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Martha Clippinger : sour-sweet / by Clippinger, Martha,1983-artist.(CARDINAL)885559; Westfall, Stephen,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)223845; Elizabeth Harris Gallery,issuing body,host institution.(CARDINAL)265254;
"In sour-sweet, the artist presents her painted wood constructions and handwoven wool tapetes together, revealing varied surface textures and shifts in scale across her practice. Clippinger's rhythmic arrangements of colors result from an improvisational and adaptive process. With her painted wood constructions, each object embodies a chance encounter with singular materials. Clippinger embraces the inherent imperfections of the found materials and integrates them into the off-kilter structures of her designs. These irregular geometries inspire two-dimensional designs that are translated into wool by weavers Licha González Ruiz and Agustín Contreras López of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico." -- Summary taken from exhibition webpage:"Born and raised in Columbus, Georgia, Martha Clippinger received a BA from Fordham University and an MFA from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a 2017 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council, a 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, and a 2013 Fulbright-Garcia Robles research grant completed in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has been a fellow at Kohler Arts & Industry, the Sam and Adele Golden Art Foundation, Artspace, MacDowell Colony, Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Her work has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and The Huffington Post, and is in public collections such as The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and The Columbus Museum. Clippinger is represented by Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York and Hodges Taylor in Charlotte, NC. She lives and works in Durham, North Carolina." -- Biography from:
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Clippinger, Martha, 1983-; Abstraction; Art, Abstract; Art, Modern; Geometry in art;
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Islamic geometric design / by Broug, Eric,author.(CARDINAL)557564;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-250) and index.Basic design principles -- Grids and polygons -- Fourfold geometric design -- Sixfold geometric design -- Fivefold geometric design -- Combined geometric design.Looking at mosques, madrasas, palaces and tombs from the 8th-19th centuries, Eric Broug analyzes and explains Islamic geometric designs in their historical and physical context. Chapters cover the main families of geometric design--fourfold, fivefold, and sixfold--as well as basic design principles, grids, polygons, and complex combined patterns. Includes an appendix on how to create designs and a glossary.
Subjects: Decoration and ornament, Architectural; Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts); Islamic decoration and ornament.; Geometry in art.; Islamic art.;
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Las formas [board book] / by Andrews, Sandrine,1971-author.;
"Este libro es una herramienta ideal para que los pequeños de la familia tengan su primer acercamiento al arte con ayuda de Piet Mondrian, Théo van Doesburg, Robert Delaunay, Sophie Taeuber y Vasili Kandinski. Por medio de un ingenioso mecanismo de papel que les permitirá jugar con los elementos de las imágenes descubrirán algunas de las formas geométricas que conforman obras emblemáticas de cada pintor."
Subjects: Board books.; Art, Modern; Geometry in art; Shapes; Spanish language materials.;
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Islamic art : recognizing geometric ideas in art / by Levy, Janey.(CARDINAL)344686;
Art of the Islamic world -- The role of geometry in Islamic art -- Circles, polygons, and stars -- Symmetry, patterns, and tessellations -- Creating your own geometric designs -- Math and meaning.1050LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Geometrical constructions in art; Geometry; Islamic art;
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M.C. Escher : from drawing to masterpiece / by Escher, M. C.(Maurits Cornelis),1898-1972.(CARDINAL)138460; Firos, Belinda.(CARDINAL)312789; Firos, Paul.(CARDINAL)312790;
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972; Drawing, Dutch; Geometry in art; Prints, Dutch;
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The first signs : my quest to unlock the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols / by Von Petzinger, Genevieve.(CARDINAL)412651;
Subjects: Von Petzinger, Genevieve; Paleolithic period; Glacial epoch; Signs and symbols; Symbolism in art; Geometry in art; Art, Prehistoric; Rock paintings; Social archaeology;
