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Thames & Hudson Ltd Egyptian Art
Book SynopsisNew in the World of Art series, a survey of the art produced in Egypt during the age of the pharaohs.Trade Review'A masterful exploration of not only “what", but also “why" – what ancient Egyptian art was for. An excellent introduction to a vast subject' - Dr Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol'Fantastic … definitely one for your bookshelf' - Timeless Travels'Insightful … a tour-de-force' - Ancient Egypt Magazine'Aided by abundant illustrations … it is a handy introduction to the diverse and beautiful art of the Egyptians' - Current World ArchaeologyTable of ContentsKing-list & Dynasties • Part I: Art & Creation • Part II: Art & the Artsts • Part III: Artworks in Context
£11.66
British Museum Press The Print Before Photography An introduction to
Book SynopsisA landmark publicationbeautifully illustrated with over 300 prints from the British Museum's renowned collectionwhich traces the history of printmaking from its earliest days until the arrival of photography.
£45.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Destination Art
Book SynopsisA global guide to the 500 works of permanently installed modern and contemporary art worth traveling to experienceTrade Review"Destination Art is a global guide to 500 works of art worth travelling to. It is a compendium of place-specific art from across the globe that celebrates the joy and wonder of experiencing artworks in their native environment, while providing helpful information to make the journey easier."—Artsbeat"When planning a holiday, what is the criteria that helps you decide on your desired location? Sun? Culture? Food? Or perhaps simply somewhere as far away from your office as possible. A new book, published by Phaidon, puts forward the case for art. Destination Art is a beautifully designed guide that lists 500 different artworks across the globe that are worth jumping on a plane for... Ranging from islands in Japan to salt lakes in Western Australia, the pages have every landscape covered, with an incredible artwork to match."—MrPorter.com"The aim of the book is simple: to provide a comprehensive guide to public art in city centres, parks and memorials [...] and perhaps, as a result, to encourage people to leave their smartphones, computers and books and to journey to see the real thing."—Aesthetica"I am, for instance, fascinated by the boutique in the middle of the Texas desert: hermetic sculpture that forever displays Prada's 2005 collection of shoes and handbags... Time and time again the book is a useful check-up on the artwork that is out there."—MatureTimes.co.uk"Wether you are a connoisseur or just doing it for Instagram, Phaidon's Destination Art has the top works of public art mapped for you... 500 accessible artworks across 60 countries and 300 cities, with the work's location and descriptions helping you to understand the thought process of the artists. Some may be instantly recognisable [...] but most are likely to be new to you – and will perhaps inspire a trip to see them."—Attitude"[Will make you] break out of your museum rut."—Conde Nast Traveler"Where to plan your next city break – and the art you should hunt out once you're there... In Destination Art: 500 Artworks Worth the Trip confront readers with the question: 'Why do we travel for art?' Inspired by the success of 2017's Destination Architecture, this new guide to the wonders of the art world divides the planet into seven regions: Australasia, Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America and South America. Featured artworks are grouped geographically, and the message championed throughout is one of exploration and enrichment."—AnOthermag.com"What a brilliant idea for a book! Imagine travelling the globe and ticking these off?... Who knew there wasa per,anent Yayoi Kusama work in Brisbane or a Roy Lichtenstein n Singapore? Great diversity is represented in this creative celebrations... If it's ambitious to imagine clocking all 500, dreaming and plotting can't hurt and this book, bristling with incredible, impressive art, will feed that dream."—ArtNews"Organized by continent, Destination Art catalogues some 500 works of permanently installed modern and contemporary art to see on your next holiday-or to simply admire from home."—Western Living Magazine"A celebration of art and travel... Valuable travel information for culture lovers."—Arts Society Review"The book is a guide to art adventures."—Penta"Zoom around the world with Destination Art, a portable survey of geo-specific artworks."—Vogue"Planning a trip? Get inspired with Destination Art, a guidebook featuring 500 travelworthy works... All in situ, meaning they're not coming to your local museum anytime soon. Away you go!"—O, The Oprah Magazine
£22.46
Top Publishers BV What Men Wear And Why
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Abrams The 30 Rock Book
Book SynopsisTrade Review“It’s a miracle when a TV show works. Mike Roe gives us a terrific behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest television comedies ever. I devoured it in a jealous rage.” * Bradley Whitford *“30 Rock is undoubtedly one of the greatest sitcoms in history, and its complete story has finally been told, thanks to this riveting book. A must-read for any fan of the show.” -- author of The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History * Andy Greene *One of the best histories of a sitcom I've ever read. I can't imagine a more definitive look at one of the most influential and wonderful comedies of the past twenty years. -- Mike Sacks * author of Poking a Dead Frog *“Not only a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at one of the best sitcoms of this century, but also a testament to just how much hard work goes into making great television. For fans of 30 Rock––and comedy TV in general––it’s a must-read.” -- Oscar winner and cowriter of BlacKkKlansman * David Rabinowitz *
£11.99
Hato Press Holidays - Jean Jullien
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Dover Publications Inc. Japanese Prints 16 Art Stickers Dover Art
Book SynopsisBeautiful reproductions of Katsushika Hokusai's Kingfisher, Irises, and Pinks; Kitagawa Utamaro's The Courtesan Hinazuru at the Keizetsuro; Eisui's Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, and 13 other works of art.
