Sawed Off Sketches
Title | Sawed Off Sketches PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Bertrand Lewis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1897 |
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Sawed-Off Sketches
Title | Sawed-Off Sketches PDF eBook |
Author | Charles B. Lewis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 591 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780781237949 |
Bonded Leather binding
Sawed Off Sketches
Title | Sawed Off Sketches PDF eBook |
Author | M. Quad |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
I Swear I Saw This
Title | I Swear I Saw This PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Taussig |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 187 |
Release | 2011-10-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226789845 |
I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig’s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006—as well as its caption, “I swear I saw this”—Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and other creators first work out the imaginative logic of discovery. Notebooks mix the raw material of observation with reverie, juxtaposed, in Taussig’s case, with drawings, watercolors, and newspaper cuttings, which blend the inner and outer worlds in a fashion reminiscent of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs’s surreal cut-up technique. Focusing on the small details and observations that are lost when writers convert their notes into finished pieces, Taussig calls for new ways of seeing and using the notebook as form. Memory emerges as a central motif in I Swear I Saw This as he explores his penchant to inscribe new recollections in the margins or directly over the original entries days or weeks after an event. This palimpsest of afterthoughts leads to ruminations on Freud’s analysis of dreams, Proust’s thoughts on the involuntary workings of memory, and Benjamin’s theories of history—fieldwork, Taussig writes, provokes childhood memories with startling ease. I Swear I Saw This exhibits Taussig’s characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, here combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. He writes, “drawing is thus a depicting, a hauling, an unraveling, and being impelled toward something or somebody.” Readers will exult in joining Taussig once again as he follows the threads of a tangled skein of inspired associations.
The Bibliophile Library of Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts
Title | The Bibliophile Library of Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Forrest Morgan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Biography |
ISBN |
Drawing from Memory
Title | Drawing from Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Say |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0545176867 |
Caldecott medalist Allen Say chronicles his experiences as an artist during World War II, and describes his relationship with his mentor Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist.
Biographical Sketch of Amariah Brigham, M.D.
Title | Biographical Sketch of Amariah Brigham, M.D. PDF eBook |
Author | Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 142 |
Release | 1858 |
Genre | Connecticut |
ISBN |