(Part 3) Best art history & criticism books according to redditors
We found 2,831 Reddit comments discussing the best art history & criticism books. We ranked the 1,241 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
For reference of some of the things each of them have said, you can check out "The Annotated Mona Lisa", by the wonderful Carol Strickland, which is a quick reference guide to art history that's easily readable and probably available at your local library.
It supports a couple points from each of the previous posters. Namely that Da Vinci's street cred gets it a lot of attention. He's the ultimate "Renaissance Man" and genius.
Also, that it was stolen and possibly hung in Napoleon's bedroom, both more "modern" reasons that it stayed relevant and not replaced with other works.
And also, that it was one of the earliest examples of the sfumato technique, which was using many-many thin layers of translucent paint in an effort to mimic the translucency of human skin. Which was evolved from Da Vinci's study of real human anatomy. Also, not the lips but the HANDS are the anatomical
So, they are both kinda right sometimes, and kinda wrong other times.
Unfortunately the Trump parade is now going after artist Marina Abramovic directly on Amazon and putting satanic reviews of her books, really? If anyone could please report these I would appreciate it.
https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Through-Walls-Marina-Abramovic/product-reviews/1101905042/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=recent
There is a neurological explanation to the Mona Lisa smile that basically states that the amount of blur in the mouth tricks our peripheral vision into making the mona lisa smile more depending upon where we focus. If we look at the eyes the mouth turns upward because our peripheral vision accepts the blur around the mouth as a more solid shape that subliminally creates a stronger smile. Read more in From Mirror Neurons to the Mona Lisa or the interesting book by Margaret Livingstone- Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
There are other nuggets of worldbuilding in the Kaladesh block stories (KLD, AER) and Battle for Zendikar block stories (BFZ, OGW), as well as flavor texts from the blocks and small stuff like the Consulate ARG account but not exactly necessary for D&D if you want to have more creative freedom. Enjoy!
The movie is a lot less extreme than Ngor's book, which has entire chapters with prefaces telling you to skip over them if you can't deal with things even more horrific than the rest of the book. I can't recommend the book enough, though.
No questions from me, but thanks for doing the AMA. More people need to know about it.
All those things?
That would be a the sizeable part of the entire late antiquity and middle ages.
If there's public library in your neighborhood, I would suggest browsing through their offerings on these periods. There's probably no one book that covers all subjects, especially not one that is accessible enough to non-historians, and doesn't cost a fortune.
On the Eastern Roman Empire, these could be a good introduction:
http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Byzantium-Julius-Norwich/dp/0679772693
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-West-Forgotten-Byzantine-Civilization/dp/0307407969/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Some of the topics mentioned, e.g. the expansion of Islam, are covered on this site, and its numerous links:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/index.html
I highly recommend Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor - https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Killing-Fields-Haing-Ngor/dp/0786713151/
https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Cross-sections-Castle-Biesty/dp/1465408800/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1536159799&sr=8-3&keywords=cross+section+book
(Straight up Amazon/non affiliate link) Get it for your kids!
Catherine here: I do a lot of world building. I love that process. It's one of my favorite parts of writing.
One of the classic books on world building is still the one written by long-time Analog editor Stan Schmidt on Aliens and Alien Societies. Here is a link:
https://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Societies-Science-Fiction-Writing/dp/0898797063
Not from this camp specifically but there is an excellent autobiography from someone who escaped alive. I read it about a decade ago and still remember how horrifying it was
First They Killed My Father
another relevant title:
The Killing Fields
Amazing how the atrocities in cambodia have gone largely unnoticed by the western world. pol pot was a supreme asshole. it was status quo to sentence people to death for things like... wearing glasses. thousands died just of starvation. cambodia is still deeply scarred by their violent past. Mass graves are still being discovered, and until fairly recently the jungles still had Khmer hideouts :(
The best book, by far, is The Languages of Native North America by Marianne Mithun .
It is dense, but a book of this scope needs to be. Nevertheless I do think it is accessible to the interested layperson.
Yes, he might be in possession of Germaine Greer's book on Boys
http://www.amazon.com/Germaine-Greer-The-Beautiful-Boy/dp/0847825868
The Languages of Native North America is still the classic introduction to North American languages. Although more work has been done, the basics haven't changed.
https://www.amazon.com/Languages-America-Cambridge-Language-Surveys/dp/052129875X
Of course, you'll need something more specific for a paper topic - just listing information isn't a good approach to a paper. Also, it's not particularly productive to look for sources until you've come up with something more specific. There are a lot of sources on Native American languages out there, and what's useful to you will depend on your topic.
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Paglia's magnum opus is Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a book hated by feminists as Paglia loves Freud and attempts to explain why men create art to sublimate their libido, and why the ancient Greeks fucked boys.
Paglia is brilliant. If you like Nietzsche I bet you would like her. Except of course many politically active feminists hate her guts. Her writings are all over the web. Her magnum opus, Sexual Personae might be indispensible. It is an abridged version of her Yale PhD thesis, and she complains about the publisher making her cut out 200 important pages. You had better have done a lot of homework if you want to accuse her face-to-face of not putting forward her own feminist vision. She has a debate method of talking so fast that people's heads spin.
Link to Sexual Personae; it is 712 pages long.
Random selection of some of my favorites to help you expand your horizons:
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan is a great introduction to scientific skepticism.
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris is a succinct refutation of Christianity as it's generally practiced in the US employing crystal-clear logic.
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt is the best biography of one of the most interesting men in history, in my personal opinion.
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski is a jaw-dropping book on history, journalism, travel, contemporary events, philosophy.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is a great tome about... everything. Physics, history, biology, art... Plus he's funny as hell. (Check out his In a Sunburned Country for a side-splitting account of his trip to Australia).
The Annotated Mona Lisa by Carol Strickland is a thorough primer on art history. Get it before going to any major museum (Met, Louvre, Tate Modern, Prado, etc).
Not the Impossible Faith by Richard Carrier is a detailed refutation of the whole 'Christianity could not have survived the early years if it weren't for god's providence' argument.
