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Book The Altered Object

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terry Taylor
  • Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 1579908799
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Altered Object written by Terry Taylor and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Altered art is the fastest growing craft trend today--but its practitioners can’t live by books alone: they long to expand their horizons and explore new directions. And this follow-up to the hugely successful Altered Art will fulfill their creative desires. It moves into uncharted territory, focusing not on books, but on transforming the surfaces of a multitude of everyday objects into artistic canvases. The 25 projects clearly prove that the possibilities are limited only by one’s own imagination. For example, in the hands of five different crafters, those ubiquitous mint tins become a small shrine, necklace, photo book, and doll. Profusely illustrated profiles showcase ten contemporary artists doing their work; all provide invaluable insights into the creative process.

Book Bookwork

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  • Author : Garrett Stewart
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-06
  • ISBN : 0226773914
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Bookwork written by Garrett Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space—those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for the book to take early retirement in a museum, not as rare manuscript but as functionless sculpture. Readymade or constructed, such book shapes are canceled as text when deposited as gallery objects, shut off from their normal reading when not, in some yet more drastic way, dismembered or reassembled.” So begins Bookwork, which follows our passion for books to its logical extreme in artists who employ found or simulated books as a sculptural medium. Investigating the conceptual labor behind this proliferating international art practice, Garrett Stewart looks at hundreds of book-like objects, alone or as part of gallery installations, in this original account of works that force attention upon a book’s material identity and cultural resonance. Less an inquiry into the artist’s book than an exploration of the book form’s contemporary objecthood, Stewart’s interdisciplinary approach traces the lineage of these aggressive artifacts from the 1919 Unhappy Readymade of Marcel Duchamp down to the current crisis of paper-based media in the digital era. Bookwork surveys and illustrates a stunning variety of appropriated and fabricated books alike, ranging from hacksawed discards to the giant lead folios of Anselm Kiefer. The unreadable books Stewart engages with in this timely study are found, again and again, to generate graphic metaphors for the textual experience they preclude, becoming in this sense legible after all.

Book Altered Reading

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  • Author : Jill Robbins
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1999-05-15
  • ISBN : 9780226721125
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Altered Reading written by Jill Robbins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might the ethical philosophy of the renowned French thinker Emmanuel Levinas relate to literature? Because his philosophy addresses the very opening of ethical experience, it cannot be applied readily as a critical method to literary texts. Yet Levinas's work, studded as it is with literary sources and quotations, demands a literary account. With an attitude at once respectful and interrogative, closely attentive to Levinas's texts while in dialogue with readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, Altered Reading shows how the thread of the literary leads directly to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. Jill Robbins provides a comprehensive critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later key transitional essays. In an invaluable appendix, she includes her own translation of an important, previously untranslated essay by Bataille on Levinas. Altered Reading will interest philosophers, literary critics, scholars of religion, and others drawn to Levinas's work.

Book A Short System of Optics     Second edition  altered and enlarged

Download or read book A Short System of Optics Second edition altered and enlarged written by Rev. John Stack and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law of Joint Stock Companies  as Altered by the Act of 1862      Tenth Edition

Download or read book The Law of Joint Stock Companies as Altered by the Act of 1862 Tenth Edition written by Charles Favell Forth WORDWORTH and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Edinburgh Review

Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Philosophy  Psychology  and Scientific Methods

Download or read book Journal of Philosophy Psychology and Scientific Methods written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 31- include "A Bibliography of philosophy," 1933-

Book The Altered Landscape

Download or read book The Altered Landscape written by David B. Walker and published by Skira. This book was released on 2011 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive look at the work of 100 contemporary photographers who capture the impact of human activity on natural landscapes. The Altered Landscape is a provocative collection of photographs representing a wide range of artists, techniques, visual styles, subjects, and ideological positions. Organized chronologically, the more than 150 images-by artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Chris Jordan, Catherine Opie, and Edward Burtynsky-reveal the ways that individuals and industries have marked, mined, toured, tested, developed, occupied, and exploited landscapes over the last fifty years. From Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz, two of the most influential photographers to document environmental destruction in the American West, to Richard Misrach and Mark Klett, who examine abuse of natural resources, these moving images reveal the diversity of voices within the field of contemporary photography. In Association with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno."--Publisher's website.

Book Altered Art

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  • Author : Terry Taylor
  • Publisher : Lark Books
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781579905507
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Altered Art written by Terry Taylor and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains techniques for creating altered books, boxes, cards, and more.

Book Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence     Second Edition     Enlarged

Download or read book Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence Second Edition Enlarged written by Joseph STORY (One of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Objects That Remain

Download or read book The Objects That Remain written by Laura Levitt and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a November evening in 1989, Laura Levitt was raped in her own bed. Her landlord heard the assault taking place and called 911, but the police arrived too late to apprehend Laura’s attacker. When they left, investigators took items with them—a pair of sweatpants, the bedclothes—and a rape exam was performed at the hospital. However, this evidence was never processed. Decades later, Laura returns to these objects, viewing them not as clues that will lead to the identification of her assailant but rather as a means of engaging traumatic legacies writ large. The Objects That Remain is equal parts personal memoir and fascinating examination of the ways in which the material remains of violent crimes inform our experience of, and thinking about, trauma and loss. Considering artifacts in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and evidence in police storage facilities across the country, Laura’s story moves between intimate trauma, the story of an unsolved rape, and genocide. Throughout, she asks what it might mean to do justice to these violent pasts outside the juridical system or through historical empiricism, which are the dominant ways in which we think about evidence from violent crimes and other highly traumatic events. Over the course of her investigation, the author reveals how these objects that remain and the stories that surround them enable forms of intimacy. In this way, she models for us a different kind of reckoning, where justice is an animating process of telling and holding.

Book Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Other Things

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  • Author : Bill Brown
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-01-08
  • ISBN : 022628316X
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Other Things written by Bill Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.

Book From Animals to Animats 8

Download or read book From Animals to Animats 8 written by Stefan Schaal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New research on the adaptive behavior of natural and synthetic agents.

Book The Law Reports of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting

Download or read book The Law Reports of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting written by Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Chancery Division and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Military Justice  Evidence

Download or read book Military Justice Evidence written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: