The Summer of Her Baldness A Cancer Improvisation (Constructs Series) by CatherineLord Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70257-8, ISBN: 0-292-70257-4
""No eyebrows. No eyelashes. When it rains the water will run straight down into my eyes," Catherine Lord wrote before her hair fell out during chemotherapy. Propelled into an involuntary performance piece occasioned by the diagnosis of breast cancer, Lord adopted the online persona of Her Baldness—an irascible, witty, polemical presence who speaks candidly about shame and fear to her listserv audience. While Lord suffers from unwanted i ..."
"On the last day of her stay, Lord was loaned three leather-bound ledgers, the commonplace books of Dr. Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls, a botanist, physician, and plantation owner on the island from the 1870s until his death in 1926."
"Un estudio que engloba los últimos 125 años en la historia del arte que ha construido, o cuestionado o respondido a formas alternativas de sexualidad. Incluye un claro y definitivo estudio, 250 imágenes a color de obras y una colección de 90 documentos históricos, entre ellos declaraciones de los propios artistas, críticos de exposiciones, manifiestos personales, estudios sociológicos y escritos cruciales. El libro recorre el rico legad ..."
" "Jonah Lehmann is an accidental teacher of others, including his family and friends. This personal and touching account of Jonah's life is enlightening, especially to those coming to terms with similar challenges with autism and other cognitive disabilities. It was written with love to support research on autism, and I recommend it to anyone and everyone touched by those of us who are different." ---Patricia E. Kefalas Dudek, Legal Ad ..."
"With a magician’s sleight of hand, Nauman’s art makes disappearance visibleAt 76 years old, Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art whose stringent questioning of values such as good and bad remains urgent today. Throughout his 50-year career, he has explored how mutable experiences of time, space, sound, movement and language provide an insecure foundation for our understanding of our place in the wo ..."
"Autism is a word most of us are familiar with. But do we really know what it means? Children with autism are challenged by the most essential human behaviors. They have difficulty interacting with other people-often failing to see people as people rather than simply objects in their environment. They cannot easily communicate ideas and feelings, have great trouble imagining what others think or feel, and in some cases spend their lives ..."
"An unprecedented survey of over 250 works over 130 years of queer art historyArt and Queer Culture features work by famous artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe alongside that of AIDS activists, lesbian separatists, and pre-Stonewall photographers and scrapbook-keepers who did not regard themselves as artists at all.In a compact, reader-friendly format, this volume traces a spectacular history of queer life and creativity ..."
"There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s ;and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era. WACK! documents and illustrates the impact of the feminist revolution on art made between 1965 and 1980, featuring pioneering and influential works by artists who came of age during that period ; ..."
The Accidental Teacher Life Lessons from My Silent Son: My Autism Memoir by Annie Lubliner Lehmann, CatherineLord Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-07074-9, ISBN: 0-472-07074-6
""Jonah Lehmann is an accidental teacher of others, including his family and friends. This personal and touching account of Jonah's life is enlightening, especially to those coming to terms with similar challenges with autism and other cognitive disabilities. It was written with love to support research on autism, and I recommend it to anyone and everyone touched by those of us who are different."---Patricia E. Kefalas Dudek, Legal Advoc ..."
"Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los Angeles, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs , the artist’s archive of 35 mm Ektachrome images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections from a host of artistic and cultural figures. It offe ..."
"Frederick J Morrison, Catherine Lord, Daniel P. Keating. an applied perspective.
In this volume and the next we have chosen to celebrate the diversity and variety
that presently characterize work in the area. Where appropriate, subsequent ..."
"After shorter periods of deprivation, the learning transfers well when the contrast
of figure and ground is reversed, when the size of the stimuli is reduced
moderately, and when the stimuli are rotated 90° (Rizzolatti & Tradardi, 1971; van
Hof-van Duin, 1976). These results suggest that the cats were responding to
shape and not to some other difference between the stimuli in luminance or
contour. These findings are complemented by ..."
The Summer of Her Baldness A Cancer Improvisation by CatherineLord 247 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78828-2, ISBN: 0-292-78828-2
"A Cancer Improvisation Catherine Lord. The Summer of Her Baldness has been
made possible, in very different and timely ways, by the Durfee Foundation and
the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California. Portions of the
book, printed here with the permission of the publishers, first appeared in Art
Journal 61:1 (Spring 2002), published by theCollege Art Association, and in GLQ:
A Journal ofGayand Lesbian Studies 9: ..."
"With a design that's half pocket book, half zine, this provocative volume offers an array of essays, interviews and artworks that describe a minor history of failure. Tracing the idea of failure through contemporary art, activism, literature and philosophy, the work cuts against notions of forward-moving progress, instead exploring various dead ends on the timeline of history. Edited by Nicole Antebi, Colin Dickey and Robby Herbst, Fail ..."
"Intimate, bold, and inspiring, Autism Heroes provides a compelling and sensitive account of the experiences of 38 families from different walks of life confronting the challenges of autism with courage, tenacity and love. With empathy and expertise gained from her three decades of leadership of The Help Group and commitment to children with special needs, Dr. Barbara Firestone engages the families in candid, powerful and deeply affectin ..."