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David Smith: The Forgings

Hal Foster
David Smith The Forgings Book PDF

Author : Hal Foster
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847843930

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David Smith: The Forgings by Hal Foster Pdf

The Forgings, the groundbreaking series of industrially forged steel sculptures that the artist produced in 1955 and 1956, are brought together in one book for the first time, alongside complementary sketchbook drawings of the sculptures. This catalogue, documenting an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, New York, is the first time that all ten Forgings have been on view together since 1956. The sculptures are accompanied by a series of works on paper leading up to The Forgings, as well as sketchbook drawings of the completed sculptures. With the The Forgings, David Smith translated the spontaneity of a brushed line drawing into sculptural form, manipulating thin steel bars to achieve expressive vertical abstractions. The Forgings were unprecedented as works created solely through an industrial machined process, but were perhaps even more radical as pre-Minimalist forms intended to provoke discrete responses in each viewer.

The Invisible Crown

David E. Smith
The Invisible Crown Book PDF

Author : David E. Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442669123

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The Invisible Crown by David E. Smith Pdf

The Crown is not only Canada’s oldest continuing political institution, but also its most pervasive, affecting the operation of Parliament and the legislatures, the executive, the bureaucracy, the courts, and federalism. However, many consider the Crown to be obscure and anachronistic. David E. Smith’s The Invisible Crown was one of the first books to study the role of the Crown in Canada, and remains a significant resource for the unique perspective it offers on the Crown’s place in politics. The Invisible Crown traces Canada’s distinctive form of federalism, with highly autonomous provinces, to the Crown’s influence. Smith concludes that the Crown has greatly affected the development of Canadian politics due to the country’s societal, geographic, and economic conditions. Praised by the Globe and Mail’s Michael Valpy as “a thoroughly lucid, scholarly explanation of how the Canadian constitutional monarchy works,” it is bolstered by a new foreword by the author speaking to recent events involving the Crown and Canadian politics, notably the prorogation of Parliament in 2008.

On Christian Teaching

David I. Smith
On Christian Teaching Book PDF

Author : David I. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467450645

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On Christian Teaching by David I. Smith Pdf

Christian teachers have long been thinking about what content to teach, but little scholarship has been devoted to how faith forms the actual process of teaching. Is there a way to go beyond Christian perspectives on the subject matter and think about the teaching itself as Christian? In this book David I. Smith shows how faith can and should play a critical role in shaping pedagogy and the learning experience.

Caravaggio

Mark K. Smith,Mark David Smith
Caravaggio Book PDF

Author : Mark K. Smith,Mark David Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 189658005X

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Caravaggio by Mark K. Smith,Mark David Smith Pdf

An historical novel for teens based on events in the life of Caravaggio.

The Fields of David Smith

Candida N. Smith,Irving Sandler,Mark Di Suvero
The Fields of David Smith Book PDF

Author : Candida N. Smith,Irving Sandler,Mark Di Suvero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0960627057

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The Fields of David Smith by Candida N. Smith,Irving Sandler,Mark Di Suvero Pdf

Looks at David Smiths sculptural work

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David J. Smith
If Book PDF

Author : David J. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 1925059553

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If... by David J. Smith Pdf

Imagine if you could condense all 3.5 billion years of life on Earth into just one hour. If you did, the dinosaurs wouldn?t show up until 56 minutes into the hour, and they?d be gone three minutes later. Modern humans (the ones we are related to) would amble into view at the very end of the hour, with just 0.2 seconds to spare.

Good Guys

David G. Smith,W. Brad Johnson
Good Guys Book PDF

Author : David G. Smith,W. Brad Johnson
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633698734

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Good Guys by David G. Smith,W. Brad Johnson Pdf

The key to advancing gender equality? Men. Women are at a disadvantage. At home, they often face an unequal division of household chores and childcare, and in the workplace, they deal with lower pay, lack of credit for their contributions, roadblocks to promotion, sexual harassment, and more. And while organizations are looking to address these issues, too many gender-inclusion initiatives focus on how women themselves should respond, reinforcing the perception that these are "women's issues" and that men—often the most influential stakeholders in an organization—don't need to be involved. Gender-in-the-workplace experts David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson counter this perception. In this important book, they show that men have a crucial role to play in promoting gender equality at work. Research shows that when men are deliberately engaged in gender-inclusion programs, 96 percent of women in those organizations perceive real progress in gender equality, compared with only 30 percent of women in organizations without strong male engagement. Good Guys is the first practical, research-based guide for how to be a male ally to women in the workplace. Filled with firsthand accounts from both men and women, and tips for getting started, the book shows how men can partner with their female colleagues to advance women's leadership and equality by breaking ingrained gender stereotypes, overcoming unconscious biases, developing and supporting the talented women around them, and creating productive and respectful working relationships with women.

