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Oral History Transcript | Interview With Ronald (Ron) Binks, May 3, 2007, Ronald (Ron) Binks, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives, Peter O'Neill May 2007

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Ronald (Ron) Binks, May 3, 2007, Ronald (Ron) Binks, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives, Peter O'Neill

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

No abstract provided.


Oral History Transcript | Interview With Nicholas Evans-Cato, April 30, 2007, Nicholas Evans-Cato, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives Apr 2007

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Nicholas Evans-Cato, April 30, 2007, Nicholas Evans-Cato, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

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Oral History Transcript | Interview With Ezio Genovesi, March 28, 2007, Ezio Genovesi, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives Mar 2007

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Ezio Genovesi, March 28, 2007, Ezio Genovesi, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

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Oral History Transcript | Interview With Baruch Kirschenbaum, March 25, 2007, Baruch D. Kirschenbaum, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives Mar 2007

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Baruch Kirschenbaum, March 25, 2007, Baruch D. Kirschenbaum, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

No abstract provided.


Muffin 2007, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Mar 2007

Muffin 2007, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Muffin was a newsletter produced in the early aughts by RISD’s Queer Student Union as a student guide to queer culture. The 2007 issue features articles on the Translating Identity Conference (TIC), sexual consent, the integration of rival lesbian groups on campus, lesbian films, and Brokeback Mountain, along with creative writing, a list of gay bars, and a list of queer resources.


Feathers, Flowers, Talons And Fangs: Power And Serenity In Japanese Nature Prints, Deborah Del Gais, Judith A. Singsen Feb 2007

Feathers, Flowers, Talons And Fangs: Power And Serenity In Japanese Nature Prints, Deborah Del Gais, Judith A. Singsen

Journals

Exhibition Notes, Number 26, Winter 2007. Fierce tigers and awe-inspiring dragons—these subjects hardly seem to fit into the same category as delicate songbirds like the nightingale and blossoms as ephemeral as the cherry. Even so, a wide array of flora and fauna and bugs and beasts appears in Japanese prints of the genre traditionally called “birds and flowers” (kachō). These Edo-period prints (1608-1867) reflect the profound Japanese appreciation for the natural world.


Radio Kills, Francesco Spampinato, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Radio Kills, Francesco Spampinato, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Art History

1 sound disc (17 minutes) : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. Cover title. "Title from container. Numbered edition of 100 copies. Side A. Radio Kills 1901-1919 (8 min., 32 sec.) -- Side B. Radio Kills 1919-1920 (8 min., 45 sec.). Concept, design: Franceso Spampinato. Sound Engineer: Silver Verlicchi. Radio Kills is a sound collage inspired by the heavy-metal cult movie Trick or Threat (1986) in which a record played backwards contains subliminal messages that encourage violence and murder. In Radio Kills it is the radio to be heard backwards: Italian music, commercial, religious and political radio stations. Like Trick or Threat, …


Artist's Labor, Derek Whitehead Jan 2007

Artist's Labor, Derek Whitehead

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This essay explores the relations between perception, phenomenology and art practice. The object of my inquiry is the kind of perceptual repertoire available to the artist in relation to his art, which extends beyond the technical means available to art making in its varying forms. I invoke an artist's innate perception as the source and locus of art's creation. This creation of art also has an outward or phenomenological dimension. In this respect, I investigate the ways in which phenomenological perception, via Maurice Merleau-Ponty's hermeneutic insights into artistic activity, might offer to contemporary arts practice a means of reappraising its …


2007-2008 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives Jan 2007

2007-2008 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

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Editorial Jan 2007

Editorial

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Notices Jan 2007

Notices

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Aesthetics And The Environment: Repatriating Humanity, Nikolaos Gkogkas Jan 2007

Aesthetics And The Environment: Repatriating Humanity, Nikolaos Gkogkas

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

If aesthetics is to claim its place among the fundamental philosophical disciplines, it must adequately deal with the ecological challenge, that is, the need to explain the continuity-relation between human and non-human environments. To that effect, Arnold Berleant's aesthetics of engagement constitutes an attractive proposal. Its critics (Allen Carlson and others) seem to miss its point and attack it on the basis of a particular understanding of Kantian aesthetics (mainly the disinterestedness thesis). But not only can Berleant's aesthetics meet the ecological challenge; it is also possible that it encourages a re-evaluation of traditional aesthetic categories (like disinterestedness) without necessarily …


Recent Publications Jan 2007

Recent Publications

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Words And Worlds: Irony Makes Literary Creations, Alastair Goff Jan 2007

