Responding to Art's Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM v. 2

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Art Concepts, Interactive Exercises, and Overview of Media

Responding to Art's Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM v. 2
Robert Bersson
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Binding: CD-ROM

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Art Concepts, Interactive Exercises, and Overview of Media.......2004-05-14

The CD, Responding to Art, is divided into 5 sections:

* Elements in Art: Exercises to Enhance Understanding of Art Concepts

* Art Technique: Visual Exploration of Art in Action

* Chapter Resources: Overview of Chapters with Sample Tests

* SAWYER - Study Art With Your Electronic Resources
Internet Resources: Understanding the Internet and Electronic Research

* Study Skills Primer: Tips to Enhance Academic Learning

Section One: Elements In Art allows the student to explore four categories: Line, Shape, Texture, and Color. This section is really interesting, amazingly complex, and fun. The student can play inside various exercises in which the diverse elements of art move and change shape. Each one follows a similar format, for example, when one clicks on the category, Line, there is an introductory paragraph on what line can be used for, and subcategories, Line Quality, Defining Mass, and Linear Perspective. When one clicks on any of these subcategories, an interactive page appears with more subcategories and windows where the student can manipulate the lines. This section is comprehensive and covers almost everything a student might learn in the first two years of drawing courses.

There are so many facets to Elements In Art, that one could spend days or weeks going through them all, and since it is all on a CD one can go through it as quickly or as slowly as desired. The category, Shape, has sub-categories of Defining Shape, Figure / Ground, and Composition. Within each of these categories, there are interactive exercises showing the types of shape, creating shapes, and experiments with shape. There are five or six interactive exercises for Figure / Ground, and for Composition. Then the student goes back to the Elements in Art page and finds other intricate, interactive exercises for the larger categories of Texture and Color. There are sub-categories in Texture of: Actual Texture, Visual Texture, and Pattern. In each of these sub-categories there are four or five additional categories to play around with, and in Color, there are sub-categories of: Function of Light, Properties of Color, Expressive Qualities, and Optical Effects, and as in the other sub-categories, each of these has an additional four or five sub-categories of their own.

Section 2, Art Techniques is not as interactive, but just as interesting and educational. In the Art Technique section, the categories are: Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, New Media, and Glass, Jewelry, and Photography. When the student clicks on Painting the subcategories of Oil / Acrylic, Watercolor, and Silk Painting are available. Choose Oil / Acrylic and there appears an audio-video window (the text for the audio portion is presented below the window so one can read what is being spoken) and the video is a demonstration of how to prepare your canvas, choose pigments in powder or tubes, the various sorts of brushes and their uses, and painting technique. Each of the other categories also has an audio-video discussion and demonstration. In Sculpture the sub-categories are Bronze Casting, Stone Carving, and Ceramic Sculpture. In Printmaking, the sub-categories are Relief, Intaglio, and Lithography, and each of these techniques is presented with a discussion and demonstration. The same with New Media and a demonstration of Digital Imaging, Video Art and Animation, and in the category, Glass, Jewelry, and Photography, a demonstration in a glass blowing studio, a jewelry studio, and a photography studio.

The first two sections are amazing and wonderful. They are almost an art education in themselves. They are encyclopedic as they bring the viewer through a basic course in these several disciplines of art. They are imaginative, fun, exciting, and inspiring. These two sections could be very helpful to the student of art. The only drawback is that nothing can be printed out from the interactive exercises.

Section 3: Chapter Resources: Overview of Chapters with Sample Tests is divided into four parts, which reflect the chapters in the textbook. Each chapter has the same format: There is a window with a list of Leading Ideas supposedly pertaining to what is written in the textbook. Each Leading Idea is a one or two- sentence, overly generalized statement about a period in art history. Under the list of Leading Ideas is a short list of nine or ten Key Terms which are presented without definitions. There is a Self Assessment test for each chapter and a link to Section 4 - SAWYER flashcards.

The concept of Section 3 has the potential to be good, but I don't think it is very helpful as it is now. Buy the book, Responding to Art by Robert Bersson, which is great!!! and forget this part of the CD.

