Category Archives: Body as Model

LIBRARY SHELF: RE/Search #13

Juno, Andrea and V. Vale, eds. RE/Search #13: Angry Women (1991) FIRST LINE: “Angry Women is not about women, but about the future survival of our planet.” ICI SHELF: RE/Search ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-30-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: Inside the White Cube

O’Doherty, Brian Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1999) LAST LINE: “Or the gallery itself could be removed and relocated to another place.” ICI SHELF: Art Texts ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-23-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: Yves Klein

Restany, Pierre Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void (1992) LAST LINE: “Thus we will ourselves be fire.” ICI SHELF: Artist Monograhs ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-11-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: On Ugliness

Eco, Umberto, ed. On Ugliness (2007) LAST LINE: “…the good that she drew from them…was a general good, of which nothing was wasted.” ICI SHELF: Visuality ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (03-23-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: Surrealism and Women

Caws, Mary Ann, Rudolf Kuenzli and Gwen Raaberg, eds. Surrealism and Women (1990) FIRST LINE: “Headless. And also footless. Often armless too: and always unarmed, except with poetry and passion.” ICI SHELF: Women ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (03-11-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Spectacles

Sloan, Mark Hoaxes, Humbugs and Spectacles (1990) LAST LINE: “This diving act was a mere prelude to the wonders that followed.” ICI SHELF: Body ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (03-06-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: Close to the Knives

Wojnarowicz, David Close to the Knives: A memoir of Disintegration (1991) LAST LINE: “Smell the flowers while you can.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-18-11)  

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Every Ten Minutes Cassette by Robert Farber

A project by Robert Farber for Day Without Art in 1992. There was no sound on the tape except for a gong that rang every ten minutes – the rate of AIDS deaths in the United States at that time. … Continue reading

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LIBRARY SHELF: To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

Guilbert, Herve To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (1990) LAST LINE: “At last my arms and legs are once again as slender as they were when I was a child.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at … Continue reading

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LIBRARY SHELF: Stitching A Revolution

Jones, Cleves Stitching A Revolution (2000) LAST LINE: “Please don’t make us come back.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-10-11)  

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