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Materiality / by Lange-Berndt, Petra,editor.(CARDINAL)561161;

Includes bibliographical references and index.FORMLESS BLOBS AND TRASH FLOWS. Formless / Georges Bataille -- The poetics of softness / Max Kozloff -- Anti form / Robert Morris -- Plasticity: An art history of the mutable / Dietmar Rübel -- Michelangelo Pistoletto / Germano Celant -- On the aesthetics of ufology / Mike Kelley -- Junk: Art and the politics of trash / Gillian Whiteley -- On garbage: in conversation with Boris Groys / Ilya Kabakov -- Flow city: In conversation with Anne Doran / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Disjecta reliquae: The Tate Thames dig / Robert Williams -- Fetishism/Hoarding/Entropy / Nicolás Guagnini -- BODIES THAT MATTER. Bodies that matter / Judith Butler -- Beneath the skin: In conversation with Gene Swenson / Paul Thek -- Powers of horror / Julia Kristeva -- Aspects of feminist actionism / VALIE EXPORT -- The phobic object / Simon Taylor -- A purpose in liquidity / Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton -- Parts and whole: On Janine Antoni's Gnaw / Dan Cameron -- Strange fruit / Ann Temkin -- Interior structures / Ian Hunt -- Teresa Margolles: Primordial substances / Pascal Beausse -- The body: A material amongst other usable, questionable materials / ORLAN -- Counter laboratories, inverted suspects and latent signs / Paul Vanouse.Introduction : How to be complicit with materials / Petra Lange-Berndt -- FOLLOW THE MATERIALS. Material / Monika Wagner -- In conversation with James Putnam / Antony Gormely -- Gutai Manifesto / Jiro Yoshihara -- Wood: Figuring problems of material / Wolfgang Kemp -- A thousand plateaux / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- The order of material: Plasticities, malaises, survivals / Georges Didi-Huberman -- 'Truth' and 'Truth to materials' / Susan Hiller -- In conversation with Kara Rooney / Kara Walker -- THE LIVING FIRE OF LABOUR. Volatile, liquid, crystal / Esther Leslie -- Theory of the curse of the brush / Shozo Shimamoto -- Indifference of material in the work of Carl Andre and Robert Smithson / Dominic Rahtz -- Manifesto / Artur Barrio -- Theory of artistic work / Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm -- The alchemist's workshop / Pennina Barnett -- House in mud / Hilke Wagner -- Knitting for good! / Betsy Greer -- Statement / Romuald Hazoumè -- Chromophobic activism / Natasha Eaton.MATERIALITIES OF MEDIA. Understanding media / Marshall McLuhan -- 7360 Sukiyaki / Tony Conrad -- Les Immatériaux / Jean-François Lyotard -- Dematerialization / Christine Buci-Glucksmann -- Dematerialization, matériau, matériel / Jacques Derrida -- Form and material / Vilém Flusser -- Zeros + Ones : Digital women + the new technoculture / Sadie Plant -- Meeting the universe halfway / Karen Barad -- Who's afraid of the in-between? / Jens Hauser -- The materiality of impermanence / Kristine Marx -- In conversation with Francesco Manacorda / Simon Starling -- Uncreative writing / Kenneth Goldsmith -- The aesthetics of production / Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff.NATURE AND NATURE. The thing / Elizabeth Grosz -- A sedimentation of the mind: Earth projects / Robert Smithson -- In conversation with Craig Adcock / Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison -- The periodic table / Primo Levi -- Statement / Mel Chin -- in memory of the scottish forest / herman de vries -- Between the furniture and the building (Between a rock and a hard place) / Jimmie Durham -- Hans Haacke's earth samples for the Bundestag / Monika Wagner -- Making culture and weaving the world / Tim Ingold -- Atmospheric monument: In conversation with Ana Teixeira Pinto / Amy Balkin -- REMATERIALIZATION OF THE VOID. Blue Company, or Yves Klein reconsidered as world economy / Nicolas Bourriaud -- Plastic / Roland Barthes -- Foams / Dan Graham -- The demateriali-zation of art / Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler -- Ideas come out of objects: In conversation with Matthieu Copeland / Robert Barry -- Six years ... / Lucy R. Lippard -- After modern sculpture / Richard J. Williams -- The scatter: Sculpture as leftover / Briony Fer -- Line describing a cone and related films / Anthony McCall -- Dust: A history of the small and the invisible / Joseph A. Amato -- Blotting out architecture? : A fable in seven parts / Hubert Damisch -- In conversation with Tim Griffin / Tino Sehgal."Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter--considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity--and technically based approaches in art history reinforced connoisseurship through the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the meaning, for example, of hair in David Hammons's installations, milk in the work of Dieter Roth, or latex in the sculptures of Eva Hesse, we need a very different set of methodological tools. This anthology focuses on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes, entangling their audience in a web of connections. It investigates the role of materiality in art that attempts to expand notions of time, space, process, or participation. And it looks at the ways in which materials obstruct, disrupt, or interfere with social norms, emerging as impure formations and messy, unstable substances. It reexamines the notion of "dematerialization"; addresses materialist critiques of artistic production; surveys relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject and phobic; explores the vitality of substances; and addresses the concepts of intermateriality and transmateriality emerging in the hybrid zones of digital experimentation."--Publisher's description.Artists surveyed include: Georges Adéagbo, Carl Andre, Janine Antoni, Amy Balkin, Artur Barrio, Helen Chadwick, Mel Chin, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Tessa Farmer, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Romuald Hazoumè, Pierre Huyghe, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Anthony McCall, Teresa Margolles, Robert Morris, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tino Sehgal, Shozo Shimamoto, Santiago Sierra, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Paul Thek, Paul Vanouse, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Kara Walker.