Section 4 SAWYER - Study Art With Your Electronic Resources, the student has four activities. 1. Guess the Artwork, 2. Search the Internet,3. Flashcard Generator, and, 4. Quiz Engine for Tests on the Flashcards.

Guess the Artwork is something that might be quite helpful if it had been designed by someone who had any experience designing exams or quizzes for actual college students. The questions begin with very vague, childish-sounding, "clues" which might apply to several of the answers, for instance, in Question 15 of 42 from Chapter 14, Clue 1 is "My artist painted in oil" and with that the student has a choice of Portrait bust of Lorenzo de'Medici, Jacob and Esau, David, Resurrection, The Arrival of Marie de'Medici in Marseilles, and Saint Francis in the Wilderness.

The activities, Search the Internet, Flashcard Generator, and, Quiz Engine for Tests on the Flashcards, didn't work very well when I tried them. It is awkward to "search the internet" from within the CD, and the Flashcard maker made flashcards which were almost microscopic, and needed to be increased by 3000% or so to be readable.

The final two sections, Internet Resources: Understanding the Internet and Electronic Research, and Study Skills Primer: Tips to Enhance Academic Learning, are text based, non-interactive sections with a lot of information for new college students, but not a lot to do with art or the art student.

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One of the best photo buys I ever made....

An excellent beginer's guide to understanding exposure

If you never shoot on "manual" this book is for you

Excelente for begginers

The Confused Photographer's Guide to On-Camera Spotmetering (The Confused Photographer's Guide to . . . Series) (The Confused Photographer's Guide to . . . Series)
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World's first book written to illustrate the on-camera spot metering technique for 35mm, Digital, and Medium Format photographers:

All types of metering systems used in different cameras (with the exception of the on-camera spotmeter operated by a skilled photographer) use a "cookie-cutter" approach to photographic exposure. What this means is the camera meter measures the various tones of your subject, and then averages all of the tones in order to come up with an overall exposure. Sometimes the overall exposure works and sometimes it doesn't. With this approach, the ball is in the camera's court and in many instances the photographer has no hand in the final look of the image. With on-camera spotmetering, the photographer uses a "tailored" approach to find the correct exposure for a very specific subject. With this approach, the skilled photographer interprets the spotmeter readings from the subject and establishes the correct exposure that captures the desired image (what the eye sees) on film. The consistency and flexibility of the narrow-angled spotmeter makes it the most powerful and versatile exposure tool in existance today. The only catch in using a spotmeter is that the photographer must have the skill to use this powerful tool correctly and effectively. The Confused Photographer's Guide to On-Camera Spotmetering does just that! It is simple, easy-to-follow, and uses a common-sense teaching approach to the material. With more than seventy full-page illustrations, it is designed to get the beginner and the intermediate photographer started in a couple of days. I assume that you have a camera with a built-in spotmetering (partial metering) feature. I also assume that you have a ninth grade education and are willing to learn. To facilitate your learning process, I have included a two page cheat sheets for each of the following cameras: Canon EOS 10D Digital Slr, Canon EOS 20D Digital Slr, Canon EOS 3, Canon EOS A2/A2E, Canon EOS Elan 2E, Canon EOS Elan 7E, Canon EOS Rebel 2000, Canon EOS Rebel Ti/300V, Canon PowerShot G3 Digital, Canon PowerShot G5 Digital, Minolta Maxxum 5, Minolta Maxxum 7, Minolta Maxxum 9, Minolta Maxxum StSi, Nikon CoolPix 990 Digital, Nikon CoolPix 995 Digital, Nikon CoolPix 4500 Digital, Nikon CoolPix 5700 Digital, Nikon Coolpix 5000 Digital, Nikon Coolpix 8700 Digital, Nikon D70 Digital Slr, Nikon F4, Nikon F5, Nikon F100, Nikon N50, Nikon N55, Nikon N60, Nikon N6006, Nikon N65, Nikon N70, Nikon N75, Nikon N80, Nikon N8008s, Nikon N90/N90s, Pentax *ist, Pentax *ist-D Digital SLR, Pentax 645N Medium Format, Pentax MZ-S, Pentax PZ-1P, Pentax ZX-5N, and Sony DSC-F717 Digital. If your camera is not listed here, you will still be able to learn the technique and apply it successfully.