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman are six of the easier chapters from his '63 Lectures on Physics delivered at CalTech. If you like it and really want to be mind-fucked with science, his QED is a great book on quantum electrodynamics direct from the master.
Lucy's Legacy by Donald Johanson will give you a really great understanding of our family history (homo, australopithecus, ardipithecus, etc). Equally good are Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade and Mapping Human History by Steve Olson, though I personally enjoyed Before the Dawn slightly more.
Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel gives you context for all the Bible stories by detailing contemporaneous events from the Levant, Italy, Greece, Egypt, etc.
After the Prophet by Lesley Hazleton is an awesome read if you don't know much about Islam and its early history.
Happy reading!
edit: Also, check out the Reasonable Doubts podcast.
Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics https://www.amazon.com/dp/090779162X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_QJ4EDbB3R1DCY
Secret Drugs of Buddhism https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692652817/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_wK4EDb733CREK
Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness https://www.amazon.com/dp/1579511414/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_CM4EDb7WCZCJJ
The Effluents of Deity: Alchemy and Psychoactive Sacraments in Medieval and Renaissance Art https://www.amazon.com/dp/161163041X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_PN4EDbMCDQ1CQ
Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0892819979/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_gO4EDb3KYSGN5
The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist https://www.amazon.com/dp/089089924X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_FO4EDbH0C12RD
Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds: The Bhagavad Gita as Psychedelic Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00770DJRW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_2Q4EDb7AEKZ2F
For some reason the cover reminded me of those old castle cross-section books from years past. Like this one on amazon, but I'm pretty sure there was a series and not just one of them. They went over how castles functioned too, so a good resource for fleshing out functioning castles.
An excellent source on disentangling martial arts legends and actual history is Meir Shahar's The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial arts.
In it, he discusses the development of the Shaolin temple's unique styles of staff play and empty-hand boxing, and argues that while we have references to Shaolin monks participating in combat as early as the end of the Sui dynasty (581-618CE), it isn't until the Ming (1368-1644) that there are attestations of a style of practice specific to Shaolin.
He also spends a significant amount of time on the historical inspiration for legendary masters, with sections on Cheng Zongyou's staff method, Li Zhishen (the "tattooed monk"), Huimeng, and others.
With regards to your "wandering warrior" question, there was a long tradition of staying to the "rivers and lakes," and yes, there were itinerant martial artists who gave rise to legends. One of the most famous Chinese novels, The Water Margin treats this subject.
I can't recommend the Meir Shahar book enough, though.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Marianne Mithun's The Languages of Native North America is perhaps a good place to start and definitely an amazing source of information.
Germaine Greer should know better, since she's an ephebophile herself.
A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim, a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, a sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap, a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort, a gut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a canal - Panama!
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— Dan Hoey [ 1984 ]
If you like the art, consider the official [Kaladesh Art Book] (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Magic-Gathering-Kaladesh/dp/1421590506). Also encourages Wizards to continue making them if they sell well.
It's not coming out until January, but check out the Kaladesh artbook: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Magic-Gathering-Kaladesh/dp/1421590506.
You can also find information on the plane here.
If you would like to learn the reality of the Shaolin temple, consider reading
The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
https://www.amazon.com/Shaolin-Monastery-History-Religion-Chinese/dp/082483349X/ref=nodl_
I suggest hopping right onto two illustrated books!
"Philosophy for beginners" (By Richard Osborne)
https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Beginners-Richard-Osborne/dp/1934389021/ref=sr_1_2/138-6850700-4480729
&
"Introduction to postmodernism" (By Appignanesi & Garrat)
https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Postmodernism-Graphic-Richard-Appignanesi/dp/1840468491
I recommend these books to anyone that can read.
These are more like comic books as the books basically rely on illustrations and puzzling/overly clever/humourous commentary, with not so much text in the traditional sense (there aren't, iirc, whole pages of text), and great fun to read through. The book about postmodernism is a real head scratcher, a decent challenge to anyone enjoying Twin Peaks I think. :)
If I could add something to this, then I would also suggest getting a dictionary and an etymological dictionary (or use the free website Merriam Webster Dictionary on the web, to look up English words whenever you need to, or feel like refreshing your knowledge about words, or just for spell checking). The 'etymology' of a word hints at a deeper meaning with words. The antithesis to proper use of words, are imo 'synonyms'. Also, maybe don't use words like "absolutely" if you don't what you mean by it, as you may be thought as being disingenuous and dishonest (as if relying on ironic distance to try add positive spin with a statement that is basically meaningless), as if you were allowed to make two points with a particular statement at the same time, essentially making a point about making a point about something. Red card! As if saying "I absolutely love your idea", when you maybe mean something like "I love your idea because it is a good idea for me to sound like I love your idea."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disingenuous
Oddly enough, this one particular entry in the dictionary, does not seem to have a section for 'etymology'. :D
Basically, don't forget that understanding the language one speak is important for understanding meaning in general as a cultural thing (the world you actually live in). So one is challenged to relate to problems like "meaning" and "knowledge". In our post modern world, it is sort of shown that one can always doubt true knowledge, because knowledge isn't what you could otherwise be tempted to want to think of as being 'apriori' knowledge.
And then, I guess you could also watch the movie "Hero" (2002).
Gardner's Art Through the Ages. It's a staple for art history majors. It's giant though (and pricey) so if you want something lighter, The Annotated Mona Lisa is great.
Gardner's: http://www.amazon.com/Gardners-Art-through-Ages-ArtStudy/dp/0495093076/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321898662&sr=1-1
Annotated Mona Lisa: http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Mona-Lisa-Prehistoric-Post-Modern/dp/0740768727
Some books:
Fairly sure that Qi Magazine can now be accessed online for free, and the Journal of Baguazhang.
I hope you get some interesting replies to this. You probably need to clarify your meaning though; "castles from kingdoms".
For most of human history, Castles were more like a fortified house at the center of village, often where the villagers could take shelter if there was an attack. The vast majority of castles have very little living space square footage compared to what we see in movies. The walls surround a large interior space that is busy during peace times and haphazardly crammed with villagers during a siege.
