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On Linden Square
After a heavy snowfall, Stella Mae Culpepper goes to the park and starts sculpting, and soon all of her neighbors, normally detached and indifferent, are working together to build a fantastic snow creature.
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When Paintings Argue
My thesis is that certain non-verbal paintings such as Picasso's Guernica make (simple) arguments. If this is correct and the arguments are reasonably good, it would indicate one way that non-literary art can be cognitively valuable, since argument can provide the justification needed for knowledge or understanding. The focus is on painting, but my findings seem applicable to comparable visual art forms (a sculpture is also considered). My approach largely consists of identifying pertinent features of viable literary cognitivism and then showing how they or close analogues can be applied to non-verbal painting. The two main features are the requirements, first, that the relevant knowledge is provided significantly in virtue of the distinctive essential feature of literary fictions, i.e., their fictionality, and second, that the knowledge stems primarily from the content of the work, not from what the auditor brings to the work. Some ways that literary fiction has been taken to be argumentative are explained, and striking similarities are found between argumentative literary fiction and argumentative painting. Potential objections are addressed, and I examine a proposed way to express, in a schematized format, both the power of an argumentative painting and its relatively simple associated propositional content.
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The case of the missing tiger's eye
\"Welcome to Pawston, the animal capital of the world. Every day, thousands of animals go about their business, behaving as good citizens should. But there's a darker side of Pawston known as the criminal underbelly ... That's where Rider Woofson the best dog detective in Pawston comes in. And with the help of his pals in the Pup Investigators Pack, the criminals won't stand a chance even if they commit the purr-fect crime\"--Provided by publisher
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Claudia Bucher in Five Movements: Extended Sentience
For close to four decades, Claudia Bucher’s “scientart” has created myriad experiential habitats for her performing body, while inviting others to join her imaginary leaps. From personifying an outer-space lichen colony to meditating midair as an “anemochore kite,” Bucher demonstrates empathic kinships with other beings and nonbeings, calling forth alternative eco-systems in which sentience thrives as the common denominator for all inhabitants.
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An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel
\"Coming home from work at three AM, twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship--like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor--April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are 'Carls' in dozens of cities around the world--everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires--and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The snow bear
Sara loves to listen to Grandpa's stories of his adventures in the Canadian Arctic when he was a boy. As the snow begins to fall, she builds a snow bear just like the one in Grandpa's story. In the middle of the night, Sara wakes up and sets out on an enchanted journey through a world of ice and meets a special polar bear cub who befriends her. But will she ever find her way back home?
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“A Sick Eagle” and “I am”: Hymns to Sculpture by Keats and Rilke
At the turn of eighteenth and nineteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, sculpture came to serve as an emblem of humanity's response to the challenges of the times. John Keats and Rainer Maria Rilke, felt compelled at their encounters with ancient Greek sculpture in the museum to reflect upon their vocation in an age disrupted by political upheaval and rampant commercialization respectively. Keats's sonnet, \"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles\" (1817), registers an intimation of his latent grandeur in the form of a \"sick eagle,\" confronting \"a shadow of a magnitude.\" To overcome this experience, Keats made attempts at epic on the theme of Hyperion (1819-20). His dyad Hyperion-Apollo represents skepticism about the new order which was yet to emerge in the post-Napoleonic era. One century away, these marbles inspired Auguste Rodin. Rodin's works exert a great influence on Rilke. Rilke's endeavor shows in \"Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes\" (1904) and culminates in the \"Sonnets to Orpheus\" (1923). Rilke's trio, Orpheus-Eurydice-Hermes, embodies his solution to the anxiety provoked by alienation in an age of commodification. The exhortation in the Sonnets to declare \"I am\" crystalizes Rilke's recognition of human participation in the elemental transformation. This essay illustrates how the encounters with sculpture help them fashion their self-image to both represent and withstand the challenges of the times.
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The case of the stolen sculpture
When a priceless sculpture disappears from the Capitol City Art Museum, thirteen-year-old Clementine Wim, daughter of an assistant curator, and her three friends set out to solve the mystery and recover the Statue of Gudea.
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Middle Age Blues: A Heuristic Response to Patricia Leavy’s Novel Film Blue
In this personal narrative, the author discusses how good art can be a heuristic for creative practice using Leavy’s novel, Film Blue, as an example. The author uses ekphrastic poetry and themes in Film Blue to examine negotiations of identity as someone who is solidly middle aged and winging their way through how they can be who they want and need to be outside of culturally stifling messages about middle aged womxn. The author concludes that we can turn melancholy into a state of creativity. And perhaps instead of middle age being a blue period, it can be orange and purple, a kaleidoscope of rage and joy, all about the possibilities we take a chance to see.
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