books about: abstractions

books about: abstractions

books:

Abstractions

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 (Jewish Museum)

Jewish Museum Under Auspices of the Jewish Th, 2008

Clement Greenberg or Harold Rosenberg? Who was right?
This is a magnificent artbook enriched by breakthrough studies on the most important movement in post-war American art, namely Abstract Expressionism (and its offshoots like color-field painting). Based on the intellectual rivalry between the two most famous critics of ...

Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Elephant Paperbacks)

Wilhelm Worringer

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007

A fantastic read of early modern theory
Without writing a summary, I have to say that this book was delightful. It gives an excellent perspective on western thought in the early 20th century. I definitely recommend it to anyone interested in art theory, art history, architectural history, or just generally ...

Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis

Daniel Jackson

The MIT Press, 2006

Good guide for those looking for formal methods that are actually useful
This book describes Alloy, a tool for specifying and analyzing data structures and other relationships within your programs. The book walks you through a tutorial, showing you how you can find the bugs in your specifications before you actually write any code, and ...

Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java (2nd Edition)

Frank M. Carrano, Janet J. Prichard

Addison Wesley, 2005

Great Book!
I didn't appreciate this book until after I was finished with my class and had moved on to upper level programing classes at my University. I had an excellent teacher for the class and just never read the book. Now, in my new class, which we are using c++, we are ...

Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

John Gage

University of California Press, 1999

EXCELLANT SOURCE FOR ARTISTS ON COLOR AND PALETTE DEVELOPMEN
This book is an excellant source of palette development, pigment uses and development as well as color theories throughout history. My students have worn out my copy -- needs to be reprinted and made known in college art departments. Good, solid informational writing ...

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition

Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, ...

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 1996

The one book *every* programmer must read
My first encounter with SICP was in the second year of university, where I took a course named "SICP 1. I already had working programming experience by that time, so the course wasn't hard, but I was struck by the beauty of the subjects it taught, by the Scheme ...

ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library)

William Sanders, Chandima Cumaranatunge

Adobe Dev Library, 2007

A pick for any advanced programmer's library.
College-level and specialty computer libraries covering web development will find William Sanders & Chandima Cumaranatunge's ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns an excellent acquisition, covering common problems in Flash and Flex applications and providing developers with ...

Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and Other Architectural ...

Keith Mitnick

Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Rich in content and beautifully composed, Artificial Light is a compelling and original critique of architectural discourse.
An immersive and enjoyable exploration of the latent assumptions in contemporary architectural discourse, Artificial Light convincingly questions notions of experience as related to the `constructed realities' commonly touted by many architectural theorists. As one of ...

NEOGEO: A New Edge to Abstraction

Dgv, 2007

Laser beams and x rays
This is a really beautiful collection of spectacular work. It's like neon lights and triangles are twirling across the page. A great book to have that you will love forever until lasers aren't cool anymore.

Abstraction in Art and Nature

Nathan Cabot Hale

Dover Publications, 1993

Facinating approach to the study of form
Hale has thought deeply on the meaning of forms and has found endless relationships between them. All organic matter follows laws which are written into their structure. For the artist, understanding these laws means that each new object is no longer unique, but part ...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction

Jonathan Stuhlman

Hudson Hills Press, 2007

Georgia O'Keeffe's roots in abstraction
Fifty-one full page color plates arranged chronologically from 1915 thru the 1970s bring out the "pulsing, spiraling, swirling circular forms" that O'Keeffe consistently used as a basis for her paintings and drawings and occasional sculptures. Although O'Keeffe did not ...

Blinky Palermo: Abstraction of an Era
Christine Mehring

Yale University Press, 2009

Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colorful and playful abstract artworks Palermo in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank ?Blinky? Palermo. This handsome book?a historical and critical study of Palermo?s painting from the time he entered Joseph Beuys?s now famous class at the Düsseldorf academy ...

Data Structures and Abstractions with Java (2nd Edition) (GOAL Series)

Frank M. Carrano

Prentice Hall, 2006

Very good textbook
We have been using this book at CSUCI as a textbook for a CS2 class with a heavy hands-on component. The book is very good in that role, and the lab manual - in spite of numerous errors in the first edition - is a very good companion. It is neither a tutorial nor a ...

Discrepant Abstraction (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)

The MIT Press, 2006

An Important and Groundbreaking Book
Kobena Mercer has long been an important figure in the world of cultural theory and identity politics. He has more recently turned his attention to the fine art object itself. In this groundbreaking book Mercer and a range of other art historians and scholars examine ...

Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with C++: Walls and Mirrors (4th Edition)

Frank M. Carrano

Addison Wesley, 2004

Read it and keep it near for reference
This book is one of the best of its kind that I have read. It is very descriptive and contains a lot of good examples on the subjects. It describes the construction of a lot of the collection classes like lists, trees, queues etc. and how this is most efficiently ...