La matrice espressiva nel livre d’artiste di Iliazd

Testo e immagine. Un dialogo dall’antichità al contemporaneo ◽

10.30687/978-88-6969-362-5/004 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Alexandra Timonina

Keyword(s):

Early Years ◽

Illustrated Books ◽

Russian Futurism ◽

Artist's Book ◽

Livre D'artiste ◽

Mature Work

Due to the involvement of Iliazd in a range of major artistic movements, from Russian Futurism to Dada during its Parisian period, his work may be considered within a range of different study frameworks. These experiences led to an interest in printed art and later to publishing. The ‘architecture’ of the books he produced was influenced by the character of the zaum poetry he practised in his early years. His contribution to the genre of modern artist’s book is unquestionable, although it has not enjoyed the attention of much scholarship. This paper seeks to analyse the expressive devices in Iliazd’s mature work in illustrated books and to trace their origins, showing how they led to the emergence of liberal and original correspondences between writing and visual forms.

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“Celebration of the Body”: Marshall McLuhan and the Sensory Conceptualism of N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.

Canadian Journal of Communication ◽

10.22230/cjc.2015v40n3a2911 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Adam Lauder

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Art ◽

The Body ◽

Close Reading ◽

Marshall Mcluhan ◽

Friedrich Kittler ◽

Artist's Book ◽

Livre D'artiste

Through a close reading of the 1976 artist’s book and exhibition catalogue “Celebration of the Body,” the N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.’s pioneering representations of the body’s “informationalization” are situated within the conceptual company’s creative reworking of Marshall McLuhan’s sensory media theories. In turn, McLuhan’s thought is located within a genealogy of physiological aesthetics that troubles conventional narratives of Conceptual art as a movement defined by its engagement with theories of cognition, language, and systems. Friedrich Kittler’s analysis of modernism as reflecting the decomposition of the body under a regime of psychophysical experimentation provides the framework for this article’s re-evaluation of the Toronto School theorist and his influence on the foundational Vancouver-based “critical company.”En utilisant une lecture attentive du livre d’artiste et catalogue d’exposition « Celebration of the Body », 1979, les représentations du corps numérisé de N.E. Thing Co. sont encadrées dans le remaniement créatif des théories médiatique de Marshall McLuhan entreprit par la compagnie. À leurs tours, les pensées de McLuhan sont placées dans une généalogie d’esthétique physiologique qui dérange les récits conventionnels de l’art conceptuel comme étant un mouvement défini par son engagement avec les théories de la cognition et du langage. L’analyse de Friedrich Kittler de modernisme comme réflexion de la décomposition du corps effectuée par des expériences psychophysique fournit le cadre pour cette réévaluation du théoricien de l’École de Toronto et son impact sur la « compagnie critique » fondatrice de Vancouver.

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«The book of Angels» by Andrey Mashanov

Iskusstvo Evrazii [The Art of Eurasia] ◽

10.25712/astu.2518-7767.2019.01.007 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Алла Николаевна Гуменюк

Keyword(s):

