Seeing The Centre

Author : Alison French,Albert Namatjira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056658886

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Seeing the Centre by Alison French,Albert Namatjira Pdf

Albert Namatjira was a member of the Aranda people of Central Australia (now referred to as the Western Aranda or Arrernte language group). Following the success of his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1938, Namatjira became increasingly famous, with popular reproductions of his works being hung in countless Australian homes. The first prominent Indigenous artist to achieve household recognition in a modern idiom, Namatjira subsequently became a tragic figure set against the background of assimilation debates and entangled aesthetic prejudices of the time. His art became virtually ignored by the mainstream of the Australian art world. This book, especially commissioned by the Gordon Darling Foundation and the National Gallery for the centenary of Namatjira's birth, redresses this neglect.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141917986

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Ways of Seeing by John Berger Pdf

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

Author : Alison French,Albert Namatjira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822032095184

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Seeing the Centre by Alison French,Albert Namatjira Pdf

Albert Namatjira was a member of the Aranda people of Central Australia (now referred to as the Western Aranda or Arrernte language group). Following the success of his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1938, Namatjira became increasingly famous, with popular reproductions of his works being hung in countless Australian homes. The first prominent Indigenous artist to achieve household recognition in a modern idiom, Namatjira subsequently became a tragic figure set against the background of assimilation debates and entangled aesthetic prejudices of the time. His art became virtually ignored by the mainstream of the Australian art world. This book, especially commissioned by the Gordon Darling Foundation and the National Gallery for the centenary of Namatjira's birth, redresses this neglect.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Karma, New York
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1949172325

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Matthew Wong: Blue by Anonim Pdf

Luminous nocturnal paintings from acclaimed painter Matthew Wong's final exhibition This volume compiles oil and gouaches by the self-taught Canadian painter Matthew Wong (1984-2019) developed for his 2019 solo exhibition Matthew Wong: Blue at Karma Gallery in New York. The dusky and nocturnal scenes were intended as the coda to a previous series of day-lit oil and gouache paintings. All share a watery treatment, awash in blue and its proximal colors. For this body of work, completed over the past year of his life, Wong concerned himself with the "blueness of blue": its fluidity, its affect, and its uncanny ability to "activate nostalgia, both personal and collective." With the sensibility of a flaneur, Wong's semi-fictional subject matter refers to the sights he witnessed on walks while traveling in Sicily with his mother during the fall of 2018 and winter of 2019. The fully illustrated catalog is introduced with a short story titled 1996-2001, 2020, n.d., by Brad Phillips.

Author : Hedley Herbert Finlayson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UCAL:$B567022

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The Red Centre by Hedley Herbert Finlayson Pdf

Author : Ian Brodie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773553781

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At the Centre of Government by Ian Brodie Pdf

"Canada's prime minister is a dictator." "The Sun King of Canadian government." "More powerful than any other chief executive of any other democratic country." These kinds of claims are frequently made about Canada's leader – especially when the prime minister's party holds a majority government in Parliament. But is there any truth to these arguments? At the Centre of Government not only presents a comprehensively researched work on the structure of political power in Canada but also offers a first-hand view of the inner workings of the Canadian federal government. Ian Brodie – former chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former executive director of the Conservative Party of Canada – argues that the various workings of the Prime Minister's Office, the Privy Council Office, the cabinet, parliamentary committees, and the role of backbench members of Parliament undermine propositions that the prime minister has evolved into the role of an autocrat, with unchecked control over the levers of political power. He corrects the dominant thinking that Canadian prime ministers hold power without limits over their party, caucus, cabinet, Parliament, the public service, and the policy agenda. Citing examples from his time in government and from Canadian political history he argues that in Canada's evolving political system, with its roots in the pre-Confederation era, there are effective checks on executive power, and that the golden age of Parliament and the backbencher is likely now. Drawing on a vast body of work on governance and the role of the executive branch of government, At the Centre of Government is a fact-based primer on the workings of Canadian government and sobering second thoughts about many proposals for reform.

