice on how to combat awkwardness, extoll the physical and emotional benefits of meditation, show readers how to find those precious minutes to meditate every day, and more. They also include an eight-week plan to get help readers kick start—and stay with—their own daily practice. Time to ditch the excuses. With this warm, encouraging, sassy guide, everyone will want to show up—and sit down—every day.

Subject

 Meditation

41644

 

316.77 CON

Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry.

Discussing design : improving communication and collaboration through critique / 

Bejing ; Cambridge : O’Reilly, 2015.

Contents  

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Understanding Critique -- Conversations Matter -- The Problem with Asking for "Feedback" -- Why Critique Is So Important -- Critique as a Life Skill -- Incorporating Critique and Moving Forward -- Wrapping Up -- ch. 2 What Critique Looks Like -- The Two Sides of Critique and the Importance of Intent -- Giving Critique -- Receiving Critique -- Critique, Conversation, and Questions -- Wrapping Up -- ch. 3 Culture and Critique -- Creating a Conducive Organizational Culture -- Incremental Versus Iterative Processes: What They Mean and Why They Matter -- Setting the Foundation for Critique -- Personal Barriers to Critique -- Practicing Critique -- Critiquing with Distributed Teams and Remote Team Members -- Wrapping Up -- ch. 4 Making Critique a Part of Your Process -- Creating Opportunities for Critique -- Things to Keep in Mind -- Standalone Critiques -- Collaborative Activities -- Conducting Design Reviews -- Wrapping Up.

 Note continued: ch. 5 Facilitating Critique -- Understanding the Rules of Critique -- The "I Like" or "I Don’t Like" Rule -- Preparing for and Kicking Off a Critique -- Tools and Techniques for Effective Facilitation -- Collecting Critique and Doing Something with It -- Wrapping Up -- ch. 6 Critiquing with Difficult People and Challenging Situations -- Dealing with Difficult People -- Coping with Challenging Situations -- Wrapping Up -- ch. 7 Summary: Critique Is at the Core of Great Collaboration -- Moving Beyond Feedback -- Adopting Critique -- Coping with Difficult Situations -- Dive In.

Abstract  

Real critique has become a lost skill among collaborative teams today. Critique is intended to help teams strengthen their designs, products, and services, rather than be used to assert authority or push agendas under the guise of "feedback." In this practical guide, authors Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry teach you techniques, tools, and a framework for helping members of your design team give and receive critique. Using firsthand stories and lessons from prominent figures in the design community, this book examines the good, the bad, and the ugly of feedback. You’ll come away with tips, actionable insights, activities, and a cheat sheet for practicing critique as a part of your collaborative process.

Subject  

Communication criticism.

 Business communication

 Feedback (Psychology)

 Computer-aided design

 Engineering design -- Data processing.

41635

 

 373.2 RES

 Resnick, Mitchel 

 Lifelong kindergarten : cultivating creativity through projects, passion, peers, and play

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2017.

 Contents  

Creative learning -- Projects -- Passion -- Peers -- Play -- Creative society.

Abstract  

In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten, learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the opposite: the rest of school (even the rest of life) should be more like kindergarten. To thrive in today’s fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively -- and the best way to do that is by focusing more on imagining, creating, playing, sharing, and reflecting, just as children do in traditional kindergartens. Drawing on experiences from more than thirty years at MIT’s Media Lab, Resnick discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning experiences. He tells stories of how children are programming their own games, stories, and inventions (for example, a diary security system, created by a twelve-year-old girl), and collaborating through remixing, crowdsourcing, and large-scale group projects (such as a Halloween-themed game called Night at Dreary Castle, produced by more than twenty kids scattered around the world). By providing young people with opportunities to work on projects, based on their passions, in collaboration with peers, in a playful spirit, we can help them prepare for a world where creative thinking is more important than ever before.

Title Sub.  

Scratch (Computer program language)

Subject  

Creative ability -- Study and teaching.

 Critical thinking -- Study and teaching.

 Maker movement in education.

 Technology -- Study and teaching.

 LEGO Mindstorms toys.

41607

 

396.3 MED

 Mediating moms : mothers in popular culture

Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, [2012]

 Contents

 Introduction: Popular culture’s maternal embrace / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Mommy nearest: TV for preschoolers and the search for the good enough (working) mother / Stephanie Wardrop -- "Won’t somebody think of the children?": The nineties subversion of the animated mother / Jo Johnson -- Real(ity) TV practices of surveillance: evaluating mothers in Supernanny and Crash test mommy / Fiona Joy Green -- "The bump is back": celebrity moms, entertainment journalism, and the "media mother police" / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Are you a politician or a mother? / Jennifer Bell -- Motherhood, murder, and the media: Joanne Hayes and the Kerry babies case / Nicola Goc -- "Shit and string beans," boredom and babies: bad mothers in popular women’s fiction since 1968 / Imelda Whelehan -- Mothering across generations: L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables at 100 / Irene Gammel -- "You have to take it and own it": Yo’ Mama magazine as a space of refusal for teenage mothers / Beth O’Connor -- Mediating risky motherhood: a discursive analysis of offline and online responses to the oldest British mother-to-be / Maud Perrier -- And now, the breast of the story: realistic portrayals of breastfeeding in contemporary television / Kathryn Pallister -- Watch them suffer, watch them die: depictions of African mothers and motherhood in famine footage and in Fernando Meirelles’s The constant gardener / H. Louise Davis -- The reality of TV labour: Birth stories / Dominique Russell -- Mothering in the middle and self-care: just one more thing to do / Debra Langan -- S/Kin of virtual mothers: loss and mourning on a Korean birthmothers’ website / Hosu Kim -- Fostering the passive maternal experience: language and prescription in the What to expect series of maternity literature / Sally Mennill -- Motherhood, prime-time TV, and Grey’s anatomy / Latham Hunter --

 Tom vs. Brooke: or postpartum depression as bad mothering in popular culture / Jocelyn Fenton Stitt--Other mothers: looking at the matemal desire in the I world / Lenora Perry-Jamaniego -- Coming to terms: ethics, motherhood, and the cultural science fiction of the gene / Stuart J. Murray

Abstract  

A collection of essays showcasing intersections of mothering, the media and popular culture

 In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an enormous amount of attention on mothers. Through feminist, psychoanalytic, sociological, literary, and cultural studies perspectives, the twenty chapters in this book examine an array of current and relevant contemporary topics related to maternal identities such as working, stay-at-home, ambivalent, absent, good, bad, single, teen, elder, celebrity, and lesbian mothers; and issues such as the mommy wars, self-care, pregnancy, abortion, contraception, infanticide, adoption, sex and sexuality, breastfeeding, post-partum depression, fertility, genetics, and reproductive technologies. Contributors from Canada, the United States, Britain, and Australia engage critically and theoretically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture media, and chart some of the provocative and liberating ways that we can use and interpret this media to encourage and promote alternative and transformative maternal readings, identities, and practices. Mediating Moms looks at mothers as imaged by and in the media; how mothers mediate or negotiate these images according to their historical, corporeal, and lived personhoods; and how scholars mediate the popular and academic discourses of motherhood as a way of registering, strengthening, and alleviating the tensions between representation and reality. Mediating Moms engages critically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture, while mapping some of the provocative and liberating ways that mothers can use the media to transform and reaffirm their identities. Contributors include Jennifer Bell (Alberta), H. Louise Davis (Miami), Irene Gammel (Ryerson), Nicola Goc (Tasmania), Fiona Joy Green (Winnipeg), Latham Hunter (Mohawk), Joanne Ella Johnson, Hosu Kim (Staten Island), Beth O’Connor (Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing), Debra Langan (Wilfrid

 Engaging critically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture, Mediating Moms maps some of the provocative and liberating ways mothers can use the media to transform and reaffirm their identities.

Subject  

Motherhood in popular culture

Motherhood -- Social aspects

41610

 

 

 658.152 DIX

 Avinash K. Dixit and Robert S. Pindyck.

 Investment under uncertainty

 Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1994.

 Contents  

1. A New View of Investment -- 2. Developing the Concepts Through Simple Examples -- 3. Stochastic Processes and Ito’s Lemma -- 4. Dynamic Optimization under Uncertainty -- 5. Investment Opportunities and Investment Timing -- 6. The Value of a Project and the Decision to Invest -- 7. Entry, Exit, Lay-Up, and Scrapping -- 8. Dynamic Equilibrium in a Competitive Industry -- 9. Policy Intervention and Imperfect Competition -- 10. Sequential Investment -- 11. Incremental Investment and Capacity Choice -- 12. Applications and Empirical Research.

Abstract

 How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products? Why have traditional economic models of investment failed to explain the behavior of investment spending in the United States and other countries? In this book, Avinash Dixit and Robert Pindyck provide the first detailed exposition of a new theoretical approach to the capital investment decisions of firms, stressing the irreversibility of most investment decisions, and the ongoing uncertainty of the economic environment in which these decisions are made. In so doing, they answer important questions about investment decisions and the behavior of investment spending. This new approach to investment recognizes the option value of waiting for better (but never complete) information. It exploits an analogy with the theory of options in financial markets, which permits a much richer dynamic framework than was possible with the traditional theory of investment. The authors present the new theory in a clear and systematic way, and consolidate, synthesize, and extend the various strands of research that have come out of the theory. Their book shows the importance of the theory for understanding investment behavior of firms; develops the implications of this theory for industry dynamics and for government policy concerning investment; and shows how the theory can be applied to specific industries and to a wide variety of business problems.

Subject  

Capital investments -- Decision making.

