Emotions in Wood

by Ann Brouwers

The secrets to carving powerful and emotionally-charged faces are revealed in this innovative handbook.

Emotions in Wood

Author: Ann Brouwers

Publisher: Linden Pub

ISBN: 9781933502168

Page: 127

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The secrets to carving powerful and emotionally-charged faces are revealed in this innovative handbook. Step-by-step explanations demonstrate how to create unique spherical heads laden with a variety of moods and expressions, including soft smiles, laughter, and tears. Guidelines also highlight a number of difficulties often encountered when carving emotions and offer helpful solutions. Ideal for carvers of caricatures and serious works alike, even experienced carvers will learn how to instill realistic feelings into their work.

In the Greene Greene Style

by Darrell Peart

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In the Greene Greene Style

Author: Darrell Peart

Publisher: Linden Publishing

ISBN: 1610351800

Page: 112

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Legendary architects and designers Charles and Henry Greene created a uniquely American style in the Arts & Crafts tradition, and this book combines a detailed understanding of their design aesthetic with specific shop instructions for re-creating their works. Filled with step-by-step instructions, extensive illustrations, and full-color photographs, the book features several full projects for making replica Greene & Greene furniture complete with authentic details such as ebony plugs and splines, waterfall legs, and curved drawer pulls. Showing today's woodworkers precisely how the Greenes achieved their unique designs, In the Style of Greene & Greene also includes valuable advice on incorporating Arts & Crafts elements into new designs.

Ridiculously Simple Furniture Projects

by Spike Carlsen

Emotions in Wood: Carving the Expressive Face 128 pp. $19.95 978-1-933502-16-8 New Wood Puzzle Designs 96 pp. $21.95 978-0-941936-57-6 Sharpening with.

Ridiculously Simple Furniture Projects

Author: Spike Carlsen

Publisher: Linden Publishing

ISBN: 1610351754

Page: 122

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Blending the practicality of IKEA with the creativity of Martha Stewart, this collection of innovative projects is presented with simplicity of construction in mind. The suggested pieces are practical, have broad appeal, and carry a high brag factor upon completion. Requiring minimal assembly time and tools, this concise, engaging, and even humorous guide offers countless tips as well as clear and instructive photography. The majority of the projects also incorporate clever construction, such as the use of bifold doors, stock cabinets, and off-the-shelf lumber, guaranteeing that the required materials are both inexpensive and easily accessible. Featuring ideas for furnishing both the interior and the exterior of the home, this handbook is ideal for weekend woodworkers.

Art and Human Experience

by Pamela Rydzewski

This little wood carving, only 10 inches high, expresses all the human ... of the facial expressions, give the sculpture an overwhelming emotional impact.

Art and Human Experience

Author: Pamela Rydzewski

Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 1483181235

Page: 222

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Art and Human Experience discusses the various art traditions from different time periods and cultural origin. The title details the problems faced by artists, the basic principles of design. The text first tackles the importance of art in human life, and then proceeds to covering various forms of art. Next, the selection deals with the art culture from different time and location. The coverage of the title includes Stone Age art, African, Amerindian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Chinese, and European. The last chapter talks about contemporary art design. The book will be of great interest to individuals who have a keen interest in art history.

The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience

by Martin S. Lindauer

The bond between the sounds of music and the feelings they arouse could very well be due ... The type of materials used in sculpture (marble, bronze, wood,.

The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience

Author: Martin S. Lindauer

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

ISBN: 9027271119

Page: 174

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A face strikes us immediately as sad, and so, too, do a mourner, a willow tree, a house on a prairie, and a group of onlookers. The spontaneous emergence of affective and other qualities of people, things, places, and events falls under the heading of physiognomy, a phenomenon discussed since at least Aristotle, and a key feature of evolutionary theory, psychology, and perception as well as professional practice (“profiling”) and popular talk. However, physiognomy is a controversial topic because of a suspect history, and is often renamed as non-verbal communication. The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience: Physiognomy Reconsidered examines this venerable, attractive, and contentious topic within the unique perspective of research-oriented psychology. Included are the processes involved, primarily perceptual; origins, mainly evolutionary; and social-cultural factors as supplements. Discussed within a holistic-experiential (phenomenological)-aesthetic framework are physiognomy’s ties to the arts as well as emotions, synesthesia, learning, development, and personality. Empirical investigations are summarized, including the author’s.

Emotions in Rituals and Performances

by Axel Michaels

... primarily sculptures, carvings, and masks made from wood, clay, cloth, ... Many of the objects are very expressive, showing faces with stark emotions ...

