Conceptual Performance

Conceptual Performance
Author: Nick Kaye
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317441168

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance. Conceptual Performance sets out the history, theoretical basis, and character of this genre of work through a wide range of case studies. The volume considers how and why principal modes and agendas in Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s necessitated new engagements with performance, as well as expanded notions of theatricality. In doing so, this book reviews and challenges prevailing histories of Conceptual art through critical frameworks of performativity and performance. It also considers how Conceptual art adopted and redefined terms and tropes of theatre and performance: including score, document, embodiment, documentation, relic, remains, and the narrative recuperation of ephemeral work. While showing how performance has been integral to Conceptual art’s critiques of prevailing assumptions about art’s form, purpose, and meaning, this volume also considers the reach and influence of Conceptual performance into recent thinking and practice. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre, performance, contemporary art, and art history.

The Triumph of Anti-art

The Triumph of Anti-art
Author: Thomas McEvilley
Publisher: Documentext
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2005
Genre: Arts, Modern
ISBN:

McEvilley (art criticism and writing, School of Visual Arts, New York City) presents revised versions of essays published between 1981 and 2002, along with three major new essays that introduce and bring them together. Focusing on the origins of anti-art, and the development of performance and conceptual art, the essays trace artistic movements fro

Business Performance Measurement

Business Performance Measurement
Author: Andy Neely
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2002-03-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521803427

A multidisciplinary book on performance measurement that will appeal to students, researchers and managers.

How can conceptual content be social and normative, and, at the same time, be objective?

How can conceptual content be social and normative, and, at the same time, be objective?
Author: Andrea Clausen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110324121

In this book, Andrea Clausen intends to reconcile Kripke's point according to which conceptual content has to be considered as being constituted by social, normative practice - by a process of mutual assessments - with the view that the content of empirical assertions has to be conceived as objective. She criticizes approaches that explicate content-constitutive practice in non-normative terms, namely in terms of sanctioning behavior (Haugeland, Pettit, Esfeld). She also rejects a pragmatist reading of Heidegger that proceeds from thoroughly normative but pre-conceptual practice. She develops and defends a particular reading of an approach that conceives normative, conceptually articulated practice - giving and asking for reasons - as primitive (Brandom, McDowell).

Mathematical Principles of Human Conceptual Behavior

Mathematical Principles of Human Conceptual Behavior
Author: Ronaldo Vigo
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134690363

The ability to learn concepts lies at the very core of human cognition, enabling us to efficiently classify, organize, identify, and store complex information. In view of the basic role that concepts play in our everyday physical and mental lives, the fields of cognitive science and psychology face three long standing challenges: discovering the laws that govern concept learning and categorization behavior in organisms, showing how they inform other areas of cognitive research, and describing them with the mathematical systematicity and precision found in the physical sciences. In light of these theoretical and methodological shortcomings, this volume will introduce a set of general mathematical principles for predicting and explaining conceptual behavior. The author’s theory is based on seven fundamental constructs of universal science: invariance, complexity, information, similarity, dissimilarity, pattern, and representation. These constructs are joined by a novel mathematical framework that does not depend on probability theory, and derives key results from conceptual behavior research with other key areas of cognitive research such as pattern perception, similarity assessment, and contextual choice. The result is a unique and systematic unifying foundation for cognitive science in the tradition of classical physics.

Intentional Conceptual Change

Intentional Conceptual Change
Author: Gale M. Sinatra
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2003-01-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135648913

This volume brings together a distinguished, international list of scholars to explore the role of the learner's intention in knowledge change. Traditional views of knowledge reconstruction placed the impetus for thought change outside the learner's control. The teacher, instructional methods, materials, and activities were identified as the seat of change. Recent perspectives on learning, however, suggest that the learner can play an active, indeed, intentional role in the process of knowledge restructuring. This volume explores this new, innovative view of conceptual change learning using original contributions drawn from renowned scholars in a variety of disciplines. The volume is intended for scholars or advanced students studying knowledge acquisition and change, including educational psychology, developmental psychology, science education, cognitive science, learning science, instructional psychology, and instructional and curriculum studies.

Reconsidering Conceptual Change: Issues in Theory and Practice

Reconsidering Conceptual Change: Issues in Theory and Practice
Author: Margarita Limón
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2007-05-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0306476371

This book is an important account of the state of the art of both theoretical and practical issues in the present-day research on conceptual change. Unique in its complete treatment of the questions that should be considered to further current understanding of knowledge construction and change, this book is useful for psychologists, cognitive scientists, educational researchers, curriculum developers, teachers and educators at all levels and in all disciplines.

Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change

Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change
Author: David Barner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190611952

We acquire concepts such as "atom," "force," "integer," and "democracy" long after we are born; these concepts are not part of the initial cognitive state of human beings. Other concepts like "object," "cause," or "agent" may be present early in infancy--if not innately. Processes of change occur throughout our conceptual development, which prompts two key questions: Which human concepts constitute innate, core knowledge? How do humans acquire new concepts, and how do these concepts change in development? Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change provides a unique theoretical and empirical introduction to the study of conceptual development, documenting key advances in case studies, including ground-breaking science on human representations of language, objects, number, events, color, space, time, beliefs, and desires. Additionally, it explores how humans engage in moral reasoning and causal explanation: Are humans born good and tainted by an imperfect world, or do we need to teach children to be moral? Could a concept like "freedom" be woven into the human soul, or is it a historical invention, constructed over generations of humans? Written by an eminent list of contributors renowned in child development and cognitive science, this book delves widely, and deeply, into the cognitive tools available at birth that are repurposed, combined, and transformed to complex, abstract adult conceptual representations, and should be of interest to developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and students of cognitive science.

International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change

International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change
Author: Stella Vosniadou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 658
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136578218

Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to paradigms and paradigm shifts made famous by Thomas Kuhn, conceptual change research focuses on understanding and explaining learning of the most the most difficult and counter-intuitive concepts. Now in its second edition, the International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change provides a comprehensive review of the conceptual change movement and of the impressive research it has spawned on students’ difficulties in learning. In thirty-one new and updated chapters, organized thematically and introduced by Stella Vosniadou, this volume brings together detailed discussions of key theoretical and methodological issues, the roots of conceptual change research, and mechanisms of conceptual change and learner characteristics. Combined with chapters that describe conceptual change research in the fields of physics, astronomy, biology, medicine and health, and history, this handbook presents writings on interdisciplinary topics written for researchers and students across fields.