Category Archives: Thin End of the Wedge

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: A Mapmaker’s Dream

Cowan, James A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (1996) FIRST LINE: “For some time I have wanted to relate a circumstance that has been happening to me in recent years.” ICI SHELF: … Continue reading

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LIBRARY SHELF: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

Manguel, Alberto and Gianni Guadalupi The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1999) FIRST LINE: “ABATON (from the Greek a, not; baino, I go), a town of changing location.” ICI SHELF: Language ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (03-27-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: Landscapes of the Passing Strange

Purcell, Rosamond and Michael Witmore Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare (2011) LAST LINE: “From time to time, I do get lucky.” ICI SHELF: Photography ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (02-28-12)

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LIBRARY SHELF: The Jefferson Bible

ICI-LIBjeffersonbible_cov-wJefferson, Thomas The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French & English (2011) LAST LINE: “There laid they Jesus and rolled a great stone to the door of … Continue reading

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LIBRARY SHELF: An Anthropology of Images

Belting, Hans An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body (2011) LAST LINE: “We sense that we animate the medium, give it life, in order to get our own images back from it.” ICI SHELF: Philosophy ICI HISTORY: Today at the … Continue reading

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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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LIBRARY SHELF: Remembrance of Things Past Volume I

Proust, Marcel Remembrance of Things Past Vol. 1 (1982) FIRST LINE: “For a long time I used to go to bed early.” ICI SHELF: Fiction ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (12-15-11)

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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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FIELD WORK DOCUMENT: Take Extreme Care Sign

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