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The University of Massachusetts Amherst boasts over a century of
both intercollegiate and intramural athletics. The story begins
with the early recreational activities of a New England
agricultural college and ends with a highly competitive Division I
athletic schedule. From playing ice hockey on the campus pond in
1908 or dribbling basketballs in the Curry Hicks cage in 1931 to
the construction of the state-of-the-art Mullins Center in 1993,
the University of Massachusetts Amherst has produced some of the
best athletes in American sports history. These stars include
hockey great Jerry McCarthy, a 1924 Olympic silver medalist;
softball pitcher Danielle Henderson, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist;
and Julius Erving, legendary NBA star.
A deep dive into the life and work of sculptor Louise Nevelson
recontextualizes her art in light of social movements, travel, and
her experiences in dance and theater  Known for her
monumental wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures, Louise
Nevelson (1899–1988) was a towering figure in twentieth-century
American art. A more nuanced picture of Nevelson emerges in The
World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury. Discussions about
Nevelson’s early involvement with modern dance and subsequent
immersion in avant-garde theater bring new understandings of her
drawings and sculptures. A reframing of her travels to Mexico and
Guatemala in the early 1950s demonstrates, for the first time, how
colonial archaeology haunted her visual language for decades.
 Other little-known facets of Nevelson’s life—her
interest in folk art, architecture, and period furniture—open up
a conversation about the artist’s approach to America’s past
material culture. A pioneering examination of Nevelson’s
printmaking experiences at Tamarind Lithography Workshop reveals
how the artist created alternative modes of viewing through
unconventional methods and materials. The book also reconsiders
Nevelson’s work in the context of the environmental movement.
Additionally, three contemporary artists relate Nevelson’s role
in their careers and lives, a local expert describes her roots and
relationship to Maine, and the artist’s granddaughter shares
thoughts on Nevelson’s spirituality.  Distributed for the
Amon Carter Museum of American Art Exhibition Schedule Amon Carter
Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX (August 27, 2023–January
7, 2024) Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (February
6–June 9, 2024)
Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured
around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized
in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden,
Michelangelo Pistoletto's Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di giornali),
Robert Smithson's Asphalt Rundown, and Joseph Beuys's Arena. These
works all utilized non-traditional materials, collaborative
patronage models, and alternative modes of display to create a
spatially and temporally dispersed arena of matter and action, with
photography serving as a connective, material thread within the
sculpture it reflects. While created by major artists of the
postwar period, these particular projects have yet to receive
substantive art historical analysis, especially from a sculptural
perspective. Here, they anchor a transnational narrative in which
sculpture emerged as a node, a center of transaction comprising
multiple material phenomenon, including objects, images, and
actors. When seen as entangled, polymorphous entities, these works
suggest that the charge of sculpture in the late postwar period
came from its concurrent existence as both three-dimensional
phenomena and photographic image, in the interchanges among the
materials that continue to activate and alter the constitution of
sculpture within the contemporary sphere.
Creativity, Technology, and Learning provides a comprehensive
introduction to theories and research on creativity in education
and, in particular, to the role of digital-learning technologies in
enabling creativity across classroom learning environments. Topical
coverage includes play, constructionism, multimodal learning and
project-/problem-based learning. Creativity is uniquely positioned
throughout the book as an integral component of the educational
process and also as a foundational aspect of self-actualization,
thriving communities, and humane societies. Through in-depth,
empirically based discussions of the philosophical, curricular and
pedagogical elements of creativity, Sullivan demonstrates how
creativity can be fostered across the curriculum through the use of
digital-learning technologies in design, personal expression and
problem-solving activities.
Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured
around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized
in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden,
Michelangelo Pistoletto's Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di giornali),
Robert Smithson's Asphalt Rundown, and Joseph Beuys's Arena. These
works all utilized non-traditional materials, collaborative
patronage models, and alternative modes of display to create a
spatially and temporally dispersed arena of matter and action, with
photography serving as a connective, material thread within the
sculpture it reflects. While created by major artists of the
postwar period, these particular projects have yet to receive
substantive art historical analysis, especially from a sculptural
perspective. Here, they anchor a transnational narrative in which
sculpture emerged as a node, a center of transaction comprising
multiple material phenomenon, including objects, images, and
actors. When seen as entangled, polymorphous entities, these works
suggest that the charge of sculpture in the late postwar period
came from its concurrent existence as both three-dimensional
phenomena and photographic image, in the interchanges among the
materials that continue to activate and alter the constitution of
sculpture within the contemporary sphere.