There would have been a considerable amount of smaller, wooden structures that sprawled out and around the castle to provide support. Having cooking fires, and slaughter houses, and rodent attracting grain stores, and access to fresh water, and stables for animals, and facilities for disposing of animal waster, and space for hundreds of employees to sleep and live, all would happen outside the castle walls. Think of a castle instead as a center point of a large village and it's more likely to be an effective way of thinking about it.
That said, buy this book, https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Cross-sections-Castle-Biesty/dp/1465408800/
Despite it seeming being "for kids" it will probably have more info than any committed amateur might need to suss out what's going on in a castle.
Others that also look interesting.
https://www.amazon.com/Castle-Eyewitness-Books-Christopher-Gravett/dp/0756637694/
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Castle-Time-Goes/dp/1580137962/
It's a far future topic unfortunately. In the mean time pick up a copy of Aliens and Alien Societies. It's a good beginners guide to aliens.
conceptart.org has some good stuff, they make DVDs too. You could probably pirate them, were you a person of low moral fiber.
There are some good books out there too, which you can probably get from the local library. You might need to use interlibrary loan though, my local libraries have a poor selection of art books, but there isn't anything they haven't been able to find at another library.
Color in Contemporary Painting
The Art of Color
Mastering Composition
Abstraction in Art and Nature
The Art Spirit
Some people don't care about theory, but personally I find it inspiring. Art in Theory 1900-1990 is a good collection of writings by artists, critics, and the like. If you're weak on art history you might want to study some of that first, History of Modern Art is pretty good.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.
Also Survival in the Killing Fields
I am printing the hell out of this to put on my wall.
For people that are interested in Native linguistics, I would definitely recommend acquiring: Mithun's The Languages of Native North America
Survival In The Killing Fields by Haing S Ngor.
My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd.
If you're after genuinely frightening and affecting, how about some real-life horror? These books had me terrified for the protagonists' safety at various points. They are much more horrifying than most 'horror' books I've read, and you kinda learn about histories that you wouldn't ordinarily encounter by stealth. The first is a man watching his life and family get ripped apart by the Khmer Rouge; the second is a wannabe photojournalist travelling through Bosnia and surrounds in the early 90s to escape his heroin addiction.
> to somewhat understand postmodernism
This is a very good starter guide.
Pre order the book here. Will probably worth it.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Magic-Gathering-Kaladesh/dp/1421590506/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473867877&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+kaladesh
There are academic studies and a significant body of literature on this topic.
Vince Horn does a concise job of teaching the controversy.
Some people think psychedelics can enhance meditation practice, while others think they're cheating.
Unless you place a high value on purity, I'd recommend doing some light experimentation to see what works for you personally.
Intro to psychology and anthropology?
From her Wikipedia entry -
Camille Anna Paglia (/ˈpɑːliə/; born April 2, 1947) is an American academic and social critic. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist, has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator".
She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and a collection of essays, Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992). Her other books and essays include an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and Break, Blow, Burn (2005) on poetry. Her most recent book is 2012's Glittering Images. She is a critic of American feminism and of post-structuralist theory as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of U.S. social culture such as its visual art, music, and film history.
Here are some of my favorite quotes of her's....
"Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses."
"White middle-class girls at the elite colleges and universities seem to want the world handed to them on a platter. They have been sheltered, coddled and flattered. Having taught at a wide variety of institutions over my ill-starred career, I have observed that working-class or lower-middle-class girls, who are from financially struggling families and must take a patchwork of menial jobs to stay in school, are usually the least hospitable to feminist rhetoric. They see life as it is and have fewer illusions about sex. It is affluent, upper-middle class students who most spout the party line — as if the grisly hyperemotionalism of feminist jargon satisfies their hunger for meaningful experiences outside their eventless upbringing. In the absence of war, invent one."
"We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible."
It's not too tough to keep going.
Architectural programs like Rhino have made it so we can digitally reconstruct architectural spaces.
The internet itself has totally changed how research is done (as it has for all fields), so CAA reviews is now easily available for the latest art history books to be peer reviewed. Or ArtPrice catalogs what has been sold at auction, for what price.
Scientific analysis of, say, paint, materials in general, have revolutionized methods of identifying and proving the provenance of given paintings. And that is really only the beginning. Check this out: http://www.metmuseum.org/research/conservation-and-scientific-research
3-D Printing has already been mentioned.
Margaret Livingston (Harvard, Cog Sci) just wrote a whole book in which she applies the latest scientific explanations of vision to art history, explaining a number of ways in which the Impressionists / Van Gogh / The Mona Lisa achieve affects that play between different levels of vision.
http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Art-The-Biology-Seeing/dp/0810995549
This is all off the top of my head -- this question needs to be more specific!
Adult coloring books. There enough themes out there you can find one somewhat tailored to their interests. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Nature-Coloring-Book-Illustrations/dp/1440570604?ie=UTF8&keywords=adult%20coloring%20books&qid=1441993188&ref_=sr_1_85&s=books&sr=1-85
If you can find a writing group that fits your needs, that is probably the best place to go. If you're talking about a specific person as a resource, I would suggest finding a set of books that provides that expertise, since a person who does that with the level of expertise you would need would probably charge a fee. Unless you are able to get references from other writers, there is no guarantee that a fee-based approach would get you advice that was really helpful to you in your chosen genre.
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Two books that I find are indispensable for your world-building efforts are World Building by Stephen Gillett (https://www.amazon.com/World-Building-Science-Fiction-Writing-Stephen/dp/158297134X) and Aliens and Alien Societies by Stanley Schmidt and Ben Bova (https://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Societies-Science-Fiction-Writing/dp/0898797063/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542787506&sr=1-1&keywords=aliens+and+alien+societies).
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Best of luck!
> but war can actually build national identity
Jesus christ... You have no sense of reason. You'll dismiss literally any hardship to fit your existing world view.