Words And Worlds: Irony Makes Literary Creations, Alastair Goff

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this paper I take up anew the suggestion recurrent in the work of Kierkegaard and Lukács, among others, that literature is fundamentally ironic. Literary creations, I argue, are ironic because they convey the real world, even though the worldhood of this world is ineffable. In creating a world from words in a novel or poem, the author confronts his or her own skepticism about the possibilities of written expression. Literary creations are only completed when the reader is able to engage with the world of words that is constituted in the work, and to realize that what is said …


Geoaesthetics: New Orleans, Landscape, And Eros, Robert Frodeman Jan 2007

Geoaesthetics: New Orleans, Landscape, And Eros, Robert Frodeman

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The success of contemporary society in producing knowledge serves to highlight the breakdown between knowledge production and its use. New Orleans and Katrina offer one example of this breakdown. All the knowledge necessary for acting beforehand was available; the problem was not one of knowledge but of will. Geoaesthetics, appropriating the erotic nature of our relationship to the land, is offered as an inter- and transdisciplinary means for making disciplinary knowledge more pertinent.


Cockroaches, Or Worlds As Images, Nathalie Blanc Jan 2007

Cockroaches, Or Worlds As Images, Nathalie Blanc

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The cockroach is an insect of tropical origin whose presence in urban space draws our attention to the fact that the city is not only an artificial and controlled universe but also a porous one because of the interstices through which the animals slip. This article analyzes the role of animals in cities, and more particularly of the cockroach, in the city dweller's imagination and in the construction of an aesthetic experience of urban life. Imagination, metaphor, and domestication are the clues to understanding a sharp, active thought of the lived environment. One will thus approach the place of aesthetics …


Acquired Taste, Kevin Melchionne Jan 2007

Acquired Taste, Kevin Melchionne

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Acquired taste is an integral part of the cultivation of taste. In this essay, I identify acquired taste as a form of intentional belief acquisition or adaptive preference formation, distinguishing it from ordinary or discovered taste. This account of acquired taste allows for the role of self-deception in the development of taste. I discuss the value of acquired taste in the overall development of taste as well as the ways that an over-reliance on acquired taste can distort overall taste.


Film And The Public Memory: The Phenomena Of Nonfiction Film Fragments, James F. Moyer Jan 2007

Film And The Public Memory: The Phenomena Of Nonfiction Film Fragments, James F. Moyer

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Film theory and philosophy have in recent decades rightly critiqued earlier theorists' claims for the fundamentally realist nature of the cinema, and of photography generally. While cognizant of the problematic status of "realist" representation-of photography being somehow purely or naively representative-this essay nevertheless deliberately recuperates a realist discourse with which to value some forms of nonfiction film. The essay sees "nonfiction film fragments" as a form of witnessing, and tries to articulate our experience of such film in terms of memorializing the people and events it bears witness to. The essay goes even further in its claims on behalf of …


Implied World Views In Pictures: Reflections From A Cognitive Psychological And Anthropological Point Of View, Michael Ranta Jan 2007

Implied World Views In Pictures: Reflections From A Cognitive Psychological And Anthropological Point Of View, Michael Ranta

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In traditional art history, iconological attempts to analyze visual works of art by treating their formal and semantic features as symptoms of more general, implied world views or cultures have occurred rather frequently. Still, such attempts have been criticized for permitting subjective and non-verifiable interpretations. In this paper, however, I will argue that (i) pictorial works of art indeed imply wider world views or schemata, and (ii) that our comprehension of these schemata can be explained by taking into account recent research within cognitive psychology. More specifically, I will argue that intelligence partly consists of the storage and retrieval of …


Poetics And Maieutics: Literature And Tacit Knowledge Of Emotions, Stefán Snaevarr Jan 2007

Poetics And Maieutics: Literature And Tacit Knowledge Of Emotions, Stefán Snaevarr

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The theme of this paper is the idea that imaginative literature can disclose our tacit knowledge of emotions. It this does with the aid of such devices as metaphors and similes. The kind of insight we get thanks to the disclosive power of literature is akin to that which Kjell S. Johannessen has called 'knowledge by familiarity,' Frank Palmer 'knowing what' and Charles Taylor implicitly 'the result of articulation.' I defend the theory that at least some important emotions cannot be understood (or even exist) outside of behavioral contexts and that this understanding is mainly tacit. I try to show …


Secret Recipes For The Modern Wife: From Accommodating Breakfasts To Just Desserts, Recipes For Deteriorating Marriages., Nava Atlas, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Secret Recipes For The Modern Wife: From Accommodating Breakfasts To Just Desserts, Recipes For Deteriorating Marriages., Nava Atlas, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

spiral bound; cover; page spreads.