Italian-born American artist Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was one of
the most prolific, innovative artists of the post-war period.
Trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he met future
colleagues and collaborators Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll,
and Eero Saarinen, he went on to make one-of-a kind jewellery,
design iconic chairs, create thousands of unique sculptures
including large-scale commissions for significant buildings, and
advance the use of sound as sculptural material. His work speaks to
the confluence of numerous fields of endeavour, but is united
throughout by a sculptural approach to making and an experimental
embrace of metal. Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
accompanies the first U.S. museum retrospective of the artist's
career to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary
practice, and feature important examples of his furniture,
jewellery, monotypes, and diverse sculptural output. Lavishly
illustrated, the book offers new scholarly essays as well as a
catalogue of the artists numerous large-scale commissions. It
questions how and why we distinguish between a chair, a necklace, a
screen, and a freestanding sculpture and what Bertoia's sculptural
things, when taken together, say about the fluidity of visual
language across culture, both at mid-century and now.
Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge,
contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key
questions asked about pornography today. What is it? For whom is it
produced? What sorts of sexualities does it help produce? Why
should we study it, and what should be the most urgent issues when
we do? What does it mean when we talk about pornography as
violence? What could it mean if we discussed pornography through
frameworks of consent, self-determination and performance? This
book places the arguments from conservative and radical anti-porn
activists against the challenges coming from a new generation of
feminist and queer porn performers and educators. Combining
sensitive and detailed discussion of case studies with careful
attention to the voices of those working in pornography, it
provides scholars, activists and those hoping to find new ways of
understanding sexuality with the first overview of the histories
and futures of pornography.
Formally titled "General of the Army," the five-star general is the
highest possible rank awarded in the U.S. Army in modern times and
has been awarded to only five men in the nation's history: George
C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry H.
Arnold, and Omar N. Bradley. In addition to their rank, these
distinguished soldiers all shared the experience of serving or
studying at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where they gained the
knowledge that would prepare them for command during World War II
and the Korean War. In Generals of the Army, James H. Willbanks
assembles top military historians to examine the connection between
the institution and the success of these exceptional men.
Historically known as the "intellectual center of the Army," Fort
Leavenworth is the oldest active Army post west of Washington,
D.C., and one of the most important military installations in the
United States. Though there are many biographies of the five-star
generals, this innovative study offers a fresh perspective by
illuminating the ways in which these legendary figures influenced
and were influenced by Leavenworth. Coinciding with the U.S. Mint's
release of a series of special commemorative coins honoring these
soldiers and the fort where they were based, this concise volume
offers an intriguing look at the lives of these remarkable men and
the contributions they made to the defense of the nation.
This book focuses on children and the impact of neurotoxins on the
developing brain to guide the practice of psychologists working
with children in clinical and school settings. Each chapter covers
a distinct neurotoxin or group of neurotoxins, with particular
emphasis on the impact of the neurotoxin exposure on the developing
brain and long-term cognitive and psychosocial outcomes. This is
more complex than studying neurotoxins with adults because of the
rapid development occurring in the child's brain. Further, children
are more susceptible than adults to the effects of neurotoxins due
to their developmental status. Many of the effects discussed in
this volume occur in utero, thus setting the stage for an altered
developmental trajectory.
Creativity, Technology, and Learning provides a comprehensive
introduction to theories and research on creativity in education
and, in particular, to the role of digital-learning technologies in
enabling creativity across classroom learning environments. Topical
coverage includes play, constructionism, multimodal learning and
project-/problem-based learning. Creativity is uniquely positioned
throughout the book as an integral component of the educational
process and also as a foundational aspect of self-actualization,
thriving communities, and humane societies. Through in-depth,
empirically based discussions of the philosophical, curricular and
pedagogical elements of creativity, Sullivan demonstrates how
creativity can be fostered across the curriculum through the use of
digital-learning technologies in design, personal expression and
problem-solving activities.
This book focuses on children and the impact of neurotoxins on the
developing brain to guide the practice of psychologists working
with children in clinical and school settings. Each chapter covers
a distinct neurotoxin or group of neurotoxins, with particular
emphasis on the impact of the neurotoxin exposure on the developing
brain and long-term cognitive and psychosocial outcomes. This is
more complex than studying neurotoxins with adults because of the
rapid development occurring in the child's brain. Further, children
are more susceptible than adults to the effects of neurotoxins due
to their developmental status. Many of the effects discussed in
this volume occur in utero, thus setting the stage for an altered
developmental trajectory.
