3 edition of Swimming studies found in the catalog.
Published
2012
by Blue Rider Press in New York
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Leanne Shapton |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | GV838.S47 A3 2012 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL25276320M |
| ISBN 10 | 9780399158179 |
| LC Control Number | 2012011506 |
A disjointed debut memoir about how competitive swimming shaped the personal and artistic sensibilities of a respected illustrator. Through a series of vignettes, paintings and photographs that often have no sequential relationship to each other, Shapton (The Native Trees of Canada, , etc.) depicts her intense relationship to all aspects of swimming: pools, water, races and even bathing suits. Swimming Studies (Book): Shapton, Leanne: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Swimming Studies is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager to enjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shapton offers a fascinating.
The Swimming Strokes Book is designed to break each stroke down into its component parts, those parts being body position, legs, arms, breathing and timing and coordination. An exercise or series of exercises are then assigned to that part along with relevant teaching points and technique tips, to help focus only on that stroke part. Reviews: Take a Dip! Books About Swimming Cool off and get your pool fix with these books about swimming -- for all genres and ages! Summer usually means time at the beach or in the pool. Usually. Reading Group Choices Interview with Bonnie Tsui Author Bonnie Tsui discusses her new exploration of what draws us into the water, Why We Swim. For her interview with Reading Group Choices, Tsui talks.
Methodology. The studies on the swim-start have analyzed several parameters. Kinematic analyses of swim-start behavior and performance, for example, have usually compartmentalized the start into distinct phases, such as block time, flight time and underwater time (Arellano et al., ; Cossor and Mason, ; Vilas-Boas et al., ).More recent studies have . Swimming studies by Leanne Shapton, , Blue Rider Press edition, in English.
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The book is beautiful as both a story and an object. It's about being very, very good at something, when you want to be : “Swimming Studies sets out, through a fusion of words and pictures, to capture a bittersweet part of the writer’s past as completely as a scent trapped in a bottle. The book is beautiful as both a story and an object.
It’s about being very, very good at something, when you want to be great. “Swimming Studies sets out, through a fusion of words and pictures, to capture a bittersweet Swimming studies book of the writer's past as completely as a scent trapped in a bottle.
The book is beautiful as both a story and an object. It's about being very, very good at something, when you want to be great. Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton – review This describes her swimming life too. This is a book full of yearning – a famished narrative – the cake a symbol for a vaster appetite.
Swimming Studies (Book): Shapton, Leanne: A brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager to enjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shapton offers a fascinating glimpse into the private, often solitary, realm of swimming.
The joys of Swimming Studies are in being in the care of someone of a prodigious and protean mind. My talent crush is official and deep."--David Rakoff, author of Half Empty "I'm so happy this book exists. Swimming Studies expresses what it's like to be haunted by the person one used to be, and the search for how that person exists in the present/5(K).
Ms. Shapton is the author and illustrator of several previous books; she is also the former art director of The New York Times’s Op-Ed page. With “Swimming Studies. Swimming Studies is a wonderful, unique book from the writer and artist Leanne Shapton, author of Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, with her artwork.
As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming Reviews: About Swimming Studies. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Swimming Studies is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive and recreational her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager to enjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shapton offers a fascinating glimpse into the private.
Top 10 books about swimming Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton This is a highly original memoir from a Canadian swimmer who made the. Few studies suggest that better competitive level swimmers also present a lower intra-cyclic variation of the body’s swimming velocity (Manley and Atha, ; Takagi et al., ).
This seems consistent in Breaststroke but less obvious in remaining swim strokes and should be clear out in near future. Here are five books, from a variety of perspectives and genres, which can inspire swimmers to keep loving swimming and plunge into reading: 1.
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From her training for the Olympic trials as ateenager toenjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shaptonoffers a fascinating glimpse into the private, often solitary, realm.
"Swimming Studies" is the kind of book that makes you appreciate swimming, specifically the grueling routine every swimmer goes through. And while it is a memoir on Shapton's swimming experience, there's much more to it than just a pool and water/5(12).
This book, Swimming Studies, worked less well for me. It charts Shapton's feelings about swimming, both competitively, which she has done since she was a child, and as a leisure activity.
It is basically a series of essays about her experiences, interspersed with black and white paintings, colour paintings and photographs of swimming pools Reviews: 'Swimming Studies' book review: Leanne Shapton's pursuit of the Olympics came up short.
But her revealing memoir shows how swimming has affected her life. Business. Leanne Shapton, one of our favorite artists, competed in two Olympic swimming trials.
Her new book Swimming Studies dives into her personal journey with the sport, from being a competitive teenager to an adult who loves the simple act of swimming. We asked her more Swimming and painting are similar because they both require striking a balance between physical skill and trust.
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Meditate in this book's cool, chlorinated depths, and you'll see swimming differently when you come up for air. — From Molly's favorites. Description. Swimming Studies is a collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and.