Subjects: Art, Modern; Art, Modern; Artists' materials.;

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The art of resin jewelry : layering, casting, and mixed media techniques for creating vintage to contemporary designs / by Haab, Sherri.(CARDINAL)390054;

Subjects: Jewelry making.; Plastics craft.;

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Teresita Fernández : blind landscape. by Fernández, Teresita,1968-artist.(CARDINAL)355839; Norr, David.(CARDINAL)355838; Blanton Museum of Art.(CARDINAL)282980; University of South Florida.Contemporary Art Museum.(CARDINAL)206504;

Includes bibliographical references.Teresita Fernández is internationally known for her immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and the perception of change. The exhibition is curated by USF Institute for Research in Art Chief Curator, David Louis Norr and will present a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects, including a new sculpture and a room sized installation created specifically for this exhibition. Teresita Fernández, one of the most accomplished artists of her generation, is recognized for her deft ability to transform common materials and processes into dazzling cinematic illusions, blending abstraction, reflection, and transparency into potent configurations of projection and play. Nature and perception are the schematic sources for Fernandez' picturesque materializations. Clouds, trees, water, and fire--in patterned formations of polished stainless steel, glass, plastic, and thread--double as screens, mirrors, and lenses, and vacillate between object and optical phenomena. Much like shadows or ghosts, Fernandez' doubled forms reside in the folds and margins of perception--a tangled overlay of absence and presence, nature and artifice. "I am interested in the projection of the body, in an imaginary, kinesthetic way, penetrating history and distance cinematically, almost like a daydream," she explains. "It's as if, through visual pleasure, your gaze positions you in a place without actually being there." Indeed, for Fernández, how one sees is as relevant as what one sees. Featured among the works in the exhibition is Vertigo (sotto en su) from 2007. Made in collaboration with USF Graphicstudio, Vertigo is comprised of layers of precision-cut, highly polished metal, woven into a reflective and intricate arboreal pattern suspended high above the viewer--not unlike an immense, cascading tree branch. The multiple planes of space, through which the viewer looks, become visible simultaneously, vacillating between object and optical phenomena, continuously disassembling and reassembling. "The idea that one must turn away from nature in order to see it is a loaded concern at the crux of Fernández' new works," states David Norr. "Nature, for Fernández, is a fabrication of culture where cinematic illusions, industrial design and lasting ephemeral experience intertwine--collapsing artifice and nature into prismatic experience.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Fernández, Teresita, 1968-;

