Category Archives: Strangers and Fools

LIBRARY SHELF: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings (1982) FIRST LINE: “The artist is the creator of beautiful things.” ICI SHELF: Fiction ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (05-05-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: Spectral Evidence – The Photography of Trauma

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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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: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors

Sontag, Susan Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors (1990) FIRST LINE: “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-06-11)  

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EPHEMERA KABINETT: Masonic Pin

Posted in Buttons, Ephemera Kabinett, Galt, Hidden in Plain Sight, Masonry, roundness, Strangers and Fools | Leave a comment