A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture
during one of the richest periods of American modern design Alloys
looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar
United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and
vice versa. Leading architects such as Gordon Bunshaft and Eero
Saarinen turned to sculptors including Harry Bertoia, Alexander
Calder, Richard Lippold, and Isamu Noguchi to produce
site-determined, large-scale sculptures tailored for their
buildings' highly visible and well-traversed threshold spaces. The
parameters of these spaces-atriums, lobbies, plazas, and
entryways-led to various designs like sculptural walls, ceilings,
and screens that not only embraced new industrial materials and
processes, but also demonstrated art's ability to merge with lived
architectural spaces. Marin Sullivan argues that these sculptural
commissions represent an alternate history of midcentury American
art. Rather than singular masterworks by lone geniuses, some of the
era's most notable spaces-Philip Johnson's Four Seasons Restaurant
in Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, Max Abramovitz's
Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, and Pietro Belluschi and
Walter Gropius's Pan Am Building-would be diminished without the
collaborative efforts of architects and artists. At the same time,
the artistic creations within these spaces could not exist anywhere
else. Sullivan shows that the principle of synergy provides an
ideal framework to assess this pronounced relationship between
sculpture and architecture. She also explores the afterlives of
these postwar commissions in the decades since their construction.
A fresh consideration of sculpture's relationship to architectural
design and functionality following World War II, Alloys highlights
the affinities between the two fields and the ways their
connections remain with us today.
The Chinese Communist Party, as the political leader of the world's
largest country and second largest economy, plays an undeniably
important role in global politics. Founded in a boarding school in
Shanghai in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party is one of the oldest
ruling parties in the world since its takeover of mainland China in
1949 under the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong. Since its
inception, the party has survived a civil war with the Kuomintang
(1946-1949); the political, cultural, and humanitarian catastrophe
of the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), where upwards of 30 million
Chinese civilians died; and the death of the Chinese Communist
Party's dominant leader, Mao Zedong, in 1976. In recent years,
intellectuals and party members have been given increasing leeway
to express their opinions, and Lawrence R. Sullivan takes advantage
of this new research to provide a comprehensive history of one of
the world's most fascinating political movements. The Historical
Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party contains a chronology, an
introductory essay, an appendix, an extensive bibliography, and
more than 400 cross-reference dictionary entries on key people,
places, and institutions. This book is an excellent access point
for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about
the Chinese Communist Party.
First book to place the art of British sculptor Lynn Chadwick in
its international context. Examines in particular the reception and
promotion of Chadwick's sculpture in the United States. Richly
illustrated. This is the first book to set the work of British
sculptor Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) in its international context.
Chadwick, a leading figure in modern British art and celebrated for
his innovative steel and bronze sculptures of abstracted,
expressive figures and animals, always felt that his work was
better understood abroad than in his native country. In this richly
illustrated monograph, distinguished British scholar and writer
Michael Bird, and eminent American art historian and curator Marin
R. Sullivan chart the different phases of Chadwick's long career.
They vividly locate his art within the wider narrative of European
and American post-war sculpture. They examine in particular the
reception and promotion of Chadwick's sculpture in the United
States, and how a collection of some 140 of his works at the Berman
Museum in rural Pennsylvania came to be.
Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge,
contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key
questions asked about pornography today. What is it? For whom is it
produced? What sorts of sexualities does it help produce? Why
should we study it, and what should be the most urgent issues when
we do? What does it mean when we talk about pornography as
violence? What could it mean if we discussed pornography through
frameworks of consent, self-determination and performance? This
book places the arguments from conservative and radical anti-porn
activists against the challenges coming from a new generation of
feminist and queer porn performers and educators. Combining
sensitive and detailed discussion of case studies with careful
attention to the voices of those working in pornography, it
provides scholars, activists and those hoping to find new ways of
understanding sexuality with the first overview of the histories
and futures of pornography.
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced with a 40 percent reduction in staff and funding, they focused on new peacetime missions, dismantled a cumbersome bureaucracy, reinvented procedures, and set the guidelines for achieving a vast array of new goals.
Hope Is Not a Method explains how they did it and shows how their experience is extremely relevant to today's businesses. From how to stay on top of long-range issues to how to maintain a productive work force during times of change, it offers invaluable lessons in leadership and provides proven tactics any business can implement.
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