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An alternative guide to the universe : mavericks, outsiders, visionaries / edited by Ralph Rugoff.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Hayward Gallery, 2013.Description: 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781853323164
  • 1853323160
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Contents:
Introduction. The Universe that Fell to Earth / by Ralph Rugoff -- Invented Selves. On Counternarrative / by Rick Moody ; Morton Bartlett / by Laurie Simmons ; Lee Godie / by Helen Luckett ; Eugene Von Bruenchenhein / by Joanne Cubbs -- Time And Space. Responding to Singularity / by Roger Cardinal ; Alfred Jensen / by William C. Agee ; Paul Laffoley / by Michael Bracewell ; Guo Fengyi / by Helen Luckett ; George Widener / by Tom Patterson ; Melvin Edward Nelson / by Peter Hastings Falk -- Cities And Buildings. Visionary Architectures / by Valerie Rousseau ; Richard Greaves / by Sarah Lombardi and Valerie Rousseau ; Bodys Isek Kingelez / by Helen Luckett ; A.G. Rizzoli / by John Beardsley ; William Scott / by Katie Kitamura ; Marcel Storr / by Laurent Danchin ; Jan Głuszak Dagarama / by Dominik Czechowski -- Codes And Technology. Symbolic Devices : Where Art, Magic and Technology Collide / by Mark Pilkington ; Ionel Talpazan / by Daniel Wojcik ; Karl Hans Janke / by Helen Luckett ; Emery Blagdon / by Leslie Umberger ; Jean Perdrizet / by Eimear Martin ; Melvin Way / by N.F. Karlins ; Rammellzee / by Dave Tompkins ; Wu Yulu / by Helen Luckett -- Fringe Physics. Physics on the Fringe / by Margaret Wertheim ; James Carter / by Margaret Wertheim ; Philip Blackmarr by Margaret Wertheim ; The Museum Of Everything / Presents Nek Chand ; History of Exhibitions and Publications.
Summary: Alternative Guide to the Universe explores the work of self-taught artists and architects, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all of whom offer bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live in. Eccentric and inspiring, their work re-imagines our social and cultural conventions in ways that fearlessly depart from accepted ways of thinking. Contributors to the exhibition explore fictional identities and design imaginary cities; they build healing machines and record the unseen energy flows of our bodies. They speculate on mysteries of time and space; create devices for time travel and communication with other dimensions; and fashion new letter forms designed to liberate the alphabet from the strictures of Western civilization. Taken together, their work conjures a kind of a parallel universe where ingenuity and inventiveness trump common sense and received wisdom. With special added attraction The Museum of Everything in the Hayward Gallery Project Space. The Museum of Everything - that world-famous wandering space for unintentional, untrained, undiscovered, unclassifiable, unknowable, undeniable and unforgettable artists of modern times presents Sri Nek Chand Saini, creator of the legendary Rock Garden of Chandigarh, India.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.0409 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00595

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, 'The alternative guide to the Universe, ' held at Hayward Gallery, London, June 11-Aug. 26, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction. The Universe that Fell to Earth / by Ralph Rugoff -- Invented Selves. On Counternarrative / by Rick Moody ; Morton Bartlett / by Laurie Simmons ; Lee Godie / by Helen Luckett ; Eugene Von Bruenchenhein / by Joanne Cubbs -- Time And Space. Responding to Singularity / by Roger Cardinal ; Alfred Jensen / by William C. Agee ; Paul Laffoley / by Michael Bracewell ; Guo Fengyi / by Helen Luckett ; George Widener / by Tom Patterson ; Melvin Edward Nelson / by Peter Hastings Falk -- Cities And Buildings. Visionary Architectures / by Valerie Rousseau ; Richard Greaves / by Sarah Lombardi and Valerie Rousseau ; Bodys Isek Kingelez / by Helen Luckett ; A.G. Rizzoli / by John Beardsley ; William Scott / by Katie Kitamura ; Marcel Storr / by Laurent Danchin ; Jan Głuszak Dagarama / by Dominik Czechowski -- Codes And Technology. Symbolic Devices : Where Art, Magic and Technology Collide / by Mark Pilkington ; Ionel Talpazan / by Daniel Wojcik ; Karl Hans Janke / by Helen Luckett ; Emery Blagdon / by Leslie Umberger ; Jean Perdrizet / by Eimear Martin ; Melvin Way / by N.F. Karlins ; Rammellzee / by Dave Tompkins ; Wu Yulu / by Helen Luckett -- Fringe Physics. Physics on the Fringe / by Margaret Wertheim ; James Carter / by Margaret Wertheim ; Philip Blackmarr by Margaret Wertheim ; The Museum Of Everything / Presents Nek Chand ; History of Exhibitions and Publications.

Alternative Guide to the Universe explores the work of self-taught artists and architects, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all of whom offer bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live in. Eccentric and inspiring, their work re-imagines our social and cultural conventions in ways that fearlessly depart from accepted ways of thinking. Contributors to the exhibition explore fictional identities and design imaginary cities; they build healing machines and record the unseen energy flows of our bodies. They speculate on mysteries of time and space; create devices for time travel and communication with other dimensions; and fashion new letter forms designed to liberate the alphabet from the strictures of Western civilization. Taken together, their work conjures a kind of a parallel universe where ingenuity and inventiveness trump common sense and received wisdom. With special added attraction The Museum of Everything in the Hayward Gallery Project Space. The Museum of Everything - that world-famous wandering space for unintentional, untrained, undiscovered, unclassifiable, unknowable, undeniable and unforgettable artists of modern times presents Sri Nek Chand Saini, creator of the legendary Rock Garden of Chandigarh, India.

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