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The PRINCE2 Agile(R) Practical Implementation Guide - Step-by-step
advice for every project type, Second edition This guide explains
how the structured, management-driven PRINCE2 project governance
framework can work cohesively with team-driven, quality-focused,
responsive Agile methods. This guide provides an overview of
PRINCE2(R) and Agile before detailing the combined PRINCE2 Agile
governance and project management framework. It also provides
expert guidance on how to implement the PRINCE2 Agile framework in
your organization, whether you have existing PRINCE2, Agile or
waterfall structures in place, or you are implementing PRINCE2
Agile with no pre-existing frameworks. The key to successfully
implementing PRINCE2 Agile is understanding how it brings together
PRINCE2 and Agile best practices into a cohesive framework, and how
to adapt that framework to meet your organization's specific needs.
This guide is structured to provide you with the core information
that you need to understand how PRINCE2 Agile works, and
implementation guidelines aligned to the needs of your organization
and your projects. Ideal for PRINCE2 Agile students, project
managers, IT managers, senior managers, PRINCE2 users and Agile
users, this guide will help you to successfully deliver high
business value outcomes within the PRINCE2 Agile framework. This
guide is aligned to the official PRINCE2 Agile(R) guide, Third
impression. PRINCE2(R) is a registered trade mark of AXELOS
Limited. All rights reserved. This book is an official AXELOS
licensed product.
The most widely-used text on the topic of collaboration,
Interactions is a guide for preprofessionals and professionals to
help them understand and participate effectively in their
interactions with other school professionals and parents, in an
increasingly diverse world that is also now routinely
electronically and globally connected. Interactions presents theory
and conceptual principles heavily seasoned with examples, cases,
and applied activities. Written specifically to enable readers to
quickly use their skills in professional settings, the book will be
a useful tool for pre-service educators and practitioners-whether
they are engaged in formal instructional settings, a study group,
or independent study. The book recognizes that knowledge about
instructional practices that can improve student outcomes are more
important than ever before, and educators are scrambling to respond
to the federal legislative mandates that require increasingly high
standards and a clear trajectory of improving academic performance
for all students, including those with disabilities and other
special needs.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works
from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise
Bourgeois. "I've always had a fascination with the needle," she
said, "the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair
damage. It's a claim to forgiveness." This body of work began when
the artist started incorporating clothes from all stages of her
life into her art, and later expanded to include a range of other
textiles such as bedlinen, handkerchiefs, tapestry, and
needlepoint. The fabric works mine the themes of identity and
sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation, and serve as
metaphors for emotional and psychological states. The catalog -
which accompanies the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London and
the Gropius Bau, Berlin - features works from numerous series,
including the monumental Cell installations, figurative sculptures,
and abstract drawings.
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Igshaan Adams - Desire Lines (Paperback)
Hendrik Folkerts; Contributions by Lynne Cooke, Isaac Facio, Josh Ginsburg, Imam Muhsin Hendricks, …
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A timely exploration of the allusive, sculptural fiber work of an
important contemporary South African artist The book presents an
early career survey of the work of Cape Town-based artist Igshaan
Adams (b. 1982), showcasing his multimedia practice since 2009. In
addition to exploring recurring motifs in his work-Arabic
calligraphy, the rose, the (self-)portrait, Sufi symbols, and
pathways literal and metaphorical-the publication highlights some
of Adams's material concerns, including his sculptural applications
of weaving, his embrace of recycled materials related to black
South African domesticity and interiority, and his use of the
gallery wall and floor in installations. Hendrik Folkerts surveys
the artist's recent work, addressing its engagement with presence,
absence, and the trace.. Adams himself offers a visual essay
enabling readers to see details they would be imperceptible in a
gallery setting. In shorter essays and poetic texts, the other
authors focus on the South African historical and political
context, specific artworks, and particular creative strategies,
materialities, and narratives. Distributed for the Art Institute of
Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (April
2-August 1, 2022)
"Object Lessons ... is a grand tour of the latest obsession of an
indefatigable collector. For the last decade ... George Loudon has
gathered some 200 extraordinary natural-history specimens,
scientific models and botanical drawings from the Darwinian age.