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Contemporary synagogue art; developments in the United States, 1945-1965. by Kampf, Avram.(CARDINAL)172405;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.The Synagogue: A house of prayer, study and assembly -- Synagogue and ancient temple -- A house of the people instead of a house of God -- Worship by prayer and not sacrifice -- Instruction and debate replace magical elements -- New relation of individual to service -- The origin of the synagogue -- Löw's Theory -- From city gate to people's house to synagogue -- The view of S. W. Baron -- conditions for growth of self government in ancient Israel -- The synagogue as institution adapted to survival of religious-ethnic group in many lands -- The synagogue as house of instruction -- Prayer as instruction -- Psychological consequences of daily prayer -- The synagogue as house of assembly -- Community functions of the synagogue --Philo on the synagogue -- The Interpretation of the Second Commandment: Strict and liberal interpretations of the second commandment -- General retarding effect on development of plastic arts -- Sculptures in the biblical temple -- David Kaufmann revises historical view of Jewish attitude toward arts -- The work of Leopold Löw -- Abraham Geiger's Responsum -- View of contemporary scholarship -- The archeological evidence of an ancient Jewish art -- Liberal and conservative talmudic views -- Jewish craftsmen as makers of idols -- The view of Maimonides -- Art among the Jews of Italy and Poland -- Philosophic considerations -- Judaism's preference for the spoken word -- Views of Grätz and Herman Cohen -- The Jewish concept of God -- Attitude toward images reflecting religious situations in the ancient world -- Pervasiveness of a moral view of life -- The American Synagogue Today: The return to the synagogue -- The rise of the synagogue center -- Jewish survival under conditions of freedom -- The quest for Jewish identity -- The expansion of synagogue activities -- The quest for decorum -- Demand for art coming from tradtional sources and new conditions -- The view of Dr. M. M. Kaplan -- The idea of the Holy -- The adoption of modern architecture -- What should a synagogue look like? -- The view of Lewis Mumford -- The need for reconciliation of function and expression in synagogue architecture --The failure of functional planning to satisfy psychological needs -- The need for the work of art -- relationship of art and modern architecture -- the solutions to the problem of art in architecture by Sullivan, Wright, the International Style and the Bauhaus -- Leaders in architecture build synagogues -- The function of art in today's architecture -- Percival Goodman's contribution to the problem -- Collaboration among the arts -- Aft for Today's Synagogue: The expression of the Jewish ethos -- The communal art of a seventeenth-century synagogue -- The breakdown of the traditional Jewish world view -- Jewish theology today -- The function of art in the reestablishment of Jewish communal and religious values -- The artist vis-à-vis the community -- The position of the architect -- The role of the rabbi -- The need for his education in the arts -- art as an avenue of religious experience -- Modern art for the synagogue -- The expansion of the repertoire of Hebrew art -- A monumental scale for Jewish Analytic, expressive, and decorative tendencies of contemporary art in the synagogue -- The problem of communication in modern synagogue art -- The Hebrew letter -- Didactic art -- Synthesis of the abstract and the concrete in synagogue art -- synagogue art and the freedom of the artist -- Existence of Jewish motives in contemporary art of which the synagogue is unaware -- A genuine religious art for which the synagogue is a natural home -- Younger American artist and their Jewish subjects -- The place of the isolated work of art in the synagogue -- Relation of Jewish community to Jewish artists -- The case of Ben-Zion -- Congregation B'nai Israel in Millburn, New Jersey: Contemporary artists in the service of the synagogue -- Artwork integrated into exterior -- Sculpture aiding architecture in expressing the building's purpose -- The burning bush -- Use of new materials and new techniques -- A mural on the theme of the temple wall -- Inscriptions on the walls of the prayer hall -- A congregation remembers -- Stones from destroyed synagogues -- Torah curtains designed by artist and executed by women of congregation -- The signs of the curtain -- The reaction of the congregation -- The aims and achievements of the artist -- Artwork on Synagogue Exteriors -- The pillar of fire in hammered bronze -- The creation of the world and the liberation from bondage in sgraffito, terrazzo and metal -- Eight relief sculptures on persistent ideas of Judaism -- "Not by might but by my spirit..." -- The use of Hebrew mythology for representation of spirit and might -- "On three things the world is founded" -- A bronze sculpture of Moses and the burning bush -- A menorah designed in brick -- The pillar of fire and pillar of smoke in concrete, and a menorah resembling a chariot -- Five tile murals on Jewish ideas from the Bible -- A sculptural metaphor on theme of the menorah -- Sculpture in wrought iron -- The ladder, the Torah and the crowns -- A sculpture in metal and glass -- Artwork in the Vestibule: House of prayer, house of study , house of assembly, a mosaic mural on the contemporary synagogue -- the burning bush and the Messianic hope -- The yoke of Torah, a ladder to heaven -- Jacob's dream --The Messianic theme, another version of a mosaic mural -- The Miracle -- Artwork in the Prayer Hall-Part I: The ark as receptacle for the Torah scrolls -- Ark and bimah, two centers competing for attention -- The bimah, from a small platform to an imposing structure -- The representation of the ark in ancient Hebrew art -- The enlargement of the ark's frame -- The Torah curtains and the Eternal Light -- The menorah, a cosmic tree transformed as symbol of Judaism -- The memorial light -- The Torah ornaments -- The commanding position of the ark today -- The prayer hall embodying tensions within Judaism--the point of view of a Jewish theologian -- The functions of the synagogue are indivisible -- The need to evoke the numinous -- The use of stained-glass windows -- Different artistic conceptions of the prayer hall -- The wall which shelters the ark -- The ark, free standing and recessed -- The impact of contemporary design and materials on the ark -- The menorah today, search for depth and asymmetry -- A variety of Eternal Light lamps -- The memorial tables -- The use of electricity questioned -- Artwork in the Prayer Hall-Part II: Interiors designed by Erich Mendelsohn -- The evocation of the Holy by darkness and emptiness -- The bimah of Temple B'nai Israel in Bridgeport, Conn. -- The Beth El, Springfield, Mass. -- The primitive invades a modern synagogue -- Evocation of time and mobility in the arks of the Hebrew Congregation in Indianapolis, Ind. -- Silver ark doors narrate the biblical story in Temple Beth El in Great Neck, N.Y. -- Sculptured lead doors which recall the Holocaust -- Human figures and artist's self portrait carved on ark doors -- A modern carving of an old Hebrew fold motif -- The winged ark at Brandeis University -- The meeting of man with God -- The bronze ark of Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester, N.Y. -- Stained-Glass Windows: Stained-glass windows -- Man and community -- The windows in Temple B'nai Aaron, St. Paul, Minn. -- Stained-glass walls at the Milton Steinberg House in New York City and at Temple Shalom in Newton, Mass. -- Jewish history in stained glass at Har Zion in Philadelphia, Pa. -- Aspects of American Jewish history at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh -- Stained-glass windows as backdrop for the ark in New York City -- Fragments of old stained-glass windows worked into a modern design -- the unity of man, god, and the universe -- Abraham Rattner bases the design of a window on the cabala -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.