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Great Book.......2007-06-05

Until I had this book one takes photographs that the camera takes. After reading this book you can be in control. The Author gives a very detailed and easy to understand explanation of why some photographs don't turn out the way we expect them to and tells you how to manipulate the new electronic exposure meters built in to today's cameras.

I recommend this book to all budding photographers. That's the only way to pay tribute to this book and author.

One of the best photo buys I ever made...........2007-05-09

After reading this book, I feel as though a veil has been lifted. I always wondered why my photos, although looking good, just lacked a certain "something". My camera, a Rebel Ti, does not have spot metering. Now I am able to understand how to do spot metering with a partial metering system.

I never thought about "tonal" quality as it applies to a photograph. Now I can look at the computer generated settings and make the necessary manual adjustments to take tone into account.

Very good purchase.

An excellent beginer's guide to understanding exposure.......2007-01-16

I have read this book withing two days.
I am somewhat experienced at taking pictures but this method is easy to follow and remember.

After reading this book I went out during the night to take a picture of a bridge in the city of Warsaw. The picture was perfectly exposed and it did not need any adjustments from its raw settings.

Some people might find that this is sometimes too easy or repetitious but I suppose this is what is needed to get the points accross.

One last word about the excellent tips at the end of the book and the appendices. I really appreciated the tips on how to photograph silhouette of a person, see through cloth lit from behind or fireworks.

I truelly recommend this book if you want to see the light with exposure.

If you never shoot on "manual" this book is for you.......2007-01-15

This book covers in details all one will ever need to know in order to get the correct exposure from the camera. Don't get confused by the title, it's not how to use the spotmeter, it's rather how to evaluate tones and make manual corrections (override the meter reading)to get the proper exposure. Those that don't have the spotmeter (like Canon Rebels), can use the partial metering, just zoom all the way through, to narrow the angle.

Yes this book is oversimplified, as some readers have already stated, so even the second graders would be able to read and understand it :) There are too many explanation and repetition, author even assumes that you have a hard time to make a division by 2 :)

On the other hand I've found analogies (like FedEx and Train examples)very helpful. The book really does what it promises to, to help the reader to understand how to get the correct exposure. No matter what you level is, you will definitely understand the concept, author makes it extremely simple.

I would highly recommend this book for beginners, or those that never shoot on fully manual. For people that understand the 18% gray and know how to override camera settings, there is nothing new.

Compared to other Bahman Farzad book "The Confused Photographer's Guide to Photographic Exposure and the Simplified Zone System". Those books are 98% the same. The later is some what expended version of the "The Confused Photographer's Guide to On-Camera Spotmetering". I would recommend against buying both of those books no need for that. I think the later book (the extended one) is a better choice, as it also has a new and updated edition available on February 2007.

Compared to "Understanding Exposure" by Peterson. Peterson book doesn't go into much details, I felt like author tries to stay away from complex subjects, it's excellent book never the less, but not for beginners. Those books can't be compered directly, since they cater for different audience. For those that never used fully manual, I would recommend to start with Farzad book and then progress to Peterson book.

Excelente for begginers.......2007-01-11

An excelente book for begginnners and amateur photographers who want to know the basics on exposition.

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great for a weekend afternoon

