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“ruth rosengarten”

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  • Between Memory and Document

    by Ruth Rosengarten ...
    If modernism erased the notion of memory from artistic practice, converting its significance into a register of pure visuality, artists in the decades following World War II, and continuing to the present day, have endeavoured to revive this dimension, employing the most diverse forms and procedures. With the collapse in value of the grand narratives that previously gave specific order to the ... Read more

    $7.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Second Chance

    My Life in Things

    by Ruth Rosengarten ...
    In this intimate memoir, Ruth Rosengarten explores the subject of evocative objects through a series of interconnected essays.Evocative objects reflect our attitudes to our own lives and how we seek to display ourselves to ourselves. They are therefore, closely linked to our memories, and how we filter, process and reconstruct them. Rosengarten explores the themes and associations invoked by her ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Baudelaire Fractal

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  • About Looking

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  • Chromophobia

    by David Batchelor ...
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  • The Memoir Book

    by Patti Miller ...
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  • Modern Art

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