Fantasies of the library - Anna-Sophie Springer
KORTE INHOUD
"Fantasies of the Library lets readers experience the library anew. The book imagines, and enacts, the library as both keeper of books and curator of ideas--as a platform of the future. One essay occupies the right-hand page of a two-page spread while interviews scrolls independently on the left. Bibliophilic artworks intersect both throughout the book-as-exhibition. A photo essay, 'Reading Rooms Reading Machines' further interrupts the book in order to display images of libraries (old and new, real and imagined), and readers (human and machine) and features work by artists including Kader Atta, Wafaa Bilal, Mark Dion, Rodney Graham, Katie Paterson, Veronika Spierenburg, and others. The book includes an essay on the institutional ordering principles of book collections; a conversation with the proprietors of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco; reflections on the role of cultural memory and the archive; and a dialogue with a new media theorist about experiments at the intersection of curatorial practice an...
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2016Uitgever: MIT Press - Library of Congress.147 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0262035200ISBN-13: 9780262035200Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
