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Saving Abstraction
Author | : Ryan Dohoney |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780190948580 |
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Saving Abstraction: Morton Feldman, the de Menils, and the Rothko Chapel tells the story of the 1972 premier of Morton Feldman's music for the Rothko Chapel in Houston. Built in 1971 for "people of all faiths or none," the chapel houses 14 monumental paintings by famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, who had committed suicide only one year earlier. Upon its opening, visitors' responses to the chapel ranged from spiritual succor to abject tragedy--the latter being closest to Rothko's intentions. However the chapel's founders--art collectors and philanthropists Dominique and John de Menil--opened the space to provide an ecumenically and spiritually affirming environment that spoke to their avant-garde approach to Catholicism. A year after the chapel opened, Morton Feldman's musical work Rothko Chapel proved essential to correcting the unintentionally grave atmosphere of the de Menil's chapel, translating Rothko's existential dread into sacred ecumenism for visitors. Author Ryan Dohoney reconstructs the network of artists, musicians, and patrons who collaborated on the premier of Feldman's music for the space, and documents the ways collaborators struggled over fundamental questions about the emotional efficacy of art and its potential translation into religious feeling. Rather than frame the debate as a conflict of art versus religion, Dohoney argues that the popular claim of modernism's autonomy from religion has been overstated and that the two have been continually intertwined in an agonistic tension that animates many 20th-century artistic collaborations.
Saving Abstraction
Author | : Ryan Dohoney |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-10-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780190948597 |
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Saving Abstraction: Morton Feldman, the de Menils, and the Rothko Chapel tells the story of the 1972 premier of Morton Feldman's music for the Rothko Chapel in Houston. Built in 1971 for "people of all faiths or none," the chapel houses 14 monumental paintings by famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, who had committed suicide only one year earlier. Upon its opening, visitors' responses to the chapel ranged from spiritual succor to abject tragedy--the latter being closest to Rothko's intentions. However the chapel's founders--art collectors and philanthropists Dominique and John de Menil--opened the space to provide an ecumenically and spiritually affirming environment that spoke to their avant-garde approach to Catholicism. A year after the chapel opened, Morton Feldman's musical work Rothko Chapel proved essential to correcting the unintentionally grave atmosphere of the de Menil's chapel, translating Rothko's existential dread into sacred ecumenism for visitors. Author Ryan Dohoney reconstructs the network of artists, musicians, and patrons who collaborated on the premier of Feldman's music for the space, and documents the ways collaborators struggled over fundamental questions about the emotional efficacy of art and its potential translation into religious feeling. Rather than frame the debate as a conflict of art versus religion, Dohoney argues that the popular claim of modernism's autonomy from religion has been overstated and that the two have been continually intertwined in an agonistic tension that animates many 20th-century artistic collaborations.
Practical Metaphysics for Healing and Self Culture Or The Way to Save Both Soul and Body Now
Author | : Anna W. Mills |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Mental healing |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWS6VK |
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The Logical Design of Parallel Operating Systems
Author | : Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat |
Publsiher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : UOM:39015032625991 |
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This timely volume describes the logical design of state-of-the-art parallel operating systems that have to meet the needs of both massively parallel computer architectures and massively parallel applications.
Anthropology and Economy
Author | : Stephen Gudeman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2016-01-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107130869 |
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Offering a uniquely cross-cultural perspective, renowned economic anthropologist Stephen Gudeman presents a theory of economic crisis and lessons for its mitigation, in light of the recent global financial crash. This compelling book is richly illustrated with examples from 'strange' small-scale economies as well as developed market economies.
Resisting Abstraction
Author | : Gordon Hughes |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2014-11-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226159065 |
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The first English-language study of the influential French painter Robert Delaunay to appear in thirty years. Delaunay has long been appreciated as one of the leading Parisian artists of the early twentieth century. And art historians have consistently viewed his vibrantly colored paintings starting in 1912 as early experiments in abstraction. Hughes, however, tautly argues that Delaunay was not just one of the earliest artists to work in pure abstraction, but the earliest one to do so. The colorful, optically driven canvases that Delaunay produced set him apart from the more ethereal abstraction of Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich, and Kupka, with whom he is often clubbed and whose spiritual motivations he rejected. Delaunay s paintings were grounded in material sensation and reflected the modern optical science of his time. They had nothing in common with the idealism that drove Kandinsky and the others. As a result, his work set the stage not only for the kind of abstraction that would come to dominate painting in the mid twentieth century (Pollock, Stella, Still, Kline); it also inspired the critics who theorized and elevated that particular strain of modernist practice."
Abstraction in Reverse
Author | : Alexander Alberro |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-05-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226394008 |
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During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator an unprecedented role in the realization of the artwork. The first book to explore this phenomenon on an international scale, Abstraction in Reverse traces the movement as it evolved across South America and parts of Europe. Alexander Alberro demonstrates that artists such as Tomás Maldonado, Jesús Soto, Julio Le Parc, and Lygia Clark, in breaking with the core tenets of the form of abstract art known as Concrete art, redefined the role of both the artist and the spectator. Instead of manufacturing autonomous art, these artists produced artworks that required the presence of the spectator to be complete. Alberro also shows the various ways these artists strategically demoted regionalism in favor of a new modernist voice that transcended the traditions of the nation-state and contributed to a nascent globalization of the art world.
Green IT in Practice
Author | : Gary Hird |
Publsiher | : It Governance Limited |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924114463379 |
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This book contains useful ideas for establishing and formalizing a Green IT program within an organization. This work covers the link between general Corporate Social Responsibility and Green IT, how to go about constructing appropriate policies and metrics, and thoughts on how to engage with employees and suppliers.