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alexainslie: Sand
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thenearsightedmonkey: Dear Students, This is what the hell we’re talmbout. Prof. SETI (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the…
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Reading Sol LeWitt’s Artist Books as Comics
goodcomicsbykim: Serial compositions are multipart pieces with regulated changes. The differences between the parts are the subject of the composition. If some parts remain constant it is to punctuate the changes. The entire work would contain subdivisions which could be autonomous but which comprise the whole. The autonomous parts are units, rows, sets or any…
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thethirdmind: Sol Lewitt, Cock Fight Dance, Rizzoli, 1980. A series of photographs of chickens fighting. “LeWitt has never forsaken the fundamental approach that he developed in the 1960s, emphasizing ideas over psychological expression… Over the years, however, his work has grown more complex in its effect and more complicated in its execution. The work from…
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Like the creator of an artist’s book who manipulates an Exacto knife to make delicate cutouts in heavy white Italia paper and painstakingly sews the pages together, the writer of an electronic text is intensely aware of the entwining of intellectual, physical, and technological labor that creates the text as a material object. “Print Is…
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p-dpa: Text in the Book Format, Keith Smith (2004) This book is not about binding, computers, design, typography or the history of books, but the possibilities of conceiving text which utilizes the format not to distract, but assist the written word. Text in the Book Format examines the possibilities of conceiving text which utilizes the format to…
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Within the specific context of 1960s and 1970s counterculture, the artist’s book was arguably able to fill a certain political void, providing a means of democratising and subverting existing institutions by distributing an increasingly cheap and accessible medium (the book), and in the process using this medium in order to re-imagine what art is and…
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reluctantconquistador: Cousin tries blowing a bubble for the first time. nephew as captured by my son. (Source: https://vine.co/)
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