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Click on a theme in RHIZOMES to see how disparate parts of the ICI archive are joined together around a fleeting thought or by a slip of the eye or the shutter. Click on a subject in ICI CONNECTIONS to see how recurring ICI concerns coalesce around recurring themes or click on a place in the ICI ARCHIVES to see the raw material of our collections. TAGs below each post reveal hidden relationships between objects, thoughts, and interpretations. This is the place of laboratory research and play. -MORE-RHIZOMES
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Category Archives: Body as Sign
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)
LIBRARY SHELF: Degeneracy
Ellis, Havelock, ed. Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs, and Results (1898) LAST LINE: “…the true source of success is to avoid ‘the falsehood of extreme.’” ICI SHELF: Galt ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-05-12)
LIBRARY SHELF: The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy
Auxier, Randall E. and Phillip S. Seng, eds. The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West (2008) LAST LINE: “If anyone asks whether I have come out of my cave, you may tell them ‘not yet.’” ICI … Continue reading
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)
LIBRARY SHELF: The Politics of Vision
Nochlin, Linda The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society (1989) FIRST LINE: “Art Changes only through strong convictions, convictions strong enough to change society at the same time.” ICI SHELF: Art History ICI HISTORY: Today at the … Continue reading
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)
Max Sebald’s Signature
As a form of written language, the signature is, in theory, a symbolic sign. Its relationship to the person who creates it is arbitrary and based totally on convention and cultural practice. In reality, though, the signature is a … Continue reading
The Ur-Sign: a graveyard in East Anglia
The Greek word for ‘sign’ is sema, which is also the word for ‘grave.’ For the Greeks the grave was the ur-sign of signification for it ‘stood for’ what it ‘stood in.’ The sema points to something only present through … Continue reading
The Red Hand
A red palm print near an otherwise immaculately maintained doorway in Santa Monica. It resists inclusion in the visual marginalia that defines most urban sites. The red palm is the sign of the gypsy, of the palm reader, of the … Continue reading
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)
