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An Icelandic Saga, Part I, Dorothoy Iannone, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

An Icelandic Saga, Part I, Dorothoy Iannone, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[12] pages : illus. Booklet published on the occasion of the exhibition: Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone, held May 22-Sept. 11, 2005, Sprengel Museum Hannover. Title from colophon: An Icelandic Saga, 1978, 1983, 1986. Booklet originally issued mounted on the inside backcover of the Roth/Iannone exhibition catalog. Notes for an autobiography, part II, Berlin 1978, continued on the request of D. Schwarz.

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Hunkering : The Last Gaebberjabb Number Eight And Ix/Xviths Or Aleatory Annexations Or Odd Bondings Or Fortuitous Encounters With Incompatible Realities Or Love, Anguish, Wonder ... / Largely By Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady ; Augmented By Henrik Drescher, Patrick Flynn, David Mclimans, Peter Sis, And William Stafford., Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Hunkering : The Last Gaebberjabb Number Eight And Ix/Xviths Or Aleatory Annexations Or Odd Bondings Or Fortuitous Encounters With Incompatible Realities Or Love, Anguish, Wonder ... / Largely By Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady ; Augmented By Henrik Drescher, Patrick Flynn, David Mclimans, Peter Sis, And William Stafford., Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[160] pages : illustrations (some color), portraits. Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 8. The eighth book in Hamady's "series" known as Interminable gabberjabbs. Edition of 108 copies. Mounted, signed collage on page [24]. Includes handprinting, marbled endpapers, collage, rubber stamping, maps, envelopes, postage stamps, special papers and mounted elements. "Here is the fade-out volume of an unforseen series begun in 1976. It was printed on our single-owner, all-manual, Vandercook SP-15 in more than 285 press-runs utilizing a numerosity of colors, typefaces and papers--hand, mould and machine made. In addition to the usual lay-ons of languid letterpressing, there is an affluence …

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Conversations In The Sky, Andre Bassuet Lee, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Conversations In The Sky, Andre Bassuet Lee, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 folded sheet. Numbered and signed edition of 100 copies Photography and design by André Lee. Printed in Osaka, Japan --colophon. "When I look at the modern Japanese landscape, I see continuous lines of communication, telephone wires connecting friends and family. The Japanese sky is unique in it's infinite lines against a mountainous and architectural backdrop. Can you imagine all the conversations going on in the sky through telephone threads?"--colophon. A single thread runs through the entire text and covers. Accordion fold. Text and back cover printed in light blue on white. Cover printed in light blue and green on …

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It Wasn't Little Rock, Clarissa Sligh, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

It Wasn't Little Rock, Clarissa Sligh, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) . Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) decision. "This softcover edition of 150 books was printed on an Indigo Digital Press"--Colophon. Author describes her family's experience with racism and school integration. As a high school student, the author was named lead plaintiff in Clarissa Thompson et al. v. County School Board of Arlington County (June 1956), a school desegregation class action suit filed in U.S. District Court. Metal spiral binding. Signed by the author on the title-page. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections …

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Terminal Home, Marcia Ciro, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Terminal Home, Marcia Ciro, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

3 folded sheets : color illustrations. Title from box. In oval shaped cloth wrap box (18 x 13 x 5 cm) with metal clasp. Photographs and text printed with archival ink on Moab paper. Limited edition of 8 copies. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of the artist. RISD Alumna, BFA, GD, 1977. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

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Aggregate Memory, Macy Chadwick, Lisa Onstad, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Aggregate Memory, Macy Chadwick, Lisa Onstad, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

cloth covered box exterior; accordion, dos a dos, housed in a clamshell box; cloth covered box interior; page spread; "Returning again, past and present converge"; page spread; "Days steeped..."; page spread; inside front cover. number 34 in an edition of 65, a collaborative work signed by both artists

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Nightfall Faces, Carolyn Leigh, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Nightfall Faces, Carolyn Leigh, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

drum leaf binding with hidden built up compartment holding BB's. Enclosed in a collaged and painted wrapping envelope, held with woven ribbon. Book closed with wrapper; book closed with wrapper open; interior spreads; back cover; cover. Visions of a primitive ritual dance performed around a fire are evoked through these images of tribal masks. Rhythmic sounds can be made by shaking the book like a maraca.

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The Aesthetics Of The Road, Road Art, And Road Traffic, Yrjš Sepänmaa Jan 2005

The Aesthetics Of The Road, Road Art, And Road Traffic, Yrjš Sepänmaa

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Three things are required for a good road: economy, safety and beauty. A key concept of this trinity is fitting: how to fit the road into the landscape. Together, the road and the landscape form a work of road art. Art attached to the road environment - in this case the other meaning of road art - is at its simplest art works placed beside a road. Art in a more demanding form gives the landscape new dimensions of meaning. Road and art in unison are more than the sum of their parts. Furthermore, travelling is a way to get …

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Notices Jan 2005

Notices

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.