41649

 

 

 681.3.015 BRA

 Bratton, Benjamin

The stack : on software and sovereignty

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2015

 Contents

 The models. Introduction ; The nomos of the cloud ; Platform and stack, model and machine -- The layers. Earth layer ; Cloud layer ; City layer ; Address layer ; Interface layer ; User layer -- The projects. The stack to come ; The black stack.

Abstract  

What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales -- from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self -- quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image? In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton proposes that these different genres of computation -- smart grids, cloud platforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things, automation -- can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new governing architecture. We are inside The Stack and it is inside of us. In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User. Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling -- not only computational forms but also social, human, and physical forces. This model, informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol "stacks," in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order, offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention. The Stack is an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation. Interweaving the continental, urban, and perceptual scales, it shows how we can better build, dwell within, communicate with, and govern our worlds.

Subject  

Ubiquitous computing

 Computer software -- Human factors.

 Computer software -- Social aspects.

 Computer software -- Political aspects.

41605

 

 

 681.3.015 DES

 Designing connected products : UX for the consumer Internet of things

Beijing : O’Reilly, 2015.

Contents  

1. What’s different about user experience design for the Internet of things? -- 2. Things: the technology of connected devices -- 3. Networks: the technology of connectivity -- 4. Product/service definition and strategy -- 5. Understanding people and context -- 6. Translating research into product definitions -- 7. Embedded device design -- 8. Interface and interaction design -- 9. Cross-device interactions and interusability -- 10. Interoperability -- 11. Responsible IoT design -- 12. Supporting key interactions -- 13. Designing with data -- 14. Iterative design: prototyping and learning -- 15. Designing complex, interconnected products and services.

Abstract  

Networked thermostats, fitness monitors, and door locks show that the Internet of Things can (and will) enable new ways for people to interact with the world around them. But designing connected products for consumers brings new challenges beyond conventional software UI and interaction design. This book provides experienced UX designers and technologists with a clear and practical roadmap for approaching consumer product strategy and design in this novel market. By drawing on the best of current design practice and academic research, Designing Connected Products delivers sound advice for working with cross-device interactions and the complex ecosystems inherent in IoT technology.

Subject  

User interfaces (Computer systems)

 User-centered system design

 Ubiquitous computing

 Internet of things

 Human-computer interaction

41634

 

 

 681.3.015 DES

 Designing for emerging technologies : UX for genomics, robotics, and the Internet of things

Beijing : O’Reilly, 2015.

Contents  

Designing for emerging technologies / Jonathan Follett -- Intelligent materials: designing material behavior / Brook Kennedy -- Taking control of gesture interaction / Gershom Kutliroff, Yaron Yanai -- Fashion with function: designing wearables / Michal Levin -- Learning and thinking with things / Stephen P. Anderson -- Designing for collaborative robotics / Jeff Faneuff -- Design takes on new dimensions: evolving visualization approaches for neuroscience and cosmology / Hunter Whitney -- Embeddables: the next evolution of wearable tech / Andy Goodman -- Prototyping interactive objects / Scott Sullivan -- Emerging technology and toy design / Barry Kudrowitz -- Musical instrument design / Camille Goudeseune -- Design for life / Juhan Sonin.

 Architecture as interface: advocating a hybrid design approach for interconnected environments / Erin Rae Hoffer -- Design for the networked world: a practice for the twenty-first century / Matt Nish-Lapidus -- New responsibilities of the design discipline: a critical counterweight to the coming technologies? / Martin Charlier -- Designing human-robot relationships / Bill Hartman -- Tales from the crick: experiences and services when design fiction meets synthetic biology / Marco Righetto, Andy Goodman -- Beyond 3D printing: the new dimensions off additive fabrication / Steven Keating -- Becoming an expert at becoming an expert / Lisa deBettencourt -- The changing role of design / Dirk Knemeyer -- Appendix: Companies, products and links.

Abstract  

The recent digital and mobile revolutions are a minor blip compared to the next wave of technological change, as everything from robot swarms to skin-top embeddable computers and bio printable organs start appearing in coming years. In this collection of inspiring essays, designers, engineers, and researchers discuss their approaches to experience design for groundbreaking technologies. Design not only provides the framework for how technology works and how it’s used, but also places it in a broader context that includes the total ecosystem with which it interacts and the possibility of unintended consequences. If you’re a UX designer or engineer open to complexity and dissonant ideas, this book is a revelation.

Subject  

Human-computer interaction

 User interfaces (Computer systems)

 User-centered system design

 Technological innovations

41633

 

 

 681.3.06:510.5 ROU

 Roughgarden, Tim 

 Algorithms illuminated : part 1: the basics

San Francisco : Soundlikeyourself Publishing, 2017.

 Abstract

 Algorithms are the heart and soul of computer science. Their applications range from network routing and computational genomics to public-key cryptography and machine learning. Studying algorithms can make you a better programmer, a clearer thinker, and a master of technical interviews. Algorithms Illuminated is an accessible introduction to the subject for anyone with at least a little programming experience. The exposition emphasizes the big picture and conceptual understanding over low-level implementation and mathematical details---like a transcript of what an expert algorithms tutor would say over a series of one-on-one lessons. Part 1 covers asymptotic analysis and big-O notation, divide-and-conquer algorithms and the master method, randomized algorithms, and several famous algorithms for sorting and selection.

Subject  

Computer algorithms

 Computer programming

41653

 

 

7.017.4 BAT

Baty, Patrick 

The anatomy of colour : the story of heritage paints and pigments

London : Thames & Hudson, 2017.

 Contents

 Paints, pigments and interiors, 1650-1830. Traditional paints; Traditional pigments ; The house-painter and the colourman ; The use of colour in interiors, 1700-1830 -- Paints, colour systems and interiors, 1830-1900. The introduction of colour systems ; The use of colour in interiors, 1830-1900 -- Paints, colour standards, and interiors, 1900-1945. The development of paints and pigments ; Colour systems and standards, 1900-1945 ; The use of colour in 1930s decoration -- Paints, colour standards and interiors, 1945-1960. Colour standards, 1945-1960 ; The use of colour in 1950s decoration.

Abstract  

Why were primary colors popular in postwar kitchens? Why did the Art Deco era prefer clean lines and pastel shades? This comprehensive illustrated history of the use of color and paint in interior decoration answers these questions and many more. Drawing on his huge specialist archive, historian and paint expert Patrick Baty traces the evolution of pigments and paint colors together with color systems and standards, and he examines their impact on the color palettes used in interiors from the 1650s to the 1960s. He charts the creation in paint of the common and expensive colors made from traditional earth pigments between 1650 and 1799. He then explores the emergence of color systems and standards and their influence on paint colors together with the effect of industrialized production on the texture and durability of paints. Finally, Baty turns his attention to twentieth-century color standards. Woven throughout the authoritative and revealing text are specially commissioned photographs of pages from rare color reference books.

Subject  

Colors -- History.

 Color in art

 Color in interior decoration

 Color in design

 Paint -- History

 Pigments -- History

 Interior decoration -- History.

41625‫ ‪

 

 7.036.9 AIW

  Ai, Weiwei

 Ai Weiwei

Koln : Taschen, [2016]

Abstract  

This book offers a definitive Ai Weiwei monograph, exploring each of his career phases in equal detail and depth. It features extensive visual material to trace Ai’s development from his early New York days right through to his most recent practice. Focus moments include his international breakthrough in the early 2000s, his porcelain Sunflower Seeds at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, his response to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and his police detention in 2011. With images including behind-the-scenes studio pictures and production shots and numerous statements derived from exclusive interviews with Ai, we gain privileged access to the artist’s process, influences, and importance.

 As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity almost as much as for his social interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai’s fame extends throughout and beyond the art world. Drawn from TASCHEN’s limited Collector’s Edition, this monograph explores each of Ai’s career phases up until his release from Chinese custody. It features extensive visual material to trace Ai’s development from his early New York days right through to his recent practice. Focus moments include his international breakthrough in the early 2000s, his porcelain Sunflower Seeds at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, his response to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and his police detention in 2011. With behind-the-scenes studio pictures, production shots, and numerous statements derived from exclusive interviews with Ai, we gain privileged access to the artist’s process, influences, and importance. The book includes texts from Uli Sigg, Ai’s longtime friend and former Swiss ambassador to China; Roger M. Buergel, who curated the 2007 documenta and hosted the artist’s Fairytale piece; and experts on Chinese culture and politics: Carlos Rojas, William A. Callahan, and James J. Lally.

Per.Sub.  

Ai, Weiwei 1957-

Subject  

Installations (Art)

 Site-specific installations (Art)

 Artists -- China -- 20th century.

 Artists -- China -- 21st century.

 Conceptual art

 Portrait photography

 Street photography

 Photography

 Art, Modern

 Furniture

 Architecture

 Ceramics

 Pottery

41645

 

 

 7.036.9 SHO

 Shonibare, Yinka 

Yinka Shonibare MBE / Revised and expanded edition

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, 2014.

 Contents  

Time and Transformation in the Art of Yinka Shonibare MBE / Rachel Kent -- Yinka Shonibare MBE : The Politics of Representation / Robert Hobbs -- Setting the Stage / Yinka Shonibare MBE in Conversation with Anthony Downey.

Abstract

 Newly revised and updated, this authoritative book presents the exciting, ironic, and often subversive work of Yinka Shonibare MBE, one of the stars of the international art scene. Born in London and raised in Nigeria, Shonibare employs a diverse range of media—from sculpture, painting, and installation to photography and film—to probe matters of race, class, cultural identity, and history. He is perhaps best known for his signature use of a colorful "African" batik fabric that actually originated in Indonesia and was introduced to Africa in the19th century by British and Dutch colonizers. Incorporated into Victorian costumes, covering sculptures of extraterrestrials, or stretched like canvas for paintings, these vibrant textiles cleverly challenge issues of origin and authenticity. This book—the most comprehensive resource available on Shonibare—presents the best work of the London-based artist’s career, including his high-profile project for the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square and other innovative public sculptures. Whether lampooning Victorian propriety or commenting on what it means to be an "alien," Shonibare makes art that challenges straightforward interpretations.

