Speak Italian

Speak Italian
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2005-03-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780811847742

This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno Munari, will help the phalange-phobic decipher the unspoken language of gestures--a language not found in any dictionary. Photos.

The Fate Of A Gesture

The Fate Of A Gesture
Author: Carter Ratcliff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000301389

I am indebted first to Thomas B. Hess and James Fitzsimmons, the editors of Artnews and Art International, who encouraged me to publish the essays and reviews that led, years later, to this book. I am equally grateful for the encouragement I have received from Elizabeth C. Baker, the editor of Art in America.

Gesture and Speech

Gesture and Speech
Author: André Leroi-Gourhan
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780262121736

Combines in one volume "Technics and Language", in which anthropologist Leroi-Gourhan looks at prehistoric technology in relation to the development of cognitive and liguistic faculties, and "Memory and Rhythms", which addresses instinct and intelligence from a sociological viewpoint.

Theatre of Movement and Gesture

Theatre of Movement and Gesture
Author: Jacques Lecoq
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2006-08-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113424097X

Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Étienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautré celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.

Light, Gesture, and Color

Light, Gesture, and Color
Author: Jay Maisel
Publisher: New Riders
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0134032322

Jay Maisel, hailed as one of the most brilliant, gifted photographers of all time, is much more than that. He is a mentor, teacher, and trailblazer to many photographers, and a hero to those who feel Jay’s teaching has changed the way they see and create their own photography. He is a living legend whose work is studied around the world, and whose teaching style and presentation garner standing ovations and critical acclaim every time he takes the stage. Now, for the first time ever, Jay puts his amazing insights and learning moments from a lifetime behind the lens into a book that communicates the three most important aspects of street photography: light, gesture, and color. Each page unveils something new and challenges you to rethink everything you know about the bigger picture of photography. This isn’t a book about f-stops or ISOs. It’s about seeing. It’s about being surrounded by the ordinary and learning how to find the extraordinary. It’s about training your mind, and your eyes, to see and capture the world in a way that delights, engages, and captivates your viewers, and there is nobody that communicates this, visually or through the written word, like Jay Maisel. Light, Gesture & Color is the seminal work of one of the true photographic geniuses of our time, and it can be your key to opening another level of understanding, appreciation, wonder, and creativity as you learn to express yourself, and your view of the world, through your camera. If you’re ready to break through the barriers that have held your photography back and that have kept you from making the types of images you’ve always dreamed of, and you’re ready to learn what photography is really about, you’re holding the key in your hands at this very moment.

Gesture Drawing 3

Gesture Drawing 3
Author: Ryan Woodward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780646880129

Instructional art by Ryan Woodward

Metaphor and Gesture

Metaphor and Gesture
Author: Alan J. Cienki
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027228434

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.

The Art of Hugging

The Art of Hugging
Author: Brainard Carey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1620873850

Do you want a hug? It’s free! The Free Hug movement has been taking the world by storm since it first started over a decade ago. Conceptual artists and husbandand- wife team Delia and Brainard Carey have exhibited all over the world—now they’re ready to break down one of the world’s simplest and most powerful gestures. From the story of the hugging saint and a history of hugging’s viral video movement to advice on how to use your own hug movement to support charitable causes, The Art of Hugging is your complete guide to health, happiness, and changing the world.