Simple but not Easy

Desserts 1-2-3: Deliciously Simple Three-Ingredient Recipes
Rozanne Gold
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Believe it or not, delectable desserts can be made with just three ingredients (and no, one of them is not cake mix). Desserts 1-2-3 joins the ranks of Rozanne Gold's wildly successful 1-2-3 series (Recipes 1-2-3, Entertaining 1-2-3, and Healthy 1-2-3), proving that limiting ingredients does not translate to limitations on creativity or flavor. While Gold does "cheat" a bit by using a few prepared ingredients such as puff pastry, chocolate wafers, and even Nestlé Crunch bars, the results are so impressive that anyone--even a professional chef--would undoubtedly be proud to serve them. The seeming simplicity of these dishes is disarmingly charming, yet the results are, in many cases, extremely sophisticated. Strawberry-Lemongrass Consommé with Cut Berries, for instance, could hardly be called mundane and yet it is made from nothing more than lemongrass stalks, strawberries, and sugar. Likewise, Maple Chiffon--an ethereal, mousse-like custard--impresses with eggs, maple syrup, and cream. Other dishes, like Pecan Fudge Terrine or Ice Cream Profiteroles with Mint Chocolate Sauce, elevate comfort food to a genteel experience. Gold displays an especially impressive knack for combining the three ingredients in different ways for playful visual and taste combinations: Cinnamon Ice Cream with Cinnamon Brittle, Warm Chocolate Soufflé with Bittersweet Chocolate Sorbet, or Blueberry Coeur a la Crème with Honeyed Blueberries. Inspired, elegant dessert recipes using just three ingredients each--what's not to like? --Robin Donovan

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Desserts 1-2-3: Deliciously Simple Three-Ingredient Recipes is the sweet finale to Rozanne Gold's award-winning 1-2-3 cookbook series. The "diva of simplicity" treats us to more than 150 new three-ingredient desserts that indulge all the senses. From seasonal fruit sensations to decadent chocolate extravaganzas, this is a book designed to please everyone. The simple yet amazingly flavor-filled treats include Roasted-Strawberry Ice Cream with Fresh Strawberry Sauce, White Chocolate Pots de Creme, and Lemon Curd Tart with Chocolate-Crumb Crust. More surprising still, more than one-third of these tempting recipes are fat free or low calorie.

Gold has helped launch a new movement in cooking by encouraging home cooks and professional chefs alike to "keep it simple". By paring down the number of elements in a dish, she lets the inherent flavors of the best ingredients - in this case seasonal fruit, fresh cream and premium chocolate - speak for themselves. As a result, Gold's recipes achieve remarkable clarity and balance.

The elegantly simple and delightfully seductive recipes cover every category: cookies and tarts; souffles, custards, and flans; ice creams and sorbets; and an entire chapter of chocolate confections. More than 30 fresh-fruit desserts are also featured. Precise serving instructions help the home cook achieve finished dishes that are as beautiful as they are delicious.

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Great!.......2006-06-26

Desserts 1-2-3 is a creative, well put-together cook book. The book is broken into 5 recipe categories: "Fresh Fruit Desserts", "Custards & Souffles", "Cakes, Cookies, and Tarts", "Chocolate", and "Ice Creams & Frozen Desserts". There are many beuatiful photographs, on avaerage I'd say about every 3 pages or so.

Be sure to read the introduction at the beginning of the book. At first, I was a little bugged that some photographs presented lovely extra embellishments, but no instruction on how to make them. For example, the picture of the Cinnamon-Baked Apples with Apple Butter looks great, with a fancy little caramel candy design stuck into them. I couldn't be sure it was in fact that, though, becuase there was no explination besides how to make the apples. In the introduction I found that they were indeed simply melted sugar, hardened into a fancy little swirl. The rest of the extra embellishments are pretty much self-explanitory, but author Rozanne Gold explains a few more in her introduction as well.

This book also includes a "Fat-Free and Low-Calorie Recipes" section and a conversion chart in the back. The fat-free/low-cal section is actaully just one and a half pages that lists the names and page numbers of previous recipes that are low in fat, or that can be lowered in fat if ingredient subsitutions are made, and it lsits what ingredients those are. These pages also list which recipes are low in calories, and the amount of calories they have per serving. I haven't needed these pages, but they are well-organized and look very helpful.

After each section, there are one or two pages of extra ideas relating to that topic. For example, after the Fresh Fruit Desserts, two pages hold a bunch of extras, such as "1-2-3 Apple Ideas", "1-2-3 Berry Ideas" and so on.