Per.Sub.  

Shonibare, Yinka 1962

Subject

 Installations (Art)

 Costume in art

 Textile fabrics in art

 Artists -- 20th century.

 Artists -- 21st century.

 Art -- 20th century.

 Art -- 21st century.

41646

 

 

‫ ‪7.036.9(569.4) יוב ‬

 ‫ שאול, יובל 1961- אמן ‬

יובל שאול : אלימות וחמלה

ירושלים : קרן עופר לוין לאמנות ישראלית, 2018 ‬

 Contents  ‫

מבוא.-- יובל שאול: אלימות וחמלה.-- מעשה ביונקים.--יערות סחף, יערות קטל.-- דפוסי פעולה של הישרדות.--התשוקה האלימה.-- יובל שאול - כנגד כח הכובד.-- רשימת עבודות ‬

Per.Sub.  

Shaul, Yuval 1961-

Subject  

Artists -- Israel -- 20th century.

 Artists -- Israel -- 21st century.

 Art, Israeli -- 20th century

 Art, Israeli -- 21st century

 Art, Modern -- Israel -- 20th century.

 Art, Modern -- Israel -- 21st century.

 Violence in art

40915

 

 7.05:641.5 GIB

 Giblin, James Cross 

 From hand to mouth : or, How we invented knives, forks, spoons, and chopsticks, & the table manners to go with them

[New York] : Harper Collins Publishers, [1987]

 Contents

 Flint knives and fingers -- Ancient spoons and knives -- Don’t put your whole hand in the pot! -- The quick little fellows -- The fork comes to the table -- The rise and fall of table manners -- Forks in Tokyo, chopsticks in Chicago

Abstract

 ‘The history of eating utensils and customs from the ancient world to the present. Beginning with the use of small spears to pick meat out of the fire, Giblin follows the development of utensils through the controversial introduction of forks and the casual eating practices of today. Well-organized and spryly written.’

Subject  

Eating customs -- History

 Flatware -- History.

 Table etiquette -- History

 Dinners and dining -- History

 Silverware

41555

 

 

 7.05-051(73) NEL

 Nelson, George 

George Nelson : architect, writer, designer, teacher

Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Stiftung, 2008.

 Contents

 Introduction -- Nelson in print / Stanley Abercrombie -- Planning with you : George Nelson as an architect of the home / Jochen Eisenbrand -- Bringing home a revolution : the domestic furniture of the George Nelson office / Michael Darling -- More than just packaging : graphic design in the Nelson office / Jochen Eisenbrand -- Consumer products for a Kleenex culture: home accessories by George Nelson / Barbara Fitton Hauss -- Function and emotion : concepts for the modern office / Mathias Remmele -- Visual education and lessons in networked thinking / Jochen Eisenbrand -- The American national exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Jochen Eisenbrand -- List of works -- Members of the Nelson office -- Biography -- Bibliography -- Photography credits -- Index.

Abstract  

The year 2008 marks the 100th birthday of George Nelson (1908 – 1986), one of the most influential figures in American design during the second half of the twentieth century. Nelson, who earned an architectural degree from Yale, was not only a leading designer and notable architect, but also a prominent author, editor, lecturer, exhibition designer and a passionate photographer. As Design Director at the Herman Miller Furniture Company, Nelson played a key role in developing the products and public image of the firm over a period of more than two decades – a pioneering achievement in the field of corporate design. Many modern furniture classics and exemplary interior designs emerged from this collaboration. Nelson also contributed important ideas to the topic of domestic living with new concepts for home building and interior furnishing. His innovative ideas about the work environment played an equally significant role in the development of the modern office landscape. In addition to these achievements, Nelson was recognized throughout his life as a discriminating editor and brilliant author, publishing a dozen books and more than 100 articles and essays on design topics. The exhibition catalogue accompanies the first comprehensive retrospective of George Nelson’s work. With eight essays by German and American design historians, the publication deals with all of the areas in Nelson’s oeuvre, many of which are presented here for the first time. The catalogue also includes an illustrated list of works. The majority of illustrations, previously unpublished, come from the Nelson Estate in the Vitra Design Museum Archive

Per.Sub.  

Nelson, George 1908-1986

Subject  

Designers -- United States -- 20th century.

 Furniture designers -- United States -- 20th century

 Design -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Furniture design -- 20th century

41627

 

  

 7.05:641.5 DAL

 Dalí, Salvador (Salvador Felipe Jacinto) 

 Les dîners de Gala = [Gala’s dinners]

 Koln : Taschen, [2016]

 Contents  

Les caprices pinces princiers : exotic dishes -- Les cannibalismes de l’automne : eggs -- seafood -- Les supremes de malaises lilliputiens : first course -- Les entre-plats sodomises : meats -- Les spoutniks astiques d’asticots statistiques : snails -- frogs -- Les panaches panaches : fish -- shellfish -- Les chairs monarchiques : game -- poultry -- Les montres molles 1/2 sommeil : pork -- L’atavisme désoxyribonucleique : vegetables -- Les "je mange GALA" : aphrodisiacs -- Les pios nonoches : sweets -- desserts -- Les delices petits martyrs : hors-d’œuvre

Abstract  

“Les dîners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste … If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too impertinent for you.”—Salvador Dalí Food and surrealism make perfect bedfellows: Sex and lobsters, collage and cannibalism, the meeting of a swan and a toothbrush on a pastry case. The opulent dinner parties thrown by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) and his wife and muse, Gala (1894–1982) were the stuff of legend. Luckily for us, Dalí published a cookbook in 1973, Les diners de Gala, which reveals some of the sensual, imaginative, and exotic elements that made up their notorious gatherings. This reprint features all 136 recipes over 12 chapters, specially illustrated by Dalí, and organized by meal courses, including aphrodisiacs. The illustrations and recipes are accompanied by Dalí’s extravagant musings on subjects such as dinner conversation: “The jaw is our best tool to grasp philosophical knowledge.” All these rich recipes can be cooked at home, although some will require practiced skill and a well-stocked pantry. This is cuisine of the old school, with meals by leading French chefs from such stellar Paris restaurants as Lasserre, La Tour d’Argent, Maxim’s, and Le Train Bleu. Good taste, however voluptuous, never goes out of fashion. In making this exceptionally rare book available to a wide audience, TASCHEN brings an artwork, a practical cookbook, and a multisensory adventure to today’s kitchens.

Subject  

International cooking

Cooking, French

 Menus

 Food in art -- Pictorial works

 Cookbooks

41643
 

 

  

 7.05(416) GRA (GOF)

 Gray, Eileen

 Eileen Gray : her work and her world

Sallins, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, [2015].

 Contents  

From Ireland to Paris -- A Moveable Feast: Stephen Haweis, Students and Paris -- The Artist: Painting, Sculpture, Photography -- The Realm of Lacquer -- Knotting and Weaving: Eileen Gray’s Carpet Design -- Engaging the Senses: Eileen Gray and Furniture -- ’A House is not a Machine’: Eileen Gray’s Domestic Architecture -- Stories from Dominica and Beyond: Gray, Haweis and the Collage at E.1027 -- A Tale of Two Houses: Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier -- For the People: Social and Cultural Architecture -- A Kindred Spirit: The Prunella Clough Letters -- Longing for Home: Ireland and Her Later Years

Abstract

 Eileen Gray - the renowned and highly influential architect, furniture-maker, interior designer, and photographer - was born in Ireland and remained, throughout her life, an Irishwoman at heart. An elusive figure, Gray’s interior world has never before been observed as closely as in this ground-breaking study of her work, philosophy, and inner circle of fellow artists. The book expertly blends art history and biography to create a stunning ensemble, offering a clear beacon of light into truly understanding Eileen Gray - the woman and the professional. Gray was a self-taught polymath and her work was multi-functional, user-friendly, and ready for mass production, yet succinctly unique. As one of the most influential designers of the 20th century, her designs reveal great technical virtuosity. Her expertise in lacquer work and carpet design, often overlooked, are given due attention here, as is her fascinating relationship with the architect Le Corbusier and many other compelling and complex relationships. The book also offers rare insights into Gray’s early years as an artist. The primary source material for this book is drawn from the Eileen Gray collection at the National Museum of Ireland and its wealth of documentation, correspondence, personal archives, photographs, and oral history. The book is an essential tie-in with the soon-to-be-released motion picture ’The Price of Desire’ by Mary McGuckian, as well as the documentary film ’Gray Matters’ by Marco Orsini. *** "’Eileen Gray’ is an entertaining and revealing book that should at long last paint the brilliant designer out of the margins and into the limelight where she so clearly belongs." -- Architectural Digest, January 2015 *** "This stirring biography of Eileen Gray recounts the days of her life and her creative genius that were largely overlooked by the art and architecture world for a half century. Illustrations and images tell her story as an artist, ar

Per.Sub.  

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976

Subject

 Designers -- Ireland.

 Designers -- France.

 Furniture designers -- Ireland -- Biography

 Furniture designers -- France -- Biography

 Women architects -- Ireland -- Biography.

 Women architects -- France -- Biography.

 Architects -- Ireland.

 Architects -- France.

