"The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals’ ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poets have tried to name by speaking of the Open.Beginning with the ..."
"This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in measuring techniques. Beginning with the work of explorer Alexander von Humboldt, these historic drawings reveal a world of artistic and imaginative ..."
"The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals' ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poets have tried to name by speaking of the Open.Beginning with the ..."
"A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses timeTwo photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a century. First, William Henry Fox Talbot photographed a faithfully realistic image of a ladder against a haystack in the English countryside.One hundred years later, an anonymous photographer captured another ladder, “photographed” alongside an incinerated man by the blinding light of the atomic ..."
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(Zus) by Benoît Fougeirol, Jean-ChristopheBailly Paperback, 375 Pages, Published 2017 by X Artists' Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9988616-3-0, ISBN: 0-9988616-3-4
"In (Zus), a visual essay by the French photographer Benoît Fougeirol, views of and views from eleven of the "Zones urbaines sensibles" (Sensitive Urban Zones) on the peripheries of Paris reveal harsh paradoxes of modern society. These poor, marginal districts were defined by administrative boundaries in response to the "emergence of a social problem." Through the synecdoche of architecture-its materials, patterns, and surfaces-Fougeirol ..."
"Arnaud Claass, Journal de travail (20 février 1997–19 février 1998) (Toulouse:
Maxence Fabiani/Les Imaginayres, 1999), 37. 13. Rosalind Krauss, “The
Photographic Conditions of Surrealism,” October 19 (Winter 1981): 26. 14. Jean-
Marie ..."
"Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly's The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of ..."
Duchamp by Jean-ChristopheBailly Paperback, 119 Pages, Published 1986 by Universe ISBN-13: 978-0-87663-887-3, ISBN: 0-87663-887-6
"Traces the life of the French-born artist, shares examples of his sketches, paintings, and sculpture, and discusses his influence on modern art"
"Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer. How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created p ..."