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• Introduction: art, risk, and creativity. Art, risk, and identity. Art making : artists, subjects, technologies and media — Experiencing art : sight, site, and perspectives of viewing — If looks could kill : aesthetics and political expression — Embedding identity : marking the Ife body. Politics, representation, and regalia. A gallery of portrait heads : political art — Animal avatars : art, identity and the natural world — Crowning glory : the art and politics of headgear — Battling with symbols : scepters, staffs, and seats.

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• Art, Yoruba — History.
• Art, Yoruba — Political aspects.
• Art and society — Nigeria — Ife.
• Ife (Nigeria) — Antiquities.
• Ife (Nigeria) — Civilization.
• Creative ability in technology — Nigeria — Ife.
• Yoruba. (DE-588)4079438-6 gnd
• Kunst. (DE-588)4114333-4 gnd
• Kreativität. (DE-588)4032903-3 gnd
• Kunstethnologie. (DE-588)4452785-8 gnd
• Gesellschaft. (DE-588)4020588-5 gnd
• Ife. (DE-588)4095889-9 gnd
• Nigeria. (DE-588)4042300-1 gnd

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• The global sustainability problem. Solar energy use through time Uncontrolled growth causes uncontrollable problems Our ecological footprint Global warming and climate change — Ecology and the environment. Ecosystem example : the Chesapeake Bay Ecology and architecture Environmental economics Nature’s geometry — The residential scale. Building example : WaterShed House LEED for residential buildings The energy design process Bioclimatic design Solar control and shading Passive solar heating Passive cooling Embodied energy and thermal mass High insulation levels Green materials — The commercial scale. Building example : The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Building Overview of the LEED for commercial buildings rating system Daylighting Electric lighting Heating and cooling Indoor air quality Green roofs Material choices — The urban scale. Urban example : San Francisco LEED for neighborhood development Urbanism Transit oriented development — Energy sources. Conventional energy sources Alternative energy sources.

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• Sustainable buildings.
• Sustainable architecture.
• Renewable energy sources.
• City planning — Environmental aspects.

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• Seasons — Minnesota — Pictorial works.
• Nature photography — Minnesota.
• Minnesota — Pictorial works.
• Minnesota. fast (OCoLC)fst01204560
• Pictorial works. fast (OCoLC)fst01423874

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• In 1932 nineteen-year-old John H. Howe arrived at Taliesin as a charter member of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship. He would remain there for the next thirty-two years, earning a reputation as ‘the pencil in Wright’s hand’ before establishing his own architectural practice in Minnesota. This is the first book to tell Howe’s story and also the first full account of his place in the history of modern architecture — as chief draftsman and valued interpreter of Wright’s designs and as prolific architect in his own right. Illustrated throughout with Howe’s sublime drawings, this biography is a testament to the architect’s extraordinary design and rendering skills — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The Taliesin Fellowship — A Sandstone Exile — Return to Taliesin — After Wright — The Freedom of California — A New Career in Minnesota — A Lasting Legacy.

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• Howe, John H., 1913-1997.
• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 — Friends and associates.
• Architects — United States — Biography.
• Howe, John H., 1913-1997 — Criticism and interpretation.
• Biographies. lcgft

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• Covers all periods of western architectural history including biographies of architects and others who have made significant contributions to the field of architecture.

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• Architecture — Dictionaries.
• Dictionaries. fast (OCoLC)fst01423826

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• Looking for an A-Z, one-stop, comprehensive book on museums? Wish you were able to have one of the nation’s leading museum consultants spend a couple of days with you, talking you through how to start a museum, how museums work, how to set up an exhibit, and more? If so, Museums 101 is the answer to your wishes –Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index.
• Part I. Essential museum background — Defining a museum — A quick history of museums — Part II. Creating an integrated museum — The integrated museum — Starting a museum — Museum governance — Museum feasibility studies — Museum planning strategies — Part III. Exhibitions — Collections — The museum building — Museum exhibition development/curation — Exhibition design and fabrication — Museum programming: education — Part IV. Behind the scenes — Museum finances — Museum fundraising — Museum marketing — Museum project management — Museum evaluation — Museum operations — Museum accessibility — Museum research — Collections care — Putting your museum online — Working in museums — Part V. The museum toolbox — American Alliance of Museums: Code of ethics for museums — Sample bylaws — American Alliance of Museums: Developing a mission statement — Sample museum constitution — Sample museum feasibility template — Sample board member responsibilities — Sample policy for donations of objects — Sample donor questionnaire — Sample museum exhibit sponsorship agreement — Timing and tracking study — Visitor exit interview — Museum job descriptions — Object cataloging record — Museum exhibition design process.

