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There plant eyes [large print] : a personal and cultural history of blindness / by Godin, M. Leona,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction: Seeing & Not-Seeing -- Homer's Blind Bard -- The Tenacious Grip of the Blind Seer -- I Once Was Blind but Now I See -- Out, Vile Jelly! -- Telescopes, Microscopes, Spectacles, and Speculations -- Darkness Visible -- The Molyneux Man -- Performing Enlightenment -- Braille and His Invention -- The Tap Tapping of Blind Travelers -- Helen Keller In Vaudeville and In Love -- Sanctified by Affliction, or Not -- Portrait of the (Working) Writer as Blind -- The Secret Life of Art and Accessibility -- The Scylla and Charybdis of Stigma and Superpowers -- The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions -- Constructing Blind Pride Out of Ancient and Evolutionary Blind Memes."A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical terms, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual transcendence. And she makes clear how all of this has obscured the reality of blindness, as a consequence of which many blind people have to deal not just with their disability but also with expectations of "specialness." Godin illuminates the often surprising history of both the physiological condition and of the ideas that have attached to it. She incorporates analysis of blindness in art and literature (from King Lear to Star Wars) and in culture (assumptions of the blind as pure and magically wise) with the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, seeing eye dogs, eBooks), and with her own experience of gradually losing sight over the course of three decades. Altogether, she gives us a revelation of the centrality of blindness and vision to humanity's understanding of itself and the world"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Blind; Blindness; Blind in literature.; Blind in art.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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There plant eyes : a personal and cultural history of blindness / by Godin, M. Leona,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index.Introduction: Seeing & Not-Seeing -- Homer's Blind Bard -- The Tenacious Grip of the Blind Seer -- I Once Was Blind but Now I See -- Out, Vile Jelly! -- Telescopes, Microscopes, Spectacles, and Speculations -- Darkness Visible -- The Molyneux Man -- Performing Enlightenment -- Braille and His Invention -- The Tap Tapping of Blind Travelers -- Helen Keller In Vaudeville and In Love -- Sanctified by Affliction, or Not -- Portrait of the (Working) Writer as Blind -- The Secret Life of Art and Accessibility -- The Scylla and Charybdis of Stigma and Superpowers -- The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions -- Constructing Blind Pride Out of Ancient and Evolutionary Blind Memes."A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical terms, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual transcendence. And she makes clear how all of this has obscured the reality of blindness, as a consequence of which many blind people have to deal not just with their disability but also with expectations of "specialness." Godin illuminates the often surprising history of both the physiological condition and of the ideas that have attached to it. She incorporates analysis of blindness in art and literature (from King Lear to Star Wars) and in culture (assumptions of the blind as pure and magically wise) with the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, seeing eye dogs, eBooks), and with her own experience of gradually losing sight over the course of three decades. Altogether, she gives us a revelation of the centrality of blindness and vision to humanity's understanding of itself and the world"--
Subjects: Blind; Blindness; Blind in literature.; Blind in art.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Art not by eye; the previously sighted visually impaired adult in fine arts programs. by Lisenco, Yasha.(CARDINAL)193439; American Foundation for the Blind.(CARDINAL)140975;
Bibliography: pages 113-114.
Subjects: Blind artists.; Blind.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Blind memory : visual representations of slavery in England and America / by Wood, Marcus.(CARDINAL)380716;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-332) and index.
Subjects: Art, American; Art, American; Art, English; Art, English; Slavery in art.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jars of Clay [sound recording]. by Jars of Clay (Musical group);
Liquid (3:31) -- Sinking (3:48) -- Love song for a savior (4:46) -- Like a child (4:35) -- Art in me (3:58) -- He (5:17) -- Boy on a string (3:30) -- Flood (3:33) -- Worlds apart (5:18) -- Blind (3:59).Performed by Jars of Clay (Dan Haseltine, programming, lead vocals ; Matt Odmark, programming, guitar ; Stephen Mason, guitar, bass, background vocals ; Charlie Lowell, piano, organ, background vocals ; Tim Smith, drums, percussion).Recorded at Adrian Belew's Studio, Greenville College, Icebox/Brentwood Studio ; overdubs recorded at Texana Studio and Recording Arts Studio.
