Landscape Of The Now

Author : Kent De Spain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199988269
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape of the Now written by Kent De Spain and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on interviews with eight of the most recognized movement improvisation teacher/practitioners in the world. This is the first book specifically written for intermediate/advanced improvisers. Each chapter delineates a unique aspect of improvising. This book covers such topics as cognitive skills, spiritual components of the creativity process, and the audience/improviser relationship.

Author : Barry Schwabsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500239940
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Painting Now written by Barry Schwabsky and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether as a reaction to our technological present or as a manifestation of fears concerning our environmental future, depictions of the natural world in painting have never seemed more pertinent or urgent. Some of the most ambitious, crucial and intellectually vibrant paintings being created in this century involve the landscape - from a more traditional, perceptual based approach for rendering vistas to a looser, topography-inspired gestural abstraction that blurs the line between form and space, to many other modes in between. Surprisingly, there has not been an ambitious and wide-reaching publication on the subject - until now. The result of several years' worth of research, Landscape Painting Now is the first book to explore the very best contemporary landscape painting. Featuring artists from nearly twenty-five countries born over seven decades, it includes some of the brightest stars of the contemporary art world. It is introduced by an essay from Barry Schwabsky, who discusses the history of landscape painting, exploring how the genre developed through the 20th century to today, and how it has become increasingly relevant to art now. He also explores the notion of what is actually called a landscape painting today, and looks to expand beyond commonly held preconceptions concerning the genre.

Author : Nadia Amoroso
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500342822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Landscape Architecture Now written by Nadia Amoroso and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting work by some of the most innovative practices across the globe: inspiring ideas for a world of more beautifully designed outdoor spaces Despite its importance to place-making, urban planning, and the environment, landscape design has often played an inferior role to architecture. Typically, as little as three percent of a project’s construction budget is allocated to the space that surrounds a building, but that is changing. A greater desire to blend buildings into their contexts, ecological considerations, legislation, and new definitions of “scaping” have opened up exciting possibilities. Coinciding with heightened social sensitivities, advances in material application, data-driven mapping techniques, and digital technologies and construction methods, landscape designers are producing a new wave of work around the world, reshaping gardens, public squares, leisure areas, and industrial parks. Among the practices included in this survey are designers who have bridged modernism with newer forms (Emergent, West 8); architects whose work fuses with the earth’s contours (Zaha Hadid, MVRDV); and a generation of designers only just emerging from universities. Nadia Amoroso is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto and has lectured at Harvard and Cornell universities.

Author : Kent De Spain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199988277
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape of the Now written by Kent De Spain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches that are taught around the world - Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, Nancy Stark Smith, Barbara Dilley, Anna Halprin, and Ruth Zaporah - this book offers the rare opportunity to find some clarity in what is often a complex and confusing experience. After more than 20 years of research, De Spain has created an extensive list of questions that explore issues that arise for the improviser in practice and performance as well as resources that influence movements and choices. Answers to these questions are placed side by side to create dialog and depth of understanding, and to see the range of possible approaches experienced improvisers might explore. In its nineteen chapters, Landscape of the Now delves into issues like the influence of an audience on an improviser's choices or how performers "track" and use their experience of the moment. The book also looks at the role of cognitive skills, memory, space, emotion, and the senses. One chapter offers a rare opportunity for an honest discussion of the role of various forms of spirituality in what is seen as a secular dance form. Whether read from cover to cover or pulled apart and explored a subject at a time, Landscape of the Now offers the reader a kind of map into the mysterious realm of human creativity, and the wisdom and experience of artists who have spent a lifetime exploring it.

Author : Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819566485
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taken by Surprise written by Ann Cooper Albright and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive overview of improvisation in dance.

Author : Bernard Lassus
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812234502
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Landscape Approach written by Bernard Lassus and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A familiarity with the work of Bernard Lassus, the leading French landscape architect, is essential for anyone seriously interested in contemporary landscape experience and design. Now, with this first collection of his writings to be translated into English, the contributions of Lassus can finally be fully appreciated by a wider audience. Perhaps best known for the speculative base that sustains his work and thought, Lassus is an artist whose philosophical concerns precede and determine his design work. For him, attention to the interactive nature of the landscape underlies all projects. He approaches each site in pursuit of the particular opportunities and challenges it presents and is ever mindful of the way in which observers will experience the space. He does not allow experience to be relegated to by-product of design. Instead, as one of his close collaborators explained, for Lassus form is not primary, it is induced from the articulation of intention. The essays in The Landscape Approach afford readers a look into some of Lassus's most important projects--the Butterfly Bridge at Istres, the highway rest area at Nimes-Caissargues, the Park of Duisburg-Nord, the Garden of Returns for the Corderie Royale at Rochefort, and the Tuileries in Paris--and furnish provocative insight into Lassus's unique bonding of theory and practice. As is the case with his garden designs, Bernard Lassus's volume is a true experience. It is sure to become a classic in the field.

Author : Eric Sloane
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486436780
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Vanishing Landscape written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more. Brimming with anecdotes about people and the times, this delightful narrative remains a milestone of Americana. 81 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Rick Darke
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604694084
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Landscape written by Rick Darke and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it’s a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by its examples, you’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape—one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated with superb photographs and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that is full of life and that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.

Author : Stephen W. Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471038245
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Irrigation written by Stephen W. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation methods and components Drawing techniques and presentation Sprinkler and drip irrigation methods and hardware Pipe characteristics and hydraulics Control systems CSI irrigation specifications

Author : Monica Janowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317118669
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Landscapes written by Monica Janowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their symbolic representation in words, images and other media. Less a means of conjuring up images of what is 'out there' than a way of living creatively in the world, imagination is immanent in perception itself, revealing the generative potential of a world that is not so much ready-made as continually on the brink of formation. Describing the ways landscapes are perpetually shaped by the engagements and practices of their inhabitants, this innovative volume develops a processual approach to both perception and imagination. But it also brings out the ways in which these processes, animated by the hopes and dreams of inhabitants, increasingly come into conflict with the strategies of external actors empowered to impose their own, ready-made designs upon the world. With a focus on the temporal and kinaesthetic dynamics of imagining, Imagining Landscapes foregrounds both time and movement in understanding how past, present and future are brought together in the creative, world-shaping endeavours of both inhabitants and scholars. The book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists and archaeologists, as well as to geographers, historians and philosophers with interests in landscape and environment, heritage and culture, creativity, perception and imagination.