I'd really love to hear you tell a Cambodian that their civil war actually helped them be a better country. Read a fucking book you retard
https://www.google.com/search?q=suffragettes+wanted+to+control+male+sexuality&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=suffragette+control+male+sexuality
https://books.google.com/books?id=uODW2XF7orYC&pg=PT105&lpg=PT105&dq=suffragette+control+male+sexuality+purity+movement&source=bl&ots=P4jelUECkq&sig=Ef7KJqAvbJnxfS75_TY5V59JFas&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikgqm7sYLTAhUW9GMKHbSNCikQ6AEIJTAC#v=onepage&q=suffragette%20control%20male%20sexuality%20purity%20movement&f=false
>With the exception of women such as Josephine Butler, feminists frequently demanded that the coercive power of the state be utilized in a policy of sexual control.
https://books.google.com/books?id=VlGHUz8GfVsC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=Purity+act+fallen+men+suffragette&source=bl&ots=i24R5zZRqq&sig=7TFiJ5p2PNWw7SJOZHFovvIo7lw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAnv3M1NLRAhUFiFQKHXE4AQUQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=Purity%20act%20fallen%20men%20suffragette&f=false
>..nevertheless they did not encourage women to see their sexuality in a positive light.
Rather, they charged men with being responsible for making women suffer in order to acheive their male carnal desires, and demanded that policies of control, such as higher age of consent be enacted, among antiprostitution laws, etc.
https://books.google.com/books?id=UvTMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=suffragette+age+of+consent+control+male+desire&source=bl&ots=gRwCGYGFg_&sig=1srsSIhnGZk5dxj6PhNOST0UtSo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPzYXI0ozUAhWIrlQKHdKoDZQQ6AEITDAF#v=onepage&q=suffragette%20age%20of%20consent%20control%20male%20desire&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rng2oOq1Ep8C&pg=PA14&dq=inauthor:mary+inauthor:odem+%22united+states+1885+and+1920%22+%22state+1885+1920%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zpJDVYL9HMqrogTDt4HIAg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=inauthor%3Amary%20inauthor%3Aodem%20%22united%20states%201885%20and%201920%22%20%22state%201885%201920%22&f=false
You'll have to scroll up or down from the tables, but essentially the suffragette movements considered a higher age of consent a priority for improving female 'status'..except they sought only for the female version of age of consent, and did not care that males had NO age of consent law to 'protect them'.
Females are exceptional, males are ordinary.
If you 'taint' a female of a certain age, we want laws that will socially punish you, the male, who tainted her.
https://www.amazon.com/Germaine-Greer-Beautiful-Boy/dp/0847825868
Here's a lurid little book by well known feminist G.G. who states that she wanted to incite lust of middle teen aged boy bodies in the souls of adult women.
https://www.amazon.com/Soiled-Doves-Prostitution-Early-Women/dp/096190884X
The other books make it clear, sexual exchange freely without hope for marriage, or within the confines of a monetary exchange, were simply part of an oppressive regime of male domination over women.
To control males, we make laws to prevent prostitution so they can't have easy access to sex, to imprison males for violating age of consent law, which we will raise. Incidentally, 'fornication' which meant unmarried sex was actually illegal in the U.S. It looks as though wikipedia has little to no real information on it, but
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/virginia-bill-decriminalize-sex-outside-marriage-stalls-n23516
Virginia is one of the first colonies, and that law is indicative of what was more common among states. If fornication is a crime, then men were subject to that law as well.
I'm covering the issue from an AoC angle mostly, but it is clear that prostitution and sex outside marriage (gotta get that man's paycheck and a cushy lifestyle) were also considered harmful to women, and part of male subordination of women.
Men hurt women through their sexuality, and she always loses out. Therefore we should seek control of male sexual behavior, desire, etc.
Why is it today that we still have jokes about dad making veiled threats to boyfriends their daughters bring home and not the other way around?
Because the female is the natural victim when sexuality occurs.
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I probably should remind at this point that sexuality is defined as obscene, and sexual films aka porn is defined as material of obscene, indecent, lascivious, and lewd nature.
Sex acts are lewd and lascivious, obscene, indecent, except we simply have made it 'legal' to have sex in private between unmarried individuals for the purpose of sexual pleasure instead of for making babies, and we allow consumption of pornographic, e.g. obscene. material in private as well.
Its still all 'obscene', which means its bad. We just let 'legal adults' do bad things of this nature. In this light, we can understand why males are viewed as tainting females, even in the contemporary period.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/lewd+and+lascivious
>adj., adv. references to conduct which includes people living together who are known not to be married, entertainment which aims at arousing the libido or primarily sexual sensation, open solicitation for prostitution, or indecent exposure of genitalia (which is itself a crime). Due to the tendency of judges to be overly careful in writing about moral and/or sexual matters the definitions have been cloaked in old-fashioned modesty. Today the term usually applies to pornography, prostitution, and indecent acts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascivious_behavior
>In American law mailing lascivious matter is prohibited thus:
Basically, no tits in the mail.
>For example, in 1896, lascivious cohabitation referred to the now-archaic crime of living with a member of the opposite sex and having premarital sex with him or her.[1] In 2015 the laws of three states of the United States (Florida, Michigan and Mississippi) still considered "lascivious cohabitation" as a crime.[2] In 2016 Gov. Rick Scott of Florida signed into law SB 0498 which no longer makes "lascivious cohabitation" a crime.[3]
>Lechery is a behavioral pattern that includes:
Inordinate indulgence in sexual activity
Unrestrained and promiscuous sexuality
Immoderate indulgence of sexual desire
Lewd and lustful behavior
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lewd
> sexually unchaste or licentious (see licentious 1) lewd behaviorb : obscene, vulgar lewd remarks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity
In 2008 Meir Shahar, from Tel Aviv University published a fantastic book on exactly what you're interested in.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Shaolin-Monastery-History-Religion/dp/082483349X
There's also Peter Lorge's book (history prof at Vanderbilt), Chinese Martial Arts, an overall history of the subject to which Shaolin is pertinent but tangential.
http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Martial-Arts-Antiquity-Twenty-First/dp/0521878810/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=002H816HNWXX66N4P46H
Most everything written on the subject is hagiography, but the above two are works of history, if that's what you're looking for.
Here's the complete collection.
My dad is the one who put the idea in my head and after some research I'm inclined to agree with them. He no longer works in the field but up until recently he did and also taught geophysics.
