Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Ipswich Borough Council, Ipswich, 2003
ISBN 10: 090668840X ISBN 13: 9780906688403
Anbieter: Colin Martin Books, Near Hull, EY, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 9,44
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In den WarenkorbPaperback. Zustand: Fine. NEW copy, illustrated with colour plates. Size: Qto. Book.
Anbieter: West Cove UK, Wellington, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 23,26
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In den WarenkorbSoftcover. Zustand: Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Extra Materials Included. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The sculptures and drawings of John Atkin present not so much images of machines as they do diagrams of machines incompletely realized in our imagination. His playful inventions are casual and direct statements. And yet, like a well-written Tokugawa haiku as opposed to a poorly written Elizabethan sonnet they are metaphoric and rhetorical in the sense that they help us to discover our own metaphors in them, rather than impress us with the cleverness of the packaged rhetoric of their creator. They are not just literal observations, nor are they surrealistic details from one man's psyche, but more than anything else, they are complex metaphors simply put. Classical haiku frequently create parallels between states of nature and states of the human mind and human condition. Atkin's works explore how the human mind and the human condition are mirrored in the tools and devices that people make. And through this process these tools and machines are transformed into symbols and characters in the dramas of human exp.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Ipswich Borough Council, Ipswich, 2003
ISBN 10: 090668840X ISBN 13: 9780906688403
Anbieter: David Bunnett Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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EUR 35,40
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In den WarenkorbSOFTCOVER. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Extra Large 4to. in textured stiff card covers, unpaginated, approx. 28pp on thick art paper, colour plates, etc. Works on paper and sculptures, and large sculpture (The Navigator) commissioned by Ipswich River Action Group . [CONDITION: NEW uunmarked copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
Verlag: New Art Association Chicago, IL, 1999
Anbieter: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, USA
68 pp.; 27.5 x 20.9 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; October 1999 issue of New Art Examiner, edited by Kathryn Hixson. Contents include : "Editorial," by Kathryn Hixson; "Recommend;" "newsbriefs;" "International : Six Nanjing Painters," by Paul Krainak; "Special Report: Varieties of Naked Experience: Particulars of the Human Body in Recent Art," by Tom Csaszar; "Test Family: Children in Contemporary Art," by Michelle Grabner; "In the Anal Universe: The Para-Art of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy," by Donald Kuspit; "Play and Postmodernism. and the Bavarian Rococo," by Martha McWilliams; "Flurry Goes to Hollywood: Reading Books and Watching Movies," focus group conducted by Michael Agnew and Jan Estep; "Interview : Post Conceptual Reality," an interview with Madeleine Grynstejn," by Robert Raczka; "Studio view : Mark Handforth, Miami," by Gean Moreno; "Extended Review : San Francisco, Fabrice Hybert," reviewed by Jim Nawrocki; "Reviews Index;" "Reviews;" "On Books;" "Classifieds;" "Cartoon," by Adam Green "art note : Taking it to the Streets," by Kathryn Rosenfeld. Cover : Aura Rosenberg. Very Good. Rubbing of covers and spine edge with very light handling wear. Contents clean and unmarked.