SHIRIN NESHAT -Rebellious Silence (1994)Black and white RC print and ink, 27.9 x 35.6 cm. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.The current issue of ArtAsiaPacific features an in depth look at artists who employ text in their work.Articles include:-A great piece on contemporary calligraphy in China, "Square Words, Round Paradigms" by Eric Wear.-A look at Yoko Ono's embrace of online communities (Ono averages 200 new 'friends' on MySpace a day) by HG Masters.-Gregory Galligan's looks at Islamic text-based art in his piece, "Architecture in Script: From Without Boundaries to Archive Fever," and includes Shirin Neshat whose iconic work appears above.Also in...
Landscape with Books
Chris Engman. The Library, 2005Engman got the books "at a discounted rate from a used bookstore, where many of them had sat on shelves for more than a decade, unwanted, " and constructed The Library in the desert of eastern Washington State.Haunting in its barrenness yet the mere existence of this textual outpost offers a glimmer of hope.What did the last visitor take with them? What will the next one find? How much time is left before the desert wins?
Jean Jullien
London based artist Jean Jullien has created some fantastic book themed posters. Above is one for the London night club Cliche, and below one of two new posters about the Fables of La Fontaine.Also, don't miss Jullien's compelling visual essay about social apathy and the culture of protestation." The piece is titled "don't protest." Jullien places colored flags with printed text in various settings around the house and around town. The flags are also collected in book form.Thanks to manystuff for the lead and also congratulations to manystuff, the blog has entered the print world with the release of the...
DQ : The Ultimate in Online ‘Books’
from Beneath a steel skyWe have ebooks and book social networks. We have book trailers and internet book tv but the folks at DQ Books (nothing to do with Dairy Queen) have come up with what just might be the perfect marriage of technology and the book form.DQ Books brings together artists, illustrators and photographers and places their visuals within the context of the book form using Flash technology. Each thematic issue is accompanied by a soundscape created by French composer Avril.The first 4 issues are:Invasion - 7 days of graphic improvisition by Festo and Telemolindo Seasons - 16 illustrators,...
Zechariah Reading
Michelangelo. The Prophet Zechariah. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, 1508-1512