Subjects: Synagogue art, American.; Synagogue architecture;

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Mickey's found sounds : a musical exploration storybook.

Mickey's found sounds story -- Materials for instruments -- Bucket drum -- Oatmeal conga drum -- Plastic bottle shaker -- Tube kazoo -- Glass jar xylophone -- Song: look what we found."Explore Music! Learn music through creative play, including online activities. This inventive story uses music, crafts and creative play to help children experience the fun of making music out of 'found sounds.' The Main Street Parade has been rained out, but Mickey and his friends make their own parade as they discover items around the house that can be used to make musical instruments. The book includes special unique online activities including a video read-along, an audio sing-along, and activities to explore sounds and sound makers"--Provided by the publisher.4+.K-3

Subjects: Music appreciation.; Music;

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Field test / by Nickerson, Jackie,photographer,interviewee.(CARDINAL)853521; Dunne, Aidan,contributor.; Thawley, Dan,interviewer.; Jack Shainman Gallery,host institution.(CARDINAL)302138; Kerber Verlag,publisher.(CARDINAL)855531;

Essay / Aidan Dunne -- Conversation / Dan Thawley, Jackie Nickerson -- [Catalog].Field Test is a photographic examination of the conflicting field between external forces and hyperconnectivity. Jackie Nickerson (* 1960) questions the living conditions of the people of this world and chronicles the consciousness of her generation. Nickerson's impressive photo sculptures dismantle and reconstruct, protect and destroy the individual human being. The topics that we encounter in her photographs are omnipresent: globalization, technology and medicine, commercialization, mass production, environmental pollution, migration, digitization, fake news and, last but not least, COVID-19. The materials are primarily composed of plastic and packaging materials in which people literally seem to be "caught".Nickerson's work is disturbingly unsettling. They almost seem like images of an inevitable future that is already impacting us today.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Nickerson, Jackie; Photography, Artistic;

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Wild clay : creating ceramics and glazes from natural and found resources / by Levy, Matt(Ceramics artist),author.(CARDINAL)870960; Shibata, Hitomi,author.(CARDINAL)870962; Shibata, Takuro,author.(CARDINAL)870961;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing, processing and using wild clay. Potters around the world are taking to the local landscape to dig their own wild clay, discover its unique properties, and apply it to their craft. This guide is the ideal starting point for anyone - from novices, improvers and experts to educators and students - who wants to forge a closer bond between their art and their surroundings. Testing and trial and error are key to finding a material's best use, so the authors' tips, drawn from long experience in the US and Japan (but which can be applied to clays anywhere) provide an enviable head-start on this rewarding journey. A clay might be best suited to sculpture and tile bodies, throwing clay bodies, handbuilding and slab bodies, or simply be applied as a glaze or slip. The specific properties of found materials can create a diverse range of effects and surfaces, or, even when not fired, can be adapted for use as colorful pastels or pigments. Beautiful illustrations and helpful technical descriptions explain the formation of various clays; how to locate, collect and assess them; how to test their properties of shrinkage, water absorption, texture and plasticity; the best ways to test-fire them; and how to adapt a clay's characteristics by blending appropriate materials. From prospecting in the field to holding your finished product, there is helpful advice through every stage, and a gallery of work by international potters who have embraced the clays found around them." -- Publisher's description

Subjects: Clay.; Pottery;

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Japan blue : indigo dyeing techniques : a beginner's guide to shibori tie-dyeing / by Tsujioka, Piggy,author.(CARDINAL)859945; Ishida, Sanae,translator.(CARDINAL)408659; Rokkaku, Hisako,author.(CARDINAL)860963; SEIWA (Firm)(CARDINAL)870908;

Indigo dyeing basics -- Dip dyeing (Hitashizome) and Gradation dyeing (Danzome) -- Nui Shibori: resist dyeing by sewing and twisting -- Itajime Shibori: A resist dye technique of sandwiching fabric sections between wooden pieces -- Other techniques: Includes unique methods such as shibori with rubber bands, braiding, using plastic bottles or hosiery -- Other things to dye -- Bleaching -- Wax resist dyeing with meltoron."Discover the fun of shibori and the beauty of indigo dyeing in one book! This book presents a new spin on the beloved Japanese art of Shibori resist tie-dying using 100% natural indigo dyes and simple techniques that you can do at home. Add artistic touches to everything you own - from a favorite linen shirt to a bamboo basket, a pair of old sneakers or pair of jeans. Clear instructions and photos explain how to do it. Tips on creating fantastic patterns and effects using easy folding and resist techniques will inspire you to dye lots of different items - from clothes to accessories and home goods. In addition to creating beautiful tie-dye patterns you'll learn how to: Prep the fabrics, mix the dyes, build the colors and preserve them ; Work with cotton, linen, wool and other materials and fabrics ; Create different effects using wax, stitching, tying and other resist techniques ; Create unique patterns by sponging, dripping, rolling and silk screening. Add artistic touches to your favorite T-shirts, tote bags and curtains - even to wood and paper. With so many useful and creative techniques and ways to use them, Japan Blue Indigo Dyeing Techniques is a book you'll refer to again and again as you experiment with refashioning fabrics and more"--Publisher's description.

Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Dyes and dyeing; Indigo; Shibori;

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Félix González-Torres, Roni Horn / by González-Torres, Félix,1957-1996,artist.(CARDINAL)217534; Ault, Julie,writer of added commentary.(CARDINAL)269961; Horn, Roni,1955-artist.(CARDINAL)161155; Bourse de commerce-Pinault collection,host institution.(CARDINAL)883579; Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.),associated name.(CARDINAL)883014; Steidl Verlag,publisher.(CARDINAL)835949;

"In 1990, Félix González-Torres encountered an artwork by Roni Horn called Gold Field (1980/82), a simple sheet of gold foil placed on the floor of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. González-Torres was deeply moved and wrote to Horn, beginning an exchange between the artists that would last until González-Torres' passing in 1996. 'Félix González-Torres Roni Horn' was created as a photographic essay with the intention of sharing the experiential qualities of the artists' work and the profound relationships underlying it. It explores four iconic works (among others) - Untitled (For Stockholm) (1992) and Untitled (Blood) (1992) by González-Torres, and Well and Truly (2009-10) and a.k.a. (2008-09) by Horn - and emphasizes notions of doubling, duality, repetition, and identity. Images of these pieces, taken on the occasion of a 2022 exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection in Paris, reveal both artists' radical visual vocabularies, as well their shared passion for language, writing and poetry. Their intention emerges as two-fold: to create a tension between artist, viewer and object; and to grasp the inexpressible, the immeasurable." - From publisher.This exhibition highlights the principles of duplication, duality, complexity in repetition and identity at work in the respective practices of the artists Félix González-Torres and Roni Horn. It retraces the artistic conversation that began between them in 1991 and continued until González-Torres's death in 1996."Felix Gonzalez-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba, in 1957. He earned a BFA in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1983. Printed Matter, Inc. in New York hosted his first solo exhibition the following year. After obtaining an MFA from the International Center of Photography and New York University in 1987, he worked as an adjunct art instructor at New York University until 1989. Throughout his career, Gonzalez-Torres's involvement in social and political causes as an openly gay man fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life. From 1987 to 1991, he was part of Group Material, a New York-based art collective whose members worked collaboratively to initiate community education and cultural activism. His aesthetic project was, according to some scholars, related to Bertolt Brecht's theory of epic theater, in which creative expression transforms the spectator from an inert receiver to an active, reflective observer and motivates social action. Employing simple, everyday materials (stacks of paper, puzzles, candy, strings of lights, beads) and a reduced aesthetic vocabulary reminiscent of both Minimalism and Conceptual art to address themes such as love and loss, sickness and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality, Gonzalez-Torres asked viewers to participate in establishing meaning in his works. In his "dateline" pieces, begun in 1987, Gonzalez-Torres assembled lists of various dates in random order interspersed with the names of social and political figures and references to cultural artifacts or world events, many of which related to political and cultural history. Printed in white type on black sheets of paper, these lists of seeming non sequiturs prompted viewers to consider the relationships and gaps between the diverse references as well the construction of individual and collective identities and memories. Gonzalez-Torres also produced dateline "portraits," consisting of similar lists of dates and events related to the subjects' lives. In Untitled (Portrait of Jennifer Flay) (1992), for example, "A New Dress 1971" lies next to "Vote for Women, NZ 1893." Gonzalez-Torres invited physical as well as intellectual engagement from viewers. His sculptures of wrapped candies spilled in corners or spread on floors like carpets, such as "Untitled" (Public Opinion) (1991), defy the convention of art's otherworldly preciousness, as viewers are asked to touch and consume the work. Beginning in 1989, he fashioned sculptures of stacks of paper, often printed with photographs or texts, and encouraged viewers to take the sheets. The impermanence of these works, which slowly disappear over time unless they are replenished, symbolizes the fragility of life. While in appearance they sometimes echo the work of Donald Judd, these pieces also belie the Minimalist tenet of aesthetic autonomy: viewers complete the works by depleting them and directly engaging with their material. The artist always wanted the viewer to use the sheets from the stacks--as posters, drawing paper, or however they desired. In 1991 Gonzalez-Torres began producing sculptures consisting of strands of plastic beads strung on metal rods, like curtains in a disco. Titles such as Untitled (Chemo) (1991) and Untitled (Blood) (1992) undercut their festive associations, calling to mind illness and disease. In 1992 he commenced a series of strands of white low-watt lightbulbs, which could be shown in any configuration--strung along walls, from ceilings, or coiled on the floor. Alluding to celebratory décor--in the vein of the charms of outdoor cafés at night--these delicate garlands are also a campy commentary on the phallic underpinnings of numerous Minimalist creations, particularly Dan Flavin's rigid light sculptures. Also in 1992, Untitled (1991), a sensual black-and-white photograph of Gonzalez-Torres's empty, unmade bed with traces of two absent bodies, was installed on 24 billboards throughout the city of New York. This enigmatic image was both a celebration of coupling and a memorial to the artist's lover, who had recently died of AIDS. Its installation as a melancholic civic-scaled monument problematized public scrutiny of private behavior. Gonzalez-Torres received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989 and 1993. He participated in hundreds of group shows during his lifetime, including early presentations at Artists Space and White Columns in New York (1987 