Sentences with phrase «books as artifacts»

«In this exhibit, Dettmer continues his investigation of the book as both artifact and object - a kind of intersection of sculpture, information technology, poetic text and historical tract.

Digitizing the material for broader access seems like an obvious «good thing», although it gets into the «book as artifact» as opposed to information container problem.

Not exact matches

Among the features of the library include a room dedicated to historical artifacts - including some relating to the life and times of Herbert Macaulay, an innovation hub that will serve as a Coding Centre, a lounge / café area, a reading area with updated books and an e-library section, wheelchair accessible ramps and a finished courtyard area, among others.

He has collected a handful of first editions of Babar books, as well as countless related artifacts, including a Babar clock that hangs on his office wall.

While the space does include paper books and physical artifacts, as well as flexible furniture and an open environment, digital content encourages students to explore, play, and delve deeper into subjects they may not otherwise experience.

Artifact Sharing: Just as you might bring in some of your favorite childhood and teen books, invite students to bring in artifacts from their lives — photos, books, and awards — and share one - on - one, in small groups, or with the whole group.

Media analyst Alan D. Mutter recently argued, «They will buy a book, vinyl record or other physical artifact that they view as a collectible, but see no value in paying for access to ephemeral headlines that are freely available everywhere.»

What will remain in book form will be books as objects of art, books as historical artifacts, books as keepsakes, books as collectibles, books as study guides, books as old friends, and, most important of all, books as non-electronic objects that won't crash, run out of battery power, go on the fritz, blow up, overheat, or generally do anything except be available to you any time you have enough available light to read.

These short video previews of books, often featuring a chat with the author or a dramatic depiction of the plot, and typically posted on YouTube, are truly strange cultural artifacts: They're painfully obvious attempts to adapt to technological change, but they're just as obviously off - key, not quite in step with whatever they're chasing.

As more and more content has moved from the physical to the digital realm, book publishers (and music labels, and newspapers, etc.) have tried to perpetuate the control they used to have over the physical artifact, and in many cases have actually tried to create new forms of control they never had in the physical world.

McGuire's argument hinges on the recent emergence of ebooks as a serious contender to the print book as the dominant artifact of the publishing industry, with some suggesting that ebooks will make up 50 % of the book market by 2015 thanks to the Kindle, iPad and smartphones.

I think that most of us who grow up with consumption as a social norm are used to thinking of our cultural artifacts, books, CDs, DVDs, as having value that needs to be preserved.

One of the things they accuse Amazon of is not seeing books as cultural artifacts, rather than another product.

The exhibition presents more than 300 artifacts from the Beniecke Rare Books & Manuscript Library's James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, including materials from intellectual and literary figures, and artists such as Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring.

As Semmes heads down the rabbit hole of artistic inspiration she takes artist Erle Loran's 1943 book, Cezanne's Compositions as her guide: Loran's attempts to diagram and unlock the powers of Cezanne's paintings are a touching artifact of pure formalism and ardoAs Semmes heads down the rabbit hole of artistic inspiration she takes artist Erle Loran's 1943 book, Cezanne's Compositions as her guide: Loran's attempts to diagram and unlock the powers of Cezanne's paintings are a touching artifact of pure formalism and ardoas her guide: Loran's attempts to diagram and unlock the powers of Cezanne's paintings are a touching artifact of pure formalism and ardor.

To illustrate these relationships, a limited number of original artifacts will be displayed — book covers, shoes, sandals, wooden tablets, and tunic fragments — as well as replicas of ancient artifacts.

Consumer goods, advertising, and pop cultural artifacts such as book lights, ergonomic keyboards, prescription drug commercials, ASMR YouTube videos, and Enya songs become curious tools for attempting to solve her problems.

Alongside Rodin's work, large - scale books with Kiefer's illustrations will be on view, as well as his paintings and vitrines containing historical artifacts such as desiccated plants, scraps of fabric and stones.

In recent work, Clay has focused on two contrasting sets of artifacts — first, on the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, iconic monuments to modernist authorship, and, second, on handmade marbleized paper (such as that used in the colorful endpapers of antique books), readily identifiable as a reference to anonymous historical craft.

His book Art and Artifact — The Museum as Medium (Thames & Hudson in 2000/10) surveys the interaction between contemporary artists and the museum.

(Typical was the complaint of a paleontologist who prefaced his 1992 book with a disclaimer: «in view of the misuse that my words have been put to in the past, I wish to say that nothing in this book should be taken out of context and thought in any way to support the views of the «creationists»...»)(20) + If pollen types did shift abruptly in some bog, scientists could account for that as an artifact of a purely local change.