- Table View
- List View
Mythology for Teens: Classic Myths in Today's World (Grades 7-12)
by Zachary HambyMythology for Teens: Classic Myths in Today's World takes classical mythology to a new level by relating ancient stories to the culture, history, art, and literature of today. By looking at topics instrumental to both mythology and modern culture, teens are encouraged to question topics such as the repercussions of war, vanity and greed, the workings of fate, the nature of love, the roles of women in society, revenge and forgiveness, the meaning of life, and national identity. The majority of high school humanities and Advanced Placement courses teach classical mythology by simply retelling myths. By using teen-friendly reader's theater scripts to tell the legends, in combination with activities, discussion questions, and exercises that help students apply what they've learned to real life, Mythology for Teens takes the classic myths taught in school and turns them into an engaging, interesting, and fresh way of looking at old material. Grades 7-12
Mythology for Teens: Classic Myths in Today's World (Grades 7-12)
by Zachary HambyMythology for Teens: Classic Myths in Today's World takes classical mythology to a new level by relating ancient stories to the culture, history, art, and literature of today. By looking at topics instrumental to both mythology and modern culture, teens are encouraged to question topics such as the repercussions of war, vanity and greed, the workings of fate, the nature of love, the roles of women in society, revenge and forgiveness, the meaning of life, and national identity. The majority of high school humanities and Advanced Placement courses teach classical mythology by simply retelling myths. By using teen-friendly reader's theater scripts to tell the legends, in combination with activities, discussion questions, and exercises that help students apply what they've learned to real life, Mythology for Teens takes the classic myths taught in school and turns them into an engaging, interesting, and fresh way of looking at old material. Grades 7-12
A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art
by Carl EinsteinThe German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors to assess African sculpture as art. Yet his writings remain relatively little known in the Anglophone world. With A Mythology of Forms, the first representative collection of Einstein’s art theory and criticism to appear in English translation, Charles W. Haxthausen fills this gap. Spanning three decades, it assembles the most important of Einstein’s writings on the art that was central to his critical project—on cubism, surrealism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Klee, and includes the full texts of his two pathbreaking books on African art, Negro Sculpture (1915) and African Sculpture (1921). With fourteen texts by Einstein, each presented with extensive commentary, A Mythology of Forms will bring a pivotal voice in the history of modern art into English.
A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art
by Carl EinsteinThe German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors to assess African sculpture as art. Yet his writings remain relatively little known in the Anglophone world. With A Mythology of Forms, the first representative collection of Einstein’s art theory and criticism to appear in English translation, Charles W. Haxthausen fills this gap. Spanning three decades, it assembles the most important of Einstein’s writings on the art that was central to his critical project—on cubism, surrealism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Klee, and includes the full texts of his two pathbreaking books on African art, Negro Sculpture (1915) and African Sculpture (1921). With fourteen texts by Einstein, each presented with extensive commentary, A Mythology of Forms will bring a pivotal voice in the history of modern art into English.
A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art
by Carl EinsteinThe German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors to assess African sculpture as art. Yet his writings remain relatively little known in the Anglophone world. With A Mythology of Forms, the first representative collection of Einstein’s art theory and criticism to appear in English translation, Charles W. Haxthausen fills this gap. Spanning three decades, it assembles the most important of Einstein’s writings on the art that was central to his critical project—on cubism, surrealism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Klee, and includes the full texts of his two pathbreaking books on African art, Negro Sculpture (1915) and African Sculpture (1921). With fourteen texts by Einstein, each presented with extensive commentary, A Mythology of Forms will bring a pivotal voice in the history of modern art into English.
A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art
by Carl EinsteinThe German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors to assess African sculpture as art. Yet his writings remain relatively little known in the Anglophone world. With A Mythology of Forms, the first representative collection of Einstein’s art theory and criticism to appear in English translation, Charles W. Haxthausen fills this gap. Spanning three decades, it assembles the most important of Einstein’s writings on the art that was central to his critical project—on cubism, surrealism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Klee, and includes the full texts of his two pathbreaking books on African art, Negro Sculpture (1915) and African Sculpture (1921). With fourteen texts by Einstein, each presented with extensive commentary, A Mythology of Forms will bring a pivotal voice in the history of modern art into English.
