Dan McCarthy

Dan McCarthy
Author: Dan McCarthy
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2024-09-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 084783686X

The first comprehensive monograph surveying the expansive twenty-five-plus-year career of the highly influential artist, known for his rainbow-colored paintings, drawings, and emotive ceramic facepots. McCarthy is known for his gestural and intuitive artwork. His brightly colored paintings, with loose brushwork, depict figures in action: dancing, surfing, fishing, and skateboarding often against a rainbow-colored background. His ongoing series of ceramic facepots delight with their hand-built immediacy and invested emotionality. McCarthy who worked on fishing boats near Catalina Island and cites the Pacific Ocean as a lasting influence on his work. The beautifully curated book includes an 8-page gatefold and a French-fold jacket, which opens up to a collectible foldout poster.

Rotterdam Dialogues

Rotterdam Dialogues
Author: Zoë Gray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This book juxtaposes three distinct agents in the art world - the critics, curators and artists of its title - adopting the conversational form of three large-scale symposia that took place at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, in the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009. In addition to transcripts from selected dialogues and the outcomes of three guest-led workshops, it also contains spirited contributions that arrived from many of the participants in the months that followed the 'Rotterdam dialogues' opening another dimension of the discussions held in front of a large audience. At stake here are questions of cultural agency, audience and production, ranging from the concrete to the speculative.

Pig

Pig
Author: Brett Mizelle
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1861899904

Known as much for their pink curly tails and pudgy snouts as their low-brow choice of diet and habitat, pigs are prevalent in popular culture—from the Three Little Pigs to Miss Piggy to Babe. Today there are more than one billion pigs on the planet, and there are countless representations of pigs and piggishness throughout the world’s cultures. In Pig, Brett Mizelle provides a richly illustrated and compelling look at the long, complicated relationship between humans and these highly intelligent, sociable animals. Mizelle traces the natural and cultural history of the pig, focusing on the contradictions between our imaginative representation of pigs and the real-world truth of the ways in which pigs are prized for their meat, used as subjects in medical research, and killed in order to make hundreds of consumer products. Pig begins with the evolution of the suidae, animals that were domesticated in multiple regions 9,000 years ago, and points toward a future where pigs and humans are even more closely intertwined as a result of biomedical breakthroughs. Pig both examines the widespread art, entertainment, and literature that imagines human kinship with pigs and the development of modern industrial pork production. In charting how humans have shaped the pig and how the pig has shaped us, Mizelle focuses on the unresolved contradictions between the fiction and the reality of our relations with pigs.

Facepots

Facepots
Author:
Publisher: Hassla
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781940881058

Facepots focuses on the recent ceramic work of New York-based artist Dan McCarthy (born 1962)--highly animated and emotionally charged objects formed through an immediate, hands-on process. The volume situates McCarthy's ceramics historically and includes a visual essay by the artist himself, featuring images and icons that served as inspiration.

The Impact of Youth Imprisonment on the Lives of Parents

The Impact of Youth Imprisonment on the Lives of Parents
Author: Daniel McCarthy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2023-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429589344

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing material and emotional support offered through family, prisoners can have a stronger commitment to move towards prosocial pathways via these important social ties. Yet, often overlooked are the experiences of families themselves in providing support for prisoners. This book focuses on parents whose adolescent male children are sent to prison. Charting many of the adversities which parents face – from violence, psychological stress, to stigma and shame – the book provides one of the first empirical assessments of the ways parents manage the consequences of serious crime and navigate relationships with their children in prison. As well as documenting major social hardships of imprisonment, the book will also assess the heterogeneous impacts on relationships between parents and their male children, including cases where relationships may improve or worsen over the sentence. With sensitivity to issues of gender, ethnicity and inequality in families, this book sheds new light on many of the problems of youth crime and presents a highly topical insight into the effects of imprisonment on parents. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, youth justice, sociology and all those interested in the role of families in supporting prisoners.

Grassroots Fundraising

Grassroots Fundraising
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2024-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

"Grassroots Fundraising" delves into the vital role of grassroots fundraising in modern political campaigns, offering a guide for political science professionals, students, and enthusiasts. Through a combination of case studies and practical strategies, the book highlights how local support can provide the sustainable financial backing essential for success in today's political landscape. Chapter Brief Overview: 1. Core principles and methods of grassroots fundraising. 2. Case study: Democracy for America's grassroots model. 3. Matching funds and their role in boosting contributions. 4. Overview of U.S. campaign finance laws and their effects. 5. Howard Dean's pioneering grassroots techniques in his campaign. 6. Analysis of the presidential election campaign fund checkoff. 7. Hillary Clinton's fundraising strategies in 2008. 8. Barack Obama’s innovative grassroots strategies in 2008. 9. Ron Paul's grassroots success in reshaping norms. 10. Julianna Smoot's contributions to impactful fundraising. 11. Collective fundraising efforts during the 2008 election. 12. Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.'s role in modern techniques. 13. Impact of donors like Norman Hsu on grassroots fundraising. 14. The rise and strategic use of "moneybombs." 15. Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign vs. later fundraising efforts. 16. Evolution of Obama's grassroots fundraising in 2008. 17. Obama's grassroots innovations in the 2012 re-election. 18. Localized fundraising efforts in Pennsylvania's 2010 elections. 19. The influence of digital platforms like Rally.org on fundraising. 20. Social media's impact on political fundraising and communication. 21. The Hillary Victory Fund’s collaborative fundraising model. Unlock deep insights and practical strategies with "Grassroots Fundraising," a comprehensive guide to mastering grassroots financial support in modern political campaigns. Whether you're a seasoned campaigner or just starting, this book provides essential tools to harness the power of community-driven fundraising, elevating campaigns to new heights of success.

On Kawara - Silence

On Kawara - Silence
Author: Daniel Buren
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-02-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892075195

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition On Kawara -- Silence. Organized by Jeffrey Weiss with Anne Wheeler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 6-May 3, 2015"--Colophon.

Integrative Learning

Integrative Learning
Author: Daniel Blackshields
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113464857X

Current teaching, learning and assessment practices can lead students to believe that courses within a programme are self-sufficient and separate. Integrative Learning explores this issue, and considers how intentional learning helps students become integrative thinkers who can see connections in seemingly disparate information, and draw on a wide range of knowledge to make decisions. Written by international contributors who engaged reflectively with their teaching and their students’ learning, the book seeks to develop a shared language of integrative learning, encouraging students to adapt skills learned in one situation to problems encountered in another, and make autonomous connections across courses, between experiences, and throughout their lives. More informed teachers can help students develop the necessary attributes for intentional learning, which include having a sense of purpose, fitting fragmentary information into a ‘learning framework’, understanding something of their own learning processes, asking probing questions, reflecting on their own choices, and knowing when to ask for help. Integrative Learning draws on international research and vast studies to provide the reader with the resources to ensure access to a unified learning experience. The book discusses conceptual and technical tools necessary for facilitating integrative learning across a range of disciplines as well as providing learning pedagogies and considers integrative learning in the context of the relevance of higher education in the complexity and uncertainty of the 21st century. It will appeal to academics and researchers in the field of higher education, as well as those generating higher education curriculums.