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Inspired by such social phenomena as the integration of digital technology into daily life, the increasingly high rate of urban and suburban growth, and population sprawl, Out of Site focuses on the creation of fictional architectural spaces and topographies, and examines the cultural basis of artists' renewed interest in architecture and spatial relationships. With work by Ricci Albenda, Aziz + Cucher, Patrick Meagher, Julie Mehretu, Shirley Tse, and others.
Essays by Anne Ellegood, Rhonda Lane Howard and Mark Wigley.
Foreword by Lisa Phillips.
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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1158 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Out of site: Fictional Architectural Spaces.(Calendar)
Author: Ingrid Chu
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Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Parachute Contemporary Art
Page: S5(2)
Article Type: Calendar
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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When department stores like Le Bon March first opened their doors in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, shoppers were offered more than racks of ready-made frock coats and crinolines. They were given the chance to acquire a lifestyle as well--that of the bourgeoisie. Wearing proper clothing encouraged proper behavior, went the prevailing belief. Available now for the first time in English, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie was one of the first extensive studies to explain a culture's sociology through the seemingly simple issue of the choice of clothing. Philippe Perrot shows, through a delightful tour of the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in France, how clothing can not only reflect but also inculcate beliefs, values, and aspirations. By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce. Their wives and daughters, on the other hand, adorned themselves in bright colors and often uncomfortable and impractical laces and petticoats, to signal the status of their family. The consumer pastime of shopping was born, as women spent their spare hours keeping up their middle-class appearance, or creating one by judicious purchases. As Paris became the fashion capital and bourgeois modes of dress and their inherent attitudes became the ruling lifestyle of Western Europe and America, clothing and its "civilizing" tendencies were imported to non-Western colonies as well. In the face of what Perrot calls this "leveling process," the upper classes tried to maintain their stature and right to elegance by supporting what became the high fashion industry. Richly detailed, entertaining, and provocative, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie reveals to us the sources of many of our contemporary rules of fashion and etiquette. In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic change in their profession's fortunes and aims? How did their new cultural authority affect their relationship with their patients? How did they treat social workers, all of them women, who were striving to develop their own professional identities? In answering these questions, Elizabeth Lunbeck focuses on the revelatory ideas of gender that structured the new "psychiatry of the normal," a field that grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object. Lunbeck locates her study in early twentieth-century Boston, providing a vivid picture not only of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, upon whose patient records she has drawn extensively, but also of the increasingly urbanized society that shaped its goals and practices. As she tells a variety of fascinating stories about individual patients, psychiatrists, and social workers, Lunbeck shows that early twentieth-century Boston offered psychiatrists a vast reservoir of material with which to work. Psychiatrists made strenuous attempts to deal with the treatment of syphilis and with other newly urgent social issues, such as immigration, poverty, delinquency, and drunkenness. More significantly they gained unprecedented entre into the "private" realm of the home. Lunbeck follows psychiatrists as they turned the problems they identified there--sexuality, marriage, relations between the sexes--into the stuff of their science. In the process, issues of gender and personal identity assumed a new prominence in psychiatric thought. Lunbeck's sweeping narrative, in fact, deals not just with the development of psychiatry but with the uncertain and often stormy advent of sexual modernity, a modernity that many have suggested was enabled by psychiatry. The new psychiatry would continue to deal with recognized mental illness, but the question of what and who was normal increasingly would engage the psychiatrist's interest. As an explanation of how this came to be so, this book will interest students of the history of psychiatry and of science, as well as those readers concerned with gender issues and the development of American culture in general. When department stores like Le Bon March first opened their doors in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, shoppers were offered more than racks of ready-made frock coats and crinolines. They were given the chance to acquire a lifestyle as well--that of the bourgeoisie. Wearing proper clothing encouraged proper behavior, went the prevailing belief. Available now for the first time in English, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie was one of the first extensive studies to explain a culture's sociology through the seemingly simple issue of the choice of clothing. Philippe Perrot shows, through a delightful tour of the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in France, how clothing can not only reflect but also inculcate beliefs, values, and aspirations. By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce. Their wives and daughters, on the other hand, adorned themselves in bright colors and often uncomfortable and impractical laces and petticoats, to signal the status of their family. The consumer pastime of shopping was born, as women spent their spare hours keeping up their middle-class appearance, or creating one by judicious purchases. As Paris became the fashion capital and bourgeois modes of dress and their inherent