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Strandbeest
The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
Inbunden, 2014
693 kr
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For seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog followed the evolution of a new kinetic species. Intricate as insects but with bursts of equine energy, the “Strandbeests,” or “beach creatures,” are the creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been working for nearly two decades to …
True to Life
Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney
Häftad, 2009
289 kr
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Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist" Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a series of engrossing dialogs, gathered here for …
Bird that Swallowed Its Cage
The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte
Av Walter Murch, Lawrence Weschler m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
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185 kr
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Calamities of Exile
Three Nonfiction Novellas
Häftad, 1999
374 kr
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From the author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Calamities of Exile combines three gripping narratives that afford a sort of double CAT scan into the natures of both modern totalitarianism and timeless exile."Beautiful but harrowing chronicles of three exiles that probe the moral and personal …
Miracle, A Universe
Settling Accounts with Torturers
Häftad, 1998
298 kr
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During the past fifteen years, one of the most vexing issues facing fledgling transitional democracies around the world--from South Africa to Eastern Europe, from Cambodia to Bosnia--has been what to do about the still-toxic security apparatuses left over from the previous regime. In this …
Boggs
A Comedy of Values
Häftad, 2000
234 kr
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In this text, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J.S.G. Boggs, a young artist with a certain panache, a certain flair, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps, more precisely, value. What Boggs likes to do is to draw money - actual paper notes in the denominations of standard …
Miracle, a Universe
Settling Accounts with Torturers
E-bok, 2013
213 kr
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In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, …
Vermeer in Bosnia
Selected Writings
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding–author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder –here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two decades, the majority of which have never before been gathered together in book form. Lawrence Weschler is …
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy
E-bok, 2013
95 kr
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Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson''s Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the …
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Expanded Edition
Häftad, 2009
297 kr
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When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the …
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Häftad, 1996
231 kr
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Liminal Infrastructure – The Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio
Av Lauren Bon, Lawrence Weschler m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
94 kr
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Led by artists Lauren Bon, Richard Nielsen, and Tristan Duke, the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio is a team devoted to exploring and expanding the photographic medium. Working with the Liminal Camera, a massive, portable camera obscura fashioned from a shipping container, the Optics …
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2020
330 kr
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The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient "[An] engrossing biographical memoir. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients . . . exulting over horseshoe crabs and chunks of Iceland spar." —Barbara Kiser, Nature The author …
Strange Pilgrims
Av The Contemporary Austin, Heather Pesanti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
754 kr
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In the past fifty years, contemporary artistic practice has witnessed a surge in phenomenological types of artistic intent and methodology, represented by divergent impulses sharing a desire to channel ephemeral elements, resist categorization, and defy the rarified museum experience. Time-based …
This Land
An Epic Postcard Mural on the Future of a Country in Ecological Peril
Av Lawrence Weschler, David Opdyke
Inbunden, 2020
348 kr
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David Opdyke's massive collage This Land (as elucidated in this book by award-winning author Lawrence Weschler) presents a slow-burning satire of the American Dream as it blunders into the reality of climate changeThis Land is an epic mural fashioned by New York artist David Opdyke out of vintage …
Uncanny Valley
Adventures in the Narrative
E-bok, 2011
199 kr
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Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler’s articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with his unique insight into everything he examines, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Uncanny Valley continues the page-turning conversation as Weschler …
Robert Irwin Getty Garden - Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2020
210 kr
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Among the most beloved sites at the Getty Center, the Central Garden has aroused intense interest from the moment artist Robert Irwin was awarded the commission. First published in 2002, 'Robert Irwin Getty Garden' is comprised of a series of discussions between noted author Lawrence Weschler and …
Waves Passing in the Night
Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists
E-bok, 2017
361 kr
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From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe. For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably the most …
Bruce Beasley
Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020
Av Bruce Beasley, Tom Moran m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
479 kr
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For six decades, sculptor Bruce Beasley has worked in a range of media to build complex, resonant sculptures that communicate the primacy of form and express the emotional language of shape. Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective is an elegant survey of his illustrious career: from early …
Oliver Sacks
Ein persönliches Porträt
E-bok, 2021
227 kr
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Ein einzigartiges Porträt des empathischen Arztes und Bestseller-Autors Oliver Sacks, der unser Bild von Krankheit und Gesundheit nachhaltig verändert hat.Oliver Sacks war nicht nur ein großartiger Arzt, sondern auch ein begnadeter Erzähler. Mit seinen Fallgeschichten gelang es ihm, Millionen von …
El Gabinete de las Maravillas de Mr. Wilson
E-bok, 2022
168 kr
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Finalista del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Critics Circle Award. Un artefacto literario sorprendente que celebra la tradición de lo maravilloso en nuestra cultura. Hormigas hediondas de cuyo cerebro sale un hongo mortal, humanos cornudos, tostadas de ratón… Estas son algunas de las cosas que …
Wanderer in the Perfect City
Selected Passion Pieces
Häftad, 2006
202 kr
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"There is something both marvelous and hilarious," writes Lawrence Weschler, "in watching the humdrum suddenly take flight. This is, in part, a collection of such launchings." Indeed, the eight essays collected in "A Wanderer in the Perfect City" do soar into the realm of passion as Weschler …
Calamities of Exile
Three Nonfiction Novellas
Inbunden, 1996
272 kr
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From the author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Calamities of Exile combines three gripping narratives that afford a sort of double CAT scan into the natures of both modern totalitarianism and timeless exile. "Beautiful but harrowing chronicles of three exiles that probe the moral and personal …
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Inbunden, 2019
249 kr
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The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings - the account of his long-dormant patients’ …
