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Reversible destiny : Arakawa/Gins
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Reversible destiny : Arakawa/Gins

Author: Shūsaku Arakawa; Madeline Gins; Michael Govan; Guggenheim Museum Soho.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Guggenheim Museum Publications : Hardcover ed. distributed by H.N. Abrams, ©1997.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Over the last three decades, Arakawa (Shusaku Arakawa, b. 1936) and Madeline Gins (b. 1941) have created a remarkable body of work that bridges disciplines and seeks to expand the definition of artistic practice. This volume, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, features two important collaborations, The Mechanism of Meaning, 1963-73, 1996, and their "reversible destiny" arch Read more...

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Named Person: Shūsaku Arakawa; Madeline Gins
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Shūsaku Arakawa; Madeline Gins; Michael Govan; Guggenheim Museum Soho.
ISBN: 0810969025 9780810969025 0892071885 9780892071883
OCLC Number: 40235040
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum Soho, June 25-Aug. 31, 1997.
Description: 323 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Contents: Dear neverending architectonic reflective wherewithal / Jean-François Lyotard, Madeline Gins and Arakawa -- The road to critical resemblances house : report of a mapping / Charles W. Haxthausen -- Early works / Arakawa -- To think, to invent, to be invented : reflections on the mechanism of meaning / F.L. Rush -- The mechanism of meaning / Arakawa and Gins -- Testing the limits of brain plasticity : or, why is there a wall down the middle of the tub? / George Lakoff -- Saving not / Mark C. Taylor -- Judging landing sites / Andrew Benjamin -- Landing site(s) ; Films ; Architectural body ; Ubiquitous site : Nagi's Ryoanji ; architectural body / Arakawa and Gins -- Sites of reversible destiny / Radovan Ivsic and Annie le Brun -- Site of reversible destiny - Yoro / Arakawa and Gins -- Out of balance / Bernhard Waldenfels -- Four architects on reversible destiny / Ed Keller ... [et al.] -- Terrain ; Reversible destiny cities ; Isle of reversible destiny - Venice ; Reversible destiny houses ; Types of function ; Reversible destiny questionnaire / Arakawa and Gins.
Other Titles: We have decided not to die, Arakawa/Gins
Responsibility: [organized by Michael Govan].

Abstract:

Over the last three decades, Arakawa (Shusaku Arakawa, b. 1936) and Madeline Gins (b. 1941) have created a remarkable body of work that bridges disciplines and seeks to expand the definition of artistic practice. This volume, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, features two important collaborations, The Mechanism of Meaning, 1963-73, 1996, and their "reversible destiny" architecture projects, begun in 1971.

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