Books with title Places

These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, is currently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, a developmentally based education research organization. He has also been affiliated with education programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In Shapes Yenawine asks questions like, "Can you find buildings? And roofs?" while looking at a Picasso study. Other Shapes artists include Seurat, Gauguin, Malevich, Mondrian, Arp, Klee, Smith and Dali. Colors looks at Monet, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Albers, Stella and Johns, among others. Places includes 21 artworks by artists such as Hopper, Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard, while People highlights works by Balthus, Degas, Freud, Cezanne, Neel and Rivera. Lines features 16 works by van Gogh, Matisse, Pollock, Morandi, O'Keeffe and others. And Stories includes Chagall, Wyeth, Lichtenstein, Dubuffet, Shahn, Moore and Magritte. Each volume comes with an illustrated summary of artworks.

Jerrod Jones has created the world's first true virtual reality where people can work and play. Its birth cry was 'Places - New York' a reality where anyone, anywhere in the world can experience all that New York has to offer. Businesses, governments and people, rich and poor, are all caught up in the excitement as life as they know it changes forever. Millions of people around the globe begin experiencing virtual life while leaving their old lives behind. Their new lives, this new way of living and all that it has to offer, is taking over and changing everything. Follow the Jarsan's, a small family in rural Louisiana, that join in on the excitement and soon find their lives in turmoil caused by the dynamics of virtual living. Contrast their rural roots against the creator of 'Places', Jerrod Jones, as he is trying to balance his life of making the whole world go virtual and at the same time, falling in love with the girl of his dreams, Jenna. She captivates the New Orleans playboy and after an explosive start, their love becomes the one part of their lives they still recognize. Life and love as they have been known in the past, are now forever changed by the concept of living virtual. Some lives are enhanced while others are destroyed, and in the end, blame and praise are laid at Jerrod's feet. What do you do when your place in the world is changed forever?

Covering roughly the first two decades of the author’s life, Places is a real life story of lovelessness; depression; desperation; and abuse, both physical and psychological. It shows – at times with stark vividness – how insecurity, envy, distrust and lack of self-esteem can seep into the psyche of an entire family, engendering mental instability over successive generations. And it also shows how a person brought up in such a hostile and toxic environment can be hugely vulnerable when they try to make their own way in the outside world.Searingly honest, and without affectation or pretension, Places is a tough story, often harrowing and at times confronting, but it is also a story of hope and the will to survive. Despite the appalling things done to her, the young Debbie – the first-person narrator of Places – never gives up hope, and seldom wavers in her belief that the possibility of a better life might be just around the next corner. "That was my quest in life. I felt it was possible, even though most people said life was hell on earth. I hated their negative words; and just kept hoping and dreaming for a better future." (page 328)

Jerrod Jones has created the world’s first true virtual reality where people can work and play as much or as little as they like. Its birth cry was Places—New York, where anyone anywhere in the world can experience all that New York has to offer. Businesses, governments, and people, rich and poor, are all caught up in the excitement as life as they know it turns on a dime. Millions of people begin experiencing virtual life and all that it has to offer, good and bad. The Jarsans are a small family in rural Louisiana that join in on the excitement and soon find their lives in turmoil caused by the dynamics of virtual life. Jerrod is at the helm of Places, trying to balance his life running the world’s most captivating business while falling in love with Jenna, the girl of his dreams. She tames the New Orleans playboy, and after an explosive start, their love becomes the one part of their lives that is stable. But life and love as they have been known in the past are now forever changed by the concept of living virtual. Some lives are enhanced while others are destroyed, and in the end, blame is laid at Jerrod’s feet.