Color Continuum - Polychromatic

Author: Emily Cier
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781500762247
Category : Color in textile crafts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In quilts, as in life, few things are more important than color. Color evokes a mood, color sets a contrast, color is the spark that can make the everyday - extraordinary. Color Continuum is an exploration of how different approaches to creating a unique palette for a quilt can imbue it with emotion or suggest anything from an everyday scene to a classic painting. In no 2. polychromatic, pure white light is split into its intrinsic components: the rainbow. This most elemental of natural phenomena provides, with a basis deep in optics, provides the most fundamental organization of the color spectrum. Yet at the same time its ends are found deep in our collective imagination, evoking a powerful sense of wonder and beauty. It's no surprise, then, to find that it can be applied in innumerable ways to give the same fantastic charm, simultaneously peaceful and lively, to our creations. This volume explores this idea, imbuing a set of five quilts with every portion of the spectrum short of a pot of gold.

Your Divine Colorprint--The Color Continuum Revealed

Author: Linda Kearney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735120706
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
This practical guide is designed to: Broaden your understanding of the many ways color affects you on a personal level. Introduce you to the idea that there is a pattern that defines you.Clarify the 12 Color Seasons.Provide tips and techniques for looking terrific every day. Influence the way you see yourself.

The Mathematical Coloring Book

Author: Alexander Soifer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387746420
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 619

Book Description
This book provides an exciting history of the discovery of Ramsey Theory, and contains new research along with rare photographs of the mathematicians who developed this theory, including Paul Erdös, B.L. van der Waerden, and Henry Baudet.

Colonial Complexions

Author: Sharon Block
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how colonists transformed observable characteristics into racist reality. Building on her expertise in digital humanities, Block repurposes these well-known historical sources to newly highlight how daily language called race and identity into being before the rise of scientific racism. In the eighteenth century, a multitude of characteristics beyond skin color factored into racial assumptions, and complexion did not have a stable or singular meaning. Colonists justified a race-based slave labor system not by opposing black and white but by accumulating differences in the bodies they described: racism was made real by marking variation from a norm on some bodies, and variation as the norm on others. Such subtle systemizations of racism naturalized enslavement into bodily description, erased Native American heritage, and privileged life history as a crucial marker of free status only for people of European-based identities. Colonial Complexions suggests alternative possibilities to modern formulations of racial identities and offers a precise historical analysis of the beliefs behind evolving notions of race-based differences in North American history.

Latinas in the United States, set

Author: Vicki L. Ruiz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253111692
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 909

Book Description
Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. The encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, is the first comprehensive gathering of scholarship on Latinas. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential reference for decades to come. In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life. From mestizo settlement, pioneer life, and diasporic communities, the encyclopedia details the contributions of women as settlers, comadres, and landowners, as organizers and nuns. More than 200 scholars explore the experiences of Latinas during and after EuroAmerican colonization and conquest; the early-19th-century migration of Puerto Ricans and Cubans; 20th-century issues of migration, cultural tradition, labor, gender roles, community organization, and politics; and much more. Individual biographical entries profile women who have left their mark on the historical and cultural landscape. With more than 300 photographs, Latinas in the United States offers a mosaic of historical experiences, detailing how Latinas have shaped their own lives, cultures, and communities through mutual assistance and collective action, while confronting the pressures of colonialism, racism, discrimination, sexism, and poverty. "Meant for scholars and general readers, this is a great resource on Latinas and historical topics connected with them." -- curledup.com

The Republic of Color

Author: Michael Rossi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665186X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
The Republic of Color delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America. For a nation in the grip of profound economic, cultural, and demographic crises, the standardization of color became a means of social reform—a way of sculpting the American population into one more amenable to the needs of the emerging industrial order. Delineating color was also a way to characterize the vagaries of human nature, and to create ideal structures through which those humans would act in a newly modern American republic. Michael Rossi’s compelling history goes far beyond the culture of the visual to show readers how the control and regulation of color shaped the social contours of modern America—and redefined the way we see the world.

Irregular Atomic Systems and Quantum Chaos

Author: Jean-Claude Gay
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9782881244827
Category : Atoms
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Deals with the study of irregular behavior in few-body systems, with emphasis on the aspects of atomic physics. Areas covered include the atom in a magnetic field, microwave ionization of Rydberg atoms, and quasi-Wigner crystals in ion traps. All but one of the papers first appeared in volume 25 of the journal Comments on atomic and molecular physics. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Color of Citizenship

Author: Diego A. von Vacano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199368880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
Looking to the way that race has been conceived through the tradition of Latin American political thought, The Color of Citizenship examines the centrality of race in the making of modern citizenship. It posits race as synthetic, dynamic, and fluid - a concept that will have methodological, historical, and normative value for understanding race in other diverse societies.

AIC 2004 Color and Paints, Interim Meeting of the International Color Association, Proceedings

Author:
Publisher: Jose Luis Caivano
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description

Critical Discourse Studies and Technology

Author: Ian Roderick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472569512
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Making a new contribution to the developing field of multimodal critical discourse studies, Ian Roderick's book demonstrates how technologies that tend to be widely represented as innovative, or as simple pragmatic solutions, are always anchored in power relations and are therefore deeply ideological. A series of examples analysing technologies such as robotics, smart phones or bio-medicine, their functioning and uses, as well as their representations in the media, show that these are embedded within discourses that tell us about social and power relations, identities and political values. The book takes a tour of everyday technologies and how they are represented in different settings. A Disney theme park attraction showing how technology has improved family life makes many assumptions about what is natural in terms of interpersonal relations, pleasure and satisfaction. Advertisements that represent robot workers inform us about the kinds of worker-management relations now characterising work places. Roderick looks at the way that technologies, while often represented as divorced from their production and maintenance, as objects of wonder, need to be seen within a fabric of social relations that tends to be supressed from how we see them as part of a wider technological fetishism. Engaging with existing theories of technology, the book argues that we must take a more interdisciplinary approach to avoid the pitfalls of social constructivism and technological determinism. Our experiences of technologies are shaped through the relationship between knowledge, practices and institutional forms.