£5.98
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Smile Stealers
Book SynopsisThis achingly fascinating book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, featuring captivating, grim illustrations of the tools and techniques of dentistry through the ages. It charts the changing social attitudes toward the purpose and practice of dentistry from the crude and painful endeavors of early civilizations to the fluoridated water, cosmetic surgery, and heightened expectations of today.The Smile StealersThe Smile StealersTrade Review'Magnificent … All human life is here – the pain, the suffering and the happiness summed up in the ecstasy of a toothsome smile' - Tatler'I love the thought of The Smile Stealers being casually left in dentists’ waiting rooms … It is gory, beautiful, probing' - The Times'Excellent' - Will Self, Guardian'Thoroughly compelling' - Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction: You Know the Drill • 1. The Natural and Ancient History of the Teeth • 2. Pulling Teeth in Medieval Europe • 3. Fauchard and The Dentistes • 4. Enlightened Extractions • 5. ‘A New Era in Tooth-Pulling!’ • 6. The Skull Beneath the Skin • 7. The Smile of Success
£21.25
Walther Konig, Verlag John Latham A World View
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Phaidon Press Ltd Zhang Xiaogang
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on leading Chinese contemporary artist Zhang XiaogangTrade Review"An impeccable biography, critical companion, and collection of plates into one stunning volume that serves to introduce prominent contemporary Chinese artist Zhang to American audiences."—Publishers Weekly "Disquieting Memories is, for connoisseurs and novices alike, a journey into China's cultural revolution, modernity, and family lives through the eyes of a master artist and observer."—Quartz "A must for contemporary art aficionados."—Design Anthology
£60.00
British Museum Press Hokusais Great Wave Objects in Focus
Book SynopsisTaking an intimate look at the Wave's artistic and historical significance and its influence on popular culture, this concise introduction explains why Hokusai's modern masterpiece had such an impact after its creation in 1830 and why it continues to fascinate, inspire and challenge today.
£6.00
Ridinghouse Talking Art 2: Art Monthly Interviews with
Book SynopsisThe publication comprises the best of Art Monthly''s interviews with some 65 artists, ranging from Marina Abramovic to Artur Zmijewski, which together provide an entertaining and alternative history of art. Since it was founded in 1976 the magazine has consistently published interviews with leading contemporary artists. The collection brought together here offers unique insights into the thought processes and working practices of artists, as wellas evolution of the form of the interview.
£25.21
Thames & Hudson Ltd Seeing Ourselves Womens SelfPortraits
Book SynopsisSplendid a tour de force Its lucid prose, evocative illustrations and handsome production make it a joy to read and savour' Times Higher EducationTrade Review'A landmark study' - Daily Telegraph'A cornucopia of the weird, the chilling and the sublime … lucid and unexpectedly compelling … fantastic' - Observer'Beautifully presented … invites us to consider women’s self-portraiture as a genre in its own right … invaluable' - Times Literary Supplement'Books of this high calibre are few and far between in feminist art history … Written in elegant prose that will draw in even casual readers, it bears a wealth of new material' - Library Journal'Wonderful' - The Times'Borzello, always interesting and pertinent, is a wake-up call which makes the reader aware of how much they may have been missing' - Mature Times'So good, so lavishly illustrated, and so mind-bendingly expansive that I own two copies of it. The first of these is battered, spine-cracked. The other, pristine, I reserve for swooning over' - ObserverTable of Contents1. In the Beginning: The Sixteenth Century • 2. The New Self-Confidence: The Seventeenth Century • 3. Professionals and Amateurs: The Eighteenth Century • 4. The Opening Door: The Nineteenth Century • 5. Breaking Taboos: The Twentieth Century • 6. Feminism and After: Towards the Contemporary
£17.00
Spector Books Bauhaus No. 10: Standard
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Hayward Gallery Publishing Silver and Glass: Cornelia Parker and Photography
Book SynopsisSilver and Glass is the first publication to explore the application and influence of photography in the art of the popular British artist Cornelia Parker (born 1956). The book is illustrated by works from across Parker''s career, including those which arose from her investigations into the photogravure. Inspired by the 19th-century photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, Parker combined two of his early techniques?solar prints and the photogravure?to create a new hybrid form of print by exposing translucent three-dimensional objects to ultraviolet light.Presented here are a collection of 20 large-scale prints from three experimental series: Fox Talbot''s Articles of Glass (2017), One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) (2015). A wide range of Parker''s sculpture and documentary photography is also included.
