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If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? [large print] my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating / by Alda, Alan,1936-author.(CARDINAL)273282;
Relating : it's the cake -- Theater games with engineers -- The heart and head of communication -- The mirror exercise -- Observation games -- Making it clear and vivid -- Reading minds : Helen Riess and Matt Lerner -- Teams -- Total listening starts with where they are -- Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom -- Training doctors to have more empathy -- My life as a lab rat -- Working alone on building empathy -- Dark empathy -- Reading the mind of the reader -- Teaching and the flame challenge -- Emotion makes it memorable -- Story and the brain -- Commonality -- Jargon and the curse of knowledge -- The improvisation of daily life."In his wry and wise voice, Alda reflects on moments of miscommunication in his own life, when an absence of understanding resulted in problems both big and small. He guides us through his discoveries, showing how communication can be improved through learning to relate to the other person: listening with our eyes, looking for clues in another's face, using the power of a compelling story, avoiding jargon, and reading another person so well that you become "in sync" with them, and know what they are thinking and feeling--especially when you're talking about the hard stuff. Drawing on improvisation training, theater, and storytelling techniques from a life of acting, and with insights from recent scientific studies, Alda describes ways we can build empathy, nurture our innate mind-reading abilities, and improve the way we relate and talk with others. Exploring empathy-boosting games and exercises, If I Understood You is a funny, thought-provoking guide that can be used by all of us, in every aspect of our lives--with our friends, lovers, and families, with our doctors, in business settings, and beyond"--Goodreads.com.
Subjects: Large print books.; Interpersonal communication.; Interpersonal relations.;
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The Italian comedy : the improvisation, scenarios, lives, attributes, portraits, and masks of the illustrious characters of the commedia dell'arte / by Duchartre, Pierre-Louis,1894-1983.; Weaver, Randolph T.;
Bibliography: pages 349-360.
Subjects: Commedia dell'arte.;
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Of salt and spirit: black quilters in the American South / by Plummer, Sharbreon S.(CARDINAL)856176; Cross, Lauren T.,contributor; Mason, Danielle,contributor; Atlas, Gustina,contributor; Nash, Geraldine,contributor; Lovell, Precious,contributor; Jasper, Lydia,contributor; Ford, Gil,photographer; Mississippi Museum of Art,;
"Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South surveys some of the richly diverse quiltmaking traditions maintained by Black women in the US South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawn from the Mississippi Museum of Art's holdings, the works featured in this publication highlight a major 2022 gift of quilts collected by renowned Black folklife documentarian Roland L. Freeman. Over sixty handmade quilts, quilters' portraits, and related objects together emphasize the importance of Mississippi and the broader South as foundational sites of knowledge production and artistic development. In earlier studies of African American quilters, Freeman observed that popular interest in quilts had resulted in "insufficient attention to who these quilters were, what quilting meant in their lives and what it represented within their community." While quilt revivals in the 1970s and '80s generated renewed interest in how geography and autobiography inform quiltmaking, there has been minimal consideration of the nuanced roles that race, gender, and class play in shaping the public's understanding of quilting traditions and techniques. Prevailing scholarship continues to frame Black southern quiltmaking as an exclusively improvisational art form. Of Salt and Spirit intervenes in this narrative by foregrounding the complex relational and archival practices of Black women quilters who cultivate networks of mutual support and preserve personal histories around and through their craft"-- Provided by distributor
Subjects: African American quiltmakers; Crafts and hobbies / General; Quilting; Quilts; Textile crafts;
