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Diabolism and logophilia
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Cold blue steel
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12 Au revoir
Guide
1 Cover
2 Contents
5 Preface and acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1 Somewhere in Northern Karelia …Figure 1 The boulder: a page from my sketchbook. (Photo by the author.)
2 Pitch black and firelightFigure 2 The sun and the moon. Detail from a painting from the wooden ceiling of the stav…
3 In the shadow of tree beingFigure 3 Respirare l’ombra [Breathe the shadow], drawing by Giuseppe Penone, 1987. (Court…Figure 4 Gli alberi dei travi [The trees of the beams], drawing by Giuseppe Penone, 1970.…
4 Ta, Da, Ça!Figure 5 Ta, Da, Ça! (stick, magnet, radiator), photo by Émile Kirsch, 2017. (Courtesy of…
5 The foamy saliva of a horseFigure 6 Sea shells on stand, from Carol Bove, The Foamy Saliva of a Horse. (© Carol Bove…Figure 7 Sea shells off stand, from Carol Bove, The Foamy Saliva of a Horse. (© Carol Bov…Figure 8 Groynes on Aberdeen beach. A tree-trunk, tossed up by the storm of New Year, 201…
6 On flightFigure 9 Thermal, 1960, by Peter Lanyon (1918–1964). (Courtesy of the Tate Gallery, St Iv…
7 Scissors paper stoneFigure 10 Exaggerated cross-section of a palimpsest. (Photo by the author.)Figure 11 Earth, atmosphere and ground as interface. (Photo by the author.)Figure 12 The ground at the meeting of earth and atmosphere. (Photo by the author.)
8 Ad coelumFigure 13 Open codex and closed book in cross-section. (Photo by the author.)
9 ShelterFigure 14 Shelter in a rocky overhang. (Photo by Tim Knowles, courtesy of the artist.)Figure 15 Barrel shelter with door open. (Photo by Tim Knowles, courtesy of the artist.)
10 Doing timeFigure 16 Punching the Time Clock: One-Year Performance 1980–1981, photo by Michael Shen. …
11 The elements of fortuneFigure 17 New Year’s tin. (Photo by Tero Sivula, courtesy of Lehtikuva.)
12 A stone’s lifeFigure 18 Selinunte – Ruins, a photograph by Giovanni Crupi, dating from the 1880s or 1890…
13 The jettyFigure 19 Cone, by Wolfgang Weileder, 2014. (Photo by Colin Davidson.)Figure 20 The jetty at Dunston Staiths, Gateshead. (Photo by Colin Davidson.)
14 IntroductionFigure 21(a)–(c) Paper sheet with ruled line (a), screwed into a ball (b), and a part of the shee…
15 Lines in the landscapeFigure 22 Lines in the landscape. (Photo by Nisha Keshav.)Figure 23 Ploughed field, drainage ditch and wood. (Photo by Nisha Keshav.)Figure 24 Starlings on wires. (Photo by Nisha Keshav.)
16 The chalk-line and the shadowFigure 25 Chalk-line (2019), by Matthieu Raffard and Mathilde Roussel. (Photo courtesy of …Figure 26 The shadow of the chalk-line (2019), by Matthieu Raffard and Mathilde Roussel. …
17 FoldFigure 27 The meeting of letters across a fold. (Photo by the author.)
18 Taking a thread for a walkFigure 28 A wound-up pencil-line. (Photo by the author.)Figure 29 Ball of wool, by Anne Masson and Eric Chevalier. (Photo by Christian Aschman.)Figure 30 Vest and ball, by Anne Masson and Eric Chevalier. (Photo by Christian Aschman.)Figure 31 Two chairs in one, by Anne Masson and Eric Chevalier. (Photo by Christian Aschma…
19 Letter-line and strike-throughFigure 32 Four stills from Walk (strike through with pen) (2016) by Anna Macdonald: (a) at …Figure 33 Whooping Crane, from Birds of America (1827–38), by John James Audubon. (Courtes…
20 Cold blue steelFigure 34 The contents of my pencil-case.Figure 35 Lines written by Gerry Grams, on the colour ‘blue’. From Shauna McMullan, Someth…Figure 36 Something About a Word, by Shauna McMullan (2011). (Courtesy of the artist.)
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