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On a summer's night in Athens, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade. His body completed the tableau. This is a two-sided ethnography: one from the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead.

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"This is a beautiful and brilliant book.... The lives of Allen C. Shelton, Patrik Keim, Walter Benjamin, and many others intersect in these pages, rubbing up against each other, drawing on each other to evoke layers upon layers of worlds in which objects, color, and texture are everything. Shelton's writing is masterful." (Kathleen C. Stewart, author of Ordinary Affects)"

Where the North Sea Touches Alabama

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/25/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226063645, 978-0226063645
      ISBN10: 022606364X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      On a summer's night in Athens, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade. His body completed the tableau. This is a two-sided ethnography: one from the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead.

      Trade Review
      "This is a beautiful and brilliant book.... The lives of Allen C. Shelton, Patrik Keim, Walter Benjamin, and many others intersect in these pages, rubbing up against each other, drawing on each other to evoke layers upon layers of worlds in which objects, color, and texture are everything. Shelton's writing is masterful." (Kathleen C. Stewart, author of Ordinary Affects)"

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