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Filled with photographs of unpopulated studios, Paul Winstanley's
exploration of British art schools highlights their importance at a
time when the art school system's existence is more fraught than
ever. For this series, Winstanley (b.1954) photographed
undergraduate studio spaces in more than 50 art colleges across the
United Kingdom over the summers of 2011 and 2012. These
rough-and-ready, nearly neutral spaces are photographed as found;
empty in the period between school years. Collectively, the works
highlight the abstraction of the interiors with their temporary
white walls, paint stains, neutral floors and open spaces.
Photographed in this manner, their sterile nature is juxtaposed
with their intended purpose of fostering intense creativity for a
future generation of artists. Over 200 full-colour illustrations -
which combine images from various schools to form their own
abstract space - are accompanied by writings from two professors of
fine art: a text by Jon Thompson and an interview with the artist
by Maria Fusco. To commemorate the publication, Winstanley created
a limited-edition digital print from the Art School series. Each
edition is hand-finished by the artist and contained within a
custom-made slipcase containing a signed copy of the book.
Modern art, filled with complex themes and subtle characteristics,
is a wonder to view, but can be intimidating and baffling to the
casual observer. In this accessible, practical guide, Jon Thompson
analyses more than 200 works of modern art, describing each
artist's use of media and symbolism to help the reader unlock the
painting's meaning. The book also offers biographical information
on all the featured artists.
Make Learning Stick Through Deeper Analysis Achieving lasting
learning starts with understanding our psychology—how we process,
retain, and apply learning in our everyday work. It also starts
with understanding how our brains work and how they receive,
process, encode, and recall information—the essence of learning.
Without factoring in these realities, behavior change at scale will
remain unnecessarily difficult. Learning That CLICS: Using
Behavioral Science for Effective Design introduces the CLICS
framework, a concise, practical way to apply brain science and a
human-centric approach to the art of learning design. Created by
learning practitioners for learning practitioners, the CLICS
framework is a five-step approach that deepens analysis and
increases the likelihood that learning will occur. Capacity
considers our brain's cognitive space for learning given our
current work priorities. Layering fills in learning gaps and the
knowledge we need before integrating new concepts. Intrinsic
enablers address motivation and personal relevance. Coherence
ensures the "fit" of concepts with one another as well as how new
concepts will relate to past learning experiences. Social
connections—peers, managers, experts, and others in our work
environment—offer feedback and modeling, helping us to learn
optimally and be effective. Once we appreciate how our brains
learn, our ability to conduct a CLICS analysis can promote giant
leaps forward and ensure learning that lasts.
Organized around three sequences of numbered tercets, Notebook of
Last Things maps a city undergoing dynamic, transformative change
along with the sense of living that change—its rhythms and
patterns, its peculiar commitments, its urgencies and pleasures as
well as its inequalities, tensions, and fateful “unsaids.”
Possessed by the drama of the ephemerality of experience, tuned
into the drift of the present, Notebook of Last Things draws on the
lyric to meditate on the present, and the powers, acknowledged and
unacknowledged, that make it up. “Notebook of Last Things is
written in dialogue with (or in counterpoint to) Walter
Benjamin’s Angel of History and his/her/its “unreadable tally
of catastrophe.” Thompson has an eagle eye for the rips and
fissures destroying our social fabric, for the discrepancies that
seem ironic and then reveal themselves as tragic, the “Art Deco
walkway over the beltline/[ with a] Chain link fence to discourage
jumpers.” In the quality of his attention, he could be a
minimalist version of Ron Silliman or a Basho-inflected George
Oppen. His steady gaze is well worth following.” —Rae
Armantrout
"In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst
others, of 'the traffic of fear', and bids their speakers join the
living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a
specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The
accomplishment of Strange Country begins with the exact measure of
its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be
termed the present contradictions of a strange country. What
sustains that accomplishment is a poet's attention to a 'wide-open
polyphony' equal to the multiple realities of its subject." -
Kelvin Corcoran
Otherworldly, uncanny, melancholy, there like the past, like the
present, the place (not the people) remains: a glimpse, a flicker,
a trick of light that excavates the dark, the endless accretion of
shadows. What is to be found there? "Desire like a dream of
paradise." Ekphrasis is rarely this eclectic, this moving. - Eric
Pankey
'After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing' lays bare
the richness of classic American texts and their fraught
relationship with what Jon Thompson sees as a culture of violence
and war. Focusing on William Bradford's 'Of Plymouth Plantation',
Herman Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener', Walt Whitman's
'Specimen Days', Emily Dickinson's 'Letters' and Michael Herr's
'Dispatches', 'After Paradise' offers a series of moving,
interconnected reflections upon what Thompson calls "the fate of
American writing." Part cultural reflection, part lyrical
criticism, part idiosyncratic literary history, After Paradise
attempts to restore a sense of the original strangeness of American
literature and culture by pushing the boundaries of the essay form.
Loosely based upon photographs of Occupied Japan, THE BOOK OF THE
FLOATING WORLD ranges across a war-ravaged landscape, from a
shattered Tokyo to scenes of a depleted countryside, with a close
examination of the lives constructed out of that ruin. THE BOOK OF
THE FLOATING WORLD explores the photographed moment-and poetry-as a
peculiar and arresting instance of witness. Threaded throughout
this collection is a set of interrelated meditations upon history,
violence, war, memory, and art itself. First published in 2004, THE
BOOK OF THE FLOATING WORLD is offered here in a new edition,
complete with all the original photographs of Japan during the
American Occupation-- the starting point for Jon Thompson's elegiac
poetry. In their clarity and openness, these photographs frame the
struggle between old and new identities taking shape in the postwar
era. This new edition of THE BOOK OF THE FLOATING WORLD represents
a ground-breaking collaboration between the visual and the literary
in a format that traces the hidden connections between past and
present.
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