£14.44
Thames & Hudson Ltd Heaven on Earth
Book SynopsisA superbly written and tightly argued appraisal of the political and religious ramifications of one of the fundamental topics in the history of art the artistic encounter with the transcendent.Trade Review'Utopian modernism has been Clark’s lifetime study, to which this book is an imaginative, heartfelt coda … gracefully skims a tightrope between attentive looking and political thinking' - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times'A tour de force that happily marries art with literature … [Clark] is always lively and engaging … this is art criticism at its best' - Church Times'A more novel and compelling book about art's version of the afterlife, and how it is inflected by worldly politics and reality, can hardly be imagined' - Laura Cumming, Observer Books of the Year'The pleasure of this book lies in the quality of these observations – Clark’s relentlessly keen attention to the small details that ought not to mean a great deal but often send you reeling. He makes you want to squint close to the original, seeing it suddenly aslant' - frieze'Inspiring … it demands to be read from cover to cover, and happily the flow of [Clark’s] prose and the clarity of his argument mean that the experience is a singular delight' - Evening Standard, Art Books of the YearTable of ContentsPreface • Introduction • 1. Giotto and the Angel • 2. Bruegel in Paradise • 3. Poussin and the Unbeliever • 4. Veronese’s Higher Beings • Conclusion: Picasso and the Fall • Coda: For a Left with No Future
£19.96
University of Minnesota Press Hong Kong
Book SynopsisIn an exploration of Hong Kong's cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, this text considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.Table of ContentsCulture in a space of disappearance; the new Hong Kong cinema and the D?j? Disparu; Wong Kar wai - Hong Kong film maker; building on disappearance - Hong Kong architecture and colonial space; photographing disappearance; writing Hong Kong; coda - hyphenation and postculture.
£17.99
Twisted Spoon Press Narcotics: Nicotine, Alcohol, Cocaine, Peyote,
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£15.75
Hispanic Society of America Joyas en EspaÐa 15001800
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£49.52
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig The Invention of the Neue Wilde: Painting and
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£32.30
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Kazimir Malevitch: The Black Square
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£24.48
Gridley Fires Books The Geometry of Universal Mind - Volume 2
Book SynopsisThe second of four volumes concerning the author's ground-breaking insights on Geometry, Mind, and Meaning, complete with diagrams. This volume concerns different aspects of modern science that will bear on this geometry, which will be presented in a more complete form in Volume Three.The sciences concerned are Chaos Theory, Relativity, Quantum Theory, Holography, and others. The book takes from these sciences only what the author sees as applying to the Geometry of Universal Mind. And all things written here are brought back to the significance of meaning in modern life.
£12.02
Aman iman Fleurs du Mal
Book SynopsisFor Charles Baudelaire, the photographic medium is not an art but a technical means of representing reality. As a counterpoint to Baudelaire, Antoine d'Agata reworks his own photographs through digital intervention to return to engraving, as if to go from the pixel to the line of the time. He pushes photography to its limits, discarding the medium to return to the raw. Baudelaire's texts thus enter into dialogue with photographs that have become engravings through wear and tear and manipulation, where the bodies blend together to give way to the poetry of the body. The work is based on the original uncensored edition of Baudelaire's collection accompanied by these engraved prints by d'Agata. Present and past are superimposed. Like a game of transparency that will present the frame of an image on the cover. In this work Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire is a stroller, a spectator of the world around him, of urban transformations, while d'Agata embodies photography, life and reappropriates the space of the city by the gesture. Two personalities meet on the occasion of the 200 years of the birth of Charles Baudelaire. Two artists who could have meet each other, debated, confronted each other. For d'Agata, Baudelaire leaves a legacy that must be pushed to extend its own reflection. The artist intervenes on the edge of Baudelaire's poems with personal reflections and quotations from his favorite thinkers, descendants of Baudelaire's thought: Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord or Georges Bataille. Affixed vertically to the poems, these handwritten interventions assert themselves while leaving the original text its own space. A second sense of reading is thus offered to the reader between Baudelaire's text and the interpretation given by d'Agata through the words as much as through the engravings.
