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The Stone Age is not over Whether nestled in a dark corner of the
gall bladder or hurtling toward us at fearsome speeds from the
Kuyper Belt, whether yielding to the sculptor's delicate chisel or
used to decorate the human body, stones continue be an integral
part of sociopolitical economies. "Cabinet" 53, with a special
section on "Stones," features an interview with Robert Proctor on
the establishment in the nineteenth century of the now-familiar
scale used to value gemstones and the rise of the once-lowly
diamond; Brooke Holmes on stones in love; Hugh Raffles on the
history of the London Stone; and Richard Klein on the
anthropomorphic erratics of Fairfield County, Conneticut. Elsewhere
in the issue, Steve Rowell's annotated map of Washington, DC's
influential think tanks, political action committees and lobbying
groups; Jude Stewart on the color crimson; and Katherine Hunt on
the influence that "change-ringing," a complex mode of church bell
ringing devised in England, had on seventeenth-century mathematics
and linguistics.
The seclusion of islands has long made them ideal screens for our
fantasies and terrors, choice locations for military and scientific
assays, and perfect settings for escapes, incarcerations and
battles for survival. In consideration of these dynamics, "Cabinet"
38 features Julia Wolcott discussing islands in science fiction;
Jeffrey Kastner on being marooned; Janet Connelly on West Berlin as
an island; Simon Rezak on island penal colonies; the story of the
"Chinese Princess" Der Ling, a onetime student of Isadora Duncan
who set up court on a Mexican island in the 1920s; and an artist
project by Jeremy Drummond. Off-the-island treasures include
Anthony Grafton on the Last Supper's culinary legacy; Aaron
Schuster on cinematic sneezes; Jonathan Hardy on the Spanish urban
grid; Maggie Nelson on the color red; George Pendle on the first
computer dating system; Allen S. Weiss on Japanese garden design;
and an artist project by Alejandro Cesarco.
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Cabinet 56: Sports (Paperback)
Sina Najafi; Text written by Augusto Corriere, Leland Durantaye, Hal Foster, Adam Jasper, …
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Oliver Clegg (Hardcover)
Martin Herbert, Sina Najafi
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Featuring an interview with Sina Najafi, an essay by Martin
Herbert, and designed by Dominique Clausen, this is the first major
monograph on the British-born, New Yorkbased artist Oliver Clegg.
An eclectic, polyphonic and multidisciplinary artist, Clegg's
oeuvre stretches from painting, drawing and printmaking to
sculpture, installation, site-specific art, participatory projects
and beyond. Indeed, his practice is in many ways a shining example
of 'post-medium' creativity today, pursuing the essence of art
itself beyond any specific medium or artform. The irony is, he's
pretty damn good with each artform too. With his erudite,
surprising and striking repertoire, and his diverse materials and
methods (from glass, wood and steel to neon, resin and concrete,
weaving and casting to engraving and industrial manufacture), Clegg
offers the viewer a complex, sometimes playful, other times moving
journey into existential and ontological notions of objecthood and
matter, images and signs, language and communication, creation and
being. From the studio and gallery walls to the streets of London
and New York, from Freud's house to the Joshua Tree National Park,
from foosball tables to state asylums, Clegg turns up to do
remarkable things with the fabric of spacetime. And yes, it's an
emotional rollercoaster of a ride - in fact, Clegg's oeuvre spans a
significant proportion of the spectrum of human emotion, his unique
trans-Atlantic blend of humour, sarcasm and wit coming face to face
with the much more serious matters of memory, psychology, truth,
belief, meaning, love, life and death. Nostalgia, childhood, games,
play and sentimentality career headlong into the realms of kitsch,
Pop and the history of the avantgarde, resulting in a delightful
yet challenging range of responses from the viewer, whether
amusement, camaraderie, joy, bemusement, outrage, disillusionment
or a call to arms. Clegg is an artist with great energy, incredible
spirit, and one of the most engaging, curious, cryptic and
entertaining oeuvres currently making waves in the world of art. In
many ways an exploration of the id, ego and superego, Clegg's
practice plays out the struggle between our basic desires, our
rational minds, and the underlying mores that keep us in check. Not
unlike Freudian notions of the psyche, Clegg's practice articulates
the battle that takes place inside us all on a daily basis,
spilling into the outside world in myriad ways. It is a fight, yes,
but it is play too.
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Cabinet 35: Dust (Paperback)
Sina Najafi; Text written by Valerie Smith, Steven Connor; Jeff Dolven; Contributions by Margaret Wertheim
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Dust is everywhere, a perennial presence in the corners of culture.
Dust can be deathly (domestic dust is mostly desiccated human
skin), deadly (poisonous dust is the product of industry and war)
or beautiful (the dusty matte surface of make-up, a light dusting
applied by the confectioner, glittering motes caught in a sunbeam).
In British English, "dust" is another name for dirt, or matter in
the wrong place, implying that it can be moved from one spot to
another, but never--as with matter or metaphor--completely
eradicated. "Cabinet" 35 examines dust's ubiquity. Features include
Steven Connor on the manifold forms and patterns of magic dust;
Brian Dillon on Proust's vacuum cleaner; and Valerie Smith and Matt
Mullican on marble dust drawings. Elsewhere in the issue, Steve
Reinke catalogues untimely deaths; Helen Polson muses over the fate
of lost teeth; Jeff Dolven reviews Conlon Nancarrow's compositions
for musical machines; and Margaret Wertheim takes on the
mathematical structure known as E8.
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