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Moone Boy: Series 1 and 2 (DVD)
David Rawle, Chris O'Dowd, Peter McDonald, Deirdre O'Kane, Clare Monnelly, …
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The complete first two series of the sitcom created by and starring
Chris O'Dowd following a 12-year-old boy and his imaginary friend
in a small Irish town. Young Martin (David Rawle), the youngest
member of the Moone family, has a unique outlook on life. With his
imaginary friend, Seán (O'Dowd), on hand to help him, he negotiates
everyday life and the troubles it brings.
A meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time
transform the meaning of site-specific art In the decades after
World War II, artists and designers of the land art movement used
the natural landscape to create monumental site-specific artworks.
Second Site offers a powerful meditation on how environmental
change and the passage of time alter and transform the meanings-and
sometimes appearances-of works created to inhabit a specific place.
James Nisbet offers fresh approaches to well-known artworks by Ant
Farm, Rebecca Belmore, Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Robert
Smithson. He also examines the work of less recognized artists such
as Agnes Denes, Bonnie Devine, and herman de vries. Nisbet tracks
the vicissitudes wrought by climate change and urban development on
site-specific artworks, taking readers from the plains of Amarillo,
Texas, to a field of volcanic rock in Mexico City, to abandoned
quarries in Finland. Providing vital perspectives on what it means
to endure in an ecologically volatile world, Second Site challenges
long-held beliefs about the permanency of site-based art, with
implications for the understanding and conservation of artistic
creation and cultural heritage.
A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one
of the field's leading theorists Conceptions of modernity in
architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or
"spirit of the age," an attitude toward architectural form that is
embedded in a belief in progressive time. Lateness explores how
architecture can work against these linear currents in startling
and compelling ways. In this incisive book, internationally
renowned architect Peter Eisenman, with Elisa Iturbe, proposes a
different perspective on form and time in architecture, one that
circumvents the temporal constraints on style that require it to be
"of the times"-lateness. He focuses on three twentieth-century
architects who exhibited the qualities of lateness in their
designs: Adolf Loos, Aldo Rossi, and John Hejduk. Drawing on the
critical theory of Theodor Adorno and his study of Beethoven's
final works, Eisenman shows how the architecture of these canonical
figures was temporally out of sync with conventions and
expectations, and how lateness can serve as a form of release from
the restraints of the moment. Bringing together architecture,
music, and philosophy, and drawing on illuminating examples from
the Renaissance and Baroque periods, Lateness demonstrates how
today's architecture can use the concept of lateness to break free
of stylistic limitations, expand architecture's critical capacity,
and provide a new mode of analysis.
The authors challenge psychological perspectives on happiness and
subjective wellbeing. Highlighting the politics of quantitative and
qualitative methodologies, case studies across continents explore
wellbeing in relation to health, children and youth, migration,
economics, religion, family, land mines, national surveys, and
indigenous identities.
Two essays and a set of original diagrams consider the parameters
of the something beyond in James Carpenter s projects.
Architectural historian Mark Linder offers a long view of Carpenter
s work, placing his early career as an installation artist and
experimental filmmaker in the context of contemporary art
practices. Linder draws out the continuities between this early
work and Carpenter s current practice as a glass designer,
demonstrating a consistent focus on literalism materiality, spatial
perception, and inhabitation as opposed to phenomenological effect,
expression, and representation. Architectural critic Sarah Whiting
examines the sensibilities and constituencies that emerge from
Carpenter s practice. Rather than succumbing to the technique of
Brechtian estrangement (which has become a default strategy for
avant-garde practices in all domains), Carpenter gently eases his
viewers into new constituencies. Perceptions and publics are
altered, although these alterations are never dictated. Carpenter s
new worlds are not avant-garde but are more like dreams that embed
themselves in the back of one s mind, opening new possibilities
without choreographing what those might be. Finally, Lucia Allais s
diagrams offer a visual means of reading Carpenter s combination of
technique and effect his means of making light material and making
material present. Photographs and extended captions from Carpenter
complete this book s documentation of key projects.
Series Information: Garland Library of Medieval Literature
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Touch (Paperback)
Sarah White
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R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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