The first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spain’s preeminent sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488–1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while young. Trained as a painter, he traveled to Italy around 1506, where he interacted with Michelangelo and other leading artists. In 1518, he returned to Spain and was appointed court painter to the new king, Charles I. Eventually, he made his way to Valladolid, where he shifted his focus to sculpture, opening a large workshop that produced breathtaking multistory altarpieces (retablos) decorated with sculptures in painted wood. This handsomely illustrated catalogue is the first in English to treat Berruguete’s art and career comprehensively. It follows his career from his beginnings in Castile to his final years in Toledo, where he produced his last great work, the marble tomb of Cardinal Juan de Tavera. Enriching the chronological narrative are discussions of important aspects of Berruguete’s life and practice: his complicated relationship with social status and wealth; his activity as a draftsman and use of prints; how he worked with his many assistants to create his wood sculptures; and his legacy as an artist.

Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain

Arts & Photography

Dickerson III, C. D.

McDonald, Mark

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Book by Gensheimer, Jim, Huckshorn, Kristin, McDonald, Mark

Pain and Grace: A Journey Through Vietnam

History

Gensheimer, Jim

Huckshorn, Kristin

Military

San Jose Mercury News

“The product of high intelligence and passionate conviction, alternately mournful and gripping, and occasionally hilarious. It’s also a ripping good story.” --- Soho Weekly News The author, a veteran war correspondent and former prize-winning reporter with The New York Times, has called his new novel “asymmetric journalism,” a new and original genre that melds real-time reporting with literary fiction. A bright and privileged young American, Micah Ford, is battered by the great tragedies of modern America. He loses his mother, a nurse, to AIDS. His father is killed on 9/11, and a grandfather dies in Katrina. A girlfriend is murdered in a hate-crime in the Deep South. Micah’s biography overlaps his country’s: They’re both suffering from post-traumatic stress. Both are squarely “on the X.” Enlisting in the Army, he discovers a new clarity, nothing less than a new life, through the extreme violence he encounters during a secret mission against ISIS in Iraq. Torture, love, betrayal, a miracle or two, luck, American swagger, Islamist brutality, and a final compass-reading from valor --- it’s all in here, in a book that one reviewer has found “alarming, poignant and nothing short of brilliant.” Another critic called it “war porn, or war smut, something akin to pictures of flag-draped coffins returning home: colorful and descriptive, but also prurient.”

Off the X

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Hellbox Media

Product Description \nThis exploration of Francisco Goya’s graphic output reveals his technical virtuosity and boundless imagination\nThis book presents the first focused investigation of Francisco Goya’s (1746–1828) graphic output. Spanning six decades, Goya’s works on paper reflect the transformation and turmoil of the Enlightenment, the Inquisition, and Spain’s years of constitutional government. Two essays, a detailed chronology, and more than 100 featured artworks illuminate the remarkable breadth and power of Goya’s drawings and prints, situating the artist within his historical moment. The selected pieces document the various phases and qualities of Goya’s graphic work—from his early etchings after Velázquez through print series such as the 
Caprichos and The 
Disasters of War to his late lithographs, The Bulls of Bordeaux, and including albums of drawings that reveal the artist’s nightmares, dreams, and visions.\nReview 
"[An] excellent catalogue."—Joseph R. Phelan, 
On Paper\nAbout the Author \nMark McDonald is curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Goya's Graphic Imagination

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The rich tradition of printmaking and drawing in Spain has rarely been examined, in part because of the misapprehension that Spanish artists did not draw and few turned their hand to printmaking. This spectacular study of prints and drawings will for the first time examine the history of graphic practice in Spain, providing an overview of more than 400 years of artistic production.

Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain

Lund Humphries

The use of experiential activities and reflection as methods to enhance social and emotional learning is commonly accepted in higher education. It is believed that through experience-based courses students deepen and possibly alter presently held assumptions when classroom experiences allow students to practice skills and reflect on behaviors that simulate "real-world" situations. However, how is it that experience-based courses develop the emotional competencies necessary for students to effectively manage themselves and others in the workplace and in life? This study examines the impact of a sport event management course on students' emotional competency. Specifically, this study answers the question: Can a semester-long experience-based course increase students' emotional competency when students are not introduced to emotional intelligence theory.   The book is addressed to faculty and academic administrators in higher education. Since a popular misconception associated with experiential learning is that the outcomes are subjective and difficult to measure, the results of this study will also be of interest to individuals involved with any form of experiential education.

The Impact of Experience-based Learning on Students' Emotional Competency

Education & Teaching

Jowdy, Beth

Schools & Teaching

VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.

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