De Stijl magazine (1917-1921) [Dutch]
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De Stijl, Dutch for “The Style”, also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands. De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931), propagating the group’s theories. Though the magazine never sold more than 300 copies, it had a strong influence on art in the Netherlands and abroad.
De Stijl: Maanblad gewijd aan de moderne beeldende vakken en kultuur
Edited by Theo van Doesburg
Published in Delft (1917-18) and Leiden (1918-21)
John Cage: A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings (1967)
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Collection of John Cage‘s essays, lectures and journal entries from 1961–1967. Includes “How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)” and “Juilliard Lecture”.
Publisher Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1967
ISBN 0819560022, 9780819560025
167 pages
Review: Virgil Thomson (New York Review of Books, 1970).
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Comments (2)Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin: Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999)
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Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning “remediation,” and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
Publisher: MIT Press, 1999
ISBN: 0262024527, 9780262024525
295 pages
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