attitudes became the ruling lifestyle of Western Europe and America, clothing and its "civilizing" tendencies were imported to non-Western colonies as well. In the face of what Perrot calls this "leveling process," the upper classes tried to maintain their stature and right to elegance by supporting what became the high fashion industry. Richly detailed, entertaining, and provocative, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie reveals to us the sources of many of our contemporary rules of fashion and etiquette. In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic change in their profession's fortunes and aims? How did their new cultural authority affect their relationship with their patients? How did they treat social workers, all of them women, who were striving to develop their own professional identities? In answering these questions, Elizabeth Lunbeck focuses on the revelatory ideas of gender that structured the new "psychiatry of the normal," a field that grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object. Lunbeck locates her study in early twentieth-century Boston, providing a vivid picture not only of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, upon whose patient records she has drawn extensively, but also of the increasingly urbanized society that shaped its goals and practices. As she tells a variety of fascinating stories about individual patients, psychiatrists, and social workers, Lunbeck shows that early twentieth-century Boston offered psychiatrists a vast reservoir of material with which to work. Psychiatrists made strenuous attempts to deal with the treatment of syphilis and with other newly urgent social issues, such as immigration, poverty, delinquency, and drunkenness. More significantly they gained unprecedented entre into the "private" realm of the home. Lunbeck follows psychiatrists as they turned the problems they identified there--sexuality, marriage, relations between the sexes--into the stuff of their science. In the process, issues of gender and personal identity assumed a new prominence in psychiatric thought. Lunbeck's sweeping narrative, in fact, deals not just with the development of psychiatry but with the uncertain and often stormy advent of sexual modernity, a modernity that many have suggested was enabled by psychiatry. The new psychiatry would continue to deal with recognized mental illness, but the question of what and who was normal increasingly would engage the psychiatrist's interest. As an explanation of how this came to be so, this book will interest students of the history of psychiatry and of science, as well as those readers concerned with gender issues and the development of American culture in general.
Customer Reviews:
CLOTHES DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.......2005-07-09
Shakespeare said that fashion wears out more apparel than the man. This may well be true and, according to author Perrot, clothing can also reflect a culture's sociology, thus revealing beliefs, values, and hopes.
This delightful and engrossing peek into the closets of the bourgeoisie, those who dressed in opposition to popular clothing worn by workers or peasants, is rich in historic information and charmingly illustrated.
Perrot charts the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in Paris, and traces how the worldwide passion for shopping was born.
The author notes that when department stores opened in the middle of the nineteenth century in Paris, shoppers were offered much more than clothing - they were given the opportunity to adopt a lifestyle. Have we changed so very much?
- Gail Cooke
A Thoroughly Enjoyable Book.......2000-10-27
This book presents a unique look at history. It gives wonderful detail about how dress, an often overlooked or glossed over subject, played such an important role in society. The subjects are well chosen and the book flows smoothly.
This book is perfect for anyone wanting to add to their knowledge of 19th century society.
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Collected here are all four of the first year's worth of Warren Ellis' Apparat books including Simon Spector with art by Jacen Burrows, Angel Stomp Future with art by Juan Jose Ryp, Quit City with art by Laurenn McCubbin, and Frank Ironwine with art by Carla Speed McNeil! The four Apparat books are inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1930s and imagine modern day comic books that evolved from the pulps without the influence of super-heroes. Ellis also includes over 10 pages of new essays on the inspiration behind, and the creation of, these self-contained stories.
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A World Without Super Heroes.......2006-02-15
Warren Ellis tried to figure out how adventure comics would have developed without sixty-odd years of super hero comics. The result is a series of one-shots that follow some of the classic themes of the old action comics. This volume collects the first four.
Science Fiction is up first with a very bizarre tale and amazing graphics (you really have to pay attention to all of the little details in the graphics).
Detective fiction takes an interesting turn with a detective who has a tendency to sleep in dumpsters. He and his new partner have a murder to solve.
The wonder of Pilot heroes follows as a flying ace retires from a team of hero pilots. This one is a little strange as well as being a pilot has little to do with the story. Also the art was unstable with characters looking young one moment and beyond middle age the next and vice versa.
The final story takes the mantle of Doc Savage, The Shadow and The Spider with a different eccentric millionaire fighting crime with the help of strange substances. I felt this was the best overall considering both story and art.
Readers will be a little disappointed to find out how long we might have to wait for any more of these stories and there is also a tendency to want to see more stories about some of these characters (I really liked the detective). Check it out.
Customer Reviews:
AWESOME.......2006-06-30
fantastic comedy, risque w/o being lewd, always on time and pertinent with todays trials and tribulations! I LOVE THIS WOMAN!
LOL funNY.......2006-04-28
Rita's mind works in very oddball thoughts that ring true and hilariously so.
I loved this book !
It is bizarre and the thinking persons dry humour funny.
