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Stewart, Garrett; Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema (2007) ICI Shelf: Film First Line: “There’s a great throwaway joke — implicitly about motion pictures as entertainment versus “the cinema” as art — in Alan Bennett’s 2003 play The History Boys.” Last Line: “Wherever morphing replaces … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Framed Time

Willett, Frank; African Art (1975) ICI Shelf: Art History First Line: “There already exists a considerable literature on African art, much of it more valuable for its illustrations than its text.” Last Line: “Happily they are mistaken.” ICI HISTORY: Last Line: Today at the ICI-Twitter … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: African Art

Stern, Nathaniel; Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (2013) ICI Shelf: Art Movements First Line: “More than a decade before I write these words, I was in Dan O’Sullivan’s ‘Physical Computing’ class at the interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), New York University.” Last … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Interactive Art and Embodiment

Neruda, Pablo; Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (1961) ICI Shelf: Poetry First Line: “Innecesario, viendome en los espejos/ Needlessly, watching my looking-glass image” Last Line: “toquemos tierra con el alma./and touch earth with our spirits.” ICI HISTORY: First Line: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-11-17) … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda

Wilson, David; The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2011) ICI Shelf: Current Project First Line: “Lying in his sleeping bag, Captain Robert Falcon Scott was riven with anxiety.” Last Line: “Forgotten and lost no longer.” ICI HISTORY: First … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott

Keller, Corey; Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible 1840-1900 (2008) ICI Shelf: Current Project First Line: “Science is a way of making sense of the world, but also a means of making it available to and through the senses.” Last Line: “Like a scientist, … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Brought to Light

Lyddiatt, E. M.; Spontaneous Painting and Modeling (1971) ICI Shelf: Artist Handbooks FIRST LINE: “Spontaneous painting and modelling are ways of channelling a ‘force’ which can change a person’s attitude and hence his personal outlook and behaviour.” LAST LINE: “It is of immediate practical value and seems … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Spontaneous Painting and Modeling

Cabanne, Pierre; Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp (1987) ICI Shelf: Artist Monographs FIRST LINE: “Pierre Cabanne: Marcel Duchamp, it is now 1966; in a few months you’ll be eighty years old.” LAST LINE: “I am very happy.” ICI HISTORY: Last Line: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (10-12-17) Accession … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp

Drogin, Marc; Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique (1989) ICI Shelf: Books About Books FIRST LINE: “Calligraphy is the art of writing beautifully.” LAST LINE: “If you are writing to a foreign institution and do not speak the language, write in your own language –and respect the … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Medieval Calligraphy