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Aesthetic Functionalism, Sven Ove Hansson Jan 2005

Aesthetic Functionalism, Sven Ove Hansson

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

According to the strongest version of aesthetic functionalism, aesthetic value is completely determined by and therefore reducible to practical function. According to the opposite view, function and aesthetic value are completely independent of each other. Both these views are shown to be untenable, and instead aesthetic dualism is defended. By this, I mean that some aesthetic judgments that can legitimately be made about an object refer to it under descriptions of its practical function, whereas others refer to it, for instance, under descriptions of its physical appearance. Since valuations of the former type are in most cases positively correlated with …

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Natural And Empty Desires: An Epicurean View Of Musical Experience, Daniel Putnam Jan 2005

Natural And Empty Desires: An Epicurean View Of Musical Experience, Daniel Putnam

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Epicureans distinguish natural desires, which have their origin in the body itself, from empty desires which are imposed by society. Natural desires allow a person to enjoy pleasures free from anxiety and worry. Empty desires such as those for status or luxury are endless and lead to a life of frustration, resentment and anxiety. In this paper I apply this distinction to musical experience and differentiate between the genuine enjoyment of music and musical experience tainted by empty desires.

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Symposium: The Body (Concluded From Vol. 2) Jan 2005

Symposium: The Body (Concluded From Vol. 2)

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.

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2005 Yearbook, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi) Jan 2005

2005 Yearbook, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

RISD Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

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Mine An Anthology Of Reproductive Rights, Meredith Stern Oct 2004

Mine An Anthology Of Reproductive Rights, Meredith Stern

Faculty & Librarian Work

This is the second edition of a zine called "Mine" which was an anthology of abortion stories. This edition has 14 stories. Stories include a home abortion via RU 486, a person who lost her fertility from an illegal abortion in the 1960s, and a woman I met at a Take Back the Night Rally who had an abortion after she was raped. The stories reflect a small variety of situations that people may be in when they become accidentally pregnant. The first zine was called "Mine An Anthology Of Women's Choices." The purpose of these zines was to de-stigmatize …

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Workflow 2004, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Mar 2004

Workflow 2004, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Workflow was a student publication on photography. This 2004 issue was the first and possibly only issue, and featured online photography resources, news from the RISD Photography department, responses to the First International Photography and Video Triennial, graduate and undergraduate work, alumni profiles, and a brief interview with Gary Metz.

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Muffin February-March 2004, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Mar 2004

Muffin February-March 2004, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Muffin was a newsletter produced in the early aughts by RISD’s Queer Student Union as a student guide to queer culture. The February/March 2004 issue was the first and features highlights from a lecture on 17th century "romantic friends" the Ladies of Langollen, Brown Queer Student Alliance updates, gay bar reviews, queer social groups and websites, and a short story by Nikki Ripple "Portrait of Lover #27."

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Beach Boxes, Judy Gelles, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2004

Beach Boxes, Judy Gelles, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Pamphlet stitch variation, machine sewn, with hard cover; cover; title page; interior spread; interior pages; interior spread. Black and white photographs of beach houses with each building highlighted in color. No text. RISD Alumna.

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Feed The Birds, Whitney Lauren Fong, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker Jan 2004

Feed The Birds, Whitney Lauren Fong, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Animals

This book was created for Jan Baker's Papermaking class.

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Fortunes Of War, Brian M. Johnson, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker Jan 2004

Fortunes Of War, Brian M. Johnson, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

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Island Nations | Islas Naciones: New Art From Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico And The Diaspora, Judith Tannenbaum, René Morales Jan 2004

Island Nations | Islas Naciones: New Art From Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico And The Diaspora, Judith Tannenbaum, René Morales

Journals

In the 1960s, the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (The RISD Museum), established an early and deep connection with the art of Latin America. In a sweeping attempt to create a broader context for our strong North American collections, money and energy were committed to the purchase of the work of contemporary artists from all over South and Central America and the Caribbean. For this pioneering foresight, we continue to be grateful to former Director Daniel Robbins (1932-95; director at The RISD Museum, 1965-71) and the family of Nancy Sayles Day, who established the Nancy Sayles Day …

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How To Speak Of Nature? The Exemplary Position Of Mount Koli In Environmental Research, Yrjö Sepänmaa Jan 2004

How To Speak Of Nature? The Exemplary Position Of Mount Koli In Environmental Research, Yrjö Sepänmaa

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Mount Koli in Eastern Finland is a useful example for environmental aesthetics and landscape research. In case studies, an example represents a general set and the conclusion becomes a precedent. Koli provides a wealth of material: descriptions of local nature, art featuring Koli, and documents concerning the environmental debates around it. One can outline both the development of Koli into a culturally significant location and the activities and policies of the process, as well as the values and appreciations that guided them. The material we have can be used to examine an environmental institution designed to have the structure of …

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The Heresy Of Paraphrase Revisited, Stefán Snaevarr Jan 2004

The Heresy Of Paraphrase Revisited, Stefán Snaevarr

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

I try to rejuvenate Cleanth Brooks' old thesis about the 'heresy of paraphrase.' This I do by analysing a couple of well-known poems and by performing thought experiments of the "possible world" kind. They show that paradigmatic examples of poems are not paraphrasable. A prosaic text can be improved with the aid of a paraphrase, but a typical poem cannot. The deeper explanation for the non-rephrasability of poetry is that our understanding of it is basically tacit. In this way I hope to give Brooks' original thesis a more solid foundation.

