Landscape of the Now

Author: Kent De Spain
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199988269
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Landscape of the Now takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of movement improvisation. Based on interviews with Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Nancy Stark Smith, and others, this book offers the rare opportunity to find some clarity in what is often a complex and confusing creative experience.

Taken by Surprise

Author: Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819566485
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
First comprehensive overview of improvisation in dance.

Our Vanishing Landscape

Author: Eric Sloane
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486436780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
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.

New Orleans

Author: Peirce Fee Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
But, in meeting them, the city's diverse ethnic groups - French, Spanish, Anglo-America, and African-American - have created a place with a history and culture unlike any other in North America.".

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Author: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763697230
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth — but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem classic Earth culture (doo-wop music, still life paintings of fruit, true love), recording 1950s-style dates for the vuvv to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it’s hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he’s willing to go — and what he’s willing to sacrifice — to give the vuvv what they want.

A Year with My Camera

Author: Emma Davies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995632417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Landscape of Man

Author: Geoffrey Jellicoe
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500278192
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Examining ways that letters of the alphabet have been assigned value in political, spiritual, and religious belief systems through the ages, a volume filled with rare images draws on a variety of sources to explore the history of written language. BOMC & QPB Alt. Reader's Subscription Main.

Accidental Landscapes

Author: Karen Eckmeier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979203312
Category : Fabric pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description

Landscape Economics

Author: Colin Price
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319548735
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 483

Book Description
This revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal publication provides a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics, a subject which has until now been addressed only in limited aspects. Although much of the book's discussion is based upon natural resources and environmental economics, the author presents a wide and integrative view, drawing from aesthetic, psychological, social and political perspectives and applying a critical use of economic concepts and challenges to different schools of thought on the landscape. This new edition includes new ideas and critiques on environmental valuation; more focused critiques of stated preference methods, political alternatives to economic valuation, and of the rationale of discounting future values; and, new evaluative techniques, particularly price premia for products with a landscape provenance. For those interested in the theoretical aspects of aesthetic valuation, and for those who seek solutions to practical problems of aesthetic conservation, amelioration and enhancement, this new edition gives an overview of evaluative techniques, of their potential problems and of possible solutions. The updates are a major contribution to the growing literature in the field.

Now Urbanism

Author: Jeffrey Hou
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317619919
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today’s cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The contributions inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers. Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these contributions written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city.