41594

 

   

 

 7.074.2 TEL

 Tel Aviv Museum of Art visits Berlin : modern and contemporary art

 Munich ; Prestel, [2015]

 Abstract  

This fully illustrated book is published in conjunction with an exhibition of works from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art held at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel. The publication features 72 works selected from three departments at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Modern Art, Prints and Drawings, and Israeli Art. The focus lies on modern classics by artists such as Alexander Archipenko, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Erich Heckel, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Ludwig Meidner, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Egon Schiele, and Lesser Ury, which are supplemented by video works and installations by up-and-coming Israeli artists such as Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Nevet Yitzhak, Nira Pereg, and Michal Helfman, who address personal, social and political topics. This juxtaposition creates a unique and stimulating dialogue, reveals intriguing relationships and allows for a new reading of the works. Offering a broad view of its multifaceted collection, the book also details the history of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, from its beginnings in a modest residential home in 1932 to its impressive latest building addition in 2011, and allows a peek into the development of its collection, from its first works to the most recent acquisitions

Corp.Sub.  

Muze’on Tel Aviv le-omanut

Muze’on Tel Aviv le-omanut

Subject  

Art museums -- Israel -- Tel-Aviv.

 Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

 Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.

 Art museums -- Germany -- Berlin.

 Art -- Germany -- Berlin -- Exhibitions.

 Collectors and collecting

 Tel Aviv (Israel) -- Museums

41665

 

   

‫ ‪721.05(569.4) פוב (אלח) ‬

‫ פובזנר, שמעון 1919-1999 אדריכל ‬

שמעון פובזנר, אדריכל /

 ‫ תל-אביב : הוצאת דביר, 2018. ‬

 ‬

Per.Sub.  

Powsner, Shimon 1919-1999

Subject  

Architects -- Israel -- 20th century.

 Architecture, Modern -- Israel -- 20th century

 Architecture -- Israel -- 20th century.

 Drawing -- Israel -- 20th century.

41628

 

   

 

745:687.01(45) GUC

 Gucci, Maurizio 

Gucci : the making of

New York : Rizzoli, 2011.

 Contents  

1921 -- Guccio Gucci -- Florence -- Heritage -- Made in Italy -- Frida Giannini -- PPR -- CEOs -- Tom Ford -- Trademark -- Liftboy -- Crest -- Pattern -- Flora -- Diamante canvas -- Leather -- La pelle guccissima -- Horsebit -- Loafer -- Green-red-green -- Travel -- Hobo bag -- Baiadera -- Bamboo -- Jackie bag -- Preppy -- Lifestyle -- Equitation -- First ladies -- Made to measure -- Models -- Advertising campaigns -- Celebrities -- Première -- Paparazzi -- Playboy -- Film -- Music -- Perfume -- Automobiles -- Aquariva by Gucci -- Gold -- Stores -- Social networks -- Historical archive -- Forever now -- UNICEF -- 2011.

Abstract

 This text showcases Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs.

Per.Sub.  

Gucci, Maurizio 1948-1995.

Corp.Sub.

Gucci (Firm) -- History.

Subject  

Fashion design -- Italy -- History.

 Fashion designers -- Italy -- History.

 Fashion

41436

  

747(44) DIR

 Dirand, Adrien 

 Joseph Dirand : interior

 New York ; Paris ; London ; Milan : Rizzoli, 2017.

Abstract  

The first monograph on one of today’s most celebrated architects, renowned for designing interiors that combine minimalism with classic French style. When describing a space that intertwines both minimalism and elegance, the name Joseph Dirand immediately comes to mind. The son of Jacques Dirand, one of the most renowned interior photographers of his time, Joseph Dirand is now one of the most sought-after architects. By incorporating a quintessentially French style into otherwise minimalist interiors, Dirand creates instantly recognizable spaces, known for their strong lines and meticulous precision. This book focuses primarily on Dirand’s residential interior design work in Paris and New York, while also featuring some of his acclaimed designs for the interiors of hotels, restaurants, and fashion houses worldwide. Lavishly illustrated with photography that captures the timelessness of his style, which touts impeccable proportions and breathtaking attention to detail, Joseph Dirand: Interior is a feast for the eyes and essential for anyone with an interest in interior design.

Per.Sub.  

Dirand, Joseph. 1974-

Subject  

Interior architecture -- France.

 Interior architecture -- Pictorial works.

 Interior decoration -- France.

 Interior decorators -- 20th century

 Furniture design

 Furniture designers

 Minimal art

41392

 

 749.1(82) CAM

 Campana, Fernando 

Antibodies : Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989-2009

Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, 2009.

 Contents  

Antibodies : the works of Fernando and Humberto Campana 1989-2009 = Antikõrper von Fernando und Humberto Campana 1989-2009 / Mathias Schwartz-Clauss -- Design under the signs of chaos and order : the Campana brothers and their collaboration with Edra = Design im Zeichen von Chaos und Ordnung = Die Brüder Campana und ihre Zusammenarbeit mit Edra / Massimo Morozzi -- Intuition for guidance, hands as tools : Die Intuition als Wegweiser, die Hãnde als Instrumente / Maria Helena Estrada -- Popular culture in contemporary Brazil = Populã̈rkultur im heutigen Brasilien / Adélia Borges.

Abstract  

The large-format exhibition catalogue contains illustrated articles by international authors: Maria Helena Estrada, design critic and publisher in Sao Paulo, writes a biographical essay on the Campana brothers. Mathias Schwartz-Clauss provides an interpretation of their work of the past 20 years, Massimo Morozzi, artistic director of Edra, offers an account of the Campanas’ collaboration with his company. Adelia Borges, writer, curator and teacher in the field of design, describes current-day popular culture in Brazil. Finally, Fernando and Humberto Campana contribute nine collages that play with the images of each group’s exhibits. The catalogue’s third section groups all exhibits according to the exhibition’s concept, reproducing them in full colour and providing technical details as well as extended captions.

Per.Sub.  

Campana, Fernando 1961- -- Exhibitions.

 Campana, Humberto 1953- -- Exhibitions.

Subject  

Furniture design -- Brazil -- History -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.

 Furniture designers -- Brazil -- 21st century

41626

 

   

‫ ‪75.036(569.4) בלו (עפר) ‬
‫ בלום, לודוויג 1891-1974 אמן ‬

 לודוויג בלום : תש"ח

ירושלים : הוצאת קרן לוין לאמנות, 2018 ‬

 Contents  ‫

פתח.--הביתה.-- המאייסטר.-- חייו ואמנותו של לודוויג בלום.-- הזמני והאל-זמני.-- ירושלים של בלום.--ציורי תש"ח של בלום.- דיוקן הלוחמים.--נופי מלחמה.-- תחייתו של לודוויג בלום. ‬

Per.Sub.  

Blum, Ludwig 1891-1974

 ‫ בלום, לודוויג 1891-1974, ‬

Subject

 Painters -- Israel -- 20th century.

 Soldiers in art

 Jerusalem in art

 Art, Israeli -- 20th century

 Art, Modern -- Israel -- 20th century.

41765

 

   

 

76.026 WHE

 Wheildon, Colin 

Type & layout : how typography and design can get your message across-or get in the way

Berkeley, California : Strathmoor Press, 1995.

 Contents

 Foreword / David Ogilvy -- Introduction: What This Book Can Do for You -- 1. Why This Study Matters -- 2. A Beautifully Painted Square Wheel -- 3. The Perils of Ignoring Gravity -- 4. Serif versus Sans Serif Body Type -- 5. Headline Type -- 6. Any Color as Long as It’s Black -- 7. Is Italic Body Type as Black as It’s Painted? -- 8. Ragged Right or Left, or Justified -- 9. The Big Squeeze -- 10. Out, Damned Spot! -- 11. Widows, Jumps, and Bastard Measure -- 12. Why They Don’t Read Your Inserts -- 13. Conclusions -- 14. Eight Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Ad -- 15. How to Drive Away Your Readers -- Afterword: The Voice of Print -- Appendix 1: The Research Program -- About the Typography in This Book

Abstract

 "A surprising and useful book full of information and indispensable to anyone involved in communicating ideas through typographic means".--Milton Glaser, president, Milton Glaser, Inc". TYPE & LAYOUT should be required reading before students are allowed to touch a computer"--Subject  

Layout (Printing)

 Graphic design (Typography)

 Graphic arts

41587

 

 

 

   
   

  

 766:655.26 ROG

Stefan Rogener, Albert-Jan Pool, Ursula Packhauser

Branding with type

 Mountain View, California : Adobe Press, [1995]

 Contents  

Preface: Looking for the right type -- Branding with type: More success with the "secret weapon" type -- How to identify type: The art of type classification -- How type works: Typeface profiles -- Different countries, different styles: Quotation marks and the "little difference" -- How to find the right typeface: Criteria for choosing a typeface -- Put the pedal to the metal: International car advertising -- Advertising monotony: Ads in Stern and Spiegel 1992-1994 -- Fresh typefaces: New typefaces -- American quartet: The four most popular typefaces in the United States -- Capitals and small caps: Why you can’t capitalize on unreal small caps -- Pears into apples ... : How type copiers makes Apple stronger -- Mask of the cosmetic industry: Optima -- the optima(l) typeface? -- Five letters conquer the world: Nivea -- the elite of brand typography -- The real and the fake: Diamond campaign under the glass -- More than blue smoke: Peter Stuyvesant -- a brand through changing times -- Are you type conscious?: Test it now! -- If you want to get what you see ... : How to order typefaces correctly -- Do not pirate, do not copy, do not imitate: Ten commandments for digital type users

Abstract

 This book will help graphic designers and business managers understand how to brand their company, products, and corporate identity by using typography. -- Includes examples of actual magazine advertising pages -- Explains the role type plays in sales, marketing, and advertising -- Produced by well-known and highly respected Adobe Press

Subject  

Advertising layout and typography

 Advertising

 Advertising -- Marketing.

