Paul Arthur

Romedi Passini

Professor of English and Film Studies Paul Arthur

This book brings together, for the first time, expertise on all three of the elements which wayfinding is comprised: architecture; graphics; & verbal human interaction, within the context of the built environment. The authors, take the reader from a better understanding of the many types of wayfinding difficulties that people have, & why they have them, through an explanation of what wayfinding is & how the process works, to detailed examinations of the architectural, graphic, audible & tactile components involved in wayfinding design. A prescription, in effect, for a much-needed, brand-new design discipline.

People, Signs, and Architecture

Wayfinding

This book is a unique and comprehensive illustrated dictionary of French Art Nouveau Ceramics. A census conducted in 1901 indicated the existence of some 209 producers of pottery in France, employing a total of around 5,800 full-time labourers. This great activity stimulated a parallel development in the arts, including the search for new expressions in art pottery, giving birth to l'art nouveau, a great and eclectic synthesis of a number of other art styles. Largely through British arts and crafts, and the work of artists like the Manxman Archibald Knox, it reached far back into the prehistory of Celtic art. To this were added later medieval elements, through the gothic revival championed by William Morris. The need for renewal, breaking away from the neo-Classical and academia, which was realm of the upper-class culture, was largely theorised by John Ruskin, who searched elsewhere for inspiration. Thus did British art nouveau also partake of Chinese and Japanese styles, though never in so forceful a manner as did the French aesthetic. France, on the one side, looked back to the swirling and frivolous eighteenth century Rococo, primarily through the influence of the Goncourt brothers, Edmond and Jules, influential aesthetes of the mid nineteenth century. The book focuses especially on artists working stoneware or gre's, faience, and terracotta. It aims to provide a general survey of the many artists working in these areas, and includes brief accounts of the ceramics work of sculptors and painters whose wider output is already well known.

An Illustrated Dictionary

French Art Nouveau Ceramics

Marco Leo Imperiale

VII Congresso nazionale di archeologia medievale. Pré-tirages (Lecce, 9-12 settembre 2015). Vol. 1

David E. James

Michele Pierson

Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the U.S. While his importance is well-recognized, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to him. It includes essays by prominent film scholars along with photographs and personal pieces from artists and critics, all of which testify to the extraordinary variety and influence of his accomplishments. Anyone interested in cinema or experimental arts will be well-rewarded by a greater acquaintance with the genius, the innovation, and the optical antics of Ken Jacobs.

The Cinema of Ken Jacobs

Optic Antics

This volume gathers many of the best known writers on the avant-garde from three continents to write on the cinema of Ken Jacobs, who - with Jonas Mekas - is arguably the most important living experimental filmmaker. Jacobs is perhaps best known for his extraordinary, dual-projector NervousSystem performances, but his vast output includes shadow plays, multimedia performance films, videos, and, for the last twenty years, the perception-expanding Nervous Magic Lantern. Though he is included in the Whitney Museum's list of the hundred greatest artists of the twentieth century, and hisfilm Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son (1969-71) was recently added to the Library of Congress' national film registry, there is little scholarly material on Jacobs which is readily available to researchers.The scholars contributing are Paul Arthur, Nicole Brenez, David E. James, Branden W. Joseph, Scott MacDonald, Adrian Martin, Michele Pierson, Tony Pipolo, William Rose, Eivind Rossak, Amy Taubin, Federico Windhausen, and Michael Zryd. Shorter essays by internationally renowned artists who have beeninfluenced by Jacobs include Abigail Child, Richard Foreman, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Muller, Larry Gottheim, Lewis Klahr, Jonas Mekas, Phil Solomon, Art Spiegelman, and Fred Worden.

Arthur (English and film studies, Montclair State U.) balances close analysis of major and lesser-known films with detailed examinations of their production, distribution and exhibition. He addresses the avant-garde's cultural significance and reexamines accepted critical categories and artistic options. Rather than treating American avant-garde ci

American Avant-garde Film Since 1965

A Line of Sight

Branimir Zlamalik

Based on PictograficSystems, this book is organised in categories and topics and contains over 1400 illustrations of pictographs and their image content descriptors, as well as a comprehensive index.

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