Enclosure Exposure : Data Protection Patterning, Elizabeth Duffy, Dikko Faust, Esther K. Smith, Purgatory Pie Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Enclosure Exposure : Data Protection Patterning, Elizabeth Duffy, Dikko Faust, Esther K. Smith, Purgatory Pie Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

8 unnumbered pages : illustrations . "Instabook 3" Letterpress, diecut, and printed collagraph, and handset type in blue and black, signed and numbered in an edition of 200 by the artist together with Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith of Purgatory Pie. "Purgatory Pie Press and the artist Elizabeth Duffy have collaborated on a book that utilizes as source material everyday ephemeral patterns, specifically the interior security patterns of envelopes and the visual language of analog mail. The result is a page-turner of overlapping patterns and forms. Purgatory and Duffy culled patterns from their junk mail to create this paean …


Drawings On A Bus, Ellsworth Kelly, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Drawings On A Bus, Ellsworth Kelly, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[44] pages : chiefly illus. Facsimile edition of a 1954 sketchbook. Sketchbook 23, 1954 Bauen in Eisenbeton, bauen in Eisen, bauen in Frankreich At head of cover title: Sigfried Giedion : bauen in Eisenbeton, bauen in Eisen, bauen in Frankreich. Title on p. [4] of cover: Giedion : bauen in Eisen und Eisenbeton.


Asian American Project, Irene Chan, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Asian American Project, Irene Chan, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 case, 35 cards. An open edition artist book. Contains 35 loose and unnumbered cards, much like business cards. Print media on paper, with press name Ch'An punched out. Housed in a red, white, and blue paper case with slip-in envelope closure.


Barbie Paper Doll: A Transformed Wardrobe With Textile Mill History, Irene Chan, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Barbie Paper Doll: A Transformed Wardrobe With Textile Mill History, Irene Chan, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 artist's book : color illustrations. Written, designed, and produced by Irene Chan ... produced in an edition of 10 copies. Place of publication for Elsewhere Artist Collaborative from box. Digital prints of cut paper doll clothes. Found object into sculptural book. Printed and illustrated paper box with paper doll, doll clothes, and printed leaf of references for text and images. "American textile history is printed on sixteen paper doll Barbie's clothes. Original doll from 1980 found at Elsewhere Museum and Residency. History is in the form of text and images from mill worker interviews and portraits, tools, statistics, and …


Pig 05049 : 1:1, Christien Meindertsma, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Pig 05049 : 1:1, Christien Meindertsma, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (various pagings) : chiefly ill. (chiefly color). "Concept, photography, design & illustrations, Christien Meindertsma"--title page verso. The project was exhibited in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 2008. 3rd printing, Oct. 2009. Includes index. "Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel. Meindertsma makes the subject more approachable by reducing everything to the scale of one animal. After it's death, Pig number 05049 was shipped in parts …


I Am The Place Where I Am, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

I Am The Place Where I Am, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[32] pages : ill. (some color), maps (1 folded) "First edition limited to 150 numbered copies."--Colophon. "This book was designed by Hoon Kim, and all photos were taken from Google Earth."--Colophon. [8] page color booklet (13 x 10 cm.) stapled into the center. Cover is a folded map (28 x 38 cm.) Gift of Hoon Kim.


Abracadabra: An Homage To N.H. Werkman, Werner Pfeiffer, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Abracadabra: An Homage To N.H. Werkman, Werner Pfeiffer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

2 dimensional flexagons and corresponding loose plates, enclosed in a four sided, cloth covered shaped portfolio; cover; various elements; detail; flat view of flexagon structure; detail. A tribute to the life and work of N.H. Werkman, noted German Graphic Designer. As Werkman playfully used text and letter forms as image, the flexagons revolve to reconfigure each composition.


Connect The Dots, Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Connect The Dots, Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

long stitch with cloth-covered cover boards, housed in a wrap box with plexi front and magnet closure; closed book inside cloth covered box; cloth covered box open with book inside; interior of cloth covered box; book cover without box; interior page; page spread. number 9 in an edition of 18, signed by the artist


Sehnsüchtig, Amber Gayle, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2007

Sehnsüchtig, Amber Gayle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

stab bound album, sewn cloth hinges; perfect bound; cover; page spreads; interior pages, back cover. In fhe form of a handmade photo album, this book recalls memories of a lake and longing for love. Written by Amber Gayle, produced by twin sister Stacy Erin Forte (formerly Wakefield), RISD Alumna.