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Archipiélago Puerto Rico : abstracciones (im)posibles. by Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (San Juan, P.R.)issuing body,organizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)899444; Pérez, Marta Mabel,1968-contributor.(CARDINAL)899458; López Quintero, Juan Carlos,1963-contributor.(CARDINAL)899491; Torres-Arzola, Raquel,contributor.; Segarra Ríos, Abdiel D.,presenter,author.; Ramos Borges, Melissa M.,presenter,author.; Ortiz Miranda, Annette S.,presenter,author.; del Fresno-Guillem, Ruth,presenter,author.; Amor García, Rita,presenter,author.; Renart González, Diego,presenter,author.; León, Javier,presenter,author.; Quiñones Otal, Emiliapresenter,author.(CARDINAL)899460; Martínez Rivera, Yuiza Turey,presenter,author.; Pizarro Latorre, Marili,presenter,author.; Alejandro, Zuleyka,presenter,author.; Pagán Vélez, Alexandrapresenter,author.(CARDINAL)899461; Ribeiro, Daniela Maurapresenter,author.(CARDINAL)899462; Espinel, Mónicapresenter,author.(CARDINAL)899463; Santa Olalla, Pablo,presenter,author.; Parrilla Rodríguez, Eliani,presenter,author.; Jornadas de arte, investigación y creación multidisciplinaria del Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico(1 :2021 :San Juan, P.R.);
Includes bibliographical references.[Text] / Marta Mabel Pérez -- [Text] / Juan Carlos López Quintero -- [Text] / Raquel Torres-Arzola -- Confrontar la nación: un prólogo a las actas de las 1as Jornadas de arte, investigación y creación multidisciplinaria = Confronting the Nation: a Prologue to the Records of the 1st Art, Research, and Multidisciplinary Creation Conference / Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos -- Fe de erratas: La abstracción y la vanguardia artística en Puerto Rico = Erratum: Abstract and Avant-Garde Art in Puerto Rico / Melissa M. Ramos Borges, PhD -- Visibilizar lo abstracto y lo liminal como estrategia de conservación.= Visibilizing the Abstract and the Liminal as a Strategy for Conservation / Dra. Annette S. Ortiz Miranda; Dra. Ruth del Fresno-Guillem; Dra. Rita Amor García -- El origen de la abstracción en la República Dominicana y su recepción estética y política durante la Era de Trujillo = The Origins of Abstraction and its Aesthetic and Political Reception in the Dominican Republic of the Trujillo Era / Diego Renart González -- Primer portafolio gráfico abstracto de la historia del arte de Puerto Rico = The First Portfolio of Abstract Prints in Puerto Rican Arts History / Emilia Quiñones Otal, PhD -- La Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas: dispositivo precursor del arte abstracto en Venezuela = The University City of Caracas: Precursor Device of Abstract Art in Venezuela / Javier León -- La belleza de lo invisible: fotografía y abstracción en la ciudad = The Beauty of the Invisible: Photography and Abstraction in the City / Yuiza Turey Martínez Rivera -- Nunca es demasiado tarde / It is Never Too Late / Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos -- Paralelismos metodológicos entre la pintura abstracta y la improvisación corporal: un acercamiento desde la práctica autodidacta = Methodological Parallelisms Between Abstract Painting and Movement Improvisation: an Approach from an Autodidactic Practice / Marili Pizarro Latorre, MA -- Lo Informe = Formlessness / Zuleyka Alejandro -- Experiencia poética: una mirada a la obra de Elizabeth Magaly Robles = A Poetic Experience: a Glimpse of the Work of Elizabeth Magaly Robles / Alexandra Pagán Vélez -- Lo obra de Regina Silveira en el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez = The Work of Regina Silveira at the Mayagüez campus of the University of Puerto Rico / Daniela Maura Ribeiro -- La oportuna relación entre Olga Dueñas y el vanguardismo de Puerto Rico = The Opportune Realtionship between Olga Dueñas and the Avant-Garde Movement in Puerto Rico / Mónica Espinel de Reich -- Del concretismo al conceptualismo: Julio Plaza en Mayagüez, 1969-1973 = From Concretism to conceptualism: Julio Plaza in Mayagüez, 1969-1973 / Pablo Santa Olalla -- El Grupo FRENTE: movimiento de renovación social del arte abstracto en el Puerto Rico de los an̋os setenta = The FRENTE Group: Movement for the Social Renovation of Abstract Art in Puerto Rico in the 1970s / Eliani Parrilla Rodríguez
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Art, Puerto Rican; Art, Puerto Rican; Art, Caribbean; Art, Caribbean; Art, Central American; Art, Central American;