I think you may have misinterpreted what I said. I know that scientists agree that global warming is manmade. And I absolutely agree with them. What I'm saying is that human activities have exacerbated a process that the earth goes through periodically (I don't think we'd be having "global warming" right now if it weren't for human activity) and is causing it to happen very rapidly. That certainly isn't a dismissal of what is happening nor what the implications are. There's even a body of research that supports these ideas. I just disagree with the idea that people get in their heads that the earth is unchanging and let it color their view of what actually is happening right now. I would suggest picking up the book The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan if you would like to read a nonfiction novel on the subject of climate change in human history and its human and geothermal causes...it's a great read.
INVESTIGATING...
MAPS...
https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Cross-sections-Castle-14th-Century/dp/1465408800
Wanna buy me it for Christmas?
I am most familiar with the climate changes of the Medieval Warm Period (ca. AD 800-1200) and the Little Ice Age (ca. 1200-1900). Some great pop science books about those two have been written by Brian Fagan: 1 and 2. For modern climate change, if you are really wanting to get in depth, you can check out the latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. I realise that present-day climate change is an incredibly controversial topic among some sectors, so keep in mind that there are lots of competing viewpoints out there.
Please let me know if you want something less pop science-y about those two past events -- I've got some great textbook and article recommendations too for the specialist.
You would definitely dig these. They might seem basic, but you'll remember it all, see how it all moves through history, and know what you want to dig into further:
Postmodernism
Critical Theory
Marxism
Philosophy in General
Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
by George Gilder
The computer age is over.
After a cataclysmic global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm -- the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. Chips and software will continue to make great contributions to our lives, but the action is elsewhere. To seek the key to great wealth and to understand the bewildering ways that high tech is restructuring our lives, look not to chip speed but to communication power, or bandwidth. Bandwidth is exploding, and its abundance is the most important social and economic fact of our time.
George Gilder is one of the great technological visionaries, and "the man who put the 's' in 'telecosm'" (Telephony magazine). He is equally famous for understanding and predicting the nuts and bolts of complex technologies, and for putting it all together in a soaring view of why things change, and what it means for our daily lives. His track record of futurist predictions is one of the best, often proving to be right even when initially opposed by mighty corporations and governments. He foresaw the power of fiber and wireless optics, the decline of the telephone regime, and the explosion of handheld computers, among many trends. His list of favored companies outpaced even the soaring Nasdaq in 1999 by more than double.
His long-awaited Telecosm is a bible of the new age of communications. Equal parts science story, business history, social analysis, and prediction, it is the one book you need to make sense of the titanic changes underway in our lives. Whether you surf the net constantly or not at all, whether you live on your cell phone or hate it for its invasion of private life, you need this book. It has been less than two decades since the introduction of the IBM personal computer, and yet the enormous changes wrought in our lives by the computer will pale beside the changes of the telecosm. Gilder explains why computers will "empty out," with their components migrating to the net; why hundreds of low-flying satellites will enable hand-held computers and communicators to become ubiquitous; why television will die; why newspapers and magazines will revive; why advertising will become less obnoxious; and why companies will never be able to waste your time again.
Along the way you will meet the movers and shakers who have made the telecosm possible. From Charles Townes and Gordon Gould, who invented the laser, to the story of JDS Uniphase, "the Intel of the Telecosm," to the birthing of fiberless optics pioneer TeraBeam, here are the inventors and entrepreneurs who will be hailed as the next Edison or Gates. From hardware to software to chips to storage, here are the technologies that will soon be as basic as the air we breathe.
https://www.amazon.com/Telecosm-Infinite-Bandwidth-Revolutionize-World-ebook/dp/B000FC0V9I
Migration on Wings
Aerodynamics and Energetics
Authors: Kantha, Lakshmi
This book is an effort to explore the technical aspects associated with bird flight and migration on wings. After a short introduction on the birds migration, the book reviews the aerodynamics and Energetics of Flight and presents the calculation of the Migration Range. In addition, the authors explains aerodynamics of the formation flight and finally introduces great flight diagrams.
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642279249
Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique
by Sophie Calle
The haunting story of Sophie Calle’s mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs
“She was called successively Rachel, Monique, Szyndler, Calle, Pagliero, Gonthier, Sindler,” reads the first lines of Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique, embroidered on the cover. “My mother liked people to talk about her. Her life did not appear in my work, and that annoyed her. When I set up my camera at the bottom of the bed in which she lay dying―fearing that she would pass away in my absence, whereas I wanted to be present and hear her last words―she exclaimed, ‘Finally.’”
Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique tells the story of Monique Szyndler, Sophie Calle’s mother who died in 2007, through diary excerpts and photographs selected by the artist from family albums. Described as “haunting” and “a mystery novel that tirelessly searches for a missing person,” the Rachel Monique project honors a daughter’s complicated relationship with her mother and the artist’s deeply felt grief.
This volume, presenting Calle’s installation of Rachel Monique at the Palais de Tokyo, was designed in close collaboration with the artist. The cover text is embroidered to create a precious object, and all of the texts relating to the installation are beautifully embossed. Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique is a highly personal and moving book, intimate and universal in its expressions of mourning and memory.
https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Calle-Rachel-Monique/dp/2365111173
Titles of unidentified books: "How to Love.." "Birds..."
Book about "Beatrix Potter" (haven't identified the particular publication)
Though Potter was typical of women of her generation in having limited opportunities for higher education, her study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time.
Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation. Beatrix and her brother were allowed great freedom in the country and both children became adept students of natural history. he Journal, decoded and transcribed by Leslie Linder in 1958, does not provide an intimate record of her personal life, but it is an invaluable source for understanding a vibrant part of British society in the late 19th century. It describes Potter's maturing artistic and intellectual interests, her often amusing insights on the places she visited, and her unusual ability to observe nature and to describe it. Started in 1881, her journal ends in 1897 when her artistic and intellectual energies were absorbed in scientific study and in efforts to publish her drawings.
Beatrix Potter was interested in every branch of natural science save astronomy. By the 1890s her scientific interests centered on mycology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
by Marina Abramovic
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature.
The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito’s regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mother’s abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor—all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story—a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe—a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China.
Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Through-Walls-Marina-Abramovic/dp/1101905042
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing seems right up her alley and I'd also recommend The Artist's Eyes: Vision and the History of Art.
You can try Durer, a coffee table book from Taschen, these guys make absolutely gorgeous books, I have a Dali book from them, but I'd go with one of the above books coupled with a card with the prints Sparklebunny suggested and you're golden :)
These are really great books! Heres a link to one on post modernism http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Postmodernism-Graphic-Richard-Appignanesi/dp/1840468491
I first read A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich. It is an adaptation of a larger set by the same author, but I felt it was pretty engaging for a primer.
Someone could put in a ton of effort, and still come out with something that people found shitty. Meanwhile, absurdity is a quality that several writers, directors and painters have been lauded for (Beckett, Dali and many more). I'm leaning towards the guy up above that mentioned the attitude of 'shitty modern art/performance' is more about pulling down the other guy and making the person feel better.
There's an excellent book about the subject, at least in terms of art specifically, called Why Your 5 Year Old Couldn't Have Done That, which is also a very good read into the bargain.
Just a taste of this pyscho woman.
LADY GAGA THINKS MARIA ABRAMOVIĆ IS "INCREDIBLE"
JAY-Z "PICASSO BABY" INSPIRED MY ABRAMOVIĆ
Amazon's Best Book of November 2016
[ADIDAS COMMERCIAL] (https://youtu.be/chUtk5IKAPU)
https://www.amazon.com/Army-Dawn-1942-1943-Liberation-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B000ZMRSGM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484576145&sr=1-1&keywords=an+army+at+dawn
Rick Atkinson has three excellent WW2 books each one focused on a single US Army campaign
and if you like the Near East this is a must read
https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Byzantium-Julius-Norwich/dp/0679772693/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484576209&sr=1-1&keywords=a+short+history+of+byzantium+by+john+julius+norwich
Don't limit yourself to photography, there are many amazing painters. Thinking about it, maybe you should x-post to /r/art and similar subreddits.
In terms of books I've done a lot of research but found very little. A common recommendation for photographers is The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman which goes through all kind of lines, contrast, balance, etc. Other books I'm eyeing are Mastering Composition by Ian Roberts and Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu-Mestre. Unfortunately I haven't read any of them yet so I can't comment on the quality.
If you are really serious about it, consider getting a list of most recommended art / photography universities. Then use their websites to find courses and contact teachers personally, asking for (book) recommendations. Begin with one person at each university if they happen to forward your message since you don't want to come across as spam. Some universities even publish course literature on their website. I'd love to hear the responses if you go through with it.
Seuss used to work making political comics,
"Dr Seuss goes to war" great book
http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Seuss-Goes-War-Editorial/dp/156584565X
Hey, this is by Stephen Biesty!
He is a really cool british illustrator and became famous for his cross sections, like this or that, which are seriously awesome!
This is from a book called
"Into the Unknown, How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea and Air" and features apart from this the journeys of Maggellan, Leif Eriksson, Zheng He, the Piccard Brothers and some other cool adventurers.
Credit where credit's due
Citește asta sau celelalte cărți 'intro' pentru artă modernă, dacă vrei nițel context.
I like my Chessex wet erase, but I am old school that way.
This set provides a nice set of printed maps you can use in a variety of situations https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Tactical-Reincarnated-Accessory/dp/0786966793/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2K4MRCP2E6OJX&keywords=tactical+maps+reincarnated&qid=1562638140&s=gateway&sprefix=tactical+maps+re%2Cprime-instant-video%2C149&sr=8-1
For cheap mini's, there are several companies making flat printable mini's you can stick in bases. The other option would be to head to a LFGS that sells pre-painted singles or buy them online. The more common ones can be pretty cheap. Just be sure that you get some with large (2') bases. Many of the baddies are large sized.
I love my inner child
this
May I introduce you to Germaine Greer?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Beautiful-Boy-Germaine-Greer/dp/0847825868
They aren't Orthodox theologians, but:
focuses more on the Byzantine Empire and so leaves out a lot of stuff, but it does cover the Ecumenical Councils and a lot of Orthodox history. There is also a harder-to-find 3 part trilogy of this abridged book.
Orthodox Writings:
There are probably not many good histories of the Church by Orthodox theologians, to be honest.
I hope this helps you out, its called the [little ice age] (http://www.eh-resources.org/timeline/timeline_lia.html) it was when temperatures changed drastically for many years. The change as similar to what is is today. This is natural you are simply denying the facts. You ignored the evidence that he showed you, open your eyes.
More evidence for you:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/344106/Little-Ice-Age-LIA
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/articles/littleiceage.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Ice-Age-1300-1850/dp/0465022723
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/opinion/sunday/lessons-from-the-little-ice-age.html?_r=0
Dungeons & Dragons Tactical Maps Reincarnated (D&D Accessory) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0786966793/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_99NVCbW9NXW6J
http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Societies-Science-Fiction-Writing/dp/0898797063
Germaine Greer?
Yeah, she was ostricised for her terfness, not her creepy as all hell book Beautiful Boy
JJN also has a single-volume history of Byzantium, A Short History of Byzantium, which is easier to find. Being a layman, I can't vouch for its historical accuracy, but it's an easy and enjoyable read.
Thank you! I really appreciate the offer. Academics often don't have anyone to edit them for things like grammar, wording, etc. and it definitely shows. Glad I could teach you about something new! If you're interested in reading a popular science book on a similar topic, you could try reading something by Brian Fagan like this.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Center-Composition-Visual/dp/0520261267
and http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Composition-Techniques-Principles-Dramatically/dp/1581809247
While the latter is explicitly a painting instructional book IME that actually improves photography students' ability to see the forest and not just the trees.
Are you just learning to art or do you have goals?
Dynamic Figure Drawing The early bits of learning to draw focus on correct proportions, but just knowing the facts doesn't mean you understand what you're looking at. Learning about weight and line of action can make figure drawings a lot more interesting.
If you're interested in comics Understanding Comics helps you understand how they work, but not how to draw them.