£34.00
Photo Editions Ltd Folly
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Long Prawn Devils on Horseback
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£25.20
Caryatide Dixit 04 - On Process
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£17.10
Slanted Publishers UG What Should I Say—About Seoul
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£20.90
Phaidon Press Ltd Dana Schutz
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive monograph on one of today’s most innovative and successful painters – made in close collaboration with the artist Defined by bold brushstrokes, a dynamic use of color and imaginative compositions, the paintings of Dana Schutz are panoramic expanses that offer visions of humanity in all its complex facets. Her deeply subjective approach, untethered from realism, translates into images that seem to exist in a place that transcends time while celebrating the intrinsic qualities of her medium of choice with freedom and intelligence. As the artist herself stated, ‘I’m interested in painting as an affective place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting.’ This first comprehensive monograph on her work was created in close collaboration with the artist and features a number of never-before-seen paintings and drawings.
£31.96
Unicorn Publishing Group Liotard: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe
Book SynopsisJean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) was one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic and witty artists of 18th-century Europe. Born in Geneva, he pursued a remarkable career, travelling across the continent and the Near East, portraying a riveting cross-section of society. Liotard worked in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Constantinople and Vienna and excelled as a specialist in the delicate art of pastel. He became renowned for the uncanny realism of his portraits as well as the beauty of his drawings, while also experimenting with watercolour, oil painting, printmaking and enamels. In Britain he enjoyed notoriety because of his exotic persona, and received commissions from royalty, aristocrats, grand tourists and celebrities. LIOTARD: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe plots the career and practice and reputation of an extraordinary artist who deserves to be better known. This new study throws light on the wider cultural environment he navigated, illuminating connected themes, including fashion history, orientalism and the promotion and display of portraits in the public and private spheres of Enlightenment Europe.
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Sadie Coles HQ Everyday
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Unicorn Publishing Group Roger Bamber: Out of the Ordinary
Book SynopsisRoger Bamber, for fifty years one of Britain’s leading photojournalists, has poured his life’s work into this unique reflection of a career that encompassed not only riots and bombings and the crazy world of rock and pop in the twentieth century but recorded with a sympathetic eye the demise of traditional British industries and the old steam railways. His graphic photographs are well known for their distinctive, often wryly humorous, style and strong visual impact and have been widely published worldwide. He was British Press Photographer of the Year, twice British News Photographer of the Year and won many awards for his features on the arts. Towards the end of his career he worked mainly for the Guardian and was happiest finding creative people with a story to tell. He preferred working outdoors, ideally within sight of the sea, and showcasing ordinary people – celebrating just how extraordinary all of us can be.Trade Review“A true pictorialist, he captures the beauty of shape and form, always with a wry sense of humour and even a twist of anarchy.” – Eamonn McCabe "A wonderful showcase of a photographer who captured the music, politics and social changes of the latter half of the 20th century like no one else." – I News "A picture editor's dream, whose distinctive eye created engaging and striking images that captured an ordinary moment in an extraordinary way." – Sussex Life "An IRA bomb victim, a miniature railway obsessive and Thatcher with a handful of cow dung – these superb images tell a vivid tale of Britain" – The Guardian
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Persephone Books Ltd The Other Day
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Set Margins' publications Diagrammatic Writing
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Floating Opera Press English in Berlin
Book SynopsisIn Kreuzberg cafe?s or Neuko?lln vintage shops, cosmopolitan Berlin speaks English as a matter of course. But how did the English language take hold in these places? Who speaks English in Berlin and who is excluded in doing so? Isn't it just a short while ago that groups who conversed in a language other than German were stigmatised as parallel societies by the German media? Political geographer Sinthujan Varatharajah and artist Moshtari Hilal explore these questions in an Instagram live conversation, available in this volume in an extended version in German and English translation. They uncover the underlying double standards and capital interests of the German mainstream society, trace the links with gentrification and asylum policy, and search for forms of equitable cultural work. Moshtari Hilal is an artist living in Hamburg. Sinthujan Varatharajah is a researcher and essayist living in Berlin. In a live Instagram conversation in 2021, they triggered an intense debate about Nazi traditions after 1945.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I
Book SynopsisThis book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix (18911969) and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936.Dix's thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly influenced his post-war artistic career, saw him produce some of the most enduring images of the conflict and establish himself as one of Europe's leading modernists.Offering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, the book examines Dix's war pictures within the broader visual culture of war in order to assess how they functioned alternatively as cutting-edge modernist art and transgressive war commemoration. Each chapter provides a case study of the first public display of one or more of Dix's war pictures at key exhibitions and explores how their reception was subjected to changing socio-political and cultural conditions as well as divergent attitudes to the lost war
£22.49
UPPERCASE publishing inc Art Supplies: Making Manufacturing and Creating.
