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The Flap-O-Phone, A Site-Specific Turntable, Christopher Delaurenti
The Flap-O-Phone, A Site-Specific Turntable, Christopher Delaurenti
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This article gives an overview of the author's site specific turntable, the flapophone. Supplemental attached files include images, audio, and video of the flapophone being played by the author.
Miró’S Politics, Charles J. Palermo
Miró’S Politics, Charles J. Palermo
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Filippo Brunelleschi built a perspective device that combined a rendering of the Florence baptistery with a mirror. Its story is one of the origin myths of the art and science of perspectival projection—of what the Florentine renaissance called costruzzione leggitima. Brunelleschi painted a small picture of the Florentine baptistery, which is located directly opposite the entrance of the Florentine cathedral. This picture and the accompanying apparatus were to provide a demonstration of a new technique, which we now call perspective. But Brunelleschi wanted his picture not just to show this technique, but also to demonstrate its accuracy, its special …
“Pandemonium” (1976) By Joyce Mansour , English Translation, Joyce Mansour, Katharine Conley
“Pandemonium” (1976) By Joyce Mansour , English Translation, Joyce Mansour, Katharine Conley
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English translation by Katharine Conley of the French poem "Pandemonium" (1976) by Joyce Mansour.
Carrington's Kitchen, Katharine Conley
Carrington's Kitchen, Katharine Conley
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This essay argues that the objects in Leonora Carrington’s kitchen, as represented in her writing and painting, are comparable to the objects in Breton’s study, as he writes about them and has them photographed. Her most emblematic object - the cauldron - epitomizes the way she mixes the ingredients of her art, creating new substances through a literal process of embodiment. In comparison, Breton predominantly matches the ingredients of his art, through his strategy of juxtaposition, following the combinatory principle of the surrealist image, the spark that stimulates automatism’s flow. Both sets of objects reflect the spaces that house them …