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Ecology & art / Landscape integration.......2004-08-10
John Grande's new book Art Nature Dialogues is not only informative, but it presents the scuptors and artists ideas, points of view without the usual critical control or monologue.
Included are David Nash, Nils-Udo, Hamish Fulton, Patrick Dougherty, Bruni Babarit, Bill Vazan, Alan Sonfist, Betty Beaumont, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Peter von Tiesenhausen and herman de vries (apioneer of earth art from the 1950s in Holland)
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This is one book thatshakes the art world softly, gently and with a sense of the physical, realworld of nature . Bye Bye PostModernsim. Hello respect for the Earth.
It is about time a writer focusssed on earth sensitive artists instead of the od generation of minimalist earth movers like Smithson, Heizer who destroyed the earth for art./.
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• Interactive introduction to 6 famous artists: Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Vassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock
• Hands-on approach to understanding great art
• Parents and teachers need Art Explorers—ideal for homeschoolers, too
The Art Explorers series offers a new approach to art, encouraging kids to interpret what they see in famous artworks, then try the techniques themselves. Express Yourself!: Activities and Adventures in Expressionism, the third book in the series, draws children into the compelling, dramatic world of expressionism by highlighting the work of six famous artists. From modern expressionists (Van Gogh, Munch) to German expressionists (Kirchner, Kandinsky) to abstract expressionists (De Kooning, Pollock), each artist is represented by a famous artwork, paired with questions to get kids thinking about what they see. Easy-to-follow activities provide hands-on experience with the artist's techniques, subject, and mediums, each illustrated with examples by real kids. Pack with great art and ideas, Express Yourself! lets kids understand art—and become artists themselves.
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This second book in the Art Explorers series introduces kids to the world of impressionism, featuring the art of five famous impressionist artists: Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edward Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Mary Cassatt. For each artist, a color reproduction of his or her famous artwork is paired with questions to get kids thinking about what they see. A short paragraph explains the artist's intentions, emphasizing facts of interest to kids. Easy-to-follow activities then provide hands-on experience with the artist's techniques, subject, and mediums, each illustrated with examples by actual kids. Techniques include drawing, painting, pastels, collage, watercolor resist painting, pointillism, sponge painting, mask-making, printmaking, sculpture, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Children Responding to Impressionism.......2005-03-09
"What is a television... to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen?" Salvador Dali
"Do not proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel." Camille Pissarro
"Nobody will give you freedom-you have to take it." Meret Oppenheim
"To be a Surrealist...means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been." Rene Magritte
Picture This and Imagine That introduce children to great artists, art concepts and allow them to become artists themselves. They are the first two books in the Art Explorers series. Picture This introduces Impressionism, Imagine That acquaints us with Surrealism. The books begin with a Note To Adults, telling how to help children explore that particular school of art. This is followed by a Note to Kids, introducing them to that school of art and to the book. This is followed by one work each from 5 or 6 artists that are representative of that particular school. Each work of art has accompanying kid-friendly information about the art and the artist, and discussion questions. Then there are a few pages of art projects, to allow the child to respond by experimenting with different techniques and materials. The instructions for the projects are clear and include illustrations of a work in progress, and examples of actual children's art projects. In the back there is a little additional information about each artist.
For example, after looking at Personal Values by Rene Magritte, children cut pictures out of a magazine to "Make a fantasy room where everyday things are seen in crazy mixed-up ways.". Step by step instructions are explained and illustrated. Several examples of completed projects by children 8-9 years old are included. The second project is a cut paper collage of "your own sky, where everything is mixed up and anything can float or fly". Again, there are two full pages of instructions and examples. These two projects require colored paper, glue, scissors, old magazines, and drawing materials. Of course some of the other projects will most likely involve a trip to the craft store, but some, like these, will not.
On afternoons when the weather is crummy and there is a space available in the house somewhere to make a controlled mess, you could probably scrounge up stuff to keep the kids amused for a little while with one of these projects.
These books are recommended for ages 5-12, but the nature of the projects is such that children of different ages can participate together in many of them.
You can see some of the author's work on line and explore modern art at www.moma.org/artsafari . Look at some examples of modern art, talk about the discussion questions, and play author or detective.
Young Readers Get Active with Impressionism .......2005-02-09
It is an exploration in Impressionist paintings for young readers with art of Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Mary Cassatt and how-to fun activities (25 in all) such as:
**experiment and play with color
**painting outdoor scenes-storm, seaside, seasonal or garden
**try pointillism (dot to dot) using cotton balls
Included are interesting artist biographies of all five Impressionists mentioned above. Young readers will discover what is each artist's claim to fame. Who is the "father of Impressionism"? Who is the "leader of Impressionism"? Who is "known as one of the world's greatest artists"? Who is the "painter of happiness"? What city is common to all of these artists"?