Author : William Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Alhasia
ISBN : UOM:39015011647628

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Aphasia and the Cerebral Speech Mechanism by William Elder Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183020076974

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The Canadian Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Banff Centre for the Arts
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262133148

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Immersed in Technology by Banff Centre for the Arts Pdf

Produced as part of the Art and Virtual Environment Project conducted at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Canada from 1991 to 1994.

Author : Jonathan Boston,Simon Chapple
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781927277140

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Child Poverty in New Zealand by Jonathan Boston,Simon Chapple Pdf

Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple have written the definitive book on child poverty in New Zealand. Dr Russell Wills, Children’s Commissioner Between 130,000 and 285,000 New Zealand children live in poverty, depending on the measure used. These disturbing figures are widely discussed, yet often poorly understood. If New Zealand does not have ‘third world poverty’, what are these children actually experiencing? Is the real problem not poverty but simply poor parenting? How does New Zealand compare globally and what measures of poverty and hardship are most relevant here? What are the consequences of this poverty for children, their families and society? Can we afford to reduce child poverty and, if we can, how? Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple look hard at these questions, drawing on available national and international evidence and speaking to an audience across the political spectrum. Their analysis highlights the strong and urgent case for addressing child poverty in New Zealand. Crucially, the book goes beyond illustrating the scale of this challenge, and why it must be addressed, to identifying real options for reducing child poverty. A range of practical and achievable policies is presented, alongside candid discussion of their strengths and limitations. These proposals for improving the lives of disadvantaged children deserve wide public debate and make this a vitally important book for all New Zealanders.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317600398

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Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

This book surveys the development of geo-political thought in the twentieth century and relates it to international political developments, as well as examining how sound geopolitical theories are. It considers the work of Mackinder, Hartshorne, and Haushofer and his disciples in Germany who influenced the Nazis; and of more recent developments including Marxist geographical writing.

Author : Dario Gamboni
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780234083

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Paul Gauguin by Dario Gamboni Pdf

French artist Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) once reproached the Impressionists for searching “around the eye and not at the mysterious centre of thought.” But what did he mean by this enigmatic phrase? In this innovative investigation into Gauguin’s art and thought, Dario Gamboni illuminates Gauguin’s quest for this “mysterious centre” and offers a fresh look at the artist’s output in all media—from ceramics and sculptures to prints, paintings, and his large corpus of writings. Foregrounding Gauguin’s conscious use of ambiguity, Gamboni unpacks what the artist called the “language of the listening eye.” Gamboni shows that the interaction between perception, cognition, and imagination was at the core of Gauguin’s work, and he traces a line of continuity in them that has been previously overlooked. Emulating Gauguin’s wide-ranging curiosity with literature, psychology, theology, and the natural sciences—not to mention the whole of art history—this richly illustrated book provides new insight into the life and works of this well-known yet little understood artist.

Author : Peter Brooker,Peter Widdowson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317903567

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A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory by Peter Brooker,Peter Widdowson Pdf

This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both within and outside the literary canon. Four example essays are included for each author/text presented.

Author : Tariq Ali
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786637062

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The Extreme Centre by Tariq Ali Pdf

Against the centre ground Since 1989, politics has been a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wideranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and events that have informed this development across the world. It is an investigation that reaches its logical conclusion with the presidency of Donald Trump, the success of En Marche! in France, and the dominance of Merkel’s Germany throughout Europe. In this fully updated edition of The Extreme Centre, Ali considers recent events that suggest, despite everything, that there is room for hope. He finds promise in Latin America and at the edges of Europe. Emerging parties in Scotland, Greece, and Spain, formed out of the 2008 crisis, are offering new promise for democracy. Even in the UK, with the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, there are indications that the hegemony of the centre may be weaker than imagined.

Author : Mark Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781134442799

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Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience by Mark Fox Pdf

Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death is a dramatic and sustained response to decades of research into near-death experiences (NDEs) - the first to credibly bridge the gap between the competing factions of science and spirituality.