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Foucault, Enlightenment And The Aesthetics Of The Self, Anita Seppä Jan 2004

Foucault, Enlightenment And The Aesthetics Of The Self, Anita Seppä

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Mona Hatoum's video installation Corps étranger is an example of an artwork that critically comments on particular aspects of contemporary visual culture, such as the colonization of the body's interior by medical image technologies. It has indeed been interpreted in those terms by several authors from within the new academic field of Visual Culture. Here it is argued that the critical cultural impact of the installation might be more fully described when one grants art a relative autonomy within the cultural field and, moreover, draws on concepts from more traditional academic disciplines and approaches, such as aesthetics and phenomenology. Art …

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Symposium: The Body (Continued In Vol. 3) Jan 2004

Symposium: The Body (Continued In Vol. 3)

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Call for submissions that discuss the aesthetic significance of the body in art.

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Colorization Revisited, Julie C. Van Camp Jan 2004

Colorization Revisited, Julie C. Van Camp

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This article is both philosophical and practical in its intent. It endeavours to bring into focus an idea with an Ancient Greek lineage, poiesis, and determine whether it may revitalise our thinking about the 'making' of art. The art-making considered in this paper will concentrate exclusively on Western art and its historical and contemporary manifestations. I suggest that poiesis - that which "pro-duces or leads (a thing) into being'" - may enable practitioners in the varying art forms, and aestheticians who reflect upon them, to come to a deeper sense of how artworks work: that they realize themselves inter-dependently …

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Forum: Science In Aesthetics?, Editorial Office Jan 2004

Forum: Science In Aesthetics?, Editorial Office

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This inaugurates a new feature of Contemporary Aesthetics, a forum in which specific issues or themes in aesthetics can be discussed, debated, and developed. The first of these, "Science in Aesthetics?," comes from an interest that emerged at the XVIth International Congress of Aesthetics held in Rio de Janeiro during July 2004.

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Reclaiming The Body: Francis Bacon's Fugitive Bodies And Confucian Aesthetics On Bodily Expression, Eva K. W. Man Jan 2004

Reclaiming The Body: Francis Bacon's Fugitive Bodies And Confucian Aesthetics On Bodily Expression, Eva K. W. Man

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Recently there has been a cry in Western academic and artistic circles for reclaiming the body and repositioning its locus and identity. Body theories and body art have become topics of attention as well as subjects of philosophical discussion. This article looks at the issue from a comparative perspective, focusing on representative cases in Chinese and Western portrait paintings. It first discusses Francis Bacon's works of human bodies and identifies their philosophical and psychological loci. It then outlines the Confucian discourses on the body, their related metaphysical grounds, and their relations to traditional Chinese portrait paintings. Representative Chinese portraits like …

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Talk To The Animals: A Short Comment On Wolfgang Welsch's "Animal Aesthetics", Stefán Snaevarr Jan 2004

Talk To The Animals: A Short Comment On Wolfgang Welsch's "Animal Aesthetics", Stefán Snaevarr

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

I voice some concern about Wolfgang Welsch's defense of the theory that animals can feel aesthetic pleasure. My first concern is epistemological: it is hard to see how we can find out whether they actually feel such pleasures. My second concern is conceptual: aesthetic pleasures have intentional objects and are woven into fallible judgments. It is hard to see that animals have such objects and can perform such judgments.

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Ethical Autonomism: The Work Of Art As A Moral Agent, Rob Van Gerwen Jan 2004

Ethical Autonomism: The Work Of Art As A Moral Agent, Rob Van Gerwen

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Much contemporary art seems morally out of control. Yet, philosophers seem to have trouble finding the right way to morally evaluate works of art. The debate between autonomists and moralists, I argue, has turned into a stalemate due to two mistaken assumptions. Against these assumptions, I argue that the moral nature of a work's contents does not transfer to the work and that, if we are to morally evaluate works we should try to conceive of them as moral agents. Ethical autonomism holds that art's autonomy consists in its demand that art appreciators take up an artistic attitude. A work's …

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Animal Aesthetics, Wolfgang Welsch Jan 2004

Animal Aesthetics, Wolfgang Welsch

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.

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