David Smith

David Smith
David Smith Book PDF

Author : David Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520291874

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David Smith by David Smith Pdf

"This comprehensive sourcebook is destined to become a lasting and definitive resource on the art and aesthetic philosophy of the American artist David Smith (1906-1965). A pioneer of twentieth-century modernism, Smith was renowned for the expansive formal and conceptual ambitions of his broadly diverse and inventive welded-steel abstractions. His groundbreaking achievements drew freely on cubism, surrealism, and constructivism, profoundly influencing later movements such as minimalism and environmental art. By radically challenging older conventions of monolithic figuration and refuting arbitrary distinctions between painters and sculptors, Smith asserted sculpture's equal role in advancing modern art. A compilation of Smith's poems, sketchbook notes, essays, lectures, letters to the editor, reviews, and interviews, these previously unpublished texts underscore the varied ways in which his writing functioned as a means to examine and articulate his private identity and to promote the social ideals that made him a key participant in contemporary discourses surrounding modernism, art and politics, and sculptural aesthetics. All the documents in David Smith: collected writings, lectures, and interviews have been newly corrected against the original manuscripts, typescripts, and audiotapes. Each text in this collection is annotated with historical and contextual information that reflects Smith's own process of continually reviewing and revising his writings in response to his evolving aspirations as a visual artist."--Provided by publisher.

David Smith

Michael Brenson
David Smith Book PDF

Author : Michael Brenson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374604035

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David Smith by Michael Brenson Pdf

“An essential account of America’s greatest sculptor . . . [A] magnum opus.” —Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary Supplement The landmark biography of the inscrutable and brilliant David Smith, the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century. David Smith, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, did more than any other sculptor of his era to bring the plastic arts to the forefront of the American scene. Central to his project of reimagining sculptural experience was challenging the stability of any identity or position—Smith sought out the unbounded, unbalanced, and unexpected, creating works of art that seem to undergo radical shifts as the spectator moves from one point of view to another. So groundbreaking and prolific were his contributions to American art that by the time Smith was just forty years old, Clement Greenberg was already calling him “the greatest sculptor this country has produced.” Michael Brenson’s David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor is the first biography of this epochal figure. It follows Smith from his upbringing in the Midwest, to his heady early years in Manhattan, to his decision to establish a permanent studio in Bolton Landing in upstate New York, where he would create many of his most significant works—among them the Cubis, Tanktotems, and Zigs. It explores his at times tempestuous personal life, marked by marriages, divorces, and fallings-out as well as by deep friendships with fellow artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell. His wife Jean Freas described him as “salty and bombastic, jumbo and featherlight, thin-skinned and Mack Truck. And many more things.” This enormous, contradictory vitality was true of his work as well. He was a bricoleur, a master welder, a painter, a photographer, and a writer, and he entranced critics and attracted admirers wherever he showed his work. With this book, Brenson has contextualized Smith for a new generation and confirmed his singular place in the history of American art.

David Smith

Peter Stevens,Neil Wenman,Michelle White
David Smith Book PDF

Author : Peter Stevens,Neil Wenman,Michelle White
Publisher : Snoeck
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Sculpture, American
ISBN : 3864421837

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David Smith by Peter Stevens,Neil Wenman,Michelle White Pdf

For David Smith (19061965), widely considered one of the foremost American abstract expressionist sculptors of the 20th century, there was no conceptual boundary between mediums. Focusing on works from the late 1950s until the artists untimely death in 1965, this oversized but trim exhibition catalog charts the development of 21 stunning works couched among historic images culled from the artists archive. The physical qualities of Smiths welded-steel sculptures transmit a strong industrial presence but part of their impact and power derives from their gestural and tactile surfaces that give painting and drawing and sculpture the same visual impact and spatial weight. Smith paved the way for such artists as John Chamberlain, Mark di Suvero and Richard Serra by moving the site of sculptures construction from the 19th-century confines of the artists atelier and fine-art foundry into the expansive, industrial context of the 20th century. Essay by Menil Collection curator Michelle White.

