Mechanism of Meaning

Abbeville Pr, 1988-01-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1988 revised edition, Abbeville Press (New York), 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches tall pale cream/pink hardcover in publisher's translucent dust jacket, black lettering to spine, copiously illustrated, 137, [21] pp. plus both plastic insert cards (26 x 26 cm.) which reproduce a micrograph of zirconium. A very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly soiled and rubbed dust jacket. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP39~ [3.5P] A creative and dynamic volume by Arakawa and Gins, who have been called the most philosophical of living artists, which collects their writings and art work from a period of nearly 2 decades. They address the essential art query of our time: How does it all fit together? Art and science happens in fragments. They take fragments, and they try, by making linkages to perceiving tactics immediate, to draw these tactics, these ways of construing a demonstrably conceivable whole that are the perceiver-reader, into a unified field that they refer to as 'the perceiving field.' They propose to re-create and to rejoin fragments, and would-be fragments, so as to make a new whole.