 Type and type-founding

 Branding (Marketing)

41576

 

 

 766:655.3.066.12(73) BAR

 Kevin G. Barnhurst, John Nerone. 

 The form of news : a history

New York : Guilford Press, 2002.

 Contents  

The form of news: style, production, and social meaning -- Part I. Before modernism: symbols of citizens. The founding forms: politics and the work of newspapers, 1750-1850 ; Commercialization: the newspaper and the market revolution, 1780s-1880s -- Part II: The role of pictures: playful commerce. Civic picturing: the regime of illustrated news, 1856-1901 ; The president is dead: pictures and journalistic values, 1881-1963 -- Part III: The rise of modernism: conveyor of facts. The front page: measuring modernisms and its phases, 1885-1985 ; Visual mapping: modern design and cultural authority, 1920-1940 -- Part IV: After modernism: icon of isolation. Beyond modernism: Americanization and its consequences, 1910-2000 ; Spectators and their spectacles: forms of knowledge, forms of power.

Abstract

 This book takes a fresh look at the role of the newspaper in United States civic culture. Unlike other histories which focus only on the content of newspapers, this book digs deeper into ways of writing, systems of organizing content, and genres of presentation, including typography and pictures. The authors examine how these elements have combined to give newspapers a distinctive look at every historical moment, from the colonial to the digital eras. They reveal how the changing "form of news" reflects such major social forces as the rise of mass politics, the industrial revolution, the growth of the market economy, the course of modernism, and the emergence of the Internet. Whether serving as town meeting, court of opinion, marketplace, social map, or catalog of diversions, news forms are also shown to embody cultural authority, allowing readers to see and relate to the world from a particular perspective. Including over 70 illustrations, the book explores such compelling themes as the role of news in a democratic society, the relationship between news and visual culture, and the ways newspapers have shaped the meaning of citizenship.

Subject  

American newspapers -- Social aspects.

 American newspapers -- History.

 Newspaper layout and typography -- United States.

 Electronic newspapers.

41591

 

   

766:655.53 ART

 Artists’ books : a critical anthology and sourcebook

Rochester, New York : Visual Studies Workshop

Contents  

Plates : a visual preface -- Book art / by Richard Kostelanetz -- The new art of making books / by Ulises Carrión -- The artist’s book goes public ; Conspicuous consumption : new artists’ books / by Lucy R. Lippard -- Words and images : artists’ books as visual literature / by Shelley Rice -- The page as alternative space : 1950 to 1969 / by Barbara Moore and Jon Hendricks -- Some contemporary artists and their books / by Clive Phillpot -- The book stripped bare / by Susi R. Bloch -- The artist as book printer : four short courses / by Betsy Davids and Jim Petrillo -- Independent publishing in Mexico / by Felipe Ehrenberg, Magali Lara, and Javier Cadena -- Photobookworks : the critical realist tradition / by Alex Sweetman -- Systemic books by artists / by Robert C. Morgan -- Artists’ books collections

Abstract  

This anthology is the first in-depth look at artists’ bookworks. A series of essays, written by longtime participants in and observers of the field, address the following questions: what are the origins, attributes, and what is the potential of artsists’ books; what are their historical precedents; what issues are they addressing; who is making and publishing them? The essays are supplemented by extensive bibliographies and a list of collections

 Essays discuss the ways contemporary artists are using and redefining the book format and examine specific works

 "In addition to providing a much-needed resource for artists, teachers, and collectors, this book will form a bridge between book artists and their audience by providing ready access to information about a much discussed but little known art form" -- Book jacket flap.

Subject

Artists’ books

 Conceptual art

41569

 

 

 766:655.53 CAS

 Castleman, Riva 

 A century of artists books

New York : Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1994

 Abstract  

This splendid celebration of the illustrated book as an art form begins with remarkable works produced in France by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century, and traces the international development of the modern illustrated book to the last decade of the 20th century. Major artists of the modern movement, among them Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, turned to the "illumination" of poems, classical literature, and their own writings to make books that are now collectors’ objects, luxuriously produced. Such limited editions have continued to be produced alongside other types of artists’ books aimed at a much larger audience. The more available artists’ books have served a different purpose, often expressing aesthetic and political principles, in the hands of such artists as Kasimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Beuys, and Barbara Kruger. Accompanying texts consider the historical background, complex relationships between artists and book manufacturers, technical constraints, and recent changes.

Subject

 Artists’ books -- Exhibitions.

 Illustrated books -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions

41567

 

 

766:655.53 DRU

  Drucker, Johanna 

The century of artists’ books /  Second revised edition

New York City : Granary Books, 2004.

 Contents  

The artist’s book as idea and form -- Conceptualizing the book: precedents, poetics and philosophy -- Artists’ books & the early 20th-century avant-garde -- The artist’s book as a democratic multiple -- The artist’s book as a rare and/or auratic object -- The codex and its variations -- Self-reflexivity in book form -- The book as a visual form -- Books as verbal exploration -- The book as sequence: narrative and non-narrative -- The artist’s book as an agent of social change -- The book as conceptual space (performance and exhibition) -- The book as document -- Metaphor and form: the artist’s book in the 20th century.

Abstract  

"The Century of Artists’ Books is the first full-length study of the development of artists’ books as a twentieth century art-form. This work situates artists’ books within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts from Russian Futurism and Surrealism to Fluxus, Conceptual Art, to Postmodernism. Designed to raise critical and theoretical issues as well as provide a historical overview, this book explores more than two hundred individual books in relation to their structure, form, and conceptualization. Topics include the discussion of the poetics of the book, the book as a metaphor, the conceptual space of the book, and books as narrative and non-narrative sequences. Each chapter uses these specific issues to examine the works of well-known book artists and publishers. The book provides a foundation for future work in the history and critical interpretation of artists’ books, as well as offering a structure for teaching artists’ books to practitioners, collectors, and curators."--Jacket.

Subject  

Artists’ books -- History.

 Illustrated books -- History -- 20th century.

 Book design

 Art, Modern -- 20th century.

41566

 

 

766:655.53 MAS

 Masters : book arts : major works by leading artists

 New York : Lark Crafts, 2011.

 Contents  

The Masters. Julie Chen -- Claire Van Vliet -- Brian Dettmer -- Margaret Couch Cogswell -- Shanna Leino -- Susan King -- Barbara Tetenbaum -- Harry Reese and Sandra Liddell Reese -- Sarah Bryant -- Susan Goethel Campbell -- Bonnie Stahlecker -- Karen Kunc -- Peter Madden -- Wilber Schilling -- Hedi Kyle -- Ines von Ketelhodt and Peter Malutzki -- Adèle Outteridge -- Ian Boyden -- Timothy Ely -- Jody Alexander -- Macy Chadwick -- Ken Botnick -- Genie Shank -- Julie Leonard -- Andrea Dezsö -- Sarah Bodman -- Daniel Essig -- Karen Hanmer -- Keith Smith -- Barbara Mauriello -- Veronika Schäpers -- Daniela Deeg and Cynthia Lollis -- Lynne Avadenka -- Robin Price -- Elsi Vassdal Ellis -- Béatrice Coron -- Pati Scobey -- Daniel Kelm -- Laura Wait -- Julie Fremuth.

Abstract

 This collection in the popular Masters series, chosen and introduced by one of the world’s top curators, offers field-defining work from 43 master book artists. The selections demonstrate conceptual, aesthetic, and technical excellence, as well as incredible beauty. Brief comments from the artists about their work, careers, and philosophies accompany the stunning images of their most innovative and technically accomplished book art achievements.

Subject  

Artists’ books -- Themes, motives.

41571

 

 

766:655.53 SAL

Sandra Salamony, Peter and Donna Thomas.

1,000 artists’ books : exploring the book as art

Beverly, Massachusetts : Quarry Books, 2012.

 Contents  

Introduction -- Codex books -- Accordion and foldable books -- Single-sheet books -- Sculptural books -- Image directory -- Directory of artists -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors.

Abstract  

The book is a timeless art form, one that is as alive today as ever before, and artists continue to explore and explode the boundaries of what a book is and can be. In this beautiful collection, you will experience close-up various aspects of hand-crafted books: covers, bindings, scrolls, folded and origami structures and books made from found objects. You will find richly illustrated and calligraphed pages as well as books created from a variety of printed processes. Ingenuity and creativity abounds in this carefully curated collection of both historically important and modern works.

Subject  

Artists’ books.

 Books in art

41572

 

 

 766:655.53(73) BRI

  Bright, Betty 

No longer innocent : book art in America 1960-1980

New York City : Granary Books, 2005.

