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Manual / Issue 13 / Storage, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Christina Alderman, Isaac M. Alderman, A.H. Jerriod Avant, Matthew Bird, Hannah Carlson, Wai Yee Chiong, John Dunnigan, Maria Morris Hambourg, David Hartt, Elaine Tyler May, Claire Mccardell, Denise Murrell, Ingrid Schaffner, Holly Schaffer, Tanya Sheehan, John W. Smith, Mimi Smith, Sassan Tabatabai, Allan Wexler, Fred Wilson

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Storage. Manual 13 opens with an introduction by Fred Wilson, who confides, “You can look at all the opulence on display in a museum and begin to understand that something nefarious might be behind it. Storage, for me, is where the action is.” "Museums usually make choices for viewers, their curators presenting what they think most important within a category. They can be so good at doing this that visitors sometimes don’t realize there’s anything else to see: they don’t realize the nature of the decisions behind an exhibition, and they accept …

Manual / Issue 9 / Out Of Line, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Fida Adely, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Stefano Bloch, Mimi Cabell, Namita Vijay Dharia, Douglas W. Doe, Jared A. Goldstein, Lucinda Hitchcock, Jan Howard, Kate Irvin, Douglas Kearney, Amber Lopez, Jeffery Moser, Sheida Soleimani, Craig Taylor

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Out of Line. The nineth issue. This issue of *Manual*—themed Out of Line—is a collection about the way that lines disrupt, point outward. In poetry, the attention to detail one takes in crafting a line is all about making the line disappear, making something it holds to take front stage. . . . The space between the lines creating the image . . . the space around that argues for the importance of all that the lines hold. Manual 9 (Out of Line) complemented Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now, …

Manual / Issue 7 / Alchemy, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Markus Berger, Rachel Berwick, Stephen S. Bush, Ca Conrad, Florence Friedman, Doreen Garner, Michael Grugl, Kate Irvin, Mimi Leveque, Dominic Molon, Douglas R. Nickel, Emily J. Peters, Elizabeth A. Williams, Bryan Mcgovern Wilson, Diming Stella Zhong

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Alchemy. The seventh issue. Manual 7 (Alchemy) prompts the unexpected and emergent to manifest.

"To engage as an alchemist/artist is to be the perpetual student of the present moment, to synthesize culture, so-called science, and the implications of existential borders into a discipline that is repeatable, a practice. Art and alchemy are not singular, unified pursuits. Their practitioners are trans-disciplinary, disjointed, and solitary in their practice, and their labor and the ordering of their lives become porous, overlaid in the pursuit of other-than or beyond-dominant modes of understanding.

"Alchemy and art are …

Manual / Issue 6 / Assemblage, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Eric Anderson, Taylor Elyse Anderson, Bob Dilworth, Christina Hemauer, Roman Keller, Mariani Lefas-Tetenes, Simone Leigh, Leora Maltz-Leca, Ingrid A. Neuman, Tara Nummedal, Todd Oldham, Britany Salsbury

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Assemblage. The sixth issue. An assemblage is both an act and a result-the work of gathering and conjoining as well as the state of having been gathered and conjoined. This issue of Manual pieces together works made out of practical necessity and others that marry dazzling embellishments for optimal effect, examining how history (or one version of it) was (and is) pastiched from disparate sources, how fashionable textile samples were collected, and more (always more). An assembly of assemblages, an assortment of intended and unintended interrelationships, Manual issue six is the sum …

Manual / Issue 4 / Blue, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Lawrence Berman, A. Will Brown, Linda Catano, Spencer Finch, Jessica Helfend, Kate Irvin, Dominic Molon, Maggie Nelson, Ingrid Neuman, Margot Mcilwain Nishimura, Karen B. Schloss, Anna Strickland, Louis Van Tilborgh, Oda Van Maanen, Elizabeth A. Williams

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Blue.The fourth issue. Indigo blue, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, zaffre blue, indanthrone blue, phthalo blue, cyan blue, Han blue, French blue, Berlin blue, Prussian blue, Venetian blue, Dresden blue, Tiffany blue, Lanvin blue, Majorelle blue, International Klein Blue, Facebook blue. The names given to different shades of blue speak of plants, minerals, and modern chemistry; exoticism, global trade, and national pride; capitalist branding and pure invention. The fourth issue of Manual is a meditation on blue. From precious substance to controllable algorithm to the wide blue yonder, join us …

Manual / Issue 3 / Circus, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Gina Borromeo, Alison W. Chang, Michelle Clayton, Jim Drain, Daniel Heyman, Andrew Martinez, Ellen Mcbreen, Thangam Ravindranathan, Rebecca Schneider, Susan Smulyan, Gwen Strahle

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Circus. The third issue centers on the theme of "Circus." Includes analyses of various pieces in the museum's archive, a fold-out poster by Jim Drain, and a selection of artworks owned by the museum that loosely address said theme.

