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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Falling for Gravity: Invisible Forces in
Book SynopsisThis book begins with the observation that contemporary artists have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade. Necessarily focusing on material practices – chiefly sculpture, installation, performance, and film – this discussion takes account of how and why artists have used gravity and explores the similarities between their work and the popular cultural forms of circus, vaudeville, burlesque, and film. Works by Rodney Graham, Stan Douglas, and Robert Smithson are mediated through ideas of Gnostic doubt, atomism, and new materialism. In other examples – by John Wood and Paul Harrison, Gordon Matta-Clark, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Trisha Brown, and Bas Jan Ader – mass and momentum, falling objects, and falling bodies are examined in relation to architecture, sculpture, and dance. In performances, projects and events curated by Bruce Nauman, Santiago Sierra, and Catherine Yass, gravity is resisted in Sisyphean ordeals and death-defying stunts. This account of contemporary art and performance, read through the invisible membrane of gravity, exposes new and distinctive approaches to agency reduction, authorial doubt, and redemptive failure. Table of ContentsCONTENTS: On Shaky Ground – The Cosmic Cage – Heavy Stuff – Vertigo – Critical Mass
£43.02
David & Charles Indigo Warriors: The Adventure Begins!
Book SynopsisAn exciting action romp, exploring environmental issues, homelessness, politics, animal welfare and `disability' as six children battle to promote kindness and compassion over cruelty and greed, assisted by a hapless guardian angel. When they meet on a school bus, Polly, Angela, Peter, Noah, Josh and Jet decide to join forces and set out to help planet Earth and its inhabitants: human and non-human. Calling themselves the Indigo Warriors, they have meetings, argue a lot, often come to wrong conclusions, and find themselves in danger at the hands of a criminal gang. Struggling to decide whose cause matters most, they distil their ideas into a `Manifesto for a Better Life' but can they get their manifesto to the people who matter ... the politicians?Trade ReviewIndigo Warriors. The Adventure Begins is a must read. Geelong U3A Dog Handling Skills Class.Table of Contents1. An angel in the attic 2. The tree at the end of the road 3. Pigs! 4. Meetings 5. Warriors 6. The charity shop 7. Politics
£9.49