Subjects: Christian rock music.; Contemporary Christian music.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Art:21 collection. [videorecording] : art in the twenty-first century / by Dowling, Susan.(CARDINAL)309770; Sollins, Susan.(CARDINAL)267315; PBS Distribution (Firm)(CARDINAL)309769;
[v. 1] Place ; spirituality ; identity ; consumption -- [v. 2] Stories ; loss and desire ; time ; humor -- [v. 3] Power ; memory ; structures ; play -- [v. 4] Romance ; protest ; ecology ; paradox -- [v. 5] Compassion ; fantasy ; transformation ; systems -- [v. 6] Change ; boundaries ; history ; balance.Documents the difference in various styles of twenty-first-century art through interviews, commentary, and behind-the-scenes footage.Not rated.DVD, stereo.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Television series.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Art, Modern; Art; Artists; Artists; Films for people with visual disabilities.; Films for the hearing impaired.;
© c2012., PBS Distribution,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Naoki Urasawa's monster. [manga] / by Urasawa, Naoki,1960-(CARDINAL)685138;
MARCIVE 12/19/07
Subjects: Fiction.; Graphic novels; Human experimentation in psychology; Orphans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The bridal chair : a novel / by Goldreich, Gloria.(CARDINAL)318551;
Beautiful Ida Chagall, the only daughter of Marc Chagall, is blossoming in the Paris art world beyond her father's controlling gaze. But her newfound independence is short-lived. In Nazi-occupied Paris, Chagall's status as a Jewish artist has made them all targets, yet his devotion to his art blinds him to their danger.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Artists; Fathers and daughters; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Self-realization in women;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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James Turrell : a retrospective / by Govan, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)270224; Kim, Christine Y.,author.(CARDINAL)270445; Greene, Alison de Lima,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)192877; Krupp, E. C.(Edwin C.),1944-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)351893; Holzherr, Florian,photographer.(CARDINAL)351892; Turrell, James,artist.(CARDINAL)155857; Los Angeles County Museum of Art,host institution.(CARDINAL)137901; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,host institution.(CARDINAL)155416; Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem),host institution.(CARDINAL)152251; National Gallery of Australia,host institution.(CARDINAL)206783; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,host institution.(CARDINAL)142934;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-301)."Published in conjunction with a major retrospective, this comprehensive volume illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work--from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater. Whether he's projecting shapes on a flat wall or into the corner of a gallery space, James Turrell is perpetually asking us to "go inside and greet the light"--Evoking his Quaker upbringing. In fact, all of Turrell's work has been influenced by his life experiences with aviation, science, and psychology, and as a key player in Los Angeles's exploding art scene of the 1960s. Enhanced by thoughtful essays and an illuminating interview with the artist, this monograph explores every aspect of Turrell's career to date--from his early geometric light projections, prints, and drawings, through his installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, to recent two-dimensional experiments with holograms. It also features an in-depth look at Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape near Flagstaff, Arizona, which will be presented through models, plans, photographs, and drawings. Fans of this highly influential artist will find much to savor in this wide-ranging and beautiful book, featuring specially commissioned new photography by Florian Holzherr"--
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Interviews.; Turrell, James; Turrell, James; Turrell, James; Light in art;
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Blind eye artist [videorecording] / by Chaudhary, Ashwin,film director,film producer.; Fuhrman, Glenn,on-screen participant.; Hart, Kevin,1979-on-screen participant.(CARDINAL)343234; Korn, Jonathan,film producer.; Shields, Brooke,1965-on-screen participant.(CARDINAL)718635; Wadlington, Justin,on-screen participant.; Buffalo 8 Productions,presenter,publisher.; Juice Groove Films,presenter.;
Director of photography, Jonathan Korn ; cinematography, Steven Yingling ; edited by Ashwin Chaudhary & Jonathan Korn.Justin Wadlington, Glenn Fuhrman, Brooke Shields, Kevin Hart.After a tragic accident leaves Justin Wadlington blind in his left eye at age five, he develops a unique artistic ability with no formal art training. Despite growing up without parents and living in emergency shelters on the streets of Philadelphia, Wadlington takes advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and begins a journey of ascension to the highest echelon of the fine art world.Rating: Not rated.DVD, all regions, NTSC; wide screen.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Wadlington, Justin.; Artists; Blind artists;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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