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization (Princeton Classics #111)
by Heinrich Robert ZimmerA landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought. Ultimately, the book shows that profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions on the riddles of life and death are universally recognizable.
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
by Heinrich Robert Zimmer Joseph CampbellA landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought. Ultimately, the book shows that profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions on the riddles of life and death are universally recognizable.
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
by Heinrich Robert Zimmer Joseph CampbellA landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought. Ultimately, the book shows that profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions on the riddles of life and death are universally recognizable.
Myths of Renaissance Individualism (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)
by J. MartinThe idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity. Myths of Renaissance Individualism , in short, will interest students not only of history but also of art history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology and religion.
N. F. Simpson: A Resounding Tinkle; The Hole; Gladly Otherwise; One Way Pendulum; The Cresta Run; Was He Anyone?; If So, Then Yes
by N. F. SimpsonN. F. Simpson was one of the leading exponents of the theatre of the absurd, and is best known for his play A Resounding Tinkle, made famous by its premiere at the Royal Court in 1957, and later to star Peter Cook. But beyond that he was a major force in the satire boom of the sixties, and wrote much exceptional comedy for film and TV for the likes of John Cleese, Beryl Reid, Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes, as well as a number of brilliantly funny plays for theatre, which starred big names such as Harold Pinter and Kenneth Williams. His influence on everyone from Peter Cook's much-loved character E. L. Wisty to Monty Python's Flying Circus helped spawn a generation of incredible comic talent.Plays included in the collection are A Resounding Tinkle, The Hole, Gladly Otherwise, One Way Pendulum, The Cresta Run, Was He Anyone? and his final work, If So, Then Yes, first performed in 2010.This collection celebrates the work of this lost comic genius, and seeks to put his reputation back at the heart of British - and world - comedy.
The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin-de-Siècle
by Katherine KuenzliProviding a fresh perspective on an important but underappreciated group of late nineteenth-century French painters, this is the first book to provide an in-depth account of the Nabis' practice of the decorative, and its significance for twentieth-century modernism. Over the course of the ten years that define the Nabi movement (1890-1900), its principal artists included Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul S?sier, and Paul Ranson. The author reconstructs the Nabis' relationship to Impressionism, mass culture, literary Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Wagnerianism, and a revolutionary artistic tradition in order to show how their painterly practice emerges out of the pressing questions defining modernism around 1900. She shows that the Nabis were engaged, nonetheless, with issues that are always at stake in accounts of nineteenth-century modernist painting, issues such as the relationship of high and low art, of individual sensibility and collective identity, of the public and private spheres. The Nabis and Intimate Modernism is a rigorous study of the intellectual and artistic endeavors that inform the Nabis' decorative domestic paintings in the 1890s, and argues for their centrality to painterly modernism. The book ends up not only re-positioning the Nabis to occupy a crucial place in modernism's development from 1860 to 1914, but also challenges that narrative to place more emphasis on notions of decoration, totality and interiority.
Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile
by Luke ParkerNabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career—from the 1920s to the 1940s—in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinema and the chiaroscuro darkness and artificial brightness of the Weimar era, with its movie palaces, cultural Americanism, and surface culture. Luke Parker argues that Nabokov's engagement with the cinema and the dynamics of mass culture more broadly is an art of exile, understood both as literary poetics and practical strategy.Obsessive and competitive, fascinated and disturbed, Nabokov's Russian-language fiction and essays, written in Berlin, present a compelling rethinking of modernist-era literature's relationship to an unabashedly mass cultural phenomenon. Parker examines how Nabokov's involvement with the cinema as actor, screenwriter, moviegoer, and, above all, chronicler of the cinematized culture of interwar Europe enabled him to flourish as a transnational writer. Nabokov, Parker shows, worked tirelessly to court publishers and film producers for maximum exposure for his fiction across languages, media, and markets. In revealing the story of Nabokov's cinema praxis—his strategic instrumentalization of the movie industry—Nabokov Noir reconstructs the deft response of a modern master to the artificial isolation and shrinking audiences of exile.
