Category Archives: Collective Camouflage

LIBRARY SHELF: Yves Klein

Posted on 11 April, 2012 by institute

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: Surrealism and Women

Posted on 11 March, 2012 by institute

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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This is Bedlam

Posted on 7 March, 2012 by institute

A small plaque on the side of the Great Eastern Hotel in London marks the site of the old Bethlehem Hospital. The sign obscures the other name for the site. As W. G. Sebald schooled us in Austerlitz, at this … Continue reading →

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The Red Hand

Posted on 7 March, 2012 by institute

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 →

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LIBRARY SHELF: Conceptual Art and Painting

Posted on 7 March, 2012 by institute

Harrison, Charles Conceptual Art and Painting: Further Essays on Art and Language (2001) LAST LINE: “We hope only for those who will do their share of the work – be active in its conversation.” ICI SHELF: Art Movements ICI HISTORY: Today … Continue reading →

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LIBRARY SHELF: Phantasmagoria

Posted on 12 January, 2012 by institute

Warner, Marina Phantasmagoria (2006) FIRST LINE: “Nobody in the street knew where the mummified saint was, and I had left my guidebook in the hotel room.” ICI SHELF: Barthes’ Tear ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (01-12-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: Spectral Evidence – The Photography of Trauma

Posted on 21 December, 2011 by institute

Baer, Ulrich Spectral Evidence- The Photography of Trauma (2002) LAST LINE: “They open up a future that is not known and, because it is unknown, might yet be changed.” ICI SHELF: Barthes’ Tear ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed … Continue reading →

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LIBRARY SHELF: The Plague

Posted on 21 November, 2011 by institute

Camus, Albert The Plague (1948) LAST LINE: “…for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the … Continue reading →

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LIBRARY SHELF: Close to the Knives

Posted on 18 November, 2011 by institute

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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LIBRARY SHELF: Tangled Memories

Posted on 16 November, 2011 by institute

Sturken, Marita Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997) LAST LINE: “They stand at the juncture of memory and history, tugging by their very presence the boundaries of each.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI … Continue reading →

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