Author: Banana Yoshimoto File Type: epub A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK WILL GO TO JAPAN DISASTER RELIEFA major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force about a young woman who falls for a cult escapee.While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famousa cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat paceits also one of the most darkly mysterious books shes ever written.It tells the tale of a young woman who moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to get over her grief and start a career as a graphic artist. She finds herself spending too much time staring out her window, though ... until she realizes shes gotten used to seeing a young man across the street staring out his window, too.They eventually embark on a hesitant romance, until she learns that he has been the victim of some form of childhood trauma. Visiting two of his friends who live a monastic life beside a beautiful lake, she begins to piece together a series of clues that lead her to suspect his experience may have had something to do with a bizarre religious cult. . . .With its echoes of the infamous, real-life Aum Shinrikyo cult (the group that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system), The Lake unfolds as the most powerful novel Banana Yoshimoto has written. And as the two young lovers overcome their troubled past to discover hope in the beautiful solitude of the lake in the countryside, its also one of her most moving.From the Hardcover edition.

Author: Julia Bryan-Wilson File Type: pdf div contentInfoDiv Summer 2014, No. 56, Pages 58-89 Posted Online September 16, 2014. div (doi10.1162GREY_a_00150) 2014 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. div htmlContentp fulltexth1 arttitlediv hlFld-TitleOut to See Video EZTVs Queer Microcinema in West Hollywoodh1div artAuthorsdiv hlFld-ContribAuthorspan hlFld-ContribAuthor Julia Bryan-Wilsonspanp fulltext nospacebJulia Bryan-Wilsonb is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Art Workers Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California Press, 2009) and editor of Robert Morris, October Files (MIT Press, 2013). She is working on two books, one on questions of process and production in contemporary art, coauthored with Glenn Adamson (Thames and Hudson, forthcoming), and one on recent textile handicraft.

Author: Thor Heyerdahl File Type: pdf The full story of Heyerdahls explorations on Easter Island. The dramatic discovery of art treasures in secret caves. The mystery of the great stone men explained why and how they were carved, transported and raised. The historical and religious meaning of the art of Easter Island revealed. New findings on the ancient and later history of the island and its people. A worldwide museum survey of Easter Island art. **

Author: Edward Dimendberg File Type: pdf Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image is of broad concern to historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations which no longer presuppose a fixed viewer, urban space becomes envisioned and planned through fly throughs, and technologies such as GPS add data to the experience of travel, moving images have captured the attention of geographers and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Their practice of mobility studies is remaking how we understand a contemporary world in relentless motion. Media theorist and historian Anne Friedberg (1952-2009) was among the first practitioners of visual studies to theorize the experience of vision in motion. Her books have become key points of reference in the discussion of the windows that frame images and the viewers in motion who perceive them. Although widely influential beyond her own discipline, Friedbergs work has never been the subject of an extended study.The Moving Eye Film, Television, Architecture, Visual Art and the Modern gathers together essays by renowned thinkers in media studies, art history, architecture, and museum studies to consider the rich implications of her work for understanding film and video, new media, visual art, architecture, exhibition design, urban space, and virtual reality. Ranging from early cinema, to works by Le Corbusier, Sergei Eisenstein, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Pierre Huyghe, to theories of the image in motion informed by psychoanalysis, theories of the public sphere, and animal studies, each of the nine essays in the book advances the lines of inquiry commenced by Friedberg.Review Marvelous, eloquent, and evocative, The Moving Eye takes up the pas de deux of image and envisioning across the domains of film, architecture, photography, and television. Its carefully curated essays offer an intellectually moving tribute to the generative powers of Anne Friedbergs legacy, and a critical interrogation of vision -- and a visual culture -- in motion. -- William Uricchio , Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT The best kind of tribute to a lifeworks of pathbreaking scholarship, The Moving Eye brings together brilliant essays that develop Anne Friedbergs interdisciplinary approach to cinema, media, architecture, and visual perception. Building on Friedbergs major contributions, this collection shows how her fascination with the history of screens, windows, and virtual mobility has become even more relevant in contemporary digital culture. -- Lynn Spigel, Frances E.S Willard Chair of Screen Cultures, Northwestern University About the Author Edward Dimendberg is Professor of Humanities and European Languages at the University of California, Irvine. He is the principal of Dimendberg Consulting LLC. bContributorsb areChrista Blumlinger, Giuliana Bruno, Edward Dimendberg, Tom Gunning, Miriam Hansen, Gertrud Koch, Sylvia Lavin, Gwendolyn Owens, Patricia Pisters & Anthony Vidler.