698 research outputs found
Life of Cindy: a biography of Cindy Sherman
No full textThe first comprehensive biography of acclaimed, celebrated, and much-loved US artist Cindy Sherman, who turned sixty in 2014. Sherman is best known for her photographs of herself dressed and made up as a wide array of fascinating and sometimes bizarre characters, which she has continued for over forty years. Sherman has a reputation as a very private person off-camera. Now, discover the woman behind the myth in this new biography of one of the most pioneering and influential artists of our time.
Henry Bond’s biography is a richly detailed and accessible account of visual art’s greatest enigma—from her first encounters with art as a child, to her college days in Buffalo, and step-by-step from that time, beginning with her arrival in New York during the Summer of Sam, in 1977.
The subject of the book has offered many new insights to the author, and so too, a number of Sherman's circle has been forthcoming with recollections and clarifications—including her ex-husband Michel Auder and her former partners Robert Longo and Paul Hasegawa-Overacker.
Sherman's life story is surprisingly dark: her older brother committed suicide when she was a teen; her former husband Michel was a heroin addict for many years; the art scene she emerged from was replete with sociopathic behaviour in Lower Manhattan, New York, in the late 1970s, which at that time resembled a lawless war zone more than a recognisable urban neighbourhood. This book is also the tale of a woman’s rise to success and wealth from humble beginnings: from a Long Island North Shore clapboard development to a grand 1840s home in East Hampton set in private gardens, where a flock of wild turkeys roam free
Hurricane Cindy Galveston Bay Tides
No full text-Hurricane Cindy of September 1963 probably produced the most completely recorded set of tide data in a bay of any United States hurricane. Hydrographs showing the water levels in Galveston Bay along with pertinent meteorological data are presented. (Author)http://gbic.tamug.edu/request.ht
Ep. #049 - Cindy Isenhour
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.On this week’s episode of the podcast, Dominic and Cymene relate their fave holiday traditions and identify the one thing that any gift-giving culture should absolutely avoid giving. Then (14:51) to help process our season of hyperconsumption, we welcome to the pod Cindy Isenhour from the University of Maine, co-author of Sustainability in the Global City, (http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=1107076285), to talk about her recent research on displaced emissions from the Global North to the Global South. We discuss how the quest to green energy production often neglects the problem of rising commodity consumption and Cindy tells us her thoughts on whether it is possible to decouple economic growth from ecological harm. We talk about Sweden, the first country to officially recognize their displaced emissions, and how Swedish corporatism and cosmopolitanism contributed to that move. We cover Sweden’s efforts to improve China’s carbon efficiency, and how its new tax incentives to encourage reuse and repair of existing commodities are in tension with the government’s hesitation to restrict choice and consumer freedom. Then we turn to her new research on secondary consumption and the vibrant reuse culture of Maine. We reflect on how cheap fossil fuels make it easy to replace instead of reuse and what we in the North might be able to learn from the repair cultures of the South. And we debate whether cities can be the leading edge of climate progress given their own metabolic rift with respect to where their food and energy comes from. Finally, Cindy shares her own gift giving tips. Wishing all of our listeners a peaceful and beautiful holiday week. PS Here’s a photo of the Cultures of Energy rainbow xmas tree
Kdo je Cindy Sherman?
No full textThe report introduces the work of Cindy Sherman, a visual and conceptual artist, who has mainly worked in the field of gender and identity politics. The author of the text describes Sherman's best known series of photographs Untitled Film Still as well as a series of photographs taken for Vogue Paris. Sherman's work is compared to the work of Slovak conceptual artist Lucia Nimcova and her series of photographs called Women. Later in the text, the author describes the field of recipients, devided into men and women, and the emotions they
feel and their thoughts, as they look on the work of Sherman
AN URBAN WALKABOUT WITH CINDY SHERMAN'S PHOTOGRAPH, "UNTITLED #466, 2008”
No full textIn this article, the narrator of the story immerses herself in the interiority of a character depicted in a Cindy Sherman portrait on an art gallery wall. The narrator invites the character out of the photograph and immerses her in the pandemic-stricken city outside. In this way, the author engages with contemporary visual art while composing fictional text as literary art. Her encounter with the photograph becomes an aesthetic visual and literary investigation of art, text, and characterization set against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 crisis
Daily Decision Making Regarding Occupations and Its Effect on Women With Chronic Pelvic Pain
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
A survey collected data on 579 women with chronic pelvic pain. Engagement in specific daily activities and its effect on increasing symptoms was examined. Results indicate that educating pelvic pain clients in health behaviors can improve their management of symptoms and reengagement in occupations.
