EK ACCESSION #: ICI 21686 TITLE: Every Ten Minutes (audio cassette tape) DISCUSSION: A project by Robert Farber for Visual AIDS on Day Without Art in 1992. There was no sound on the tape except for a gong that rang every ten minutes – the … Continue readingEvery Ten Minutes Cassette by Robert Farber
EK ACCESSION #: ICI 22328 TITLE: Art hIstory reaDing liSt DISCUSSION: An image-text by ICI associate Lise Patt created for Part 2, a publication of the City University of New York, Graduate Center . Here, a typical syllabus for a class in art history is … Continue readingArt hIstory reaDing liSt
Conn, Steven; Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and healing(1998) ICI Shelf: Exhibitions First Line: “As we approach the end of the twentieth century, individuals seek new means of relief fro, the stress, disease, and environmental pollution that permeate our society.” Last Line: “Imagine being in … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Body and Soul
Adrian, Werner; Freaks: Cinema of the Bizarre (1976) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “Man has always distorted his world.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (10-22-14) Accession #: ICI-00633
Seltzer, Mark; Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “People who are visually different have always provoked the imaginations of heir fellow human beings.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (10-15-14) Accession #: ICI-00643
Seltzer, Mark; Serial Killers: Death and Life in America’s Would Culture (1998) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “Serial Killing has its place in a public culture in which addictive violence has become not merely a collective spectacle but one of the crucial sites where private … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Serial Killers
Auerback, Nina; Our Vampires Ourselves (1995) ICI Shelf: Body Last Line: “They will awaken; they always have; as Stoker’s Dracula boasted, time is on their side.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (10-07-14) Accession #: ICI-00643
Gilman, Sander L.; Freud, Race, and Gender (1993) ICI Shelf: Philosophy First Line: “Sigmund Freud, like any other Jewish scientist at the turn of the Century, was faced with the double bind of the Jewish medical scientist: both physician and prospective patient, both scientist and … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Freud, Race, and Gender
Butler, Judith; Gender trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) ICI Shelf: Body Last Line: “What other local strategies for engaging the “unnatural” might lead to the denaturalization of gender as such?” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (06-20-14) Accession #: … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Gender Trouble
Bersani, Leo; The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (1987) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “How has Freud profited—or suffered—from all the attention lavished on him in America and in Europe, during the past fifteen or twenty years?” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: The Freudian Body