And the Boston photographer Rosamond Purcell has documented every
last one of them in this thoughtfully compiled, scrapbook-style
compendium." - The New York Times Style Magazine Assembling nearly
200 pieces from the collection of George Loudon, this volume
encompasses a vast assortment of objects relating to
nineteenth-century life sciences. Originally designed to capture
the complex structures of nature, they range from books and
illustrations to botanical specimens and anatomical models. Having
lost most of their original pedagogical function over time, the
objects are now open for contemporary reappraisal - acquiring new
values that can inspire, seduce and even disorientate today's
viewer. Offering a unique perspective on the intersection of art
and science, the historic curiosities in this collection reveal
their creators' remarkable capacity for artistic expression.
Alongside new images by celebrated photographer Rosamond Purcell,
explanatory texts on the objects by Loudon, an essay by Robert
McCracken Peck, and a conversation between Loudon and art historian
Lynne Cooke together offer insight into the objects' original
context and potential for new perspectives.
The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence
sculpture and installation art.
Jessica Stockholder has long broken
down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture
to explore the body in social and cultural space - using found
objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours. This revised,
updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her
career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping
some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary
sculpture and painting revolve today.
A profound examination of the complex constructs that have kept
“outsider†and self-taught artists on the margins of the
mainstream The artists in Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art
defy binary constructs of insider and outsider. Some are
credentialed professionals, others are self-identified amateurs,
and yet others are indifferent to categorical classification
systems. These shifting identifications and concepts are examined
in 16 essays, challenging established narratives of American and
modernist art histories. The book considers the work of Romare
Bearden, James Castle, Minnie Evans, Marisol, Betye Saar, Rosie Lee
Tompkins, and more. Rooted in intersectional disciplinary studies
that draw on race, queer, and feminist scholarship, these
groundbreaking perspectives argue for expanding how we engage with
works and makers that are routinely marginalized within mainstream
visual culture. These essays make a compelling case for the
necessity of a level playing field for all artists, trained and
untrained, where difference is both recognized and embraced.
Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study
in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press
Haegue Yang is renowned for her multifaceted works that vary in
form from collage to kinetic sculpture, perceptively evoking
historical and contemporary narratives of migration, displacement,
and cross-cultural translation. Using a language of abstraction,
Yang transforms ordinary and domestic materials, such as venetian
blinds, light bulbs, drying racks, yarn, and bells, into deeply
allegorical, meticulously constructed installations and sculptures
that dissociate these materials from their original contexts. The
artist's installations become immersive environments that provoke
the senses with a diversity of scents, sounds, and textures.
Featuring essays contextualising Yang's artistic career, this book
fully illustrates the scope of Art Gallery of Ontario's
groundbreaking exhibition and generates new understandings of
Yang's transformative contributions to the field of contemporary
art.
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Max Neuhaus (Hardcover)
Max Neuhaus, Christoph Cox, Branden W. Joseph, Liz Kotz, Ulrich Loock, …
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In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between
45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic
sound. The rich textures of that sound continue today, emanating
from beneath the sidewalk grating, to anonymously reach an
individual's ears as if one has stumbled upon a secret. Known as
Times Square, the celebrated installation was restored in 2002 with
support from Dia Art Foundation, which further commissioned a
site-specific piece, Time Piece Beacon, from Neuhaus in 2006 for
its museum in Beacon, New York. This stunning book-the only volume
in print dedicated solely to the work of Neuhaus-takes these two
projects as a point of departure from which to consider the
singular impact this artist has had in establishing sound as a
medium in contemporary art. An interview with Neuhaus is
complemented with essays by multidisciplinary scholars who
investigate and situate his work within a historical context.
Distributed for Dia Art Foundation
Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and
self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The
established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions
between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has
been fascinated by outliers whom it draws selectively and
intermittently into its orbits. For a new exhibition launching at
the National Gallery of Art, curator Lynne Cooke explores shifting
conceptualizations of the American outlier across the twentieth
century, drawing on the inherent sociality of the exhibition in her
installation of these works. This companion catalog, Outliers and
American Vanguard Art, offers a fantastic opportunity to consider
works by schooled and self-taught creators in relation to each
other and defined by historical circumstance. The art works in
Outliers and American Vanguard Art come from three distinct periods
when the intersections between mainstream and outlier artists were
most dynamic and productive, ushering in exhibitions of art based
on various degrees of co-existence, inclusion, and assimilation.