Do you have access to art classes? Have you done any art history? Art history is pretty great for knowing about the masters and the people that paved the way for today's artists. The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern This book tries to give a short and succinct summary of most of the art movements, but it's worthwhile to get deeper into parts that interest you. The Ninja Turtles (Michaelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael) are icons of the Renaissance, and I imagine the 11 pages for that time period fail to cover quite a lot of the Renaissance. Art is more than the paintings, it's the culture that is responsible for patronizing their work, it's the lessons they learned in pursuit of grander and grander works (The Monalisa represents a lighting choice - twilight hours with indirect lighting; On either side of her is two-point perspective and atmospheric perspective), the men and women that created these works, how these ideas traveled through the regions, and what their work meant to the artists in the time period they lived in.
Another good book is "Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing" by Margaret Livingstone (http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0810995549)
we haven't even started on this one https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Through-Walls-Marina-Abramovic/dp/1101905042/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479958047&sr=8-1&keywords=abramovic+book
Great work. It's a really wonderful, beautiful map.
Can I use this to vent for a moment and maybe I am looking in the wrong spots and maybe a fine person in this subreddit can help but the biggest trouble I find is finding generic ass battle maps for use in roll20. I google for maps and, just google battlemaps yourself and they are all pretty bad. But then I find one I like... and it costs like $5. I can't shell out $5 every time I need a map for roll20. That's going to add up. I've used tools to build my own maps but it can take upwards of 2-3 hours for me to build out a pretty shitty looking map. I mean, you know how long it takes I am sure since you built this quality map that I will never use.
These maps are great for people who have the time to build an encounter around the map but I do the opposite since I run modules. I can find nice digital versions of the maps used in the modules but they never provide, for example, "A forest map." for combat in a forest. Or "Bridge Map." Or "mountain pass map." I am basically looking for the digital equivalent to something like these.
Spending a little money on a nice collection of digital maps is perfectly reasonable to me but all the maps I see on this subreddit or online are way, way, way to specific and I just want a nice collection of nice looking generic battle mats.
My SO has the same thing, maybe this might you feel a tiny bit better http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Five-Year-Could-Have/dp/0500290474
Non-mobile:
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The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern is by far my favorite art history book. After reading it, I am now able to offer interesting insights to friends and relatives whenever I am at an art museum.
Also, art museums are pretty good at publishing materials about their works. If you have a particular art museum that you like start there. A visit to the museum is so much more enjoyable when you have an understanding of what you are looking at.
Altså, æstetik er mange forskellige ting, og folk forstår endnu mere forskelligt ved det. Der findes ekstremt bøger om, hvad kunst er, kunstens historie, hvorfor noget er god kunst og hvorfor din 5-årige ikke kunne have lavet det. Det ville en kunsthistoriker nok være bedre til at anbefale.
Når det kommer til filosofisk æstetik, er det nok Dorthe Jørgensen, der er Danmarks absolutte autoritet på området. Hun har skrevet to doktorafhandlinger om emnet (Skønhedens metamorfose og Den skønne tænkning), men hun har også skrevet meget mere pædagogisk og introducerende om emnet, f.eks. i Skønhed. En engel gik forbi. De fleste af mine bøger ligger i fjernlager lige nu, så jeg kan ikke kigge efter, men jeg husker sidstnævnte som ret ligetil.
Jørgen Dehs er også ret god. Hans nyeste bog Det autentiske. Fortællinger om nutidens kunstbegreb handler om, hvilken rolle det autentiske (det ægte, oprigtige) spiller i kunsten (det kunst-ige, opstillede). Han har også redigeret antologien Æstetiske teorier, der har nogle fine tekster i sig.
If you get interested at some point, this is the book I got! Works great with a basic watercolor palette and an audiobook in the background :)
Well, then I recommend you read this book so that you'll ready for the possible coming apocalypse: The Little Ice Age.
It's a great read. You can follow it up with this: The Long Summer.
I think you should get The Art of Nature Coloring Book because it looks like it would have some really interesting illustrations, that even if you didn't want to colour, would be good to browse and could serve as inspiration since you seem to be interested in drawing.
You really need to buy this for yourself because it's a Dr. Who journal, which is awesome in and of itself, and also because you need something to write things down in (memories). Mom brain sucks big time, and sometimes you need to look back on things and remember what you've forgotten. Plus this because it's such a great stress relief, and who doesn't love to color?!
Ha! Ever see any of his WWII-era political cartoons? This book in on my wish list.
This cartoon seems appropriate.
Or what I said...
I recommend reading this. Actually, the series is more or less the book-form of this sub-reddit
Check out this scholarly book about the Shaolin The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Five-Year-Could-Have/dp/0500290474
Read this book.
Check this book out if you haven't already.
Zig zag zen should be right up your alley. Very interesting read.
http://www.amazon.com/Zig-Zag-Zen-Buddhism-Psychedelics/dp/090779162X
You could purchase the art book they produced for some inspiration as well. Amazon Link
Yeah definitely. Here's the book on Amazon , you can check out the other ones they have (which are a lot). The Existentialism one was great too.
Pirahã is fairly analytic. While there are a good amount of suffixes that mark modality and aspect, there are no agreement patterns and those suffixes (I think) only have distribution in VPs. See The Handbook of Amazonian Languages vol. 1, 1986 for details. In addition, Mithun 1999's The Languages of Native North America reports that many of the Inuit trade pigeons were/are analytic.
I enjoyed John Norwich's three volume series: Byzantium: The Early Centuries, The Apogee, and Decline and Fall. If that is a bit too verbose for your liking, he has also published a Short History of Byzantium which summarises his trilogy.
This is a pretty good book on that sort of thing: https://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Societies-Science-Fiction-Writing/dp/0898797063/
If you like beautiful art, consider buying the artbooks:
Wild Zendikar: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Magic-Gathering-Zendikar/dp/142158249X/
Gothic Innistrad:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Magic-Gathering-Innistrad/dp/1421587807/
Steampunk Kaladesh:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Magic-Gathering-Kaladesh/dp/1421590506/
\>>> When they go in the back of the bookstore, we can see an easter-egg from Brit: on the table is a message that reads: "How art can make you happy". If you see the interview that Brit gave for the "offCamera with Sam Jones", you'll understand. :D
The books on that table (they all are linked with the interview):
Making Things Right: The Simple Philosophy of a Working Life
by Ole Thorstensen
A celebration of craftsmanship, teamwork, and the relationship between contractor and client.
