Weschler, Lawrence

Everything that rises: a book of convergences - London: Atlantic, 2009 - 232 p. il. col. y n.

Introduction -- EXEMPLARY INSTANCES: Echoes at Ground Zero -- The view from the prow of the Getty -- Cuneiform Chicago -- Helen Levitt: Ilium of the Bowery -- Ziggurats of perception -- Expressions of an absolute -- Gazing out towards -- Magritte standard time -- WOMEN'S BODIES: Found tryptych -- Girls in their turning -- Languorous landscapes -- Face as torso, torso as face -- Fathers and daughters -- The darling little being -- Images without texts -- POLITICAL OCCASIONS: The graphics of solidarity -- The contras and the Battle of Algiers -- How suddenly it can all just end -- Modern times -- Allegories of Eastern Europe -- Loving or leaving Bosnia -- Pillsbury doughboy messiahs -- A field of blackbirds -- Life against death -- Mona Lewinsky -- Those wacky Htoo twins -- Thumb in the eye -- TREES, NEURONS, NETWORKS: Trees and eyeballs -- Branching out yet further -- Compounding unscientific postscript -- CODA/CREDO: We join spokes together in a wheel.

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