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Prestige, Profit, and Pleasure

Prestige, Profit, and Pleasure
Author: A. Deirdre Robson
Publisher: Garland Science
Total Pages: 375
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780815313649

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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Infinity in Your Hand

Infinity in Your Hand
Author: William H. Houff
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781558963115

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You will find in this book both a challenging personal story and a review of the great religious thinking of our time. -- Robert Fulghum, author of All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.


The Rotarian

The Rotarian
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1964-07
Genre:
ISBN:

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Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.


Talking Prices

Talking Prices
Author: Olav Velthuis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-08-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0691134030

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How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business repertoire. For instance, a sharp distinction between a gallery's museumlike front space and its businesslike back space safeguards the separation of art from commerce. Velthuis shows that prices, far from being abstract numbers, convey rich meanings to trading partners that extend well beyond the works of art. A high price may indicate not only the quality of a work but also the identity of collectors who bought it before the artist's reputation was established. Such meanings are far from unequivocal. For some, a high price may be a symbol of status; for others, it is a symbol of fraud. Whereas sociological thought has long viewed prices as reducing qualities to quantities, this pathbreaking and engagingly written book reveals the rich world behind these numerical values. Art dealers distinguish different types of prices and attach moral significance to them. Thus the price mechanism constitutes a symbolic system akin to language.


Design and Systems

Design and Systems
Author: Arne Collen
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 492
Release:
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781412821636

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Praxiology starts from the point of view of effectiveness. It has three components: analysis of concepts involving purposive actions; critique of modes of action from the viewpoint of efficiency; and normative advisory aspects in recommendations for increasing human efficiency. The third volume of this series aims to make more visible to the English readership the importance of design throughout the many disciplines, professions, and arenas of human endeavor. Design is a pervasive part of our daily lives to such an extent that it goes largely unnoticed. It has become a near invisible aspect of our civilized existence. But when we stop for a moment to study an artifact, activity, group, and institution, or any entity or life process, we can begin to see and imagine the design, the designing, and the human designers who contributed to it. Design and Systems represents a set of contributions made to the methodological study of design. Chapters and contributors include: "Toward Metamedicine" by Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh; "Design Engineering Methodologies in English and German Language Regions and Influences of Culture" by Wolfgang E. Eder; "Systems Methodology and Design" by Gerald Nadler; "Problem Forming, Problem Finding, and Problem Solving in Design" by Herbert A. Simon; and "Design: A Journey to the Future" by Bela H. Banathy, Design and Systems continues the trend of original research done in a little-known, but important area. It will be an enlightening read for sociologists, philosophers, and scholars interested in the study of design.


American Studio Glass, 1960-1990

American Studio Glass, 1960-1990
Author:
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781555952396

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A unique exploration of the question, can art be fashioned out of glass? Analysis of the philosophical and circumstantial factors that reveal the early history of the movement and the clash of ambitions and power that marked the relationship between the worlds of so-called crafts and high art. 81 colour & 47 b/w illustrations


Painting outside the Lines

Painting outside the Lines
Author: David W. Galenson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0674037472

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In a work that brings new insights, and new dimensions, to the history of modern art, David Galenson examines the careers of more than 100 modern painters to disclose a fascinating relationship between age and artistic creativity.


Dripping Dry

Dripping Dry
Author: David N. Cassuto
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780472067565

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Explores the convergences of U.S. water policy and the literature of the American West