PICTURE THIS! is designed to help young readers develop appreciation of art and their own interpretations. In addition, it helps to develop creative critical thinking and to "encourage different opinions." Children can experiment with different creative media such as pastels, abstract painting, watercolor, and plastic foam printing to mention only a few that are included.
PICTURE THIS! is an excellent introduction to Impressionist art and encouragement for creative ideas in young artists. I especially like the "Try this, too!" ideas to spark ideas that get the creative juices flowing.
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Are you ready to explore with Dora and her friends? Discover five play-along adventures in this book. Find your way to Tico's treehouse, stop Swiper from swiping your stuff, and swing into action with Dora! Come on! ¡ Vámonos!
Customer Reviews:
cute.......2006-12-11
this is a cute product and my kids love it but the game pieces are made out of thin cardboard and easily torn. We only have Iza left.
If the pieces were made out of sturdy plastic it would be way better.
The best Dora product I've got for my kid so far.........2006-07-03
This is the best Dora product I have got so far. I think it is also the best electronic toy for 4yrs kids also. It got 5 games in this products. They are mainly mazes and climb-and-slides type games. The product is quite compact, durable and in good quality. My 4yrs old boy can play it for quite long time ( many weeks ), without breaking it into pieces yet, compare with other board games he played. Its too bad that there is no other compatible products/toys in the market.
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Dora is about to set out on another adventure, and you're invited to travel along--with your pencil! Just follow the simple steps in this book, and soon you'll be drawing Dora, Boots, Swiper, and their amigos! You may even learn some new words in Spanish along the way. This is an adventure you don't want to miss!
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Hands-On America Vol. 1: Art Activities About Vikings, Explorers, Woodland Indians and Colonial Life
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This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers of all ages to American history from 1000 to 1700 A.D. through projects associated with various peoples of the period. By replicating several pieces of Viking jewelry in paper, readers can learn the story of the Vikings' clothing and craftsmanship. From the Woodland Indians comes a treasure trove of clothing, weapons, and containers, re-created here with paper. Fifteen colonial-era projects are included. Full-color illustrations, a history of each object described, stories, and a colorful map bring long-vanished cultures to life.
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Great journal!.......2005-06-21
We are a family who likes to scuba, rock climb, mountain climb, canyoneer & go caving. This book has fun pictures & quotes from adventurer's, & cool spots to write about a kid's own adventures. After seeing inside one, I'm ordering one for every kid in our adventure family. This is just perfect for us!
Travel and Adventure Journal.......2004-02-07
A wonderful journal for children with photo and text collages of adventure heros past and present. Something for everyone.
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Today it is difficult to truly grasp the epoch-making impact of the popular introduction of George Eastman's ''instant camera'' in the 1880s. After all, photography did not just create a new way of seeing the universe, it created an entirely new universe, an infinite expanse of images: lone figures smiling or frowning for unknown reasons, small town storefronts ripped from their surrounding context, road signs and seagulls, monuments and prize fish, celebrities and people close to us, our own selves and people we can't even remember. Summer Vacation/Found Photographs offers a familiar, strange, and moving look at one galaxy of this ''photoverse'' through a collection of found vacation photographs. The images here once resided in photo albums or idled in dusty drawers; now they are collected together, forming a kind of road map of the American imaginary: cars and trailers in front of suburban homes and in the background in shots national parks; exuberant teenagers displaying their bodies on beaches; families in boats, in the ocean, out fishing; highways, zoos, and picnics; hotels, amusement parks, hammocks, ships, and sand castles--Summer Vacation/Found Photographs is a brilliant document of the secret life of the photograph.
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REAL AND IMAGINED NOSTALGIA.......2001-04-13
Why would anyone want to look at someone else's snapshots (or, as they're now called "found photographs?") The reason is simple: as soon as you even glance through this wonderful book, you'll find that these strangers lived OUR lives and the lives of our parents and friends. You'll see yourself in these photos.
Look: There's your sister sitting on the trunk of your old family coupe; there's your fourth grade girlfriend eating cotton candy at the beach; there is that California hunk caught with his pants down.
Have you ever seen one of those Kodak square box cameras? You know the kind that took small, shiny snapshots that were kept in large, rectangular scrapbooks with matte black pages, the snapshots held in place with black adhesive corners? This book is filled with them and each tells a story. But since the reader has no idea who the "models" are, each story is a mystery.
Why is that well-dressed woman saluting the ocean liner as she walks briskly by? Or, is she simply holding her hat down in a strong wind? Who buried those kids in the sand? Why is Gramma being forced to play with a hula-hoop?
"Summer Vacation" is real nostalgia for those who lived and grew up in the 40's and 50's. And it is imagined nostalgia for younger, inquisitive minds. It is a book to treasure and my only complaint is that it should have been, at least, twice its length.
