Artwords - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Artwords write by Thomas Patin. This book was released on 1997. Artwords available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This glossary is a guide to the language of current theory and criticism of visual arts and culture. It includes over 400 terms or phrases that have recently entered discourse on the visual arts. Since the early 1970s, the vocabulary used to discuss the visual arts has expanded radically, leaving many teachers, students, artists, and critics without a clear understanding of the terms employed in cultural discussions and debate. Terms can be accessed alphabetically or thematically, and the significant cross referencing makes this an easy dictionary to use.
Hertzian Tales
Hertzian Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hertzian Tales write by Anthony Dunne. This book was released on 2008-09-26. Hertzian Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How design can improve the quality of our everyday lives by engaging the invisible electromagnetic environment in which we live. As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products—from "intelligent" toasters to iPods—it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales, must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in everyday life. Industrial design has the potential to enrich our daily lives—to improve the quality of our relationship to the artificial environment of technology, and even, argues Dunne, to be subverted for socially beneficial ends. The cultural speculations and conceptual design proposals in Hertzian Tales are not utopian visions or blueprints; instead, they embody a critique of present-day practices, "mixing criticism with optimism." Six essays explore design approaches for developing the aesthetic potential of electronic products outside a commercial context—considering such topics as the post-optimal object and the aesthetics of user-unfriendliness—and five proposals offer commentary in the form of objects, videos, and images. These include "Electroclimates," animations on an LCD screen that register changes in radio frequency; "When Objects Dream...," consumer products that "dream" in electromagnetic waves; "Thief of Affection," which steals radio signals from cardiac pacemakers; "Tuneable Cities," which uses the car as it drives through overlapping radio environments as an interface of hertzian and physical space; and the "Faraday Chair: Negative Radio," enclosed in a transparent but radio-opaque shield. Very little has changed in the world of design since Hertzian Tales was first published by the Royal College of Art in 1999, writes Dunne in his preface to this MIT Press edition: "Design is not engaging with the social, cultural, and ethical implications of the technologies it makes so sexy and consumable." His project and proposals challenge it to do so.
Glossary of Art, Architecture, and Design Since 1945
Glossary of Art, Architecture, and Design Since 1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glossary of Art, Architecture, and Design Since 1945 write by John Albert Walker. This book was released on 1977. Glossary of Art, Architecture, and Design Since 1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dictionary of Art
The Dictionary of Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dictionary of Art write by . This book was released on 2002. The Dictionary of Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies
Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies write by Patricia Harpring. This book was released on 2010-04-13. Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This detailed book is a “how-to” guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloging and indexing cultural materials with terms and names from controlled vocabularies, and using vocabularies in search engines and databases to enhance discovery and retrieval online. Also covered are the following: What are controlled vocabularies and why are they useful? Which vocabularies exist for cataloging art and cultural objects? How should they be integrated in a cataloging system? How should they be used for indexing and for retrieval? How should an institution construct a local authority file? The links in a controlled vocabulary ensure that relationships are defined and maintained for both cataloging and retrieval, clarifying whether a rose window and a Catherine wheel are the same thing, or how pot-metal glass is related to the more general term stained glass. The book provides organizations and individuals with a practical tool for creating and implementing vocabularies as reference tools, sources of documentation, and powerful enhancements for online searching.