and 1988, respectively), the Whitney Biennial (1991), the Venice Biennale (1993), SITE Santa Fe (1995), and the Sydney Biennial (1996). Comprehensive retrospective exhibitions of his work have been organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (1994); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1995); Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (1997); and Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Bogotá (2000). Other exhibitions have been held at the Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2006-07); PLATEAU, Seoul (2012); and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2012). A survey of his work, Specific Objects without Specific Form, was organized by WIELS, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brussels (2010), and then traveled to the Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2010), and the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (2011). In 2007, Gonzalez-Torres was selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in the exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America. He died in Miami on January 9, 1996." - Full biographies available on:"Roni Horn's work consistently generates uncertainty to thwart closure in her work. Important across her oeuvre is her longstanding interest to the protean nature of identity, meaning, and perception, as well as the notion of doubling; issues which continue to propel Horn's practice. Since the mid-1990s, Horn has been producing cast-glass sculptures. For these works, colored molten glass assumes the shape and qualities of a mold as it gradually anneals over several months. The sides and bottom of the resulting sculpture are left with the rough translucent impression of the mold in which it was cast. By stark contrast, the top surface is fire-polished and slightly bows like liquid under tension. The seductively glossy surface invites the viewer to gaze into the optically pristine interior of the sculpture, as if looking down on a body of water through an aqueous oculus. Exposed to the reflections from the sun or to the shadows of an overcast day, Horn's glass sculpture relies upon natural elements like the weather to manifest her binary experimentations in color, weight and lightness, solidity and fluidity. The endless subtle shifts in the work's appearance place it in an eternal state of mutability, as it refuses a fixed visual identity. Begetting solidity and singularity, the changing appearance of her sculptures is where one discovers meaning and connects her work to the concept of identity. For Horn, drawing is a primary activity that underpins her wider practice. Her intricate works on paper examine recurring themes of interpretation, mirroring and textual play, which coalesce to explore the materiality of color and the sculptural potential of drawing. Horn's preoccupation with language also permeates these works; her scattered words read as a stream of consciousness spiralling across the paper. In her 'Hack Wit' series, Horn reconfigures idiomatic turns of phrase and proverbs to engender nonsensical, jumbled expressions. The themes of pairing and mirroring emerge as she intertwines not only the phrases themselves but also the paper they are inscribed on, so that her process reflects the content of the drawings. Words are her images and she paints them expressionistically, which--combined with her method--causes letters to appear indeterminate, as if they are being viewed underwater.Notions of identity and mutability are also explored within Horn's photography, which tends to consist of multiple pieces and installed as a surround which unfolds within the gallery space. Examples include her series 'The Selected Gifts, (1974 - 2015),' photographed with a deceptively affectless approach that belies sentimental value. Here, Horn's collected treasures float against pristine white backdrops in the artist's signature serial style, telling a story of the self as mediated through both objects and others--what the artist calls 'a vicarious self-portrait.' This series, alongside her other photographic projects, build upon her explorations into the effects of multiplicity on perception and memory, and the implications of repetition and doubling, which remain central to her work."- Artist statement from:"The art practice of Julie Ault encompasses many roles not typically associated with the visual artist, including that of archivist, curator, editor, and theorist. Invited to assemble a "show within a show" for the 2014 Biennial, Ault selected as points of entry works by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) and Martin Wong (1946- 1999) from the Whitney's permanent collection, exhibiting them alongside artifacts from these artists' personal archives, held by the Downtown Collection at New York University's Fales Library. Both Wojnarowicz and Wong were active in New York during the 1980s and early '90s, when Ault was a member of the influential artists' collaborative Group Material. Ault has since maintained her commitment to a practice defined by collaboration, exchange, community and research, tracing vital links between art and politics. Departing from the dominant narratives that have sought to represent the era of Wong and Wojnarowicz as a period marked primarily by the AIDS crisis and the culture wars, Afterlife: a constellation recontextualizes their work in this atmospheric installation, whose geographical compass extends from downtown New York to the Sierra Nevada. A range of voices, energies, artworks, artifacts, and texts, all displayed as equal participants, invoke themes of disappearance and regeneration and the notion that subjectivity is an integral dimension of archiving and historical representation. The works on view in the Biennial include a photograph related to the Donner Party migration; entryway mirrors inspired by the ones that adorned Liberace's mansion in Las Vegas; copies by James Benning of a ledger drawing by Black Hawk (1832-1890?) alongside a hand-lettered sign by Jesse Howard (1885-1983); a book by Martin Beck about David Mancuso's "The Loft" communal dance parties; a slide show by Matt Wolf that explores Wojnarowicz's personal archive of ephemera; a heliogravure by Danh Vo of the newspaper announcement of the marriage of Barbara Bush (née Pierce); a poetic misfile as sculpture by Robert Kinmont; an interview with the founder of the Downtown Collection, Marvin Taylor; and textual elements written and compiled by Ault." - From:

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; González-Torres, Félix, 1957-1996; Horn, Roni, 1955-; Art, Modern; Artistic collaboration; Gay artists.; Lesbian artists.; Gay art.; Lesbian art.; LGBTQ+ artists.; LGBTQ+ arts.; Queer (Verb); Queer art.; Queer artists.; Gay artists.; Lesbian artists.;

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The whole spectrum of social, motor, and sensory games : using every child's natural love of play to enhance key skills and promote inclusion / by Sher, Barbara,1943-author.(CARDINAL)551058;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Power of play and the synergy of games -- Spontaneous Games For All Ages: --Playful learning games that can happen spontaneously and often need nothing more than a smile -- Waiting game for airports, restaurants, and doctor's offices: -- What Would Mary Poppins Do?: -- Game 1: Guess the winning number -- Game 2: Toothpick art -- Game 3: Penny flick -- Game 4: Which cup is it under? -- Game 5: Whose hand is on top? -- Game 6: Feely games -- Game 7: Making a wiggly worm -- Clarifying judge -- Game 8: Art for two --Game 9: Secret writing -- Game 10: Can you do what I do? Can you say what I say? -- Who are we today? -- Walking Outside Games: -- Game 1: How many ways to walk? -- Game 2: Stop and go -- Game 3: Glued together -- Game 4: Guess the number of steps -- Game 5: Whose head is in the clouds? -- Benefits of pretend play -- Games Just For Little Ones (Ages Two To Seven): -- Game 1: A, you're adorable -- Game 2: I love you because -- Game 3: Secretary to the writer -- Game 4: Guess how old -- Game 5: Making faces -- Game 6: Pony boy -- Game 7: Having a Disney day -- Game 8: Knocking game -- Game 9: Playing with pebbles -- Game 10: How many hand lengths? -- Game 11: Edible play-doh --Count for cooperation -- Games For Older Kids (Ages Seven To Fourteen): -- Game 1: How would you describe me? -- Game 2: Five good moments -- Game 3: Self-portraits -- Game 4: People report -- Game 5: Which line is best? -- Game 6: Shadow games -- Game 7: Toe stepping -- Game 8: Stone painting -- Traveling Games: -- Game 1: Postcard diaries -- Game 2: Travel collections -- Honorable head garbage taker-outer -- Games For Babies: -- Daily game to play with babies to develop the brain and deepen the adult-child connection -- What's In Grandma's Purse? An Inquiring Toddler Wants To Know: -- Game 1: Diaper song -- Game 2: Helpful legs -- Game 3: Pan music -- Game 4: Homemade rattles -- Game 5: Clap a rhythm -- Game 6: Bird talk -- Game 7: Hand dancing -- Talking hand -- Game 8: Silly sounds -- Game 10: Feelings, nothing more than feelings -- Game 11: Catch a moving cube -- Game 12: Move me around -- Game 13: In your face -- Making faces with Lance -- Game 14: Keep your eyes on this -- Game 15: Tender touches -- Game 16: Smell sorting -- Game 17: Describe that taste -- Game 18: Speaking in sounds -- Game 19: Sound sorting -- Game 20: Box ride -- Game 21: Pillow pile -- Game 22: Beach ball bounce -- Chalk and the bubbie -- Game 23: Standing and counting -- Game 24: Furniture pathway -- Game 25: Backward steps -- Game 26: Book in a baggie -- Rinds on a stick (or something similar) -- Game 27: Straws in a bottle -- Game 28: Nest the cans -- Game 29: Voice-over -- Game 30: Chip bank -- Game 31: Color matches -- Small is nice too -- Progressive Games For Ages Three To Seven: -- Inclusive games that use only one material to enhance multiple skills -- Upside of making your own education toys -- Bring me game -- Beanbag Games: -- Game 1: Jump -- Game 2: Jump sideways -- Game 3: In and out -- Game 4: Jump one, jump five -- Game 5: Run and leap -- Game 6: Balance walk -- Game 7: Musical beanbags -- Game 8: Throw into colored container -- Blanket Games: -- Game 1: Sausage walk -- Game 2: Fat sausage walk -- Game 3: Dragon -- Game 4: Rock and roll -- Game 5: Sushi or burrito -- Game 6: Trampoline -- Game 7: Dance around -- Two-By-Four Games: -- Game 1: How many ways can you walk on the beams? -- Game 2: Frogs on the beam -- Game 3: Crossing the seesaw beam -- Game 4: Little jump, big jump, little jump -- Game 5: Hop to the end -- Game 6: Going to the store -- Hula-Hoop Games: -- Game 1: Tiptoe through the hoops -- Game 2: Crawl tunnel -- Game 3: Jumping maze -- Game 4: Combination-vertical and horizontal -- Game 5: Backward -- Game 6: All together now -- Game 7: Roll the hoop -- Game 8: Boomerang -- Game 9: Roll and kick -- Game 10: Ring toss -- Game 11: Jump rope -- Game 12: Hula-hooping-fast and in circles -- Unusual gifts that cost a little and please a lot -- Ladder Games: -- Game 1: Jump between the rungs -- Game 2: Hop between the rungs -- Game 3: Tiptoe