Reading Revolutionaries: A New Way of Looking At Art - Softcover

Sparagana, John; Geiser, Reto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3716518131 ISBN 13: 9783716518137

Verlag: Benteli Verlag, 2015

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John Sparagana is an artist and the Grace Christian Vietti Chair in the Visual Arts and Chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. Reto Geiser is an architect and scholar of modern architecture with a focus on the intersections between architecture, pedagogy, and media. The work of Sparagana is known for its various types of physical manipulation. Following this concept, this book proposes an alternative “reading” of his work in the form of a literal understanding of visual information as text. His large-scale work of art “Crowds & Powder: The Revolutionaries” is translated into the format of a mass-market paperback book. Arranged over eighty double-page spreads, each individual page frames a full-scale fragment of this work. Not only does it allude to a growing discourse on the control and manipulation of visual narrative, as increasingly witnessed from political imagery to popular culture, but it also investigates the way we read and process (visual) language.

Biografía del autor:

John Sparagana is an artist and the Grace Christian Vietti Chair in the Visual Arts and Chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. Recent exhibitions include Without You I Am Nothing, (curated by Arturo Herrera), Heldart, Berlin, Albert Oehlen, John Sparagana, Studiolo, Zurich, Switzerland, El Cuerpo Sutil, with Miguel Angel Rojas, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, and a solo exhibition, Crowds & Powder, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago. Sparagana is co-author, with Mieke Bal, of Sleeping Beauty: A One Artist Dictionary (University of Chicago Press). Reto Geiser is an architect and scholar of modern architecture with a focus on the intersections between architecture, pedagogy, and media. He is currently the Gus Wortham Assistant Professor at the Rice University School of Architecture. A founding principal of the collaborative design practice MG&Co., Reto is developing spatial strategies in a range of scales from the book to the house, exploring the boundaries of design and research. Current research includes the project "Print and Screen" - an investigation of the shift from print and postprint production and new forms of publishing in the information age.

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• Verlag: Benteli Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3716518131
• ISBN 13: 9783716518137
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192