Reduce your food and packaging waste and lower your carbon footprint with this modern, practical guide to sustainable grocery shopping. Almond milk, oat milk, rice milk—which of the countless nondairy milks available on the market does the least harm to the environment? How do you decode the language on an egg carton? Is it possible to keep a bundle of fresh asparagus from spoiling so. darn. …
Out of the 1920s Surrealist art studios emerged the exquisite corpse, a collaboratively drawn body made whole through a series of disjointed parts whose relevance today is the subject of Exquisite Corpse: Studio Art-Based Writing in the Academy. This collection draws from the processes and pedagogies of artists and designers to reconcile disparate discourses in rhetoric and composition pertaini…
Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual bi…
This book explores two areas of interest: the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in an early modern Italian duchy. Its purpose is to deepen existing insights into the role of the former and thus lead to a better understanding of how an Inquisitorial court assumed jurisdiction over a practising Jewish community in the seventeenth century. The book highlights one specific aspect o…
Sample the country’s most tantalizing tacos paired with equally inventive tequila-inspired cocktailsfrom seasoned food writer and libation enthusiast Katherine Cobbs. Tacos have been trending for years, and finally tequila is having its taco moment. While a crunchy, savory beef taco washed down with a frozen margarita is always acceptable, today the inspired options for what can be stuff…
In diesem Buch wird dem Zusammenhang zwischen kreativem Schaffen und Räumen nachgegangen - nicht nur dem kreativen Schaffen der Künstler, sondern auch der alltäglichen schöpferischen Leistung in Büros und Hallen. Zuerst wird dabei eine Theorie des gelebten Raumes vorgestellt, wie sie von Forschern unterschiedlicher Disziplinen entwickelt wurde - als Hilfe bei der Erfassung des gelebten, le…
Im zweiten Band der "Bildwelten des Wissens" geht es programmatisch nicht nur um die Oberflächen der Theorie und um die Frage, wie ein Bildträger zum semantischen Konstituent einer Theorie wird, sondern auch um Theorien der Oberfläche, in denen die Oberfläche als Material Bedeutungsträger wird.
Francis Bacon gehört zu den prominentesten Malern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Erfolg wuchs seit seiner ersten Retrospektive in der Londoner Tate Gallery im Jahr 1962 stetig an. Die Anerkennung der Malerei Bacons ist seither stets auch eine finanzielle gewesen. Im Mai 2008 ging etwa das Gemälde "Triptych, 1976" für 86,3 Mio. US-Dollar bei einer New Yorker Auktion in den Besitz eines russischen…
Are you a fan of film, comics, video games and animation? Do you love to draw and tell stories? If so, you are like the hundreds of artists who come to expand and broaden their skills at Los Angeles' original character drawing workshop, The Drawing Club. Since 2002, artists from all over the LA region have gathered each Thursday night at a special place where story and character are interpreted…
Capture your subjects on paper like never before.Look Closer, Draw Betterwill transform the way you see the subjects of your artwork, lighting the way with practical techniques in a range of mediums. Are you looking to make a leap in the quality of your artwork? Are you looking for new perspectives on the art of drawing? Or maybe you want to bring more poetry and presence to your work. Look C…