Nachhaltig optimierte Gebäude: Energetischer Baukasten, Leistungsbündel und Life-Cycle-Leistungsangebote (VDI-Buch)
by Gerhard Girmscheid David LunzeEnergieeffizienz und Einsatz regenerativer Energien sind Kernfragen bei Neubau, Instandsetzung und Erneuerung von Gebäuden. Das Buch bietet einen Baukasten aus energetischen und nutzungsbezogenen Modulen, die bei der lebenszyklusorientierten Optimierung beachtet werden sollten. Aufbauend auf den Synergiepotenzialen werden Leistungsbündel angegeben. Die daraus abgeleiteten Leistungsangebote beinhalten alle wichtigen Aspekte zur praktischen Umsetzung in der Bauwirtschaft. Mit Berechnungsmodell, Beispielen zur Kostenanalyse und über 100 Abbildungen.
Nachhaltige Stadt- und Verkehrsplanung: Grundlagen und Lösungsvorschläge
by Johannes MeyerAusgehend von den Grundlagen des Städtebaus beschäftigt sich dieses Buch mit dem besonderen Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit in der aktuellen Stadt- und Verkehrsentwicklung und dem Umgang mit bestehenden städtebaulichen Strukturen. Die Themen Demographischer Wandel, Energieeinsparung, Umwelt- und Klimaschutz stehen dabei im Fokus. Es enthält sowohl grundlegende Informationen als Einstieg in die Thematik als auch konkrete Beispiele aus der Praxis.
Nachhaltige Wohngebäudesanierung in Deutschland und China: Untersuchung der konzeptionellen und strategischen Übertragungsmöglichkeiten
by Ji ZhangJi Zhang behandelt die Erfahrungen der nachhaltigen Wohngebäudesanierung in Deutschland und diskutiert ihre Übertragungsmöglichkeiten auf China. Während die Sanierung von Wohnbestand in Deutschland schon weit entwickelt ist, steht sie in China noch am Anfang. Die Autorin gibt zunächst einen kurzen Überblick über die Rahmenbedingungen in beiden Ländern, dann analysiert sie 31 herausragende Berliner Sanierungsprojekte, aufgeschlüsselt nach den fünf Teilaspekten Energie, Wasser, Grün, Baustoffe und Attraktivität. Mittels energetischer Simulation eines Referenzgebäudes und Diskussionen überprüft Ji Zhang die Übertragbarkeit der in Deutschland angewendeten Maßnahmen auf die Hot Summer Cold Winter Zone in China.
Nachhaltiges Planen, Bauen und Wohnen: Kriterien für Neubau und Bauen im Bestand (SDG - Forschung, Konzepte, Lösungsansätze zur Nachhaltigkeit)
by Stefanie FriedrichsenDeutschland ist gebaut: Drei Viertel aller Wohngebäude sind über 30 Jahre alt und müssten dringend modernisiert werden. Das Werk bietet einen Überblick darüber, welche Kriterien bei einer umfassenden Modernisierung beachtet werden müssen, um eine wirtschaftlich tragfähige, sozialverträgliche und umweltgerechte Lösung zu finden. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Mehrfamilienhäusern. Jedes Kapitel bietet umfangreiche Checklisten, mit deren Hilfe Modernisierungsaufgaben systematisch angegangen werden können.
Nachhaltiges Wohnen: Befunde und Konzepte für zukunftsfähige Stadtquartiere (Nachhaltigkeit und Innovation)
by Hans J. Harloff Kees Christiaanse Hans-Liudger Dienel Gabriele Wendorf Klaus ZillichWie beinflussen die sozialen und physischen Wohnbedingungen das Verhalten der Menschen? Läßt sich die Nachhaltigkeit des Konsums über eine Beeinflussung der Nachbarschaften fördern? Welche baulichen und organisatorischen Veränderungen am Bestehenden sind geeignet, diesem Ziel näher zu kommen? Diese Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Bandes, dessen Ergebnisse von einem interdisziplinären Team von Psychologen, Architekten und Ökonomen erarbeitet wurden. Neben neuen Einsichten über die Nachhaltigkeit von Konsumverhalten bietet das Buch auch zahlreiche Anregungen für die Umsetzung in konkretes planerisches und politisches Handeln.
Nähen für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Jan Saunders MareshNähen will gelernt sein und das geht am besten mit Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen. Die Autorin Janice Maresh weiht Sie in die Grundlagen des Nähens und Schneiderns ein, zeigt Ihnen, welches Handwerkszeug Sie benötigen, und erklärt Ihnen, wie Sie Schnittmuster lesen. Sie werden sehen, wie einfach es ist, modische Stücke ganz nach Ihrem eigenen Geschmack zu nähen. Fortgeschrittene finden nicht nur Tipps und Tricks, wie sie Taschen, Ärmel & Co. passend gestalten, sie erhalten auch Anregungen für stilvolle Dekoprojekte. Außerdem erfahren Sie, wie Sie ihre Kleidung ausbessern und verschönern und wie Sie die häufigsten Fehler beim Nähen vermeiden.
