.... This study explores the complex interplay between career aspirations and the pursuit of motherhood among the urban India women through assisted reproduction technology (ART), which entails psychological morbidity and biological stress. The landscape of India was evolving with educated women challenging...

...This chapter explores how philosophy can be understood as the art of thinking. It opens by questioning the assumption that philosophy is simply ‘complicated thinking’, suggesting instead that it represents a creative and disciplined practice that engages imagination, skill, and emotion. The authors...

... activities such as art, dance, music, social service, sports, and spirituality can lead to enhanced emotional well-being. Past literature suggests that by embracing immersive wellness practices, individuals can have richer, multi-sensory connections to their passions, nurturing emotional and cognitive growth...

...Abstract This reflective narrative traces the author’s journey as an art educator. From discovering photography in college to teaching in diverse, high-poverty schools, the story underscores the transformative power of art and storytelling in fostering human connection. Rooted in Southern...

... women are granted the ‘right to control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality’. ⁴¹ Choosing a husband for them violates that right. ART and modern surrogacy contracts offer possibilities of assisting people to become parents without the risks mentioned...

...Abstract Often our work defines our ‘self’, and our ‘self’ can extend on to the work we do. What if the self merges in art created later in our lifetime, and is indecipherable from the genius we produce? This is the story of Sonabai Rajawar—a story of simplicity and artistic brilliance that lends...

... level. In this chapter, we will try to connect these two different but complementary areas, primarily on theoretical and analytical levels, and then we will give a concrete example of Oksid, the Šibenik (Croatia)-based association for promoting culture and art. After many years of informal and formal...

... oppressive, reductive systems of representation. Multiracial art history art race gender intersectional A framed and faded giclée print of Francisco Goya’s The Clothed Maja (1800–05) hung for many years on the living room wall of my great aunt’s rent-control Central Park West apartment...

...Abstract This chapter explores the development of social science visualizations as cultural objects within art worlds. The research examines artworks as social science visualizations to show the importance of conducting analysis within distinctive social, institutional, and cultural environments...

... for survivors from survivors' perspective and whether these aspects can be addressed by Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a research paradigm. To identify relevant aspects, survivors' artwork is analysed because art is a way to contribute to public discourses with very little regulation. For analysis...

... easily, which, building off your argument Maria, speaks to how basketball is packaged or presented to us via ESPN or another mainstream sports source. There is so much potential to explore within the game and tease out with works of art. Our responsibility is to do that in a compelling way. Abigail...

... insights on a collaborative service-learning project where different arts-based literacies, including art, reading, poetry, human movement and writing were used to enhance reading and writing, culminating in an annual interactive Community Engagement Day on the campus of a higher education institution...

...Abstract Technology usage habits and the development of creative arts experiences and productivity are effective. In 2007, Lui argued that digital art can integrate the concept of information technology, which is at the forefront of the development of the child, with art education based...

.... True/False Environmental art education can serve as a solution to severe psychological problems. True/False Complete the Following Sentences with an Appropriate Word: Worldwide research, __________ that humans need to interact with nature and its ecosystems. Humans __________ cognitive...

... and regulation, on the other hand. Beyond the artworks of “Really Useful Knowledge,” the artist Bob and Roberta Smith has created a recent sculptural mural which insists that All Schools Should Be Art Schools (2017). This sounds glibly romantic and utopian but has historical precedent. The opening lines...

.... Infertility ART discourses and practices gender co-production philosophy of technology Introduction In early 2016 the Spanish comedy ‘Embarazados’ (‘Pregnant’) hit the theaters, garnering a not inconsiderable audience. The film begins with the dilemma faced by a couple who consider themselves...

... printing process, clothing can also utilize screen printed designs. String art is the use of threads to make a design. It can include various colors, designs or geometric patterns. Normally a wooden board is utilized to thread pieces of wire or string into patterns. Tapestry involves weaving fabric by hand...

... termination. Quantitative and qualitative evidence from the history of art lend support to the arguments, including breakthrough paintings, such as The Scream by Munch and Black Square by Malevitch. Radicalization is facilitated by simultaneously increasing differences and exchanges between core and periphery...

..., for example, within photography, community arts practice, art history and fine art teaching in further and higher education. Here they have acted as triggers to discussion around alternative forms of portraiture, the co-created photograph as a mechanism for collaborative approaches to portraiture...

...Abstract The art started to pause in our city due to ‘Corona’. While it is already dying for economic, cultural, and political reasons, it has been thoroughly covered by the COVID-19 outbreak. In our city, which we consider young and modern, Mersin University Faculty of Fine Arts and Toros...