Two lines press sep 2022 (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brimming with enigmatic photographs, future memes, and mud drawings, Visible showcases six genre-defying works from around the world that raise questions about the relationship between how we see, how we read, and how we write in 'the age of the calligram.' In a rewrite of René Magritte's 'Les mots et les images,' Verónica Gerber Bicecci (translated by Christina MacSweeney) considers 'images that think' and the internet. Marie NDiaye's 'Step of a Feral Cat,' translated by Victoria Baena, follows an academic, inspired by a portrait of an entertainer, as she walks the slippery space between literary ambition and exploitation. Monika Sznajderman (translated by Scotia Gilroy) assembles a fractured family history through photographs of a time she can never possibly know: 'the pre-Holocaust world.' Focusing on those whose stories have yet to be told--the black Cuban singer Maria Martinez, a Polish family murdered in World War II, workers at a noodle shop in Busan, and the tallest man in recorded history--Visible asks us to interrogate the thin traces of shifting meaning we find in and between words and images, and how we can change that meaning for the future.…