Softcover, 62 pages. Published 2014 by the RISD Museum. Manual 3 (Circus) contributors include Gina Borromeo, Alison W. Chang, Michelle Clayton, Jim Drain, Daniel Heyman, Andrew Martinez, Ellen McBreen, Thangam Ravindranathan, Rebecca Schneider, Susan Smulyan, and Gwen Strahle.

Pilgrims Of Beauty: Art And Inspiration In 19th Century Italy, Crawford Alexander Mann Iii

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Exhibition Notes, Number 38, Spring 2012. In the 19th century Italy was the most desirable destination for travelers from every corner of Europe and beyond. Thousands crossed mountains, even oceans, to go there, leaving their "barbarous” homelands to study and admire Italy’s unsurpassed aesthetic and cultural riches. A poem in the New England Magazine in 1831 described the goals and ideals of visiting Italy on a European Grand Tour, calling those who did so "pilgrims of beauty.” Like religious pilgrims of centuries past, these lovers of art participated in a ritual journey, a powerful shared experience of Italy’s magnificent landscape, …

Evolution/Revolution: The Arts And Crafts In Contemporary Fashion And Textiles, Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, Amy Pickworth, Editor

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Exhibition Notes, Number 28, Spring 2008. Evolution/Revolution brings together the textile work of designers from the U.S., Britain, Europe, South and Central America, and Japan, and draws philosophical parallels between these contemporary artists and those of the Arts and Crafts Movement of 19th-century Britain.The exhibition is organized around the themes of Storytelling, Experimentation and Materials, Collaboration, and Art and Life—key ideas that spring from the Arts and Crafts spirit.

One of the most widely influential art and design movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Arts and Crafts Movement was an aesthetic and political response to a world stripped …

Styrofoam: From Industrial Invention To Artistic Transformation, Judith Tannenbaum, Amy Pickworth, Editor

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Exhibition Notes, Number 29, Spring 2008. Ubiquitous in our culture, styrofoam is used to insulate buildings, package computers and other consumer products, and produce picnic coolers and containers for fast food and take-out. For decades, artists have employed styrofoam in the making of models and molds for casting. Today, however, more and more artists are exploring it as a primary material or a subject in its own right, using it in new and ingenious ways to create sculpture, paintings, and installations.

Crisis Response: An Exhibition Of Art Created In Times Of Conflict And Catastrophe From The Assassination Of Jfk To 9/11, Karl Schoonover

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Exhibtion Notes, Fall 2002. A group of works in this exhibition emphasizes the differing investments of individuals and groups in the icons of patriotism. Some artists borrow and transform recognizable icons and symbols to invite a dialogue with their viewers about the role of patriotism in troubled times.

The Object Of Ornament: European Design, 1480-1800, Judith A. Singsen

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Exhibition Notes, Number 18, Spring 2002. This exhibition arose from a collaboration between participants in a Brown University art-history seminar of Fall 2001 and curators from three departments at The RISD Museum: Costume and Textiles; Decorative Arts; and Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. Studying each department's resources in the area of European ornament, the group examined how the work of artisans in materials such as wood, metal, fiber, and ceramics responded to and participated in the inventions of designers who drew patterns for prints. In the exhibition, related ornamented objects are clustered according to the themes of entertaining, study, dress, and …

1927 Journal, Edith Rankin Macmillan

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1926 Journal, Edith Rankin Macmillan

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1913 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1912 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1911 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1910 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1908-1909 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1908 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1907 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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Kirksville, Missouri, Trip (October 5, 1906, Through June 25, 1907), Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1906 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1905 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1904 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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California Trip (December 18, 1903, Through July 21, 1904), Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1903 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1902 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1900 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1899 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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1898 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

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