Emotions in Rituals and Performances

Author: Axel Michaels

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 1000059197

Page: 470

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Challenging the idea that rituals are static and emotions irrational, the volume explores the manifold qualities of emotions in ritual practices. Focusing explicitly on the relationship between emotions and rituals, it poses two central questions. First, how and to what extent do emotions shape rituals? Second, in what way are emotions ritualized in and beyond rituals? Strong emotions are generally considered to be more spontaneous and uncontrolled, whereas ritual behaviour is regarded as planned, formalized and stereotyped, and hence less emotional. However, as the volume demonstrates, rituals often reveal strong emotions among participants, are motivated by feelings, or are intended to generate them. The essays discuss the motivation for rituals; the healing function of emotions; the creation of new emotions through new media; the aspect of mimesis in the generation of feelings; individual, collective, and non-human emotions; the importance of trance and possession; staged emotions and emotions on stage; emotions in the context of martyrdom; emotions in Indian and Western dance traditions; emotions of love, sorrow, fear, aggression, and devotion. Furthermore, aesthetic and sensory dimensions, as well as emic concepts, of emotions in rituals are underscored as relevant in understanding social practice.

Midwestern Gothic Summer 2015 Issue 18

by Midwestern Gothic

Cars especially had faces, expressive faces, on both sides of their bodies. ... claimed that Sam, in one wooden carving, encapsulated the contradictions of ...

Midwestern Gothic Summer 2015 Issue 18

Author: Midwestern Gothic

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc

ISBN: 1329245695

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Issue 18 features fiction from Dave, Barrett, Meredith Boe, Justin Carmickle, Marianne Chan, DeLeon DeMicoli, Chris Drabick, Jason Marc Harris, Stephanie Heit, Joseph Horton, Alex Mattingly, Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, Christopher Merkner, Lia Swope Mitchell, Brian Pals, Robyn Ryle, Shane Stricker, Matt Weinkam, Alexander Weinstein, and Brenna Womer. Poetry by Monica Berlin, Grady Chambers, Jenelle Clausen, Jessica Duncan, William Engelhart, Wil Gibson, Steve Henn, Coop Lee, Greg Loselle, Katie Kalisz, Alex Mouw, Casey Patrick, Dale Patterson, and Catherine Rankovic. Midwestern Gothic is a quarterly print literary journal out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, dedicated to featuring work about or inspired by the Midwest, by writers who live or have lived here. Midwestern Gothic aims to collect the very best in writing inspired by the Midwest.

Learning to Look at Modern Art

by Mary Acton

... style shows in the expressive treatment of the face and the formalized abstract ... in the traditions of the German medieval woodcut and woodcarving .

Learning to Look at Modern Art

Author: Mary Acton

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9780415238120

Page: 334

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This companion text to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings addresses some of the questions commonly asked about modern art, covering key movements of the modern and postmodern periods in an illustrated volume.

Outsider Art

by Daniel Wojcik

In the middle of one night in July, 1968, “the Spirit” woke him up and commanded him to carve wood, and he spent the next decade creating expressive faces ...

Outsider Art

Author: Daniel Wojcik

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

ISBN: 149680807X

Page: 276

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Outsider art has exploded onto the international art scene, gaining widespread attention for its startling originality and visual power. As an expression of raw creativity, outsider art remains associated with self-taught visionaries, psychiatric patients, trance mediums, eccentric outcasts, and unschooled artistic geniuses who create things outside of mainstream artistic trends and styles. Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma provides a comprehensive guide through the contested terrain of outsider art and the related domains of art brut, visionary art, "art of the insane," and folk art. The book examines the history and primary issues of the field as well as explores the intersection between culture and individual creativity that is at the very heart of outsider art definitions and debates. Daniel Wojcik's interdisciplinary study challenges prevailing assumptions about the idiosyncratic status of outsider artists. This wide-ranging investigation of the art and lives of those labeled outsiders focuses on the ways that personal tragedies and suffering have inspired the art-making process. In some cases, trauma has triggered a creative transformation that has helped artists confront otherwise overwhelming life events. Additionally, Wojcik's study illustrates how vernacular traditions, religious worldviews, ethnic heritage, and popular culture have influenced such art. With its detailed consideration of personal motivations, cultural milieu, and the potentially therapeutic aspects of art making, this volume provides a deeper understanding of the artistic impulse and human creativity.

The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication

by David B. Givens

“speak” Given the expressive magnitude of human faces (see Face, Facial I.D., ... Traditional carved wooden masks from Sri Lanka are brightly colored ...

The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication

Author: David B. Givens

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 100039140X

Page: 394

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Every day, the human awakes to a new world, a new dawn and a new cascade of nonverbal communication. It may be the pleasant scent of a rose, the soft touch of a loved one, the sight of sun rays on a bedroom floor or the excited chatter of a child. Whatever form it takes, your environment and all who inhabit it send nonverbal signals all day long – even while they sleep. The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication celebrates this communication, examining a very wide selection of nonverbal behaviors, actions and signals to provide the reader with an informed insight on the world around them and its messages. Compiled in the form of a dictionary, the book is presented as a series of chapters with alphabetical entries, ranging from attractiveness to zeitgeist. The book aims to provide the reader with a clear understanding of some of the relevant discourse on particular topics while also making it practical and easy to read. It draws on a wide selection of discourse from fields such as neuroscience, psychology, anthropology and psychiatry. The dictionary will be an essential companion for anyone wishing to understand nonverbal communication. It will also be especially useful for those working in the field of nonverbal communication.