Contents  

Part 1: Books for the New Century -- 1. Europe’s Legacy -- The Fine Press Book -- The Deluxe Book -- The Bookwork -- Embodied Spaces -- Book Dissemblings -- The Readymade Book -- Part 2: The United States: Assimilation and Change -- 2. The Fine Press Book The Roycroft Press: Art and Business -- Between Britain and America -- A New American Fine Printer: Harry Duncan -- Fine Press Auguries: Leonard Baskin -- California’s "Small Renaissance" -- Printing as Spiritual Devotion: William Everson (Brother Antoninus) -- 3. The Deluxe Book Printmaking’s Changing Profile -- Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators -- An American Hybrid: The Allen Press -- 4. The Multiple Bookwork Making Offset’s Mark: Eugene Feldman -- Books for Our Time -- The Artist as Independent Publisher -- Photobookwork Precursors -- 5. The Sculptural Bookwork Cornell and Duchamp: Imagined Terrains -- Book as Assemblage -- Part 3: The 1960s: Ferment -- 6.: The Fine Press Book The Janus Press: A New Demeanor for Fine Printing -- Book Art as an Alternative Lifestyle -- Fine Printing on Campus -- California’s Print Activists -- Chapter Seven: The Deluxe Book -- Shades -- Stamped Indelibly: Independent Deluxe Books -- Richard Tuttle’s Books of "Obstinate Humility" -- Europe in America -- 8. The Multiple Bookwork -- Something Else in Independent Publishing -- Media Versus Aura: McLuhan and Benjamin -- Ed Ruscha’s "Mimesis of Amateurism" -- The Dematerialized Book -- 9. The Sculptural Bookwork -- The Captive Book: The Book as Box -- The Appropriated Book -- Additions and Subtractions -- Performance and Installation Bookworks -- Part 4: The 1970s: Explosion -- Chapter Ten: The Fine Press Book Out of the Cradle -- Fine Press Gatherings: Exhibitions and Conferences -- Women at the Press -- Crossover: The Center for Book Arts -- The Pluralistic Book -- The Ups and Downs of the Ordinary Book -- "Your Money or Your Life" -- 11. The Deluxe Book -- In and Outside

 Collecting: The Book as Art -- Criticism: The Book Stripped Bare -- 12. The Multiple Bookwork -- No Longer Innocent: International Influence -- Collecting the Anti-Collectible Book -- Private Collecting: Peter Frank and the Sackners -- To Have and to Hold: Printed Matter and Franklin Furnace -- Conversation as Content: Hompson and Applebroog -- Photography’s Face for the Multiple Bookwork -- Picturing the Visual Studies -- Workshop Press -- The Copier as Printmaker -- Alter-Aesthetics -- 13. Building Community Building a Network -- Artists’ Books Personalize the Political -- Show and Tell: Exhibition and Reception -- 14. The Sculptural Bookwork -- 15. The Next Chapter -- Conclusion

Abstract  

This important history of the artist’s book, a flourishing form which over the years has often been greeted with confusion by critics, collectors, historians and artists, aims to spell out its role in contemporary art and to claim for it a vital and heretofore unacknowledged status since the blossoming of the artform in the 1970s. Renowned scholar and curator Betty Bright takes an inclusive view of the varied field in order to redress its marginalization, identifying three distinct types: the fine press book, the deluxe book, and the bookwork. She covers crucial supporters of the form, like New York’s Center for Book Arts, Franklin Furnace, and the Visual Studies Workshop Press in Rochester, New York, as well as key organizations and figures in Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Bright examines how artist’s books have responded to specific movements, such as Pop, Fluxus and Conceptualism, and how the book arts’ own mini-art world of the 1970s was shaped by seminal exhibitions, fledgling nonprofit organizations and collectors.

Subject  

Fine books -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Private press books -- United States.

 Artists’ books -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

41568

 

 

 766:655.53(73) WAS

 Wasserman, Krystyna

The book as art : artists’ books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts / Second edition

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.

 Contents

 Foreword / Susan Fisher Sterling -- Acknowledgments / Krystyna Wasserman -- What does it mean to make a book? / Audrey Niffenegger -- Intimate authority / Johanna Drucker -- Brightest heaven of invention / Krystyna Wasserman -- Storytellers -- Nature -- Food and the body -- Autobiographers -- Dreamers and magicians -- Historians -- Mothers, daughters, and wives -- Travelers -- Inspired by the muses.

Abstract  

Women have been pioneers in the field of book arts, crafting intimate and insightful works that blend word, image, and media together in exciting and unique ways. Whether produced as one-offs or manufactured in serial form, these volumes share a wonderful craft aspect that has broad appeal to fellow artists, collectors, and ordinary readers alike. Often highly conceptual in form, they stretch the boundaries of what constitutes a ’book.’ This illustrated volume presents over 100 artists books held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. The publication of this trade book corresponds with the institution s twentieth anniversary celebration. With an engaging introduction by acclaimed fiction-writer Audrey Niffenegger and essays by curator Krystyna Wasserman and renown book arts scholar Johanna Drucker, the text compliments the highly engaging profiles of each work, which will be illustrated in multiple views. Artist biographies, and a comprehensive bibliography round out the offerings.

Corp.Sub.  

National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.) -- Catalogs.

Subject

 Artists’ books -- United States -- Catalogs.

 Books in art

 Women artists -- United States -- Catalogs.

 Artists’ books -- Washington (D.C.) -- Catalogs.

41570

 

 

 77.04 MAG

 Magnum manifesto

 London : Thames & Hudson, 2017.

 Contents

 ’Magnum manifesto’ / Clément Chéroux-- ’"Nothing but champagne": Magnum Photos, 1947-2017’ / Clara Bouveresse -- Preface: May 22, 1947 -- Robert Capa, New York -- David Seymour, France -- George Rodger, Cyprus -- Henri Cartier-Bresson, Los Angeles -- Part I. 1947-1968. Human rights and wrongs -- Erich Hartmann, Our daily bread -- Elliott Erwitt, Family photographs -- Eve Arnold, Migrant potato pickers -- Werner Bischof, Generation X, India -- Henri Cartier-Bresson, Generation X, England -- Constantine Manos, Island boy -- Sergio Larrain, Santiago children -- Leonard Freed, Black in white America -- Paul Fusco, RFK funeral train -- Interludes: America in crisis, 1969 -- Part II. 1969-1989. An inventory of differences -- Inge Morath, Masquerade, with Saul Steinberg -- Philip Jones Griffiths, Pulau Bidong camp, Malaysia: Would-be immigrants photographed -- Josef Koudelka, Gypsies -- Danny Lyon, Conversations with the dead -- Susan Meiselas, Carnival strippers -- Jim Goldberg, T.J. -- Raymond Depardon, San Clemente -- Cristina García Rodero, España oculta -- Richard Kalvar, Senator Fred Harris campaigning -- Interlude: Corporate commissions and personal authorship, 1970s-1980s -- Part III. 1990-2017. Stories about endings -- Mark Power, Die Mauer ist weg! -- Martin Parr, 7 communist still lifes, 7 colonial still lifes -- Thomas Dworzak, The Taliban -- Mikhael Subotzky, Ponte City, with Patrick Waterhouse -- Donovan Wylie, The maze -- Jérôme Sessini, The death of Hugo Chávez -- Olivia Arthur, Stranger -- Paolo Pellegrin, Mediterranean Sea -- Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aftermath of the terrorist attack on Nice -- Alec Soth, Broken manual -- Peter Marlow, Concorde: the last summer -- Rochester Project, Postcards from America -- Epilogue: ’Magnum is ... ’ -- Anthology -- Timeline.

Abstract  

The official publication celebrating Magnum Photos’ 70th anniversary with a fresh and insightful view of Magnum’s history and archive, accompanying a landmark exhibition showing in New York at the International Center of Photography in 2017 before touring worldwide In this landmark photography publication and accompanying exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the renowned photo agency, Clément Chéroux and Clara Bouveresse demonstrate how Magnum Photos owes its preeminence to the ability of its photographers to encompass and navigate the points between photography as art object and photography as documentary evidence. Magnum Manifesto is organized into three parts: Part 1, Human Rights and Wrongs (1947-1968), views the Magnum archive through a humanist lens, focusing on postwar ideals of commonality and utopianism. Part 2, An Inventory of Differences (1969-1989), shows a world fragmenting, with a focus on subcultures, minorities, and outsiders. Part 3, Stories About Endings (1990-present day), charts the ways in which Magnum photographers have captured―and continue to capture―a world in flux and under threat. Featuring both group and individual projects, this volume includes magazine spreads, newspaper features, and letters, putting some of the world’s most recognizable images in creative context. Magnum Manifesto is an expertly curated, essential collection of images and commentary.

Corp.Sub.  

Magnum Photos -- Photograph collections.

Subject

 Photography -- History -- 20th century.

 Photography, Artistic

 Portrait photography

41393

 

 

791.43 BRO

Brode, Douglas 

 Multiculturalism and the mouse : race and sex in Disney entertainment

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005

Contents  

Introduction : I had a dream is a wish your heart makes: in defense of Disney, part I -- Return of the vanishing American: Disney and the native experience -- Together in perfect harmony: Disney and the civil rights movement -- Beat of a different drum: ethnicity and individualization in Disney -- Racial and sexual identity in America: Disney’s subversion of the Victorian ideal -- "If it feels good, do it!": Disney and the sexual revolution -- Our bodies, ourselves: Disney and feminism -- Something Wiccan this way comes: Walt’s wonderful world of witchcraft -- Beyond the celluloid closet: Disney and the gay experience -- Conclusion : Popular culture and political correctness: in defense of Disney, part II.

Abstract  

In his latest iconoclastic work, Douglas Brode--the only academic author/scholar who dares to defend Disney entertainment--argues that "Uncle Walt’" output of films, television shows, theme parks, and spin-off items promoted diversity decades before such a concept gained popular currency in the 1990s. Fully understood, It’ a Small World --one of the most popular attractions at the Disney theme parks--encapsulates Disney’ prophetic vision of an appealingly varied world, each race respecting the uniqueness of all the others while simultaneously celebrating a common human core. In this pioneering volume, Brode makes a compelling case that Disney’ consistently positive presentation of "difference"--Whether it be race, gender, sexual orientation, ideology, or spirituality--provided the key paradigm for an eventual emergence of multiculturalism in our society. Using examples from dozens of films and TV programs, Brode demonstrates that Disney entertainment has consistently portrayed Native Americans, African Americans, women, gays, individual acceptance of one’ sexual orientation, and alternatives to Judeo-Christian religious values in a highly positive light. Assuming a contrarian stance, Brode refutes the overwhelming body of "serious" criticism that dismisses Disney entertainment as racist and sexist. Instead, he reveals through close textual analysis how Disney introduced audiences to such politically correct principles as mainstream feminism.

