Book Of Fragments Volume No.2
Book Of Fragments Volume No.2

Author: Dana Krystle

Publisher: Dana Krystle

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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Book of Fragments Volume Two is a continuation of artworks from the first volume (Book of Fragments) which was published in 2018. Whereas the first book explored contemporary topics in landscape, this volume focused more on the deeper inner struggles of human existence. Life has changed a lot in the past years, and narratives such as chivalry, honor, faith and deeper meanings have been lost in the process of machines taking over. We sleep with machines, eat with machines and are on the verge of thinking like machines. One can’t help but keep wondering, where will this all eventually lead humanity to? In this book, I attempted to self-discover and explore. What does it mean to be human, what does it mean to be separated from one self? If we took our parts fragment by fragment, will we still be human? The era has changed and the vocabulary followed suit. I somehow found myself trapped in the in-betweens of what is right and what is wrong. Book of Fragments Volume Two is my response to what my soul has been experiencing, where my mind has wandered, and where my thoughts have traveled to. This is a crucial era of change, and I, like many others, are struggling to find meaning without losing our soul. I hope one will find solace and understanding in this body of work. It was a one-year process of experimentation and I hope this book illustrates the new language I tried to speak. And so, with the grace of God others will hear and understand.

Fashioned Texts and Painted Books
Fashioned Texts and Painted Books

Author: Erin E. Edgington

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-10-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 146963578X

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Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan's suitability as a substrate for verse, deriving from its myriad associations with coquetry and sex, flight, air, and breath. Close readings of Stephane Mallarme's eventails of the 1880s and 1890s and Paul Claudel's Cent phrases pour eventails (1927) consider both text and paratext as they underscore the significant visual interest of this poetry. Works in prose and in verse by Octave Uzanne, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust, along with fan leaves by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Paul Gauguin, serve as points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the complex interplay of text and image that characterizes this occasional subgenre. Through its interrogation of the correspondences between form and content in fan poetry, this study demonstrates that the fan was, in addition to being a ubiquitous fashion accessory, a significant literary and art historical object straddling the boundary between East and West, past and present, and high and low art.