So far, I've found this book to be really great. It exceeded my expectations. I checked it out of the library, which is great because I get to use it now all I want for 21 days and can see if I'd like to buy it, or even just check it out again :) I suggest doing the same to see if you like it enough to purchase. Enjoy! :)

great for a weekend afternoon.......2005-11-01

Beautifully put together desserts, that do require attention to detail. The recipes I've done have all been fairly easy and very successful. Having just three ingredients means you're more likely to have everything on hand or not have to spend three hours shopping. The Lemon Buttermilk sorbet is outstanding and easy. Enticing photography.

Simple but not Easy.......2002-06-21

This is my first encounter with the wonders of Ms. Gold's kitchen, and it is an impressive collection. Now, I collect cookbooks, and I cannot recall having described any of the others in those terms. This book really made a positive impact on me.

That being said, I think the reader should be aware that just because the book is called "1-2-3", doesn't mean "as easy as 1-2-3". These recipes may be simple in terms of the number of ingredients, but they are not simple in preparation (with a few exceptions). The methods Ms. Gold uses are classic chef techniques: custards in a double boiler, toasting and grinding nuts, hand-slushing granitas. Nothing weird, but they can be very demanding and time-consuming.

Think elegantly simple, rather than child's-play simple.

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Three Courses & a Dessert
William Clarke
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Three courses and a dessert
William Clarke
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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
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Three courses and a dessert;: Comprising three sets of tales, West country, Irish, and Legal; and a meÌÂlange
William Clarke
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A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (A Camera Obscura Book)

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A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling accounts of women's multiple roles as early producers, directors, writers, stars, and viewers. It also engages urgent questions about cinema's capacity for presenting a stable visual field, often at the expense of racially, sexually, or class-marked bodies.

While fostering new ways of thinking about film history, A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema illuminates the many questions that the concept of "early cinema" itself raises about the relation of gender to modernism, representation, and technologies of the body. The contributors bring a number of disciplinary frameworks to bear, including not only film studies but also postcolonial studies, dance scholarship, literary analysis, philosophies of the body, and theories regarding modernism and postmodernism.

Reflecting the stimulating diversity of early cinematic styles, technologies, and narrative forms, essays address a range of topics—from the dangerous sexuality of the urban flâneuse to the childlike femininity exemplified by Mary Pickford, from the Shanghai film industry to Italian diva films—looking along the way at birth-control sensation films, French crime serials, "war actualities," and the stylistic influence of art deco. Recurring throughout the volume is the protean figure of the New Woman, alternately garbed as childish tomboy, athletic star, enigmatic vamp, languid diva, working girl, kinetic flapper, and primitive exotic.

Contributors. Constance Balides, Jennifer M. Bean, Kristine Butler, Mary Ann Doane, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Amelie Hastie, Sumiko Higashi, Lori Landay, Anne Morey, Diane Negra, Catherine Russell, Siobhan B. Somerville, Shelley Stamp, Gaylyn Studlar, Angela Dalle Vacche, Radha Vatsal, Kristen Whissel, Patricia White, Zhang Zhen

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Upside Downers
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Bowerman and O'Connell's, Essentials of Business Statistics (EBS) delivers clear and understandable explanations of business statistics concepts through the use of case studies and examples. The non-calculus-based approach thoroughly covers descriptive and inferential statistics with an emphasis on business applications. Both procedural and conceptual aspects of the subject are covered, analysis and interpretation are emphasized, and shows students how to select the appropriate statistical tool for use in a particular business application. The abundant examples reflect real applications of statistics relevant to business students. A key distinction of EBS is the rich and realistic continuing case study examples that provide the architecture of the text. Unlike virtually all other texts, which use discreet examples for each individual subject area, EBS relies on these continuing examples to "frame" the study of statistics and place it squarely into the realm of real business problems and scenarios. Part and parcel with this approach are the rich and relevant data sets used to demonstrate statistical concepts. Finally, Bowerman and O'Connell also provide a fresh technology perspective. Excel and Minitab output is included in the text to help students visualize concepts, and a robust Excel add-in package, Megastat is both available on the accompanying CD ROM and has been thoroughly integrated into the text. The coverage of the Internet included in the book is second to none.

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Right on time!.......2005-09-23

The book came right on time exactly when I needed it. Great condition.

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