The alternative guide to the universe

The alternative guide to the universe
Ralph Rugoff, Ralph Rugoff
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The alternative guide to the universe

Explores the work of self-taught artists and architects, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all of whom offer bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live in. Eccentric and inspiring, their work re-imagines our social and cultural conventions in ways that fearlessly depart from accepted ways of thinking. Contributors to the exhibition explore fictional identities and design imaginary cities; they build healing machines and record the unseen energy flows of our bodies. They speculate on mysteries of time and space; create devices for time travel and communication with other dimensions; and fashion new letter forms designed to liberate the alphabet from the strictures of Western civilization. Taken together, their work conjures a kind of a parallel universe where ingenuity and inventiveness trump common sense and received wisdom. With special added attraction The Museum of Everything in the Hayward Gallery Project Space. The Museum of Everything - that world-famous wandering space for unintentional, untrained, undiscovered, unclassifiable, unknowable, undeniable and unforgettable artists of modern times presents Sri Nek Chand Saini, creator of the legendary Rock Garden of Chandigarh, India.--www.southbankcentre.co.uk.

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English
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175

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2013, Hayward Gallery Publishing
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Table of Contents

Introduction. The Universe that Fell to Earth / by Ralph Rugoff
Invented Selves. On Counternarrative / by Rick Moody
Morton Bartlett / by Laurie Simmons
Lee Godie / by Helen Luckett
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein / by Joanne Cubbs
Time And Space. Responding to Singularity / by Roger Cardinal
Alfred Jensen / by William C. Agee
Paul Laffoley / by Michael Bracewell
Guo Fengyi / by Helen Luckett
George Widener / by Tom Patterson
Melvin Edward Nelson / by Peter Hastings Falk
Cities And Buildings. Visionary Architectures / by Valerie Rousseau
Richard Greaves / by Sarah Lombardi and Valerie Rousseau
Bodys Isek Kingelez / by Helen Luckett
A.G. Rizzoli / by John Beardsley
William Scott / by Katie Kitamura
Marcel Storr / by Laurent Danchin
Jan Głuszak Dagarama / by Dominik Czechowski
Codes And Technology. Symbolic Devices : Where Art, Magic and Technology Collide / by Mark Pilkington
Ionel Talpazan / by Daniel Wojcik
Karl Hans Janke / by Helen Luckett
Emery Blagdon / by Leslie Umberger
Jean Perdrizet / by Eimear Martin
Melvin Way / by N.F. Karlins
Rammellzee / by Dave Tompkins
Wu Yulu / by Helen Luckett
Fringe Physics. Physics on the Fringe / by Margaret Wertheim
James Carter / by Margaret Wertheim
Philip Blackmarr by Margaret Wertheim
The Museum Of Everything / Presents Nek Chand
History of Exhibitions and Publications.

Edition Notes

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, 'The alternative guide to the Universe,' held at Hayward Gallery, London, June 11-Aug. 26, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Copyright Date
2013

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Dewey Decimal Class
701.05
Library of Congress
N72.S3 A47 2013, N72.S3

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Pagination
175 pages
Number of pages
175

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Open Library
OL27187093M
ISBN 10
1853323160
ISBN 13
9781853323164
OCLC/WorldCat
853605750

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