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The hilarious second installment of the popular humor series honoring the world's most improbable actual research
The first volume of The Ig Nobel Prizes was celebrated as a “brainy bacchanalian” (USA Today) and “so funny you couldn't make it up” (The Washington Post). Now, the “guru of scientific satire” (Publishers Weekly), Marc Abrahams, returns with The Ig Nobel Prizes 2, a fresh compendium of all- new unbelievable-but-true accomplishments in the sciences, arts, and humanities.
Born from the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University, The Ig Nobel Prizes 2 demonstrates the incredible lengths to which people will go in the pursuit of knowledge. Winners of this prestigious award include:
-The scientists who discovered that chickens prefer beautiful humans
-The Norwegian research team that documented the impact of wearing wet underwear in the cold
-The entire nation of Liechtenstein, which rents itself out for weddings, bar mitzvahs, or other gatherings.
Featuring anecdotes from the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony and a zany collection of all new achievements, The Ig Nobel Prizes 2 is perfect for anyone who first wants to laugh and then wants to think.
Praise for The Ig Nobel Prizes:
“[The Ig Nobel Prizes] honor achievements that are truly extraordinary, whether they be awful, wonderful, or a hopeless mixture of both.... Where others might see evil, perversion, or stupidity, Abrahams finds only admirable persistence.”
—The Boston Globe
Customer Reviews:
Science can be funny.......2007-04-05
This is another collection of what can only be described as very unique scientific research. The Ig Nobel Awards are handed out every October during an awards show at Harvard University. Presented by real Nobel Prize winners, they show just how far some people will go for knowledge.
Here are some titles of winning papers, some of appeared in real scientific journals: "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide," "Compliance With the Item Limit of the Food Supermarket Express Checkout Lane: An Informal Look," "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans," "Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture," "Patient Preference for Waxed or Unwaxed Dental Floss," and "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed."
Other winners include a man from Ontario who developed and personally tested a suit that is impervious to grizzly bears; the inventor of karaoke; the entire nation of Liechtenstein, which can be rented for conventions, weddings and other gatherings; a pair of Japanese researchers who invented a computer-based dog-to-human language translation device; the inventors of tamagotchi; a man who investigated why shower curtains billow inwards, and the inventors of Spam and Beano.
The only "requirement" for anyone to win an Ig Nobel award is that the research makes a person laugh, then think. This hilarious book certainly accomplishes that. It can be picked up and read starting at any point, and read anywhere, and shows that science can be funny.
Science is too important to take seriously.......2007-03-17
Self-importance isn't the worst of crimes, but it can be annoying. This is the perfect cure for that ailment. It's an annual celebration of weird and wonderful in science, medicine, economics, literature, and whatever else appeals to the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research.
[dis]Honorees of the annual Ig Nobel awards include:
-- the inventor of karaoke (a Peace prize),
-- the developers of anti-flatulent Beano,
-- the teenage researcher who brought the full force of microbiology and electron microscopy to bear on the Five Second Rule of dropped food, and
-- the doctors who developed a protocol for dislodging sensitive manly tissues caught in zippers.
But, if there's goofing to be done in science, it will be done seriously. The annual award ceremony is hosted by Harvard University, and is always attended by actual Nobel winners. Ig Nobel winners vary in their response to the award, but most seem willing to see the light side of, for example, a medical study of foot odor. Or "Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and Ancient Sculpture."
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An outstanding entertainment value!.......2007-01-21
As Marc Abrahams, founding father of the Ig Nobel Prizes, explains them, they are awarded to scholarly (or at least pseudo-scholarly) "achievements" that first make us laugh, then make us think. This book and its predecessor are samplings of the awards over the years, a greatest hits collection, so to speak.
Have you ever wondered about the efficacy of one-nostril breathing? Have you longed for a spiceless jalapeno pepper? Have you considered that water might have an IQ? Have you long believed that karaoke might be the key to world peace? Have you wondered if you could rent the nation of Liechtenstein for your daughter's wedding? You haven't?! Well, fortunately, other people have wondered about such things, and they're very serious about them. The Ig Nobels honor them, and this book explains them for all of us lay-people.
My personal favorite is the study "Chicken Plucking and Tornado Wind Speed," done by Bernard Vonnegut, a noted physicist at SUNY-Albany, co-inventor of effective cloud seeding, and Kurt Vonnegut's older brother. His study debunked the conventional wisdom that tornado wind speed could be accurately estimated by examining the degree to which chickens swept up in the storms were denuded. Vonnegut's research pointed out that there are numerous variables involved in chicken feather attachment strength, the most important of which is that when chickens are frightened, their feathers loosen. Thus, naked chickens aren't a good measure of tornado intensity. Who would have thought it?