Works by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina
Ramberg, and Matt Mullican are set in conversation with a range of
works by such self-taught artists as Horace Pippin, Janet Sobel,
and Henry Darger. Cooke also examines a recent increase of
radically expressive work that challenges what it means to be an
outlier today. She reveals how these distinctions have been
freighted with a particularly American point of view as she
investigates our assumptions about creativity, artistic practice,
and the role of the artist in contemporary culture. Outliers and
American Vanguard Art is the most comprehensive show ever to
examine outliers in dialogue with their established peers. It is
sure to inspire vigorous conversation about how artists and the
work they make are represented.
A profoundly timely and moving personal essay by one of America's
leading art critics Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one
of the 20th century's most significant works of art. Situated in a
remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400
polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) installed
in a grid measuring one mile by one kilometer. A sculpture to be
explored on foot, The Lightning Field is intended to be experienced
over an extended period of time. Critic Kenneth Baker visited The
Lightning Field numerous times over the course of the past 30 years
in order to write this text. Inspired and challenged by this
remarkable artwork, Baker speculates on the course of our
contemporary human condition. But, rather than building on ideas in
narrative sequence, he deploys quotation to effect multiple
perspectives and points of view. Baker's citations and elegantly
crafted prose are arrayed--in a metaphorical parallel to De Maria's
choreographing of the vast landscape of the American Southwest--to
create a compelling text.
Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of
modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles. Â
Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke,
Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at
textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution
of abstraction. This richly illustrated volume features more than
fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies
formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts and
handicrafts. Â Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth
century, rooting the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the
applied arts and handicrafts, then features the interdisciplinary
practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, Varvara
Stepanova, and others who sought to effect social change through
fabrics for furnishings and apparel. Over the century, the
intersection of textiles and abstraction engaged artists from Ed
Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, and Sheila
Hicks to Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson,
Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins, whose textile-based works continue
to shape this discourse. Including essays by distinguished art
historians as well as reflections from contemporary artists, this
ambitious project traces the intertwined histories of textiles and
abstraction as vehicles through which artists probe urgent issues
of our time. Â
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From My Ashes (Paperback)
Lynn Cook; Edited by Greg Froese, Jason Kohls
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If the goal of an Agile project is to deliver the highest business
value solution possible, why is the business user the least
supported member of the Agile team? It's good to be an Agile
developer. The Agile community provides Agile developers with
countless supporting resources including books, websites, forums,
and conferences where Agile development issues can be raised,
discussed, and jointly addressed by the group. The interesting
thing is that, where Agile approaches go to great lengths to
provide developers with the foundation they need to deliver
high-value software solutions, there is relatively little
equivalent support provided for the business users. In most Agile
methods, the business user is solely responsible for the
identification, requirements gathering, clarification, and
assignment of priorities for their requested system capabilities.
Agile development teams rely on business users having sufficient
knowledge, vision, objectivity, and time to ensure that these
capabilities provide the best possible solution. The Power of the
Agile Business Analyst: 30 surprising ways a business analyst can
add value to your Agile development team challenges whether Agile
projects are truly positioned to deliver the highest-value business
solutions without offering business users the equivalent level of
support, validation, and collaboration that is provided for the
Agile development team. To address this challenge, The Power of the
Agile Business Analyst proposes including an Agile business analyst
on the development team to provide business users with the support
they need, as well as a valuable resource to assist the Agile
developers in their analysis, design, testing, and implementation
work throughout the project. 30 ways an Agile Business Analyst can
help your team Drawing on more than 20 years' experience as a
senior business analyst and international solutions consultant,
Jamie Lynn Cooke details 30 achievable ways in which Agile business
analysts can increase the relevance, quality, and overall business
value of your Agile projects. Read this book and learn how to:
*Maximize the business value of your Agile solutions. *Leverage the
skills, experience, and opportunities an Agile business analyst can
bring to your project. *Find the most qualified Agile business
analyst to complement your team. *Identify how an Agile business
analyst can help you address the most critical challenges on your
Agile project. *Use the strengths of an Agile business analyst to
position your projects for ongoing funding and executive support.
