[PDF] Garry Shead And The Erotic Muse eBook

Author : Sasha Grishin
Publisher : Fine Art Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781877004018

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Garry Shead is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed lyrical figurative painters and has been in the public eye since his first solo exhibition mid 1960s. Grishin argues that despite the stylistic diversity, there exists a single unifying thread throughout his work an erotic impulse.

Author : Gabriele Bammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136549854

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This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to explore your own way of perceiving your own area of work. An outstanding contribution that will stay on my shelves for many years. Dr Neil T. M. Hamilton, Director, WWF International Arctic Programme This collection of essays provides a unique and fascinating overview of perspectives on uncertainty and risk across a wide variety of disciplines. It is a valuable and accessible sourcebook for specialists and laypeople alike. Professor Renate Schubert, Head of the Institute for Environmental Decisions and Chair of Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology This comprehensive collection of disciplinary perspectives on uncertainty is a definitive guide to contemporary insights into this Achilles heel of modernity and the endemic hubris of institutional science in its role as public authority. It gives firm foundations to the fundamental historic shift now underway in the world, towards normalizing acceptance of the immanent condition of ignorance and of its practical corollaries: contingency, uncontrol, and respect for difference. Brian Wynne, Professor of Science Studies, Lancaster University Bammer and Smithson have assembled a fascinating, important collection of papers on uncertainty and its management. The integrative nature of Uncertainty and Risk makes it a landmark in the intellectual history of this vital cross-disciplinary concept. George Cvetkovich, Director, Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University Uncertainty governs our lives. From the unknowns of living with the risks of terrorism to developing policies on genetically modified foods, or disaster planning for catastrophic climate change, how we conceptualize, evaluate and cope with uncertainty drives our actions and deployment of resources, decisions and priorities. In this thorough and wide-ranging volume, theoretical perspectives are drawn from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. On a practical level, uncertainty is examined in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics. Key problems that are a subject of focus are environmental management, communicable diseases and illicit drugs. Opening and closing sections of the book provide major conceptual strands in uncertainty thinking and develop an integrated view of the nature of uncertainty, uncertainty as a motivating or de-motivating force, and strategies for coping and managing under uncertainty.

Author : M. Branagan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113701010X

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Militarism is the elephant in the room of global warming. Of all government sectors, 'Defence' has the highest carbon footprint and expenditure, yet has largely been exempt from international scrutiny and regulation. Marty Branagan uses Australian and international case studies to show that nonviolence is a viable alternative to militarism for national defence and regime change. 'Active resistance', initiated in Australian environmental blockades and now adopted globally, makes the song 'We Shall Not Be Moved' much more realistic, as activists erect tripod villages, bury, chain and cement themselves into the ground, and 'lock-on' to machinery and gates. Active resistance, 'artistic activism', and use of new information and communication technologies in movements such as the Arab Spring and 'Occupy' demonstrate that nonviolence is an effective, evolving praxis.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture; illustrated with abundant examples of painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. Demonstrates how every historical era has had its own ideas about eye-appeal.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2001-01-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0520224809

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"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien

Author : Eugene C. Burt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN :

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"This alphabetically arranged dictionary of artists known to have produced works depicting sexual imagery profiles the artists from ancient times to the present. Each entry offers biographical information, including the artist's name and any variants, birth and death dates, geographic focus, a description of the artist's media, training and the nature of their artistic output"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sasha Grishin
Publisher : Craftsman House (AU)
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Closely examines the work of contemporary Australian printmakers, listed alphabetically - Includes Davida Allen - Rick Amor - Yvonne Boag.