Nail Art: Inspiring Designs by the World's Leading Technicians
by Helena BiggsNail Art is a lavishly illustrated, full colour exploration of nail art in all its weird and wonderful variations. Featuring the work of prominent nail artists from around the world, it offers freehand designs, fashion-forward styles and eye-catching fantasy creations as well as easy to follow step-by-step projects to create at home. It goes on to consider nail art in relation to modern fashion and celebrity culture and includes profiles of renown technicians throughout. Whether you are a nail technician, a hobbyist looking for inspiration or are simply intrigued by this decorative art, you will find lots to love in this fascinating and visually stunning book.
Nail Art Projects: Eye-catching and stylish designs by salon professionals
by Helena BiggsThis book includes beautifully photographed nail projects and step-by-step instructions for over 20 unique designs. Additionally, there are extra nail art tips and tricks from prominent nail art technicians to help you achieve flawless execution of all the projects. A beginner to a professional manicurist can use this book as a source of inspiration and a guide to modern nail art techniques.
Nairn's Paris
by Ian NairnLast printed in 1968, this is a unique guidebook from the late, great architectural writer Ian Nairn. Illustrated with the author's black and white snaps of the city, Nairn's Paris captures the city on the cusp of great changes and provides a glimpse of a city that is about to disappear. Here is an idiosyncratic and unpretentious portrait of the 'collective masterpiece' that is Paris.
Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure
by Alastair GordonAlthough airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon traces the cultural history of this defining institution from its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines to its frontline position in the struggle against international terrorism. From global politics to action movies to the daily commute, Gordon shows how the airport has changed our sense of time, distance, and style, and ultimately the way cities are built and business is done. He introduces the people who shaped and were shaped by this place of sudden transition: pilots like Charles Lindbergh, architects like Le Corbusier, and political figures like Fiorello LaGuardia and Adolf Hitler. Naked Airport is a profoundly original history of a long-neglected yet central component of modern life. “This charming history documents why airports have always been such intriguing places. Gordon wittily deconstructs air terminal architecture. . . . Here is a book with more than enough quirky details to last a long layover.”—People “[A] splendid cultural history.”—Atlantic Monthly “Gordon, an architecture and design critic, tells his story well, bringing to life some of the main characters and highlighting some of the important issues concerning urbanism and airports.”—Michael Roth, San Francisco Chronicle “Gordon provides a truly compelling account of how airports had over the course of three-quarters of a century become the locus of not only modern dreams but postmodern nightmares as well. Don’t leave home without it.”—Terence Riley, director of the Miami Art Museum
The Naked and the Lens, Second Edition: A Guide for Nude Photography
by Louis BenjaminNude photography can be intimidating, for the artist and the subject. Technique, creativity, and psychology all need to be considered and executed seamlessly to achieve a photographer‘s desired artistic and professional result. Author Louis Benjamin has built a career by studying the intricacies of the perfect nude photography photo shoot and he has compiled what he has learned for you in this second edition of the best-selling book, The Naked and the Lens. This revised text updates and builds upon the key concepts presented in the first edition that guide photographers from finding models and planning a shoot, all the way through to post production. New material includes discussions of the latest equipment, software, web publishing options, as well as fresh and more diverse photographs and interviews.
The Naked and the Lens, Second Edition: A Guide for Nude Photography
by Louis BenjaminNude photography can be intimidating, for the artist and the subject. Technique, creativity, and psychology all need to be considered and executed seamlessly to achieve a photographer‘s desired artistic and professional result. Author Louis Benjamin has built a career by studying the intricacies of the perfect nude photography photo shoot and he has compiled what he has learned for you in this second edition of the best-selling book, The Naked and the Lens. This revised text updates and builds upon the key concepts presented in the first edition that guide photographers from finding models and planning a shoot, all the way through to post production. New material includes discussions of the latest equipment, software, web publishing options, as well as fresh and more diverse photographs and interviews.