The Power of the Agile Business Analyst also provides guidance for
business analysts who want to transition their skills to work most
effectively in Agile environments. Bridge the gap between the
business users and the Agile development team The Power of the
Agile Business Analyst explains how having a skilled business
analyst on the Agile team provides business users with peer support
for their most critical business requirements, and provides the
Agile development team with a business-knowledgeable resource who
is available to work hands-on with them throughout the project.
These are only some of the ways in which Agile business analysts
empower development teams to deliver the most successful Agile
solutions. Read this book and discover how an Agile business
analyst can significantly increase the value of your solution.
The why and how of "Keeping Spirits Alive" through writing memoir.
Who is she-your mother-deep down inside? How will she be
remembered? Why does it matter? Join Lynn Cook Henriksen on a
compelling journey, as she shows you how to discover your mother's
individuality and write to tell about it. "TellTale Souls Writing
the Mother Memoir: How to Tap Memory and Write Your Story Capturing
Character and Spirit" has the power to move people and change
awareness. "If you could tell just one small story that would
capture your mother's character and keep her spirit alive, what
would it be?" You'll find secrets to answering this question via
intriguing prompts and exercises throughout the guide's Five Acts -
steps to success - interwoven with 40 memoirs by TellTale Souls who
have walked this path. Want to wrap your mind around a bold, new
take on the art and craft of writing memoir? The Mother Memoir is a
special kind of memoir and the only place to begin. Your
relationship with the person you call mother shaped who you are and
the color of your world, like it or not. That, in itself, shapes
the contour of your writing. With TellTale Souls you'll find a
truly innovative, non-academic teaching approach that makes writing
memoir doable by helping writers of any level access memory and
create true and telling tales in just a few pages. From a new
perspective, Henriksen guides you to that tender spot deep inside
to locate striking memories, and then to turn the hint of
fragrance; the turn of a phrase; the hum of a tune; the flash of an
eye; the back of a hand; or a fragment of family ritual into a
remarkable short, true story about your mother. This is where those
new to writing will find the writing process demystified, and
professional authors will encounter abundant food for thought and
techniques to get their creative juices flowing. Either way, before
you know it, you'll find yourself digging deep into the essence of
your mother's spirit and writing about her in ways that define her
character as never before. "TellTale Souls Writing the Mother
Memoir: Tap Memory & Write Your Story Capturing Character and
Spirit" is the culmination of well over a decade leading workshops
and story salons. The heartfelt responses from people exploring
their most intimate memories and intense feelings, molding them
into stories, and enthusiastically sharing them, struck me dead
center. Through their laughter, tears, and spirited thanks, I got
it, and this book was born. Ultimately, the essential elements that
make up the bond between mothers and their daughters and sons
reflects the universality of the maternal soul and the significance
of connecting, through stories, with people from all walks of life.
REVIEWS: "Rarely does a book carve out a unique place for itself
within the hallowed halls of writerly advice and wisdom, yet Ms.
Henriksen has fearlessly stepped into uncharted, original waters
with TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir... this a book for me
to recommend... and one to keep on my desk as a reference tool to
inspire my writing moments. TellTale Souls brings to mind both
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg and Walking on Water by
Madeleine L'Engle. It is destined to be one of the classics
required to complete the journey for writing the truth and writing
it well. I've discovered a new favorite that incorporates all the
aspects of writing I trust and believe in-spirituality, memory,
passion, and the power of story " - River Jordan, author of Praying
for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit "Tell Tale Souls
Writing the Mother Memoir is a gentle guide that invites you to
explore the terrain of mother-child relationships, a journey of
wisdom, courage, and heart. In every chapter you'll discover tips
and techniques that invite you to breathe life into stories about
your mother and times gone by. This book is a true memoir writer's
companion." -Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., author of The Power of Memoir,
How to Write You
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