This book is a wonderful collection of such research results, all described with irreverent humor. It's an absolutely outstanding entertainment value, as measured in terms of laughs per dollar spent on the book. Maybe I should nominate myself for an Ig Nobel for having devised that measurement of entertainment value...
Buy this book; you'll laugh a lot, and you'll think, too.
The Intelligence Of Single-Nostril Breathing.......2006-11-13
The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded annually to scholars in extremely diverse and unusual fields. This book is a compendium of some of the best examples of extreme scholarship that you are likely to ever encounter. In this book you will find out how to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein, you will be totally unsurprised that politicians are extremely simple humans, and you will learn the cause and effect relationship of country music on suicide.
Many even stranger pieces of research are likewise discussed from a discussion of poultry aerodynamics in "Chicken Plucking and Tornado Wind Speed," to brain efficiency manipulation in "The Intelligence of Single-Nostril Breathing." Without doubt, though, my absolutely favorite piece of scholarship begins on page 212, and is a piece originally published as "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," which originally appeared in "Social Text" (Spring/Summer 1996.) The author, Professor Alan Sokol, believes that academics use enormously complex language to describe the simplest of things, and as such decided to write a paper that was completely and utterly incoherent, that meant nothing, but that was cloaked in obscure jargon. Of course, the editors of "Social Text" didn't know this and found it brilliant and insightful. The joke was on them and they ran it and became the academic laughingstocks they so richly deserved to be. The book excerpts the article, which I have read in full elsewhere.
(I highly recommend that you do the same.) Readers of bigheaded nonsense will adore this work, a random excerpt of which follows: "Lacan's 'topologie du sujet' has been applied fruitfully to cinema criticism and to the psychoanalysis of AIDS. In mathematical terms, Lacan is here pointing out that the first homology group of the sphere is trivial, while those of the other surfaces are profound...."
Utterly brilliant, and highly recommended.
The wise wizards of wacky but sometimes wonderful ideas.......2005-12-04
Back at the height of the Dot-Com boom, just before George Bush became president, billions of dollars were spent to attract viewers to specific web sites.
Since everyone was encouraged to stampede to specific sites, Larry and Sergey decidede to do just the opposite; they invented a web site to make it easier for people to look elsewhere. Thus Google was born.
It's what this book is all about: People who think different. Granted, Google isn't mentioned. Instead, it's a fun romp through the delightful imaginations of people who didn't come close to inventing Google, or much of anything else that might be of use to someone, somewhere, sometime for some unimaginable reason.
Like Google, Ig Noble Prizes are based on a simple criteria; they must make people THINK (that used to be the one-word slogan of IBM). Unlike Google, it must also make people laugh. In other words, Ig Noble honors apparently impractical new ideas on the basis that curiosity, originality and investigation are truly the basis of the human spirit.
Consider, for example, the virtually spiceless NuMex Primavera jalapeno chile pepper, developed by Professor Paul Bosland at the Chile Pepper Institute of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. New Mexico is famous for its Hatch chiles, which are flaming hot; so a "cool chile" may strike some as tasteless. Not true; the Primavera has lots of taste, just none of the usual hot spice. The goal is to gradually introduce people to chiles until they become addicted (it's a health food, after all) and everafter eat lots of New Mexico chiles.
This "wacky" idea may improve livelihoods for thousands of New Mexicans in the agricultural business, which is one of the goals of a land grant state college.
But what of the study showing the more radio stations broadcast country music, the greater the white suicide rate? The original study listed Nashville, Tenn., with the highest white suicide rate. It prompted ongoing studies about suicide, including a 2002 report, ". . . opera fans are 2.37 times more accepting of suicide because of dishonour than nonfans." There is a sneakily serious side to the Ig Noble awards.
My favourite, though, is the scientific study of the 'Five Second Rule' about whether it's safe to eat food that's been dropped on the floor. Sixteen-year-old Jillian Clarke did the research using environmental scanning electron microscopy to examine floor tiles, cookies and gummy bears. She came up with the perfect answer: It depends.
As the youngest recipient, she was the center of attention at Harvard when, "For courageously, meticulously, and scientifically playing with food, Jillian Clarke was awarded the 2004 Ig Noble Public Health Prize."
Anyone who cannot understand the fuss over Clarke n eed not buy this book; it's way above their understanding, intelligence and sense of humour. For the rest of us, it's a delightful reminder of the endless vistas of imagination, curiosity and originality. Abrahams has again come up with a gem to tickle the imagination of the curious everywhere.
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- ART OF POCAHONTAS, THE
- Arte Povera: In Collection
- Arts and Learning: An Integrated Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings (2nd Edition)
- Auguste Rodin: Images of Desire, Erotic Watercolors and Cut-outs
- Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting (National Gallery Of Art, Washington)
- Birds and Butterflies Stained Glass Pattern Book: 94 Designs for Workable Projects
- Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance
- Blood Lure
- Blue Christmas
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