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Author |
: Cheryl Pallant |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2018-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476631714 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476631719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing and the Body in Motion by : Cheryl Pallant
Based upon the author's lifetime practices as a dancer, poet and teacher, this innovative approach to developing body awareness focuses on achieving self-discovery and well-being through movement, mindfulness and writing. Written from a holistic (rather than dualistic) view of the mind-body duality, discussion and exercises draw on dance, psychology, neuroscience and meditation to guide personal exploration and creative expression.
Author |
: Angie Abdou |
Publisher |
: Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2018-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781771992282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 177199228X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing the Body in Motion by : Angie Abdou
Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body in Motion offers introductory essays on the most commonly taught Canadian sport literature texts. The contributions sketch the state of current scholarship, highlight recurring themes and patterns, and offer close readings of key works. Organized chronologically by source text, ranging from Shoeless Joe (1982) to Indian Horse (2012), the essays offer a variety of ways to read, consider, teach, and write about sport literature.
Author |
: Kenneth King |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819566133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819566136 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing in Motion by : Kenneth King
Kenneth King is one of America’s most inventive postmodern choreographers. His dancing has always reflected his interest in language and technology, combining movement with film, machines, lighting and words both spoken and written. King is also conversant in philosophy, and some of his most influential dances have been dedicated to and in dialogue with the work of such philosophers as Susanne K. Langer, Edmund Husserl and Friedrich Nietzsche. Since the 1960s, he has performed his dance to texts both spoken and prerecorded—texts intended to stand separately as literary works. Writing in Motion spans more than thirty years and is collected here for the first time. It includes essays, performance scripts of King’s own work, art criticism, philosophy and cultural commentary. Dense with movement, these writings explode and reconfigure the familiar, crack syntax open, and invent startling new words. Dancing, to King, is “writing in space," and writing is a dance of ideas. Whether referencing Aristotle, Langer, Simone de Beauvoir, MTV, Maurice Blanchot or Marshall McLuhan, King’s delightfully lavish prose is very much “in motion.”
Author |
: Theodore Dimon, Jr |
Publisher |
: North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2012-11-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781583946916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1583946918 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Body in Motion by : Theodore Dimon, Jr
An anatomical exploration of the human body, accessibly written with 162 full-color illustrations for physical therapists, dancers, yoga teachers, and students This comprehensive guide demonstrates the functions and evolution of specific body systems, explaining how they cooperate to form an upright, intelligent, tool-making marvel, capable of great technological and artistic achievement. Enhanced with 162 beautifully rendered full-color illustrations, the book opens with an introduction to the origins of movement and a journey through time and evolution—from fish to amphibian, quadruped to primate—showing how humans became the preeminent moving beings on the planet. Further examining our upright support system, the book describes the purpose of: • The extensors, flexors, and spine • The importance of the shoulder girdle as a support structure for the arm • The hands and upper limbs • The pelvic girdle • The feet and lower limbs • Breathing • The larynx and throat musculature • The spiral musculature of the trunk It is our upright posture that makes it possible for us to move in an infinite variety of ways, to manipulate objects, to form speech, and to perform the complex rotational movements that underlie many of our most sophisticated skills. These systems, Dimon argues persuasively, have helped us build, invent, create art, explore the world, and imbue life with a contemplative, spiritual dimension that would otherwise not exist.
Author |
: Lionel Shriver |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2020-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062328274 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062328271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Motion of the Body Through Space by : Lionel Shriver
In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life—an aging husband’s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable. After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to his wife Serenata that he’s decided to run a marathon. This from a sedentary man in his sixties who’s never done a lick of exercise in his life. His wife can’t help but observe that his ambition is “hopelessly trite.” A loner, Serenata disdains mass group activities of any sort. Besides, his timing is cruel. Serenata has long been the couple’s exercise freak, but by age sixty, her private fitness regimes have destroyed her knees, and she’ll soon face debilitating surgery. Yes, becoming more active would be good for Remington’s heart, but then why not just go for a walk? Without several thousand of your closest friends? As Remington joins the cult of fitness that increasingly consumes the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations, he engages a saucy, sexy personal trainer named Bambi, who treats Serenata with contempt. When Remington sets his sights on the legendarily grueling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he’ll end up injured or dead. And even if he does survive, their marriage may not. The Motion of the Body Through Space is vintage Lionel Shriver written with psychological insight, a rich cast of characters, lots of verve and petulance, an astute reading of contemporary culture, and an emotionally resonant ending.
Author |
: Thomas Lynch |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2001-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393344295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393344290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by : Thomas Lynch
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live. Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts."
Author |
: T Fleischmann |
Publisher |
: Coffee House Press |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 2019-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781566895552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1566895553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by : T Fleischmann
W. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss. How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres’s artworks—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo, to the galleries of New York and L.A., to farmhouses of rural Tennessee, the artworks act as still points, sites for reflection situated in lived experience. Fleischmann combines serious engagement with warmth and clarity of prose, reveling in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity and community.
Author |
: John Lee |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 1994-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0312115369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312115364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing from the Body by : John Lee
Developed from John Lee's popular workshops that combine meditative exercises, physical action, and emotional release work, Writing From the Body combats the fears, self-imposed standards, and suppressed feelings that block writers' creative potential. It frees those feelings and teaches writers how to use them productively.
Author |
: Jane Desmond |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 082231942X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822319429 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Meaning in Motion by : Jane Desmond
On dance and culture
Author |
: Valerie L. Winslow |
Publisher |
: Watson-Guptill |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2015-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780770434151 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0770434150 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Classic Human Anatomy in Motion by : Valerie L. Winslow
This essential companion book to the bestselling Classic Human Anatomy provides artists and art students with a deeper understanding of human anatomy and different types of motion, inspiring more realistic and energetic figurative art. Fine-art instruction books do not usually focus on anatomy as it relates to movement, despite its great artistic significance. Written by a long-time expert on drawing and painting human anatomy, Classic Human Anatomy in Motion offers artists everything they need to realistically draw the human figure as it is affected by movement. Written in a friendly style, the book is illustrated with hundreds of life drawing studies (both quick poses and long studies), along with charts and diagrams showing the various anatomical and structural components. This comprehensive manual features 5 distinct sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the human figure: bones and joint movement, muscle groups, surface form and soft tissue characteristics, structure, and movement. Each chapter builds an artistic understanding of how motion transforms the human figure and can create a sense of expressive vibrancy in one's art.