between the rungs -- Game 4: Walk on the rungs -- Game 5: Jump in and out -- Game 6: Go through the window -- Game 7: Rock the boat -- Game 8: Working together -- Game 9: Rhythm -- Game 10: Creating new games -- Magazine Tube Games: -- Game 1: Flute -- Game 2: Easy throw -- Game 3: Hand to hand -- Game 4: Reflex drop -- Game 5: Head drop -- Game 6: Throw at a target -- Game 7: Jump over the tubes -- Game 8: What else can it be? -- Game 9: We're got a rhythm inside of us -- Plastic Bottle Games: -- Game 11: Knock-downs -- Game 2: In and out -- Game 3: Obstacle course -- Rope Games: -- Game 1: Rising rope -- Game 2: Lowering rope -- Game 3: Over and under -- Game 4: Jump twice-forward, sideways, and backward -- Game 5: Hop once, hip twice -- Game 6: Jump the creek -- Game 7: Run and leap -- Game 8: Wiggly rope -- Game 9: Swinging rope -- Game 10: Creative jump -- Game 11: Tightrope walking -- Game 12: Tug-of-war -- Rocker Board Games: -- Game 1: Rock and roll -- Game 2: Back and forth -- Game 3: Two together -- Game 4: Balance and slide off -- Game 5: Group rock -- Game 6: All new ways -- Don't rush Arnold -- Therapy "Games For Ages Three To Twelve: -- Home therapy games that enhance the basic skill domains -- Fine Motor Games: -- Game 1: Ping-Pong pool -- Game 2: Punch 'n poke -- Game 3: Rainbow pizza -- Game 4: Snip snip clip -- Game 5: Flipping pancakes -- Game 6: Rain house -- Game 7: Tongs and tweezers -- Game 8: A, B,- can you C me -- Game 9: Pumpkin head -- Game 10: Penny race -- Gross Motor Games: -- Game 1: Flying meteorite -- Game 2: Circus hoop -- Game 3: Fire twirler! -- Game 4: Choo-choo train -- Game 5: Don't forget the shoes! -- Game 6: Helicopter -- Game 7: Surf's up! -- Game 8: Hailstorm -- Game 9: Ready, aim, squirt! -- Game 10: Sit, roll over, jump! -- Sensory Games: -- Game 1: Club sandwich -- Game 2: Mirror -- Game 3: Moon walker -- Game 4: Lollypop lick -- Game 5: Snowplow -- Game 6: Natural disaster -- Game 7: Worms and eyeballs -- Game 8: Bag o bag -- Game 9: Feed the otter -- Game 10: Bubble monster -- Social Skills Games: -- Game 1: Catch the thief! -- Game 2: What if it? -- Game 3: Feelings dance -- Game 4: Elbow-to-elbow -- Game 5: Stepping stones -- Game 6: Pinball -- Game 7: Magician -- Game 8: Hamburger ball -- Game 9: Voice remote control -- Game 10: Detective -- Short Group Games For Ages Three To Fifteen: -- Quick movement games that stimulate thinking, feeling, and creativity -- Chris and the box -- Short Games For Young Children (Ages Three To Ten): -- Game 1: Shoe leaps -- Game 2: Blindfold -- Game 3: Can you do the can-can? -- Game 4: Can you do what I do? Can you say what I say? -- Enticing Nona: -- Game 5: Group dance -- Game 6: Horse is walking -- Game 7: Marble play -- Game 8: Names, names, we all have names -- Game 9: Tell us what you like to do -- Nikolai finds art -- Game 10: Throw at the letters -- Game 11: Twist on the twister -- Short Games For Older Kids (Ages Seven To Fifteen): -- Game 1: Bowling for dollars -- Game 2: Category ball game -- Game 3: Compliment me -- Game 4: Expressing self with body -- To touch and be touched -- Game 5: Interviewing -- Game 6: It's all in the tone -- Game 7: Jumping math -- Game 8: Make up a handshake -- Game 9: Make up a story -- Game 10: Reflection -- Game 11: Say a line -- Game 12: Jail -- Game 13: Shower curtain spelling -- Game 14: Time line game -- Game 15: What's my line? -- Ignoring Clarissa -- Appendix: Home therapy -- About the authors -- Index."Fun easy games for parents and teachers to play with kids of all ages Play is increasingly recognized by neuroscientists and educators as a vital component in brain development, academic success and learning social skills. In this inspiring and useful resource, Barbara Sher provides step-by-step directions for how to use children's natural interests at different stages of their development to help them develop a wealth of sensory motor and social skills. All the games have also been designed to provide plenty of joyful opportunities for encouraging inclusion. Offers strategies for helping all kids, but especially those with special needs, to develop social, motor and sensory skills Filled with simple games using common materials that can be used by teachers, parents, and caregivers with both individual kids and groups Provides explanations and examples of how the games can aid in a child's development This resource offers parents and teachers a fun and easy way to include all children in activities that will engage all of their senses and promote important skills"---

Subjects: Educational games.; Games.; Child development.;

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