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The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the
first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors
really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how
to succeed at each of the five "grade-bearing" moments of the
semester: (1) The Start (2) The Class (3) The Exam (4) The Paper
and (5) The Last Month of the Semester. Fast-paced, entertaining,
and easy-to-follow, the Professors' Guide will help you get truly
excellent grades in college.
Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and
seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in
Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early
sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early 'early modern'
period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds and
Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550) addresses
this issue through a focus on key case studies (Sluter's portal of
the Chartreuse de Champmol and the calendar pages of the Limbourg
Brothers' Tres Riches Heures), and on important formats
(altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts). Lynn F. Jacobs examines
how the visual thresholds established within Netherlandish
paintings, sculptures, and manuscript illuminations become sites
where artists could address relations between life and death,
aristocrat and peasant, holy and profane, and man and God-and where
artists could exploit the "betwixt and between" nature of the
threshold to communicate, paradoxically, both connections and
divisions between these different states and different worlds.
Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of
liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of
boundaries in Netherlandish art infused the works with greater
meaning. The book's probing of the -- often ignored --meanings of
the threshold motif casts new light on key works of Netherlandish
art.
Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and
seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in
Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early
sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early 'early modern'
period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds and
Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550) addresses
this issue through a focus on key case studies (Sluter's portal of
the Chartreuse de Champmol and the calendar pages of the Limbourg
Brothers' Tres Riches Heures), and on important formats
(altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts). Lynn F. Jacobs examines
how the visual thresholds established within Netherlandish
paintings, sculptures, and manuscript illuminations become sites
where artists could address relations between life and death,
aristocrat and peasant, holy and profane, and man and God-and where
artists could exploit the "betwixt and between" nature of the
threshold to communicate, paradoxically, both connections and
divisions between these different states and different worlds.
Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of
liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of
boundaries in Netherlandish art infused the works with greater
meaning. The book's probing of the -- often ignored --meanings of
the threshold motif casts new light on key works of Netherlandish
art.
This book presents four case studies that interrogate how German
fifteenth-century painted triptychs engage with, and ultimately
blur, various boundaries. Some of the boundaries are internal to
the triptych format, for example, transgressed frames between
narrative scenes on triptych interiors, or interconnections between
imagery on triptych interiors and exteriors. Other blurred
boundaries are regional ones between the Netherlands and Cologne;
metaphysical ones between heaven and earth; and artistic
distinctions between the media of painting and sculpture. The
book's case studies-which shed new light on Conrad von Soest,
Stefan Lochner, and the Master of the St. Bartholomew
Altarpiece-illuminate the importance of German fifteenth-century
painting, while providing a fresh assessment of relations between
German triptychs and their more famous Netherlandish counterparts.
The case studies also demonstrate the value of probing Medialitat,
that is, the implications of format and medium for generating
meaning. A coda assesses the triptych in the age of Durer.
Two award-winning professors, a former admissions officer at a
major university (now a counselor at a prestigious high school),
and a gifted high school senior (now in the throes of the college
admissions process himself) team up to offer you over 600 tips,
techniques, and strategies to help you get in to the college of
your choice. Comprehensive, yet easy-to-read, this book will teach
you: * How to size up the colleges you're considering and come up
with a coherent list. * What are college nights, college fairs, and
college rep visits and how you can use each to your advantage. *
What are "holistic", "contextualized", and "legacy" admissions and
how each can work for you. * How some schools count "demonstrated
interest" and how you can take advantage of this little-known fact.
* What are Early Decision, Early Action, and Single-Choice Early
Action and whether any is right for you. * How to figure out the
true costs of college, and what is the difference between "need-"
and "merit-based" aid. * What it means when colleges say they meet
"100% of demonstrated financial aid" and what "loan-free" means. *
When and how to make campus visits and what to do on each. * How to
prepare for each section of the ACT or SAT and how to increase your
scores. * What admissions officers are looking for in your
application and how to give it to them. * How to write the
all-important Common App essay and present your extra-curricular
activities. * How to prepare for an alumni interview and present
yourself in the best light. * Whom to ask for
letters-of-recommendation and how to help them write the best
possible letter. * How to compare your final offers and, in some
cases, substantially improve them. * When it's good to wait out the
"wait list" and when not. *-and much, much more. When you
understand the college admissions process, you can maximize your
chance of success. Why not put yourself ahead of the pack?
Opening Doors is the first book of its kind: a comprehensive study
of the emergence and evolution of the Netherlandish triptych from
the early fifteenth through the early seventeenth centuries. The
modern term “triptych” did not exist during the period Lynn
Jacobs discusses. Rather, contemporary French, Dutch, and Latin
documents employ a very telling description—they call the
triptych a “painting with doors.” Using this term as her
springboard, Jacobs considers its implications for the structure
and meaning of the triptych. The fundamental nature of the format
created doors that established thresholds, boundaries, and
interconnections between physical parts of the triptych—the
center and wings, the interior and the exterior—and between types
of meaning, the sacred and the earthly, different narrative
moments, different spaces, different levels of status, and,
ultimately, different worlds. Moving chronologically from early
triptychs such as Campin’s Mérode Triptych and Van Eyck’s
Dresden Triptych to sixteenth-century works by Bosch, and closing
with a discussion of Rubens, Jacobs considers how artists
negotiated the idea of the threshold. From her analysis of
Campin’s ambiguous divisions between the space represented across
the panels, to Van der Weyden’s invention of the “arch motif”
that organized relations between the viewer and the painting, to
Van der Goes’s complex hierarchical structures, to Bosch’s
unprecedentedly unified spaces, Jacobs shows us how Netherlandish
artists’ approach to the format changed and evolved, culminating
in the early seventeenth century with Rubens’s great Antwerp
altarpieces.
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