David Smith in Two Dimensions

Sarah Hamill
David Smith in Two Dimensions Book PDF

Author : Sarah Hamill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520280342

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David Smith in Two Dimensions by Sarah Hamill Pdf

How does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In David Smith in Two Dimensions, Sarah Hamill broaches this question through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American sculptor David Smith (1906Ð1965). Smith was a modernist known for radically shifting the terms of sculpture, a medium traditionally defined by casting, modeling, and carving. He was the first to use industrial welding as a sustained technique for large-scale sculpture, influencing a generation of minimalists to come. What is less known about Smith is his use of the camera to document his own sculptures as well as everyday objects, spaces, and bodies. His photographs of his sculptures were published in countless exhibition catalogs, journals, and newspapers, often as anonymous illustrations. Far from being neutral images, these photographs direct a pictorial encounter with spatial form and structure the public display of his work. David Smith in Two Dimensions looks at the sculptorÕs adoption of unconventional backdrops, alternative vantage points, and unusual lighting effects and exposures to show how he used photography to dramatize and distance objects. This comprehensive and penetrating account also introduces SmithÕs expansive archive of copy prints, slides, and negatives, many of which are seen here for the first time. Hamill proposes a new understanding of SmithÕs sculpture through photography, exploring issues that are in turn vital to discourses of modern sculpture, sculptural aesthetics, and postwar art. In SmithÕs photography, we see an artist moving fluidly between media to define what a sculptural object was and how it would be encountered publicly.

If the World Were a Village

David J. Smith
If the World Were a Village Book PDF

Author : David J. Smith
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781553377320

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If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith Pdf

This bestseller is newly revised with updated statistics, new activities and completely new material on food security, energy and health. By shrinking the planet down to a village of just 100 people, children will discover how to grow up global and establish their own place in the world village.

David Smith in Italy

David Smith,PradaMilanoarte (Gallery)
David Smith in Italy Book PDF

Author : David Smith,PradaMilanoarte (Gallery)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822023737604

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David Smith in Italy by David Smith,PradaMilanoarte (Gallery) Pdf

The late David Smith is regarded worldwide as one of the most important American sculptors. Through the photographs of Uga Mulas, "David Smith in Italy" documents the exhibition of his work as it was displayed at in Milan's dramatic PradaMilanoArte. The exhibition was comprised of works that were loaned by the most prestigious private and institutional collections in the United States, and was curated by Smith's daughter. It included 13 large sculptures, 24 mixed-media works, watercolors and several original photographs by Mulas. Smith's artistic relationship with Mulas (and indeed with Italy) dates back to 1962, when Smith created an exhibition for the Spoleto Two Worlds Festival and was photographed by Mulas.

The Deepest Dig

Mark David Smith
The Deepest Dig Book PDF

Author : Mark David Smith
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177147419X

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The Deepest Dig by Mark David Smith Pdf

A tenacious kid digs deep and makes important discoveries

Cowboy Presidents

David A. Smith
Cowboy Presidents Book PDF

Author : David A. Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780806169699

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Cowboy Presidents by David A. Smith Pdf

For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such different guises in the twentieth century—the progressive, forward-looking politics of Rough Rider president Teddy Roosevelt and the conservative, old-fashioned character and Cold War politics of Ronald Reagan? This is the conundrum at the heart of Cowboy Presidents, which explores the deployment and consequent transformation of the frontier myth by four U.S. presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Behind the shape-shifting of this myth, historian David A. Smith finds major events in American and world history that have made various aspects of the “Old West” frontier more relevant, and more useful, for promoting radically different political ideologies and agendas. And these divergent adaptations of frontier symbolism have altered the frontier myth. Theodore Roosevelt, with his vigorous pursuit of an activist federal government, helped establish a version of the frontier myth that today would be considered liberal. But then, Smith shows, a series of events from the Lyndon Johnson through Jimmy Carter presidencies—including Vietnam, race riots, and stagflation—seemed to give the lie to the progressive frontier myth. In the wake of these crises, Smith’s analysis reveals, the entire structure and popular representation of frontier symbols and images in American politics shifted dramatically from left to right, and from liberal to conservative, with profound implications for the history of American thought and presidential politics. The now popular idea that “frontier American” leaders and politicians are naturally Republicans with conservative ideals flows directly from the Reagan era. Cowboy Presidents gives us a new, clarifying perspective on how Americans shape and understand their national identity and sense of purpose; at the same time, reflecting on the essential mutability of a quintessentially national myth, the book suggests that the next iteration of the frontier myth may well be on the horizon.