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The first signs : unlocking the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols / by Von Petzinger, Genevieve.(CARDINAL)412651;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger looks past the horses, bison, ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings and instead focuses on the abstract geometric images that accompany them. She offers her research on the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures--signs that have never really been studied or explained until now"--"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world--the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language. Imagine yourself as a caveman or woman. The place: Europe. The time: 25,000 years ago, the last Ice Age. In reality, you live in an open-air tent or a bone hut. But you also belong to a rich culture that creates art. In and around your cave paintings are handprints and dots, x's and triangles, parallel lines and spirals. Your people know what they mean. You also use them on tools and jewelry. And then you vanish--and with you, their meanings. Join renowned archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger on an Indiana Jones-worthy adventure from the open-air rock art sites of northern Portugal to the dark depths of a remote cave in Spain that can only be reached by sliding face-first through the mud. Von Petzinger looks past the beautiful horses, powerful bison, graceful ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings. Instead, she's obsessed with the abstract geometric images that accompany them, the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures--signs that have never really been studied or explained until now. Part travel journal, part popular science, part personal narrative, Von Petzinger's groundbreaking book starts to crack the code on the first form of graphic communication. It's in her blood, as this talented scientist's grandmother served as a code-breaker at Bletchley. Discernible patterns emerge that point to abstract thought and expression, and for the first time, we can begin to understand the changes that might have been happening inside the minds of our Ice Age ancestors--offering a glimpse of when they became us"--
Subjects: Travel writing.; Von Petzinger, Genevieve; Paleolithic period; Glacial epoch; Signs and symbols; Symbolism in art; Geometry in art; Art, Prehistoric; Rock paintings; Social archaeology;
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Fractals [videorecording] : hunting the hidden dimension / by Wallace, Melanie(Producer); Schwarz, Michael(Producer); Jersey, Bill.4pro,director.; Ross, Neil,1944-; Rife, Christopher.; Haptas, John.; Chater, John.; Catticus Corporation.(CARDINAL)198997; Kikim Media (Firm); PBS Home Video.(CARDINAL)218235; Quest Productions.(CARDINAL)178481; WGBH Educational Foundation.(CARDINAL)132712;
Fractal basics -- The Mandelbrot set -- On the defense -- Fractals in the body -- Nature's fractal nature.Editor, John Haptas ; director of photography, John Chater ; music, Christopher Rife.Narrator, Neil Ross."Nova takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of pioneering mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. Their remarkable findings are deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical and artistic innovation, stretching from the ecology of the rainforest to fashion design."--Container.DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
Subjects: Fractals.; Fractals in art.; Geometry.; Mathematics.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Educational films.;
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There's math in my art / by Bethea, Nikole Brooks,author.(CARDINAL)593616;
Can you find math in your art? Discover math in art through symmetry, geometry, and patterns in this STEAM based title.--Includes bibliographical references (page 24) and index.470LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Picture books.; Mathematics in art;
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Dragging away : queer abstraction in contemporary art / by Lancaster, Lex Morgan,1986-author.(CARDINAL)885119; Duke University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)290492;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index."Dragging Away argues that abstraction is a tactic of queering in contemporary art that contributes to critical politics of gender, sexuality, and race, while refusing oppressive representational logics. Focusing on the formal and material innovations of current queer and feminist artists, Lex Morgan Lancaster attends to their drag on certain loaded modernist strategies-the hard edge, the grid, color, and the readymade-in order to draw out their social and political capacities and relevance for the present. The book offers comparative analysis between modernist and mid-century abstract artworks and their contemporary interlocutors, demonstrating how abstraction does queer work through visual and material processes of dragging that expose the violence of abstraction while at the same time exploding processes of categorization and signification. Dragging Away makes a methodological intervention in the field of art history by combining a politically-driven formalist and materialist analysis with queer, feminist, and critical race theories in order to take these artists' formal and material experimentations seriously as social and political praxis"--
Subjects: Abstraction; Art and race.; Art and society; Art, Abstract; Art; Critical race theory; Feminism and art; Feminist theory; Homosexuality and art; Modernism (Art); Queer theory; Female gaze.; LGBTQ+ artists.; LGBTQ+ arts.; Queer art.; Queer artists.; Queer gaze.; Transgender art.; Transgender artists.; Critical race theory.; Feminist theory.; Queer theory.;
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