BiblioVault - Books about Guidance

The Art Rules

Wisdom and Guidance from Art World Experts

Paul Klein

Intellect Books, 2015

A well-known advocate and proponent of art in Chicago, Paul Klein is a longtime gallerist whose friendships with artists, dealers, collectors, and curators have afforded him a rare vantage point on the vagaries and victories of the art world. Since closing his gallery in 2004, he has parlayed his insider knowledge into a cottage industry that addresses the imbalance between visual artists’ gifts for creation and their frequent unfamiliarity with the work of managing successful careers. Advising artists as they navigate the commercial aspects of their work, Klein teaches courses and seminars that explore what museum curators are looking for in contemporary artists, how galleries select their artists, how to sell to corporate art consultants, how to price art, and many other subjects.
Based on his many years in both the art world as a gallery owner and educator, The Art Rules is a practical, operational guide for visual artists that demystifies the art world and empowers practitioners to find success on their own terms. Bringing together the personal experiences of hundreds of major art world leaders, Klein chronicles their success, their staying power, their interests, and their passions. Filling a major void, The Art Rules gives practitioners the tools they need to realize their potential. Ultimately, Klein shows, success is not particularly complicated, but it is rarely taught, shared, or demonstrated for the visual artist. This book does precisely that.

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Guidance in American Education

Edward Landy

Harvard University Press

The third volume in this series deals with such topics as socioeconomic trends, psychological issues, testing and career development theory, mental health and the schools, contemporary observations of guidance practice, and policies and practices in pupil personnel services.

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Guidance in American Education

Edward Landy

Harvard University Press

Composed of 18 selected papers delivered at the 1964 Summer Institute for Administrators of Pupil Personnel Services at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this volume deals with such contemporary educational concerns as changing community values, urban redevelopment, the social structure of the schools, unemployment of disadvantaged youth, pre-kindergarten and work-study programs, and career development theory—especially as these topics bear on the guidance function within education.

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Guidance in American Education

Edward Landy

Harvard University Press

This book is a compilation of papers selected from the 1963 Summer Institute for Administrators of Pupil Personnel Services held at Harvard. Distributed for the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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The Role of Islam in the Public Square

Guidance or Governance?

Abdulaziz Sachedina

Amsterdam University Press, 2006

The Role of Islam in the Public Square tackles the critical role of religion in the development of democratic institutions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Constitutional debates, Abdulaziz Sachedina asserts, have yet to address the role of religious convictions alongside their citizens’ basic freedoms and rights. Sachedina argues that the way in which religious values are defined in Afghanistan and Iraq remains a major stumbling block, and that an inclusive sense of citizenship—one that transcends doctrinal and theological uniformity—is needed if democracy is to succeed in both countries.

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Taming the Troublesome Child

American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority

Kathleen W. Jones

Harvard University Press, 2002

When our children act up--whether they're just moody and rebellious or taking drugs and committing crimes--our solution, so often now, is to send them to a psychiatrist or developmental psychologist for help. What makes us think this will work? How did we come to rely on psychological explanations--and corrections--for juvenile misconduct?

In Taming the Troublesome Child, these questions lead to the complex history of "child guidance," a specialized psychological service developed early in the twentieth century. Kathleen Jones puts this professional history into the context of the larger culture of age, class, and gender conflict. Using the records of Boston's Judge Baker Guidance Center from 1920 to 1945, she looks at the relationships among the social activists, doctors, psychologists, social workers, parents, and young people who met in the child guidance clinic, then follows the clinicians as they adapt delinquency work to the problems of nondelinquent children--an adaptation that often entailed a harsh critique of American mothers. Her book reveals the uses to which professionals and patients have put this interpretation of juvenile misbehavior, and the conditions that mother-blaming has imposed on social policy and private child rearing to this day.

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