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This rare personal insight into the influences and inspirations
behind acclaimed Hong Kong designer and collector Alan Chan gives
an intimate view of the collection of objects he has fastidiously
assembled throughout his life, and the creative process they have
informed. The pioneering, award-winning, and self-taught designer
is known for his inventive and innovative designs. Effectively
organised by theme, from tea to dragons, and with an emphasis on
objects produced for China Trade, many of the elegant pieces
photographed for this book showcase Chan s insatiably inquiring
mind. They offer insights into how his passion for collecting
drives his characteristically whimsical signature take on East and
West, tradition and innovation, where there is always a twist of
the unexpected. Part autobiography, part reflection on creativity,
it is full of insights into Chan s remarkable design process,
making it a treat for the eyes and a valuable resource for new and
established designers alike.
Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's
Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of pages from Misery by
Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and
possibility in elliptical, enigmatic poems. Here, "joy would crawl
over broken glass, if that was the way." Here, sleep is a "circle
whose diameter might be small," a circle "pitifully small," a
"wrecked and empty hypothetical circle." Paired with Sloat's
stunning mixed-media collage, each poem is a miniature canvas, a
brief associative profile of the psyche-its foibles, obsessions,
and delights.
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(Hardcover)
Mara Torres Gonzalez; Contributions by Mara Torres Gonzalez; Photographs by Mara Torres Gonzalez
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R1,866
Discovery Miles 18 660
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Practical guide to creating meaningful Polynesian tattoos. List of
symbols and their meanings. Quick reference to find the right
symbols for the desired meanings. Positioning the elements. Step by
step creation process. Live examples and case studies. A lot more
The recurring theme of the work of Miriam Wosk is of the marvellous
abundance of life in all its forms, whether human or animal,
biological or botanical. This book illustrates her thickly
encrusted paintings, which depict a unique world reflecting Wosk's
visions, dreams and metaphysical imagination.
The evidential role of matter-when media records trace evidence of
violence-explored through a series of cases drawn from Kosovo,
Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In this book, Susan Schuppli
introduces a new operative concept: material witness, an
exploration of the evidential role of matter as both registering
external events and exposing the practices and procedures that
enable matter to bear witness. Organized in the format of a trial,
Material Witness moves through a series of cases that provide
insight into the ways in which materials become contested agents of
dispute around which stake holders gather. These cases include an
extraordinary videotape documenting the massacre at Izbica, Kosovo,
used as war crimes evidence against Slobodan Milosevic; the
telephonic transmission of an iconic photograph of a South
Vietnamese girl fleeing an accidental napalm attack; radioactive
contamination discovered in Canada's coastal waters five years
after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi; and the ecological media
or "disaster film" produced by the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico. Each highlights the degree to which a
rearrangement of matter exposes the contingency of witnessing,
raising questions about what can be known in relationship to that
which is seen or sensed, about who or what is able to bestow
meaning onto things, and about whose stories will be heeded or
dismissed. An artist-researcher, Schuppli offers an analysis that
merges her creative sensibility with a forensic imagination rich in
technical detail. Her goal is to relink the material world and its
affordances with the aesthetic, the juridical, and the political.
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