Sculpture in Wood

by John Rood

Some of the dullest sculpture ever inflicted upon honest stone or wood has ... The face of Barlach's Revenge, Plate 52, is infinitely more expressive than ...

Sculpture in Wood

Author: John Rood

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

ISBN: 9780816604661

Page: 179

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Sculpture in Wood was first published in 1950. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In simple every-day language and with lavish use of photographs, a noted sculptor takes you, step-by-step, through the process of wood sculpture and explains how to appreciate and use this kind of art in your own home. The how-to-do-it section contains information on the tools needed, the various woods and their qualities, and finishes. Photographs showing examples of the author's work and that of other contemporary sculptors illustrate his points clearly. The beginner will find this book opens the way to a rewarding hobby; the serious artist will be challenged by Mr. Rood's forceful ideas on art.

The Art student

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... adorned with fine old wood - carving , and wainscotted walls the ... each reveal itself , either in her expressive face or in her artless in a deep ...

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Her Best Match

by Tamie Dearen

It was filled with woodcarvings in a plethora of sizes and designs. ... sets and touched by the emotions displayed on the tiny faces carved from wood.

Her Best Match

Author: Tamie Dearen

Publisher: Tamie Dearen

ISBN:

Page: 390

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Feisty, stubborn, and bored with life in Texas, Anne Best is about to get more than she bargained for. The lovely widow heads off to the Big Apple for a job interview, expecting no more than a few days adventure in New York City, only to find herself with a new job working for the most infuriating man she's ever met. Billionaire Steven Gherring is one of New York's Most Eligible Bachelors, and he has every intention of staying that way. But Gram has other ideas. She's on a not-so-secret campaign to find a wife for her grandson. As fearless as she is clumsy, Anne tackles every challenge (including her new boss) enthusiastically, with two lone exceptions... public speaking and recognizing her own feelings. Passions rise along with hemlines as Gram joins forces with Anne, a veteran matchmaker, to find the perfect match for Steven. "If you like Hallmark movies, you'll love The Best Girls!" "It may not be realistic, but I wish it could actually happen!"

The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma

by Emily Roxworthy

... emotion by facial expression is eliminated by the use of carved wood masks ... and the absenting of the individually expressive human face both point to ...

The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma

Author: Emily Roxworthy

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

ISBN: 0824865049

Page: 256

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In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government’s internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the “theatre of war” had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged, the authentic experience from the political display, grew out of the manner in which internment was agitated for and instituted by the U.S. government and media. During the war, Japanese Americans struggled to define themselves within the web of this theatrical logic, and they continue to reenact this trauma in public and private to this day. The political spectacles staged by the FBI and the American mass media were heir to a theatricalizing discourse that can be traced back to Commodore Matthew Perry’s “opening” of Japan in 1853. Westerners, particularly Americans, drew upon it to orientalize—disempower, demonize, and conquer—those of Japanese descent, who were characterized as natural-born actors who could not be trusted. Roxworthy provides the first detailed reconstruction of the FBI’s raids on Japanese American communities, which relied on this discourse to justify their highly choreographed searches, seizures, and arrests. Her book also makes clear how wartime newspapers (particularly those of the notoriously anti-Asian Hearst Press) melodramatically framed the evacuation and internment so as to discourage white Americans from sympathizing with their former neighbors of Japanese descent. Roxworthy juxtaposes her analysis of these political spectacles with the first inclusive look at cultural performances staged by issei and nisei (first- and second-generation Japanese Americans) at two of the most prominent “relocation centers”: California’s Manzanar and Tule Lake. The camp performances enlarge our understanding of the impulse to create art under oppressive conditions. Taken together, wartime political spectacles and the performative attempts at resistance by internees demonstrate the logic of racial performativity that underwrites American national identity. The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma details the complex formula by which racial performativity proved to be a force for both oppression and resistance during World War II.

An Introduction to Art

by Charles Harrison

... the expressive force and vitality of African carvings offered a powerful ... to stand in the way of art's potential for expressive, emotional effects.

An Introduction to Art

Author: Charles Harrison

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 0300247133

Page: 344

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At once engaging, personal, and analytical, this book provides the intellectual resources for the critical understanding of art Charles Harrison’s landmark book offers an original, clear, and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media, and to the visual arts of modernism and post-modernism. Covering the entire history of art, from Paleolithic cave painting to contemporary art, it provides foundational guidance on the basic character and techniques of the different art forms, on the various genres of painting in the Western tradition, and on the techniques of sculpture as they have been practiced over several millennia and across a wide range of cultures. Throughout the book, Harrison discusses the relative priorities of aesthetic appreciation and historical inquiry, and the importance of combining the two approaches. Written in a style that is at once graceful, engaging, and personal, as well as analytical and exact, this illuminating book offers an impassioned and timely defense of the importance and value of the firsthand encounter with works of art, whether in museums or in their original locations.

The North American Miscellany

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