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Creativity and cultural improvisation / by Hallam, Elizabeth,1967-(CARDINAL)306184; Ingold, Tim,1948-(CARDINAL)306183;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Creativity and cultural improvisation : an introduction / Tim Ingold and Elizabeth Hallam -- Improvisation and the art of making things stick / Karin Barber -- Structure, innovation and agency in pattern construction : the Kōlam of southern India / Amar S. Mall -- Creating or performing words? observations on contemporary Japanese calligraphy / Fuyubi Nakamura -- Creativity, subjectivity and the dynamic of possessive individualism / James Leach -- Locating authorship : creativity and borrowing on the writing of ethnography and the production of anthropological knowledge / Elizabeth Cory-Pearce -- Revolution as a convention : rebellion and political change in Kabylia / Judith Scheele -- "You knit me together in my mother's womb" : English Baptists and assisted procreation / Jeanette Edwards -- Performing the world : agency, anticipation and creativity / Kirsten Hastrup -- "Tradition and the individual talent" : T.S. Eliot for anthropologists / Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Back to the future : temporality, narrative and the ageing self / Catherine Degnen -- From documenting culture to experimenting with cultural phenomena : using fine art pedagogies with visual anthropology students / Amanda Ravetz -- Creativity in advertising, fiction and ethnography / Robey Callahan and Trevor Stack -- (Re)constructing the field through sound : actor-networks, ethnographic representation and "radio elicitation" in south-western Uganda / Richard Vokes -- A world without anthropology / Clara Mafra.
Subjects: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Culture.;
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Usborne The children's book of art / by Dickins, Rosieauthor.(CARDINAL)420648; Mayer, Uwe,illustrator.(CARDINAL)329512;
An introduction to famous paintings includes facts about the artists and their lives, and how they created their work, to help beginners understand what art is and why people think it is important.Grades 4-6
Subjects: Art appreciation; Art;
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Vasily Kandinsky : around the circle / by Bashkoff, Tracey R.,editor.(CARDINAL)227076; Fontanella, Megan M.,editor.(CARDINAL)782998; Kandinsky, Wassily,1866-1944.(CARDINAL)142003; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,issuing body.(CARDINAL)142934;
Includes bibliographical references.Kandinsky and Radical Ecology: States of Mind, States of Abstraction / Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten -- Why Did Kandinsky Improvise? / George E. Lewis -- "We Travel Together": Kandinsky and the Bauhaus Community / Megan Fontanella."One of the foremost artistic innovators of abstraction in the twentieth century, Vasily Kandinsky sought to liberate painting from its ties to the natural world and promote the spiritual in art. This richly illustrated publication looks at Kandinsky anew, through a critical lens, reframing our understanding of this vital figure of European modernism, who was also a prolific aesthetic theorist and writer. A series of thematic essays considers his engagement with avant-garde artistic communities including the Bauhaus, his relationship to improvisation and music, his travels in Europe and Russia, and the influences behind his self-declared anarchist mode of abstraction, among other topics. Tracing Kandinsky's life and work through his years in Moscow, several cities in Germany, and Paris, the texts offer striking new insights into an artist whose creative production and style were intimately tied to a sense of place-and displacement-and evolved amid the political and social upheavals catalyzed by the Russian Revolution and World Wars I and II. Kandinsky's history is closely linked to that of the Guggenheim Museum. Solomon R. Guggenheim began collecting the artist's work in 1929; a year later, they would meet at the Bauhaus, in Dessau. This book features more than half of the museum's deep holdings of works by Kandinsky, presenting the full arc of his artistic development and career. Included are paintings in oil and oil with sand, reverse-glass paintings, as well as woodcuts, watercolors, and drawings on paper. An illustrated chronicle of Kandinsky's life and career, including selected exhibitions and publications, rounds out the volume"--