Continuous Development ◽

Etching Technique ◽

Graphic Art ◽

Religious Traditions ◽

Graphic Artist ◽

Contour Lines ◽

Handwritten Text ◽

Artist's Book ◽

Livre D'artiste ◽

Reciprocal Process

В статье рассматривается авторская книга – «Книга Ангелов» Андрея Машанова, заслуженного художника России, известного сибирского графика, мастера офорта и каллиграфии. Подчеркивается, что книга выполняется в жанре книга художника (Livre d’artiste, Artist’s Book). Отмечается, что творчество художника лежит в области русской религиозной традиции с использованием современного языка графического искусства. Акцентируется: «Книга Ангелов» создается несколько лет и находится в процессе непрестанного развития, наполняется новыми изобразительными сюжетами, рукописными текстами. Анализируются отдельные развороты книги: персонажи и тексты. Отмечается избранная техника офорта, авторская каллиграфия и стилистика изображения – плоскостная трактовка фигур, гибкая лаконичная линия контура, декоративное узорочье, колористический минимализм. В заключение сообщается, что если станковые листы послужили первоосновой для работы мастера в новом для него жанре книга художника, то в настоящее время идет взаимообратный процесс: парафразы персонажей из «Книги Ангелов» с успехом звучат в цветных большеформатных офортах последних лет. The article discusses «The Book of Angels» by Andrey Mashanov – the Honored Artist of Russia, famous Siberian graphic artist and the master of etching and calligraphy. It is emphasized that the book is executed in the genre of the Artist's Book (so-called Livre d’artiste). It is noted that the artist's work lies within Russian religious traditions but is executed in the modern way and uses the contemporary language of graphic art. The statement about the continuous development of «The Book of Angels» is accented, as the book under the analysis is was created over years, is still under the development and is constantly filled with new visual plots and handwritten text. Individual pages of the book are analyzed deeply, including all drawn characters and texts. The etching technique, author's calligraphy and stylistics of images are noted as well as the interpretation of planar figures, author's flexible and laconic contour lines, the decorative patterns and coloristic minimalism. A reciprocal process, when Mashanov's large-format graphic sheets, that previously laid the foundation for Livre d’artiste, and recently became infused with a lot of characters from the «Book of Angels», is stated.

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Samuel Beckett's The North

Journal of Beckett Studies ◽

10.3366/jobs.2021.0340 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 188-204

Author(s):

Galina Kiryushina ◽

Mark Nixon

Keyword(s):

Translation Process ◽

The North ◽

Short Novel ◽

Art Forms ◽

Artist's Book ◽

Limited Edition ◽

Livre D'artiste ◽

Contractual Obligations ◽

Insight Into

This essay closely inspects the manuscript cluster relating to The North (held by the Beckett International Foundation, University of Reading) to provide insight into Beckett's collaboration with Enitharmon Press and its publisher, Alan Clodd, on an eponymous livre d'artiste illustrated with three etchings by Avikdor Arikha. It outlines the intricate publication details of a short excerpt from (then unfinished) Le Dépeupleur, which was the first part of the late prose text to be translated by Beckett into English. With the help of Beckett's published and unpublished correspondence with Clodd, Arikha, and Barbara Bray in particular, the essay traces the translation process of both The North and what was to become The Lost Ones. Extending over several months, the translation of the short novel gave Beckett considerable trouble and, as appears from his letters to Bray, her involvement in it was tangible. Beckett's linguistic choices surrounding the image of a crouching woman at the centre of this limited-edition artist's book and the English title of the master text, The Lost Ones, are also considered in relation to other art forms, namely Auguste Rodin's Dante-inspired La porte de l'enfer and the statue extracted from it, La femme accroupie. In addition to that, the publication particulars of the Calder & Boyars edition of The Lost Ones (1972) are discussed in parallel to those of Clodd's The North (1973), unearthing the differences between the two translations as well as contractual obligations that shaped them.

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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Image quality vs data obtainment in biological electron microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100141950 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 42-43

Author(s):

J. E. Johnson

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Electron Beam ◽

Image Quality ◽

High Speed ◽

Early Period ◽

Early Years ◽

Fluorescent Screen ◽

Embedding Medium

In the early years of biological electron microscopy, scientists had their hands full attempting to describe the cellular microcosm that was suddenly before them on the fluorescent screen. Mitochondria, Golgi, endoplasmic reticulum, and other myriad organelles were being examined, micrographed, and documented in the literature. A major problem of that early period was the development of methods to cut sections thin enough to study under the electron beam. A microtome designed in 1943 moved the specimen toward a rotary “Cyclone” knife revolving at 12,500 RPM, or 1000 times as fast as an ordinary microtome. It was claimed that no embedding medium was necessary or that soft embedding media could be used. Collecting the sections thus cut sounded a little precarious: “The 0.1 micron sections cut with the high speed knife fly out at a tangent and are dispersed in the air. They may be collected... on... screens held near the knife“.

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