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• Museums.
• Museums — United States.
• Museum techniques.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-191) and index.

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• Nicollet Island (Minn.)
• Minneapolis (Minn.) — History.
• Minneapolis (Minn.) — Buildings, structures, etc.
• Historic buildings — Minnesota — Minneapolis.
• Architecture — Minnesota — Minneapolis.

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• Introduction — 1. What is art? (Yves Klein’s Anthropometries) — 2. The value of art (Lucian Freud’s Hotel bedroom) — 3. Expression (Mark Rothko’s Black on maroon) — 4. Forgeries, copies and variations (Gerhard Richter’s Dead 2) — 5. Intention and interpretation (Louise Bourgeois’s Maman) — 6. Beauty and ugliness (Francis Bacon’s Three studies for figures at the base of the crucifixion) — 7. Art and knowledge (Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks) — 8. Art and morality (Balthus’s Therese dreaming).
• Derek Matravers introduces students to the philosophy of art through a close examination of eight famous works of twentieth-century art. Each work has been chosen in order to best illustrate and illuminate a particular problem in aesthetics. Each artwork forms the basis of a single chapter and readers are introduced to such issues as artistic value, intention, interpretation, and expression through a careful analysis of the artwork. Questions considered include What does art mean in contemporary art practice? Is the artistic value of a painting the same as how much you like it? If a painting isn’t of anything, then how do we understand it? Can art be immoral? By grounding abstract and theoretical discussion in real examples the book provides an excellent way into the subject for readers new to the philosophical dimension of art appreciation. –Publisher’s description.

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• Aesthetics.
• Art — Philosophy.
• Art — Philosophy — Case studies.
• Case studies. fast (OCoLC)fst01423765

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• That’s All Right. A white man sounds black Rock ‘n’ roll arrives The meaning of rock The revolution that wasn’t. — The Train Kept A-Rollin’. Stroll on Cow-cow boogie Johnny B. Goode Rolling on. — One O’ Them Things! Big Bill Handy vs. Morton Birth of the blues Recording the blues Roots of the blues Africa, Britain, and vaudeville. — The Rocks. The walking bass A dash of hokum Big band boogie Boogie-woogie fever Coda. — The Jumpin’ Jive. Jump jazz The backbeat and the Jitterbug Jug bands and hokum Scat, jive, and harmony signing Big bands and shuffle rhythms The blues-jazz nexus From hokum to rhythm-and-blues Jive Big band jump Jum, jive, an’ wail. — Get With It. Country origins Early country recordings Blues and hokum Western swing Hillbilly boogie Country and R&B. — Good Rockin’ Tonight. R&B is born The door opens Horn honkers String slingers Shouters Rhythm-and-blues women Doo- wop The crescent city. — Rock Love. Blue-eyed R&B Rock stars Mystery women Vocal groups Caribbean rhythms.
• This work surveys the origins of rock ‘n’ roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, it offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock’s origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock ‘n’ roll appeared. This study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock ‘n’ roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. Here the author argues a more complicated history and rock’s evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues, a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. This work presents a bold argument about rock’s origins.

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• Popular music — United States — 1931-1940 — History and criticism.
• Popular music — United States — 1941-1950 — History and criticism.
• Popular music — United States — 1951-1960 — History and criticism.
• Rhythm and blues music — History and criticism.
• Rock music — United States — To 1961 — History and criticism.

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• Zakhor : the task of Holocaust remembrance, questions of representation, and the sacred — An architecture of absence : Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin — Architectures of redemption and experience : Yad Vashem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum — The artful eye : learning to see and perceive otherwise inside museum exhibits — We are the last witnesses : artifact, aura, and authenticity — Refiguring the sacred : strategies of disfiguration in String, the Memorial to the Deportees, and Menora — Rituals of remembrance in Jerusalem and Berlin : museum visiting as pilgrimage and performance.

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• Museum architecture.
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Museums.
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture.
• Memorialization.
• Symbolism in architecture.
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Study and teaching.
• Museum techniques.
• Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- )
• Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. Muzeʼon.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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