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- Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book
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- 2017
- Published by: Punctum Books
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Christina McPhee’s ‘commonplace book’ draws from a palimpsest of handwritten notes, lists, quotations, bibliographic fragments, and sketches, from an artist whose voracious reading practice is a direct feed into her life and art — all set to a visual and textual design-as-score, as prominent writers on painting, media arts, performance, video installation and poetics engage with her ‘open-work’ practice. Christina McPhee’s images move from within a matrix of abstraction, shadowing figures and contingent effects. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the dazzle ships of camouflage in war. This ‘commonplace book’ develops a view of recent work in collaged paintings, drawings, photomontage and video installation, around themes of environmental transformation and ‘post-natural’ community.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Frontispieces
- pp. 1-12
- Conversation
- pp. 47-66
- Studio Visit
- pp. 67-74
- Carbon Immediate
- pp. 75-82
- Mineral Belief
- pp. 83-106
- Tesserae of Venus
- pp. 125-136
- Murmurations: On Glyphs, Shards and Teorema
- pp. 137-144
- Pattern Discognition
- pp. 145-153
- Contributors
- pp. 154-155
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 156-157
Additional Information
ISBN
9781947447097
Related ISBN(s)
9781947447080
MARC Record
OCLC
1048120270
Pages
166
Launched on MUSE
2021-06-14
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA