Groundwork

Groundwork
Author: David Young Kim
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691231176

An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance painting The Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle blending of tones and colors to achieve greater naturalism. Yet these techniques rely on a powerful compositional element that often goes overlooked. Groundwork provides the first in-depth examination of the complex relationship between figure and ground in Renaissance painting. “Ground” can refer to the preparation of a work’s surface, the fictive floor or plane, or the background on which figuration occurs. In laying the material foundation, artists perform groundwork, opening the ground as a zone that can precede, penetrate, or fracture the figure. David Young Kim looks at the work of Gentile da Fabriano, Giovanni Bellini, Giovanni Battista Moroni, and Caravaggio, reconstructing each painter’s methods to demonstrate the intricacies involved in laying ground layers whose translucency and polychromy permeate the surface. He charts significant transitions from gold ground painting in the Trecento to the darkened grounds in Baroque tenebrism, and offers close readings of period texts to shed new light on the significance of ground forms such as rock face, wall, and cave. This beautifully illustrated book reconceives the Renaissance picture, revealing the passion and mystery of groundwork and discovering figuration beyond the human figure.

Groundwork

Groundwork
Author: Buck Brannaman
Publisher: Rancho Deluxe Designs
Total Pages: 91
Release: 1997
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780965765701

Groundwork

Groundwork
Author: Genna Rae McNeil
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0812200837

"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American law and society. A brilliant lawyer and educator, he laid much of the legal foundation for the landmark civil rights decisions of the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the lawyers who won the greatest advances for civil rights in the courts, Justice Thurgood Marshall among them, were trained by Houston in his capacity as dean of the Howard University Law School. Politically Houston realized that blacks needed to develop their racial identity and also to recognize the class dimension inherent in their struggle for full civil rights as Americans. Genna Rae McNeil is thorough and passionate in her treatment of Houston, evoking a rich family tradition as well as the courage, genius, and tenacity of a man largely responsible for the acts of "simple justice" that changed the course of American life.

Groundwork

Groundwork
Author: Diana Balmori
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1580933130

The current environmental crisis calls for a unified practice of landscape and architecture that would allow buildings and landscapes to perform symbiotically to heal the environment. Over the past ten years, a diverse group of architects, landscape architects, and artists have undertaken groundbreaking projects that propose an integration of landscape and architecture, dissolving traditional distinctions between building and environment. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture examines twenty-five projects, on an international scale, that consider landscape and architecture as true reciprocal entities. Groundwork divides the projects into three design directions: Topography, Ecology, and Biocomputation. Topographic designers create projects that manipulate the ground to merge building and landscape as in Cairo Expo City in Egypt (Zaha Hadid Architects), Island City Central Park Grin Grin in Fukuoka, Japan (Toyo Ito & Associates) and the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Eisenman Architects). Ecologic designers develop environments that address issues such as energy climate and remediation, such as I’m Lost In Paris in France (R&Sie(n)), Turistroute in Eggum, Norway (Snøhetta) and Parque Atlántico in Santander, Cantabria, Spain (Batlle i Roig Arquitectes). Biocomputation designers use digital technologies to align biology and design in projects such as the Grotto Concept (Aranda/Lasch), North Side Copse House in West Sussex, England (EcoLogicStudio) and Local Code: Real Estates (Nicolas de Monchaux.) What these projects all have in common is a desire to pay attention and homage to the liminal space where indoors and outdoors meet. The critical connection between natural and synthetic, exterior and interior space, paves the way toward a more inclusive—and indeed more alive—conceptualization of the physical world.

Groundwork

Groundwork
Author: Jeanne Theoharis
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 081478285X

A groundbreaking collection of essays on the civil rights movement focusing on smaller, regional civil organizations across the country - not just in the South.

Groundwork for Community-based Conservation

Groundwork for Community-based Conservation
Author: Diane Russell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780742504387

Conservation initiatives have profound social impacts and consequences for local communities and cultures. This text offers an introduction to methods, from ethnography and interviews to surveys and community mapping, always attending the imperatives of local control and community partnerships.

Pornography

Pornography
Author: Debbie Nathan
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0888997671

Explores the history and social aspects of pornography, discussing how it is made and distributed, its popularity and effect on modern culture, its influence on attitudes and crime, and current laws legislating the industry.

Groundwork

Groundwork
Author: Bianca Hester
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781922545053

Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1998-04-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521626958

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. Kant argues that every human being is an end in himself or herself, never to be used as a means by others, and that moral obligation is an expression of the human capacity for autonomy or self-government. This edition presents the acclaimed translation of the text by Mary Gregor, together with an introduction by Christine M. Korsgaard that examines and explains Kant's argument.