Making Things Right is the simple yet captivating story of a loft renovation, from the moment master carpenter and contractor Ole Thorstensen submits an estimate for the job to when the space is ready for occupation. As the project unfolds, we see the construction through Ole's eyes: the meticulous detail, the pesky splinters, the problem solving, patience, and teamwork required for its completion. Yet Ole's narrative encompasses more than just the fine mechanics of his craft. His labor and passion drive him toward deeper reflections on the nature of work, the academy versus the trades, identity, and life itself.
The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
by Thich Nhat Hanh
In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh--one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today--reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us answer life’s deepest questions and experience the happiness and freedom we desire.
Thich Nhat Hanh presents, for the first time, seven transformative meditations that open up new perspectives on our lives, our relationships and our interconnectedness with the world around us. Based on the last full talks before his sudden hospitalization, and drawing on intimate examples from his own life, Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how these seven meditations can free us to live a happy, peaceful and active life, and face ageing and dying with curiosity and joy and without fear.
Your Art Will Save Your Life - also a direct hint which is linked with the interview
by Beth Pickens
Writing in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Beth Pickens reminds burgeoning artists that their work is more important now than ever, and advises on fostering creativity, sustaining an innovative practice, and navigating institutional funding as an individual. Partially a self-help book, partially a political manifesto, Pickens combines practical advice for those seeking out a creative career while contextualising it for the current time.
\>>> We can also see a book by (or about) Marina Abramović, perhaps is this one:
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
by Marina Abramović
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
\>>> And way in back - on the wall - I spotted this book:
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden by Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911".
The plot centers round Mary Lennox, a young English girl who returns to England from India, having suffered the immense trauma by losing both her parents in a cholera epidemic. However, her memories of her parents are not pleasant, as they were a selfish, neglectful and pleasure-seeking couple. Mary is given to the care of her uncle Archibald Craven, whom she has never met. She travels to his home, Misselthwaite Manor located in the gloomy Yorkshire, a vast change from the sunny and warm climate she was used to. When she arrives, she is a rude, stubborn and given to stormy temper tantrums. However, her nature undergoes a gradual transformation when she learns of the tragedies that have befallen her strict and disciplinarian uncle whom she earlier feared and despised. Once when he's away from home, Mary discovers a charming walled garden which is always kept locked. The mystery deepens when she hears sounds of sobbing from somewhere within her uncle's vast mansion. The kindly servants ignore her queries or pretend they haven't heard, spiking Mary's curiosity.
PS: There is one book which I can't find at all (Best Forever by Tim Wiles).
Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics
these are pretty cool. https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Tactical-Reincarnated-Accessory/dp/0786966793/ref=pd_sim_14_3/133-6169401-0140663?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0786966793&pd_rd_r=613aa1fe-6124-11e9-bd66-f3c4fc150285&pd_rd_w=De8gs&pd_rd_wg=iVqXd&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=H6TDT5RM9X9Q37TT87HA&psc=1&refRID=H6TDT5RM9X9Q37TT87HA
also Paizo has a lot of flip maps. and chessex battle mats are good.
you should read this book that talks all about that,
its called The Boy, author- Germaine Greer , its a woman author
basically its a book disecting art and visual culture and the use of man or rather 'the beautiful boy' and how people respond to that image
how the boy body is actually farm more beautiful , than the woman body thats been idealized, and how women really enjoy this beauty of the seductive boy, but its like a hidden taboo as of late to arise in pop culture.
http://www.amazon.com/Germaine-Greer-Beautiful-Boy/dp/0847825868
You're just mad because he won the war.
It's not strictly a design book but I recommend
Vision and Art : The Biology of Seeing
http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Art-Margaret-S-Livingstone/dp/0810995549/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250871278&sr=1-1
Edit: link got mashed up...
The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan - insightful/informative book about the role climate change has played in human civilization
[Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained ] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Five-Year-Could-Have/dp/0500290474)
Books or video on composition? I can recommend two books:
I got this from the library and so far I’m enjoying it
Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting (Mastering (North Light Books)) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1581809247/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_39W8Ab8K4X8ZF
This was my textbook for my color and composition class
The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color https://www.amazon.com/dp/0442240384/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_teX8AbVYTBXVT
It's tempting to buy a pallet of copies of this book to throw at people who trot out the same old ignorant bollocks over and over.
Hi Nikolai,
This video is directly from the Zen monastery you saw in extreme pilgrim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn-M9IyNMTk and may be of interest.
For a literary dry history of Shaolin and martial arts, Meir Shahar wrote a recent book summarizing a good amount of information and is a good start on the topic : http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/082483349X
Note that his book is not from the point of a practitioner, nor from one steeped in the cultural nor social conditions in and around the temple, let alone in Chinese society.. there's a lot to be said about Chinese oral history, destroyed records, cultural shifts in the past 50 years, and language difficulties that make the subject hazy and complex.
There's also mixing between "shamanic" and qi cultivation practices associated with daoists and early Chinese Buddhist practice, where Zhen Qi cultivation becomes a similar theme, and one of the practices involved in the video above (dissimilar to the other fighting/krav maga you're mentioning). So yes Qi cultivation had been around since before Bodhidharma in China and early practitioners applied various qi concepts and methods (although no evidence any came from or were associated with Bodhidharma)
I didn't see any sites that particularly stood out to me, but a lot had good info. Some are simple and some have complex geometric breakdowns. Find what you like and works for you. I personally don't like the complex geometry approach, I have a short attention span and I would never spend the time planning a piece to that point, especially when I can get the same look with a simpler approach. Rule of thirds is the rule I fall back on the most, it never steers me wrong. Based on the two images you posted you have good instincts, don't get overwhelmed by all the rules and theories about composition. In the end, do what you think looks best. The more pieces you create the more you will develop your eye. Also, it is great that you are open to constructive criticism, some artists get so butt hurt that they cannot learn anything.