Hilarious!.......2005-10-04
Rita Rudner is my new favorite comedian. I wish I could find some of her stand up on CD or cassette, but her reading her book in this audio recording is really funny!
Rita's Better Live or on tape.......2001-08-15
This book was alright. I love Rudner, and I think most of my enjoyment of the book was because I was able to hear Rita's voice in my head as I read the book. If you can't do that, alot of the humor will likely fall flat. She's definitely got some insight into modern life, and the humor is almost as funny the second time around as it is the first.
some good laughs.......2000-04-15
The audio cassette is the way to go. Why read the book when you can listen to Rita herself? With this kind of material, the written version is an incomplete substitute for the original -- standup, spoken comedy. It's all in the delivery! (If you read the book, you need to imagine it in her voice, and if you don't know her voice you are totally not getting it.) This tape is better listening than most of the stuff on the radio all day, so as long as you can concentrate on your driving and listen at the same time, it's good car audio. Or beach audio, or wherever. You'll get a few laughs, a few zings, some nods, some quotes to pass on, you'll want to play parts of it for various people in your life. I won't impart the material here, 'cause that would spoil it, so all I can say is it's worth a listen. It didn't make tears roll down my face, but it made me smile and laugh many times.
Customer Reviews:
Mandatory reading for Classic Hollywood enthusiasts.......2006-01-18
The book's title alludes to the 1954 essay by Francois Truffaut, "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema," in which Truffaut describes the "current" trends in French cinema and calls for a change. He, along with Godard, Rivette, Varda, Rohmer et. al, proceeded to enact a French cinema revolution -- the nouvelle vague. It is in this spirit that Ray outlines a certain "tendency" of classic Hollywood cinema: a formal and narrative paradigm. Ray's book is a brilliant tour-de-force analysis of the persistant ideological and formal registers that have come to define the "classic" Hollywood style. He begins with the 30s, with the codification of the studio system style, and moves to the present of the book's publication. Ray provocatively moves from an analysis of narrative conventions -- the frontier/western story, such as the much-adapted Huck Finn, as a persistent theme in American cinema -- to a shot-by-shot breakdown of the conventional Hollywood scene. Implicitly, the book, like its forebear, asks for some sort of shift in the seemingly intransigent formula that has become the Hollywood movie. How does the "same" Hollywood movie bespeak the same American ideology? The book has proved invaluable to me as a lover of movies as well as someone who wants to speak/think astutely about film. Each time I dip into the book, I am rewarded by a new insight. And, after reading a number of scholarly film books, I can say that this is one of the best written. Hey, the guy is a beautiful writer! For those of you who don't want to "think" about movies, this is not a film-for-fun book; it's for those who take movies seriously as an aesthetic/ideological form. And, as its been in print for twenty-years, it clearly is one of the most important books in American film scholarship.
a good read.......2004-11-12
While I have always enjoyed going to the movies. I know little about them on an academic level. Reading Ray's book gave me a new understanding and higher appreciation for movies. After reading this book I was able to enjoy watching a movie more because I understood the art better. He has keen insight and I truly enjoyed reading his book. At times however the text was complex and caused a small amount of difficulty for me. But the extra work put in reading this book is well worth it. I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys the movies and is interested in learning more.
What trash..........2004-10-04
This is the worst book I have ever read on film. Ray waxes philosophical and intellectual over film exhaustively, yet fails to understand film as an art. "A Certain Tendency" is only applied to films from the pre 1980's period, I can only assume this is because his theories are lost and become broken when applied to modern film. This book could have been a well written fifty pages if Ray abstained from numerous, short sighted examples of his failed theories.
I unfortunately had the pleasure of using this text in conjunction with a Contemporary Film class. This book cannot be used for what Hollywood Cinema has become or was becoming in the 1970's. If you happen to take a class in which this book is required and you love movies for their entertainment or art, drop the course. Any instructor who assumes the mantle of Ray's theories cannot have appreciation for and assign value to films as artistic texts.
However, if you like the idea that all film is a simple regurgitation of the like themes, characters, and faceless historical contexts; and that film in itself can never be compelling and original; and that film can never truly teach, inspire, or edify...then this book is for you. It's central theme of "Avoidance of Choice" on the thematic level (i.e. film always makes an attempt to satisfy two contrasting ideologies and present them as cohabit, like individualism and collectivism; meaning film never promotes the value of one over the other), is confusing, contradicting, and above all exhausting.
Ray is an articulate writer, favoring long, multi-syllable words used in a mind-boggling context of confusion often eliciting the feeling that he is a desperate theorist, grasping at straws to support weak, simplistic ideals. While his intelligence is genuine, his consumption in a background of English, and most likely rhetoric, makes for an un-compelling dissection of film and their meaning.