 In so doing, Brode challenges the popular perception of Disney fare as a bland diet of programming that people around the world either uncritically deem acceptable for their children or angrily revile as reactionary pabulum for the masses. Providing a long overdue and thoroughly detailed alternative, Brode makes a highly convincing argument that with an unwavering commitment to racial diversity and sexual difference, coupled with a vast global popularity, Disney entertainment enabled those successive generations of impressionable youth who experienced it to create today’ aura of multiculturalism and our politically correct value system.

Corp.Sub.  

Walt Disney Company.

Subject

 Motion pictures

 Minorities in motion pictures.

 Sex in motion pictures.

41621

 

791.43 DAV

  Davis, Amy M. 

Good girls and wicked witches : women in Disney’s feature animation

New Barnet, Herts : John Libbey Publishing, [2006]

 Contents  

Introduction -- Film as a cultural mirror -- A brief history of animation -- The early life of Walt Disney and the beginnings of the Disney Studio, 1901-1937 -- Disney films 1937-1967 : the "classic" years -- Disney films 1967-1988 : the "middle" era -- Disney films 1989-2005 : the "Eisner" era -- Conclusion

Abstract  

In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their first release and subsequently. Analyzing the construction of (mainly human) female characters in the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio between 1937 and 2001, she attempts to establish the extent to which these characterizations were shaped by wider popular stereotypes. Davis argues that it is within the most constructed of all moving images of the female form―the heroine of the animated film―that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are to be found.

Per.Sub.  Disney, Walt 1901-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation

Corp.Sub.  

Walt Disney Productions.

 Walt Disney Company.

Subject  

Motion pictures

 Disney characters -- Social aspects.

 Women in motion pictures

 Animated films

41619

 

 791.43 DAV

 Davis, Amy M.

Handsome heroes & vile villains : men in Disney’s feature animation

New Bernet, Herts, United Kingdom : John Libbey Publishing, 2013.

 Contents  

Introduction -- On wooden boys and assistant pig-keepers -- Dashing heroes -- Handsome princes -- Evil villains -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: List of films in this study -- Appendix B: List of Disney animated feature films to date.

Abstract

 [This volume] examines how masculinity is portrayed in human male characters. This book, which encompasses 28 Disney films (beginning with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), culminating with Wreck-It Ralph (2012)), looks at the men and boys in the Disney studio’s animated feature films from a historically-based, gender studies perspective. In other words, it examines the depictions of men and boys (both heroes and villains) from the perspective of masculinity studies as well as feminist film theory, and places these depictions within the larger context of Hollywood and U.S. popular culture in the eras in which the various films were released.--Publisher information.

Per.Sub.  

Disney, Walt 1901-1966 -- Characters -- Men

Corp.Sub.  

Walt Disney Productions.

 Walt Disney Company.

Subject  

Motion pictures

 Men in motion pictures.

 Animated films

 Animated films -- History and criticism.

 Masculinity in popular culture.

 Disney characters -- Social aspects.

 Disney characters -- Feminist criticism.

 Heroes in motion pictures.

 Villains in motion pictures.

41620

 

 

 791.43 FEA

 Feasey, Rebecca 

Mothers on mothers : maternal readings of popular television

Oxford : Peter Lang, 2016.

 Contents  

Media methods research : finding audiences and giving a voice to mothers -- Maternal preferences : from ordinary celebrity to the sitcom star -- Emulation, not identification : sartorial styles, domestic skills and maternal discipline -- Bad mothers and poor role models : maternal inadequacy and the problem of perfection -- Conclusion: A call for maternal diversity.

Abstract  

From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the varied and diverse ways in which expectant, new and existing mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television. The volume examines the ways in which these women find pleasure, empowerment, escapist fantasy, displeasure and frustration in popular depictions of motherhood. The research seeks to present the voice of the maternal audience and, as such, it takes as its starting point those maternal depictions and motherwork representations that are highlighted by this demographic, including figures such as Tess Daly and Katie Hopkins and programmes like TeenMom and Kirstie Allsopp’s œuvre.

Subject  

Motion pictures

 Mothers on television.

 Television programs -- Great Britain.

 Television broadcasting

41613

 

  

 791.43 FRO

From mouse to mermaid : the politics of film, gender, and culture

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995.

 Contents  

Introduction : Walt’s in the movies / Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells -- I. Sanitizations/Disney film as cultural pedagogy. Breaking the Disney spell / Jack Zipes ; Memory and pedagogy in the "Wonderful world of Disney" : beyond the politics of innocence / Henry A. Giroux ; Pinocchio / Claudia Card ; Disney does dutch : Billy Bathgate and the Disneyfication of the gangster genre / Robert Haas ; The movie you see, the movie you don’t : how Disney do’s that old time derision / Susan Miller and Greg Rode -- II. Contestations/Disney film as gender construction. Somatexts at the Disney Shop : constructing the pentimentos of women’s animated bodies / Elizabeth Bell ; "The whole wide world was scrubbed clean" : the androcentric animation of denatured Disney / Patrick D. Murphy ; Bambi / David Payne ; Beyond Captain Nemo : Disney’s science fiction / Brian Attebery ; The curse of masculinity : Disney’s Beauty and the beast / Susan Jeffords -- III. Erasures/Disney film as identity politics. "Where do the mermaids stand?" : voice and body in The little mermaid / Laura Sells ; "Eighty-six the mother" : murder, matricide, and good mothers / Lynda Haas ; Spinsters in sensible shoes : Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and broomsticks / Chris Cuomo ; Pretty woman through the triple lens of Black feminist spectatorship / D. Soyini Madison ; Pachuco Mickey / Ramona Fernandez.

Abstract  

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children’s classics as well as the Disney affiliates’ more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney film legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural studies perspectives. The volume contemplates Disney’s duality as an American icon and as an industry of cultural production, created in and through fifty years of filmmaking. The contributors treat a range of topics at issue in contemporary cultural studies: the performance of gender, race, and class; the engendered images of science, nature, technology, family, and business. The compilation of voices in From Mouse to Mermaid creates a persuasive cultural critique of Disney’s ideology. The contributors are Bryan Attebery, Elizabeth Bell, Claudia Card, Chris Cuomo, Ramona Fernandez, Henry A. Giroux, Robert Haas, Lynda Haas, Susan Jeffords, N. Soyini Madison, Susan Miller, Patrick Murphy, David Payne, Greg Rode, Laura Sells, and Jack Zipes.

Per.Sub.  

Disney, Walt 1901-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Corp.Sub.  

Walt Disney Company.

Subject  

Motion pictures

 Children’s films -- Political aspects.

41618

 

 

 791.43 NEW

 New punk cinema

 Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

 Contents  

Punk cinema / Stacy Thompson -- Italian neo-realist influences / Jay McRoy -- The French new wave: new again / Timothy Dugdale -- Sincerity and irony / Nicholas Rombes -- DVD and the new cinema of complexity / Graeme Harper -- Digital technologies and the poetics of performance / Bruno Lessard -- Navigating chaos / Silvio Gaggi -- Non-linear narrative / Bruce Isaacs -- Making it real / Steven Rubio -- Dogma brothers: Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg / Shohini Chaudhuri -- Mike Figgis: Time code and the screen / Constantine Verevis -- What was the neo-underground and what wasn’t: a first reconsideration of Harmony Korine / Benjamin Halligan -- Repo man: reclaiming the spirit of punk with Alex Cox / Xavier Mendik.

Abstract  

New Punk Cinema is the first book to examine a new breed of film that is indebted to the punk spirit of experimentation, do-it-yourself ethos, and an uneasy, often defiant relationship with the mainstream. An array of established and emerging scholars trace and map the contours of new punk cinema, from its roots in neorealism and the French New Wave, to its flowering in the work of Lars von Trier and the Dogma 95 movement. Subsequent chapters explore the potentially democratic and even anarchic forces of digital filmmaking, the influences of hypertext and other new media, the increased role of the viewer in arranging and manipulating the chronology of a film, and the role of new punk cinema in plotting a course beyond the postmodern. The book examines a range of films, including The Blair Witch Project, Time Code, Run Lola Run, Memento, The Celebration, Gummo, and Requiem for a Dream.New Punk Cinema is ideal for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for film scholars int

Subject  

Experimental films -- History and criticism.

 Punk culture

 Motion pictures -- Philosophy.

 Motion pictures -- History.

41623

 

 

 791.43(73) DIV

Diversity in Disney films : critical essays on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013

 Contents

Re-casting and diversifying Disney in the age of globalization / Johnson Cheu -- section I. Beyond the fairest: essays on race and ethnicity. Cannibals and coons: blackness in the early days of Walt Disney / Kheli R. Willetts -- Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros: the representation of Latin America in Disney’s "good neighbor" films / Karen S. Goldman -- Mapping the imaginary: the Neverland of Disney Indians / Prajna Parasher -- A "vexing implication": Siamese cats and Orientalist mischief-making / Kimiko Akita and Rick Kenney -- White man’s best friend: race and privilege in Oliver and Company / Natchee Blu Barnd -- Blackness, bayous and gumbo: encoding and decoding race in a colorblind world / Sarah E. Turner -- section II. Traditions and transformations: essays on gender and sexuality. Fighting the Cold War with Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo / Danielle Glassmeyer -- "You the man, well, sorta": gender binaries and liminality in Mulan / Gwendolyn LImbach -- "What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?": Timon and Pumbaa’s alternative lifestyle dilemma in The Lion King / Gael Sweeney -- Mean ladies: transgendered villains in Disney films / Amanda Putnam -- section III. Of beasts and innocents: essays on disability. "You’re a surprise from every angle": disability, identity and otherness in The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Martin F. Norden -- Dopey’s legacy: stereotypical portrayals of intellectual disability in the classic animated films / Karen Schwartz, Zana Marie Lutfiyya and Nancy Hansen -- A place at the table: on being human in the Beauty and the Beast tradition / Tammy Berberi and Viktor Berberi -- section IV. Up and out: essays on reimaginings and new visions. Is Disney avant-garde? A comparative analysis of Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Jan Svankmajer’s Alice (1989) / William Verrone -- (Indivi)duality in Return to Oz: reflection and revision / Ana Salzberg -- Securing the virtual frontier for

Abstract

 Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both mirror and influence our increasingly diverse society. This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, not only exploring race and gender, but also drawing on perspectives from newer areas of study, particularly sexuality/queer studies, critical whiteness studies, masculinity studies and disability studies. Covering a wide array of films, from Disney’s early days and "Golden Age" to the Eisner era and current fare, these essays highlight the social impact and cultural significance of the entertainment giant.