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Composing Research: A Contextualist Paradigm for Rhetoric and Composition
No full textIn Composing Research, Cindy Johanek offers a new perspective on the ideological conflict between qualitative and quantitative research approaches, and the theories of knowledge that inform them. With a paradigm that is sensitive to the context of one\u27s research questions, she argues, scholars can develop less dichotomous forms that invoke the strengths of both research traditions. Context-oriented approaches can lift the narrative from beneath the numbers in an experimental study, for example, or bring the useful clarity of numbers to an ethnographic study.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1125/thumbnail.jp
"Life Doesn't Seem Natural:" Ecofeminism and the Reclaiming of the Feminine Spirit in Cindy Cowan's A Woman from the Sea
No full textWhile critical reception of Cindy Cowan's A Woman from the Sea has typically valued its magical and fantasy elements, little critical attention has been given to its larger implications for ecofeminist spiritual revisioning. In what follows, the author considers Cowan's efforts to outline the liberating potential of ecofeminism and female spirituality. Drawing on textual evidence, the author examines how Cowan organizes a rediscovery of the sensual feminine through dramatic narrative.
Bien que les commentaires des critiques de A Woman from the Sea (Une femme de la mer) de Cindy Cowan aient beaucoup misé sur les éléments fantastique et magique du texte, peu d'attention a été porté à ses conséquences pour le révisionnisme spirituel ecoféministe. Dans ce qui suit, l'auteure évalue les efforts de Cowan de définir le potentiel libérateur de l'ecoféminisme et d'un spiritualisme féminin. Se basant sur une étude du texte, l'auteure examine la façon que Cowan développe l'idée d'une redécouverte de la sensualité féminine par l'intermédiaire d'un récit dramatique
Global Survey of the Experience and Education of Aviation Maintenance Instructors
No full textThesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Master of Education degree in the College of Education and Human Service Professions, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2011Committee names: Randy Hyman (Chair), Cindy Ryan, Diane J. Rauschenfels. This item has been modified from the original to redact the signatures present.Limited research exists regarding the education, experience, and professional opinions of aviation maintenance instructors. The author surveyed a global sample to identify trends in responses related to regulatory agency, type of business, segment of industry, and kind of training. A web-based instrument collected anonymous data for comparative analyses. The responses of researched categories showed patterns of interest for industry regulators, executives, decision-makers, and educators.University of Minnesota, Duluth. College of Education and Human Service ProfessionsLarson, Douglas A. (2011). Global Survey of the Experience and Education of Aviation Maintenance Instructors. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/187477
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Menopause Education for Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Quality Improvement Project
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) quality improvement project was to incorporate a 2.5-hour educational intervention for undergraduate nursing students with emphasis on the physiology, expected symptoms, and treatment options for patients experiencing the menopausal transition. The focus was on knowledge acquisition and self-efficacy of nursing students providing health promotion education for patients experiencing the menopausal transition. Background: Many women experiencing the menopausal transition are concerned by their symptoms and either worry in silence, seek non-evidence-based interventions available on the internet, or seek advice from healthcare providers for normal symptomatology, resulting in unnecessary healthcare costs for a normal life transition. Nurses are poised to provide education to this population as they interact with them in various settings, thus alleviating the concern and providing health promotion information. Methods: A 2.5-hour educational intervention was planned for undergraduate nursing students during their obstetric nursing course including content on the normal menopausal transition physiology, expected symptoms, and health promoting interventions. Pre- and post-intervention surveys were conducted for knowledge acquisition and self-efficacy using questions created by the author and reviewed by nursing research experts. Results: Twenty-seven students consented to and completed both the pre- and post-intervention surveys. Mean knowledge about the menopausal transition increased by 38% in the post-intervention surveys as compared with the pre-intervention knowledge, based on a 5-question survey (3.39 versus 4.68 points out of 5) with the mean approaching 100% (t(26) = -5.79, p<0.01). Pre- and post-intervention confidence improved from 29.41 to 70.41 respectively using the Wilcoxson Signed Rank Test (z = -4.54, p<0.01) (Social Science Statistics, 2018). The perception of difficulty educating patients pre- and post-intervention decreased from 50.04 to 34.15, respectively, in a paired t-test (t(26) = 2.47, p = 0.02). Conclusions: Pre-licensure nursing students demonstrated an improved sense of self-efficacy related to providing menopause education to future patients and loved ones after receiving education on the menopause transition. This education relates to an important life stage that affects many people that nurses will serve during their careers. It should therefore be included in nursing curricula
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