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Inpatient Press First Pylon
Book SynopsisMelding historical and literary references with poignant personal experiences, Cole Lu's work tells stories of dissonance and longing through spiraling odysseys anchored by obscure characters of ancient mythology, a motley assemblage of demigods, daemons, and spirits. First Pylon is a compendium of Lu''s vellum drawings which are the precursors to his pieces made of burnt wood panels and linen, accompanied by a corresponding collection of his poetry and writing. With his burned work, Lu returns to the origin of storytelling by writing with fire. In First Pylon, Lu traces what came before the fire and envisions a new mythos born from beyond the flame.(The Ninth Sun)Of the journey itself,he has no recollectionexcept for a sound of thundermade from the burning of Time,all the hours piled upinto a bonfire,flickering,the yearsblazingbehind him.
£27.00
HarperCollins Publishers Francis L Leigh Myself and I
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Aman iman THE EYES #12 B-SIDE
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£19.80
Oldie Publications Ltd The Very Best of The Oldie Cartoons
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£8.50
University of Texas Press The Florida Project
Book SynopsisIn Sean Baker's award-winning 2017 film The Florida Project, a young girl, her single mother, and her friends live in rundown motels near Disney World, the children's summer fun contrasting with the grim conditions around them. In this book, J. J. Murphy delves deep into the movie's development and filming while also examining it within the wider context of Baker's career. Using production documents, different versions of the screenplay, and interviews with principal members of the production team, Murphy traces the evolution of The Florida Project from initial idea through its various stages of production. He highlights Baker's unconventional strategies in making a film about a marginalized subculture, including alternative scripting, guerrilla-like filmmaking, improvisation, and the unorthodox casting of local and first-time actors. Murphy also explores how Baker's impromptu style sometimes rankled crew members and caused a major crisis on set, revealing the difficulties indie filmTrade Review[The Florida Project] is a marvelous guide to the making and understanding of an important film...Rarely has a recent independent success been so meticulously and entertainingly explored. * The Film Stage *Table of ContentsIntroduction Origins of the Film The Making of The Florida Project Reception Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Hatje Cantz 101 Danish Design Icons
Book SynopsisDenmark has long since written international design history. Today, Danish furniture, textiles, and home appliances and utensils from the sixties and seventies are more popular than ever. The beautiful pieces are meanwhile for sale at design galleries and have become a rarity at flea markets. In short, Nordic items for everyday use have become internationally sought-after trophies for sophisticates. This publication provides an extensive overview of those everyday objects that have to this day written design history both in Denmark as well as worldwide. Along with thirty-two leading scholars and journalists, the head of the library and research at the Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen, Lars Dybdahl, advances into the fascinating history of the individual objects. Playfully presented and situated in their historical context, the catalogue sheds new light on this unique world of objects.
£35.20
National Portrait Gallery Tudor Jacobean Portraits
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Capricious LLC Pro Anatomy
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Draw Like a Boss Draw Like a Boss 2
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£42.75
cosmogenesis Atlas of Anomalous AI
Book SynopsisWhat do the divinatory practices of Ancient Greece?s Oracle of Delphi, the Incan knotted quipu counting device, the I Ching, the nine billion names of God and Elizabethan mathematician John Dee have to do with artificial intelligence? The Atlas of Anomalous AI is a compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas draws on art historian Aby Warburg?s Mnemosyne Atlas ? an image map of the ?afterlife of antiquity? ? to approach the defining concepts of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalising perspective. The Atlas presents a hyperdimensional view of the world, through a broad range of perspectives that explore the question of what AI has been and what it is becoming. Key texts on modelling, prediction and automation are brought together with stories of science fiction, dreams and human knowledge, set among visionary and surreal images by Emma Kunz, Pablo Amaringo, Carl Jung, Hilma af Klint, William Blake.The Atlas expands our common understanding of AI and raises new questions beyond a illusory fixation on linear progression, towards a new horizon of infinite play in the construction of artificial intelligence today.
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Peter Fischli & David Weiss: Haus
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