[PDF] The Whole Picture eBook

Author : Alice Procter
Publisher : Cassell
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788402219

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"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times 'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see the problematic colonial histories behind them.' - Sumaya Kassim Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. The book is divided into four chronological sections, named after four different kinds of art space: The Palace, The Classroom, The Memorial and The Playground. Each section tackles the fascinating, enlightening and often shocking stories of a selection of art pieces, including the propaganda painting the East India Company used to justify its rule in India; the tattooed Maori skulls collected as 'art objects' by Europeans; and works by contemporary artists who are taking on colonial history in their work and activism today. The Whole Picture is a much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art, and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it.

Author : Megan Dowd Lambert
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1580896626

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A new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert's graduate work in children's literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime and getting kids to think with their eyes. Traditional storytime often offers a passive experience for kids, but the Whole Book approach asks the youngest of readers to ponder all aspects of a picture book and to use their critical thinking skills. Using classic examples, Megan asks kids to think about why the trim size of Ludwig Bemelman's Madeline is so generous, or why the typeset in David Wiesner's Caldecott winner,The Three Pigs, appears to twist around the page, or why books like Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar are printed landscape instead of portrait. The dynamic discussions that result from this shared reading style range from the profound to the hilarious and will inspire adults to make children's responses to text, art, and design an essential part of storytime.

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1452154228

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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers look at and understand art.

Author : Vaughan Roberts
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830863893

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Sixty-six books written by forty people over nearly 2,000 years, in two languages and several different genres. The Bible is clearly no ordinary book. How can you begin to read and understand it as a whole? This excellent overview gives you the big picture, providing both the encouragement and the tools you need to read the Bible with confidence and understanding.

Author : Sean Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0698409760

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The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it. “Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times “Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science “A tour de force.”—Salon Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Do human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview? In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level—and then how each connects to the other. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique. Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning. The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.

Author : B. J. Novak
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0803741715

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A #1 New York Times bestseller, this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian—a perfect gift for any special occasion! You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and GLIBBITY GLOBBITY. Cleverly irreverent and irresistibly silly, The Book with No Pictures is one that kids will beg to hear again and again. (And parents will be happy to oblige.)

Author : Kevin Cope
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608322466

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Advocates that employees should focus their attention on what the author defines as the key drivers of cash, profit, assets, growth, and people to evaluate the viability of their organization and their prospects for advancement.

Author : Richard Walter
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Cinema film authorship
ISBN : 9780452271791

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From a leading teacher and lecturer on screenwriting comes a practical guide that explores the many aspects of the writer's relationship with the art of filmmaking and the world of Hollywood. Offering insider's advice and valuable words of counsel for any up-and-coming Hollywood player, Richard Walter focuses on the big picture behind "the whole picture".

Author : Donald McCullough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1725254727

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John Stanhope, a young attorney in Los Angeles, receives a letter informing him of the death of his estranged father, photographer Logan Stanhope. With it are three baffling negatives and one that is all too familiar, the famous Nude on the Beach. This bequest leads him on an outward journey to beautiful Mendocino, California, and on an inward journey to a healing that comes through painful self-discovery in a supportive community. The Whole Picture is an unfolding mystery, told with humor and wisdom, that explores the psychology of the shadow, the nature of art, and the power of grace.