Subjects: Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944;
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Jason Moran / by Edwards, Adrienne(Art critic),editor,curator.(CARDINAL)782756; Jackson, Danielle A.,1987-curator.(CARDINAL)784199; Bither, Philip,contributor.(CARDINAL)287877; Moran, Jason,artist.(CARDINAL)784200; Walker Art Center,organizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)150439; Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.),host institution.(CARDINAL)131693; Wexner Center for the Arts,host institution.(CARDINAL)282635; Whitney Museum of American Art,host institution.(CARDINAL)139816;
Includes bibliographical references.This is the first in-depth publication to investigate the practice of pianist, composer and visual artist Jason Moran, whose work bridges the fields of visual arts and performing arts. As a 'torchbearer for jazz,' Moran challenges traditional forms of musical composition; his experimental works merge object and sound, underscoring the theatricality of both mediums. Moran, who often collaborates with prominent visual artists such Joan Jonas, Stan Douglas, Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon, pushes beyond the conventions of sculpture and the concert stage while continuing to embrace the essential tenets of jazz and improvisation.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Moran, Jason; African American musicians; African American jazz musicians; African American composers;
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Painting your way out of a corner : the art of getting unstuck / by Barry, Barbara Diane.(CARDINAL)404983;
Includes bibliographical references (page 184) and index.Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Part I: The Tools -- Chapter 1: Keeping a Visual Journal -- Chapter 2: The Mindset-"I" is for Improvise -- Chapter 3: Getting Started -- Chapter 4: Coloring 101 -- Part II: The Practice -- Chapter 5: The Unplanned Painting -- Chapter 6: The Language of Images -- Chapter 7: Oops, Ouch, and Aha! -- Chapter 8: Letting Go -- Chapter 9: Myth, Magic, and Psyche -- Chapter 10: Working the Edge -- Chapter 11: It's Over When It's Over -- Afterword: The Journey Continues -- Resources Section -- Materials -- Asking More Questions -- Additional Exercises and Prompts -- Attributions for Chapter Opening Quotes -- Endnotes -- Suggested Reading -- Acknowledgments."Based on author Barbara Diane Barry's popular course Art for Self-Discovery and supported by research in psychology and the science of brain function, PAINTING YOUR WAY OUT OF A CORNER guides readers through the process of overcoming blocks and expressing themselves freely in painting. Through a series of exercises that emphasize improvisation and risk-taking, readers will learn how to quiet their inner critics and strengthen their creativity"--"In the tradition of The Artist's Way, an exciting program that introduces painting as a jumping-off point for realizing one's full creative potential in all areas of life. Based on author Barbara Diane Barry's popular course Art for Self-Discovery and supported by research in psychology and the science of brain function, Painting Your Way Out of a Corner guides readers through the process of overcoming blocks and expressing themselves freely in painting. Through a series of exercises that emphasize improvisation and risk-taking, readers will learn how to quiet their inner critics and strengthen their creativity. The more we learn to play and accept whatever appears on the page, the more we are able to try new things in life. Readers will be inspired by Barry's delightful full-color paintings featured throughout the book. "--
Subjects: Artist's block.; Painting; Painting;
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Messy : the power of disorder to transform our lives / by Harford, Tim,1973-author.(CARDINAL)472184;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index.Messiness adds benefits to our lives, so why do we resist the concept so? Harford uses research from neuroscience, psychology and social science to explain why disorder, confusion, and disarray are actually lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other. He shows that the human inclination for tidiness can mask a deep and debilitating fragility that keep us from innovation.
Subjects: Creative ability.; Resilience (Personality trait); Orderliness;
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