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Author:   Yeseung Lee (De Montfort University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781350130449

ISBN 10:   1350130443
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   12 November 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Prologue: Surface Matters, Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University, USA) Introduction, Yeseung Lee (De Montfort University, UK) 1. Folds of Fashion: Unravelled and the Planetary Surface, Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton, UK) 2. Surface-making in Nuclear Decommissioning: A Narrative of Sludge, Plutonium and Their Whereabouts, Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (University of Manchester, UK) 3. Surface Eruption: Machine Creativity and Emotive Data Objects, Barbara Rauch (OCAD University, Canada) 4. The Depth of Surface, Lesley Halliwell (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 5. Where Surface Meets Depth: Virtuality in Textile and Material Design, Elaine Igoe (University of Portsmouth, UK) 6. Growing Surface between Textiles and Electrochemisty, Joanne Horton (De Montfort University, UK) 7. David Pye's Fluting Engine, Benedict Carpenter van Barthold (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 8. Journal (2016-2018): Conversations on Looms, Cloth and Weaving, Max Mosscrop (independent artist, UK) and Benedict Carpenter van Barthold (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9. On Drawing: Transmission from the Lifeworld to Paper at Namdaemun Market, Seoul, Ray Lucas (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 10. Archive Surface, Jane Birkin (University of Southampton, UK) 11. Experience, Poverty, Transparency: The Modern Surface of Interwar Glass, Freyja Hartzell (Bard Graduate Center, USA) 12. On Genealogy of Translucent Screen and Rehabilitation of the Ephemeral: Post-Cinema, Installation, Performance (Oksana Chefranova, Yale University, USA) Bibliography Index

Reviews

We live, increasingly, in an age of surfaces - navigating our lives more and more via flat screens and fleeting appearances. Surface and Apparition provides a timely historical and theoretical viewpoint on this condition, through a series of inventive case studies. The book usefully challenges the stereotype of superficiality, showing that surfaces properly attended to can yield narratives of temporal and haptic subtlety. The volume is excitingly diverse in its contents, with respect to time period and geographical space, ranging from technology to hand craft. Nonetheless mounts a clear, powerful argument in favor of surface as an expressive, sensitive register of history. -- Glenn Adamson, Yale Center for British Art, USA This is a truly remarkable and enjoyable, multidisciplinary investigation of surface. The details, insights, and theoretical explorations catch the imagination and open up important new avenues for thought and practice. The subtlety and nuance of this collection, each chapter providing unique haeccaties - those specific qualities that mark something as uniquely 'it' - that stay with the reader long after reading. This is an important work - for the student and scholar, but also for the inquisitive, the curious, and the reader who has always felt there must be something more to what meets the eye, the touch, the feel. -- Timothy Carroll, University College London, UK Surface and Apparition: The Immateriality of Modern Surface provides a coruscating assembly of reflections and arguments on the idea of the surface. The reader will come away astonished and invigorated by the density and depth of the ways in which different kinds of surface are brought to thought by the essays in Yeseung Lee's volume -- Steven Connor, University of Cambridge, UK 'Surface is now our becoming' suggests Yeseung Lee in her introduction to this dazzlingly tactile exploration of surface by the collection of eminent makers and thinkers she has assembled for Surface and Apparition: The Immateriality of Modern Surface. Ground-breaking and provocative, the texts in this volume understand surface as both material and immaterial, concerned with transition and constant modification rather than with separation and boundaries. In our current climate where contact, transmission and diffusion are paramount concerns, this volume is both prophetic and essential reading -- Jonathan Faiers, University of Southampton, UK

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Yeseung Lee is Lecturer for Design Cultures at De Montfort University, UK.

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