{"product_id":"as-it-is-the-proceedings-of-the-representational-art-conference-2015","title":"As It Is: The Proceedings of The Representational Art Conference 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eTitle:  As It Is: The Proceedings of The Representational Art Conference 2015\u003cbr\u003eAuthor:  Presenters, Selected Conference\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:  Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003eBinding:  Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePages:  314\u003cbr\u003eDimensions:  10.00h x 7.00w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003eProduct Weight:  1.67 lbs.\u003cbr\u003eLanguage:  English\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781545325483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Representational Art Conference 2015 was held in Ventura California. Visitors to the event enjoyed demonstrations of painting, drawing and sculpture by master artists from around the world, and heard inspiring presentations about a broad variety of topics by leading figures in the revival of representational art. The conference included off site trips in convoys of buses that carried enthusiastic members of the TRAC community to five gallery exhibits. This volume contains a record of many of the papers and speeches that were presented at the conference.  CONTENTS  Preface Michael J. Pearce PhD MFA  Jamie Wyeth: Loves and Obsessions\u2028Elliot Bostwick Davis, PhD  What is Fine Art and Why Realism? Frederick C. Ross, MA  Representational Art and Truth: A Study from the perspective of Theological Aesthetics Sheng Yu Peng, PhD  Beauty across cultures: Male Beauty in Chinese and Western representational art. (From the late nineteenth-century to the present) Aihua Zhou Pearce, MFA  The Training and Use of Visual Memory For Representational Landscape Painters  Deborah Paris, JD, BFA  Selected Works of Contemporary Representational Chinese Figurative Ink Painters Nan Liu, PhD  Female Heroes: A Survey of Warrior Women in Painting and Sculpture  Felice House, MFA, MS Lynette House, MS   Visita Interiora Terrae: Dino Valls Painting The Psyche Lucio Giuliodori, PhD  The Representational Option: Un-Mere Realism and the Digital Age Peter Frank, MA  From Roman \"Virtus\" to Contemporary Times: the Heroic Nude as a Representational Male Prototype  Jorge Egea, PhD  Representational Painting and Consciousness William Oberst, PhD, MFA  From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Representational Painting in the Digital Age John Devane BA (HONS) MA RCA  Meaning and Purpose: Morality and Politics in 21st Century Representational Art Anne Emerson Hall  Do Both Genders Share the Same Ideologies and Aesthetics in Art, or Have Women Been TOLD Throughout History What is Legitimate?  Lori Escalera, BA  The Role of Intuitive Perceptions in and of Art Virgil Elliott  The Bicameral Brain and the Primacy of Perception  Brian Curtis, MFA  Allegorical Still Life Painting: More than Just Objects David Cunningham, MFA  Representational Art Can Reveal Unique Climate Change Solutions: Art in Service to the Environment  Robert Chianese, PhD  Max Ginsberg: An analysis of aesthetics, morality and significance in recent works. Suzy Hart  Drawing Is Thinking Domenic Cretara, MFA  The Spaces Between-Thoughts on the Nature of Composition Archer Dougherty, BFA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItem# 9781545325483\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eActual Book Cover May Vary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthorized Dealer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49451333976358,"sku":"9781545325483","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0128\/7762\/7456\/files\/b71d73de-4c6c-5059-a8c6-a8df4f9cd4bb.jpg?v=1725026729","url":"https:\/\/retrostar-gifts.myshopify.com\/products\/as-it-is-the-proceedings-of-the-representational-art-conference-2015","provider":"Retrostar Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}