Author: Leisure Arts
Publisher: Leisure Arts, Inc.
Keywords: arts, leisure, books, little, afghans, ripple, crochet
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $3.50
ISBN-10: 1574869760
ISBN-13: 9781574869767

This Leisure Arts book is not about cross stitch but is instead about Crochet. Beginners will love these 6 ripple designs! The little book is the perfect size for people on the go. Easy design instructions will make the process so much fun! 

Author: Bob Orlando
Publisher: Frog Books
Keywords: arts, eastern, approach, america, martial, western
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1997-12-22
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1883319676
ISBN-13: 9781883319670

This broad survey of martial arts traditions and their evolution to modern Western practice challenging the purpose and effectiveness of many martial arts activities and training methods used in the U.S. today. By focusing on the most effective and relevant way for Americans to pursue the various martial arts, Orlando’s useful insights penetrate a subject too often shrouded in mysticism and marketing hype. 30 photos. 79 illustrations Author publicity. .

Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: arts, book, fine, ahmanson, china, murphy
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0520218779
ISBN-13: 9780520218772

For the fourth edition of his much-heralded The Arts of China, last published in 1984, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the 1990s. He draws on archaeological discoveries in the last two decades of the twentieth century that have enriched scholars’ understanding of both prehistoric and ancient Chinese civilizations. At the same time, research on more recent dynasties has led to fresh interpretations of well-documented historical events and artworks. Also, China’s dramatic opening to the outside worl

Author: Kevin F. McCarthy
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: arts, changing, world, media, cyberspace, celluliod
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2002-11-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0833030760
ISBN-13: 9780833030764

The media arts are the newest and most technologically intensive of the arts. Consisting of narrative, documentary and avant garde film and video, digital art, and installation art using media, they represent a mix of the performing and visual arts. Despite their short history, they are also marked by many of the trends that characterize the arts sector as a whole. This report discusses the origins and developments of the media arts and component disciplines, their distinguishing features, and the key challenges they face in the future. The authors also compare the issues facing the media arts

Author: Ichak Adizes
Publisher: Adizes Inst
Keywords: arts, principles, management, founding, organization, performing, managing
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2000-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0937120065
ISBN-13: 9780937120064

Author: Temenuga Trifonova
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: arts, conciousness, literture, literature, consciousness, french, philosophy, image
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $83.00
ISBN-10: 9042021594
ISBN-13: 9789042021594

Fine copy. Bibliography. Index. 316pp. Challenges dominant interpretations of Bergson, Sartre, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Deleuze by arguing that their philosophy was not a critique but a revival of metaphysics as a thinking pertaining to impersonal forces.

Authors:Roger Dean, Hazel Smith,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: arts, studies, performing, improvisation, hypermedia
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 371865878X
ISBN-13: 9783718658787

In presenting their comprehensive definition of improvisation, the authors consider developments in improvisation in the arts since 1945 by particularly emphasizing process and technique and by featuring artists in all media, from Grotowski and Laurie Anderson to Goldsworthy. Their approach is analytical and theoretical, but it is also relevant to practitioners and their audience. For Smith and Dean, improvisation has been of great importance and value in the contemporary arts because of its potential to develop new forms, often by breaking existing definitions: they see hypermedia and interac