Ray is a genius.......1999-03-19
A Certain Tendancy of the Hollywood Cinema is without doubt one of the finest books that I have ever read. Ray enlightens and entertains like a true master. Ray's crisp prose opens up a new world of understanding and thought about Hollywood. He makes old ideas seem new while providing new ones. Anyone who has ever seen a movie should read this book. After reading this book, you will never view the silver screen the same way again. Movies will become infinitly more enjoyable as you understand them on the deepest levels of their creators. A Certain Tendancy of the Hollywood Cinema is a true tour de force.
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Encountering the Fundamentals of Music: An Activities Approach for Classroom Teachers
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Useful and Practical.......2001-08-11
This book is very useful for college music fundamentals classes and is adaptable to different situations. Highly recommended!
Encountering the Fundamentals of Music.......2001-01-24
This book is very good for the beginners who want to learn how to play the guitar, recorder. However, this is not a book solely about learning to play a musical instrument. Instead it is a book which uses musical performance as a vehicle for learning about music.
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These complicated conundrums provide an amazing brain workout. To solve a lateral-thinking problem you have to throw out assumptions, think out of the box, and look at the clues from a new perspective. It’s all a matter of training the brain to think more creatively. Here’s an example of one tricky little mystery: A foreign visitor to London wanted to ride up the escalator at the subway station, but did not do so. Why? Could you guess the reason is that he saw a sign saying “Dogs must be carried”—and he didn’t have a dog! At first, you may think you don’t have all the information needed to arrive at the answers, but persist and you’ll find the answers to them all.
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Bookkeeping for Nonprofits
Bookkeeping for Nonprofits is a hands-on guide that offers nonprofit leaders, managers, and staff the tools they need to create and maintain a complete and accurate set of accounting records. This much-needed resource provides those with little or no bookkeeping experience with practical advice in a highly accessible format.
Written by Murray Dropkin and Jim Halpin, Bookkeeping for Nonprofits is a step-by-step introduction to keeping accounting records, which form the foundation for a nonprofit organization's financial reports, tax returns, budgets, cash forecasts, and grant proposals. Using this volume as a guide, nonprofit leaders and staff will be able to set up books with or without accounting software and ensure that the records meet the needs of their organization. Bookkeeping for Nonprofits is a comprehensive resource that
- Discusses how transactions provide day-to-day information for tracking cash balances and cash requirements
- Shows how transactions provide information to management and the board of directors for budgeting and other essential tasks
- Explains basic bookkeeping concepts, such as the accounting equation, the chart of accounts, and income and expense tracking
- Guides readers through the nuts and bolts of recording a transaction
- Provides an overview of alternative recordkeeping methodologies and how to choose among them
Designed to be easy to use, the book is filled with illustrations and checklists.
"Bookkeeping for Nonprofits is the remarkable new guide for a new generation of accounting challenges bookkeepers face every day."
—Frances Hesselbein, chairman and founding president, Leader to Leader Institute
"Bookkeeping for Nonprofits provides a rare combination of consummate professionalism and clear, accessible writing. Underlying the wealth of technical information lies a great deal of wisdom. The authors have found a way to translate their enormous, on-the-ground experience into usable, actionable policies, procedures, and practices. It is a book that gives all you need to create a fiscally responsible agency with the bonus of helping you become a better manager and a wiser person."
—Peter Block, business consultant and author of Flawless Consulting and The Empowered Manager
"Bookkeeping for Nonprofits provides an excellent understanding of the practical application of bookkeeping in the real work environment."
—Ron Werthman, vice president, finance/treasurer and CFO, Johns Hopkins Health System, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
"This is a wonderful book that every bookkeeper in a nonprofit organization should have."
—Eusebio David, fiscal director, Federation of Multicultural Programs, Inc.
Customer Reviews:
Useful for larger not-for-profits finance staff/volunteers.......2007-06-17
Useful, relatively easy tor read reference on not-for-profit (NFP) accounting, generally aimed at non-finance/accounting person. Not so useful for an organization using cash accounting methods (versus accrual), common in smaller NFPs. Some good ideas for low-end (i.e.,
<$50K income/year) NFP BOD members.
Non-Profit Primer.......2006-08-04
Good book, great illustrations. Very clear. However, if you've been doing corporate accounting for a number of years, this is pretty basic. Better for someone with limited experience. I was hoping for something a little more advanced.
helpful information.......2006-02-27
This book will help bookkeepers new to non-profit accounting. The book goes into detail, showing actual entries, and the reasoning behind them. It also points out dos and don'ts, basic accrual accounting, and what reporting an accountant will need for the 990 form. The book is a primer for the non-profit bookkeeper and/or organization treasurer.
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