Corp.Sub.  

Walt Disney Productions.

 Pixar (Firm)

Subject  

Motion pictures -- United States -- History and criticism.

 Animated films -- United States -- History and criticism.

 Race in motion pictures.

 Ethnicity in motion pictures.

 Sex role in motion pictures.

 Disabilities in motion pictures.

 People with disabilities in motion pictures

41616

 

 

791.43 GIL

 Gilmore girls and the politics of identity : essays on family and feminism in the television series

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2008]

 Contents  

Welcome to Stars Hollow: Gilmore Girls, Utopia, and the hyperreal / Erin K. Johns and Kristin L. Smith -- Rory Gilmore and faux feminism: An Ivy League education and intellectual banter does not a feminist make / Molly McCaffrey -- Reinventing the bitch: The dynamicism of Paris Geller / Angela Ridinger-Dotterman -- Drats! Foiled again: A contrast in definitions / Anne K. Burke Erickson -- Good Girls, bad girls, and motorcycles: Negotiating feminism / Alicia Skipper -- Got MILF? Losing Lorelai in season seven / Teffany Aldrich MacBain and Mita Mahato -- Wheat balls, Gravlax, Pop Tarts: Mothering and power / Melanie Haupt -- Generation gap? Mothers, daughters, and music / Faye Woods -- Like mother-daughter, like daughter-mother: Constructs of motherhood in three generations / Stacia M. Fleegal -- Gender lies in Stars Hollow / Brenda Boyle and Olivia Combe -- Food fights: Food and its consumption as a narrative device / Lindsay Coleman -- Still more Gilmore: How Internet fan communities remediate Gilmore girls / Daniel Smith-Rowsey

Abstract  

This work examines the Gilmore Girls from a post-feminist perspective, evaluating how the show’s main female characters and supporting cast fit into the classic portrayal of feminine identity on popular television. The book begins by placing Gilmore Girls in the context of the history of feminism and feminist television shows such as Mary Tyler Moore and One Day at a Time. The remainder of the essays look at series’ portrayal of traditional and non-traditional gender identities and familial relationships. Topics include the hyper-real utopia represented by Gilmore Girls’ fictional Stars Hollow; the faux-feminist perspective offered by Rory Gilmore’s unfulfilling (and often masochistic) romantic relationships; the ways in which "mean girl" Paris Geller both adheres to and departs from the traditional archetype of female power and aggression; and the role of Lorelai Gilmore’s oft-criticized marriage in destroying the show’s central theme of single motherhood during its seventh season. The work also studies the role of food and its consumption as a narrative device throughout the show’s development, evaluating the ways in which food negotiates, defines, and upholds the characters’ gendered and class performances. The work also includes a complete episode guide listing the air date, title, writer, and director of every episode in the series.

Title Sub.  

Gilmore girls (Television program : 2000-2007)

Subject  

Motion pictures

 Families in motion pictures

 Feminism -- History.

 Television programs

 Television broadcasting

41614

 

 

791.43 NAR

 Narrative strategies in television series

 Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

 Contents

 pt. I. Beyond realism : authentifying and subjectifying narrative strategies -- pt. II. Multi-layered characters, multi-layered narratives -- pt. III. Narrating gender/gendering narratives -- pt. IV. (Re)Narrating history.

Abstract

 In the context of a systematic overview of the possibilities of applying narratological concepts to a study of TV series, ten case studies are explored in depth, demonstrating how series such as 24, Buffy, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, Blackadder, and Sex and the City make use of innovative audiovisual means of storytelling. Transgressing the traditional confines of narrative theory, the chapter authors address the question of how form, content, and function intersect in these series.

 "In television, narrative strategies are not merely means of shaping the overall aesthetics of the audiovisual narrative: there is also a dynamic relationship between form and content. Transgressing the traditional confines of narrative theory, the chapters in this volume address the question of how form, content and function intersect in selected series - an approach that offers new insights both for media studies and also for narrative theory. In the context of an extensive systematic overview of the possibilities of applying narratological concepts to a study of television series, ten case studies explore in depth the effects created by the use of innovative audiovisual means of storytelling in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Blackadder, The X-Files, Star Trek, Twin Peaks, 24, Die zweite Heimat, Ellen, Sex and the City and Berlin, Berlin."--Jacket.

Subject  

Motion pictures

 Television series.

 Narration (Rhetoric)

 Television broadcasting

41612

 

 

791.43 POP

 Pops in pop culture : fatherhood, masculinity, and the new man

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents  

Introduction: pops in pop context / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Self-defining dads: autobiography, paternal lessons, and narrative performance. Pappahandbooks: guidebooks for dads in twenty-first century Sweden / Helena Wahlstrom Henriksson -- Fatherhood, feminism, and failure in Louis C.K.’s comedy / Peter C. Kunze -- "Daddy time all the time": representations of involved fatherhood in contemporary dadoirs / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Daddyblogs know best: histories of fatherhood in the cyber age / May Friedman -- "Real" men: brawn, power, and protection. Ads and dads: tv commercials and contemporary attitudes toward fatherhood / Kristi Rowan Humphreys -- Hard bodies, soft hearts: mixed-race men as muscular daddies in the films of Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson / Andrea Schofield -- Contemporary crime fighting dads: negotiating masculinity and fathering in 24 and Castle / Christy Ebert Vrtis -- Tale of two fathers: authenticating fatherhood in Quantic dream’s Heavy rain: the origami killer and naughty dog’s The last of us / Melvin G. Hill -- Economics and emotions: providers, pals, and nurturers. Breaking dad: re-imagining post-war models of American fatherhood in Breaking bad / Heath A. Diehl -- Masculinity, subjectivities and caregiving in the British press: the case of the stay-at-home father / Abigail Locke -- A sentimental fathering model: Alexander McCall Smith’s vision for nurturing paternity in The no. 1 ladies’ detective agency series / Nicole l. Willey -- Modern fathers in modern family: the impact of generational differences on fatherhood styles / Kathryn Pallister.

Abstract  

The definitions of fatherhood have shifted in the twenty-first century as paternal subjectivities, conflicts, and desires have registered in new ways in the contemporary family. This collection investigates these sites of change through various lenses from popular culture - film, television, blogs, best-selling fiction and non-fiction, stand-up comedy routines, advertisements, newspaper articles, parenting guide-books, and video games. Treating constructions of the father at the nexus of patriarchy, gender, and (post)feminist philosophy, contributors analyze how fatherhood is defined in relation to masculinity and femininity, and the shifting structures of the heteronormative nuclear family. Perceptions of the father as the traditional breadwinner and authoritarian as compared to a more engaged and involved nurturer are considered via representations of fathers from the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, South Africa, and Sweden.

Subject  

Fathers in mass media.

 Masculinity in mass media.

41609

 

  791.43(73) JEN

  Jenkins, Claire 

 Home movies : the American family in contemporary Hollywood cinema

London : I.B. Tauris, [2015]

 Contents

 Hollywood’s new generation: fathers and daughters; sequels and series -- Meryl Streep and Hollywood’s maternal archetypes -- The ’super’ family -- Family dysfunction and the action-melodrama -- Race, class and Hollywood’s ’alternative’ families -- Single-parents, homosexual unions and reproductive technologies

Abstract

 The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the depiction of the nuclear family within contemporary mainstream US cinema has not yet been closely studied. Home Movies addresses this oversight by assessing recent cinematic representations of the family in terms of cultural politics and representations of gender, sexuality, race and class.Focusing on a diverse range of popular films―from Meet the Parents to The Incredibles―Claire Jenkins analyses the father-daughter relationship within sequels and series; Meryl Streep’s embodiment of the mother; the superhero family and extraordinary manifestations of the ordinary family; disaster films which depict the president as father; ‘mom-coms’ and Hollywood’s representations of the non-traditional family. She combines film studies, gender studies and family history to demonstrate the complexities of Hollywood’s family values.

Subject  

Motion pictures

 Families in motion pictures

 Motion pictures -- United States -- History.

 Values

41615

 

 930.85(436) SCH

  Schorske, Carl E. 

Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture

 New York : Vintage, 1981.

 Contents  

Politics and the psyche: Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal -- The Ringstrasse, its critics, and the birth of urban modernism -- Politics in a new key: an Austrian trio -- Politics and patricide in Freud’s Interpretation of dreams -- Gustav Klimt: painting and the crisis of the liberal ego -- The transformation of the garden -- Explosion in the garden: Kokoschka and Schoenberg.

Abstract  

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism’s defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book’s wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek

Per.Sub.  

Klimt, Gustav 1862-1918.

 Kokoschka, Oskar 1886-1980.

Subject  

Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.

 Austria -- Politics and government -- 1867-1918.

41603