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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows |
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German (Germany) |
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Hardcover |
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112 |
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2011-12-31 |
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3775731776 |
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Hatje Cantz |
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0.93 pounds |
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9.25 x 0.59 x 6.5 inches |
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Har/DVD |
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Product Description
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's "The Murder of Crows" is a surrealistic sound installation inspired in part by Goya's famous etching "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters." This hallucinatory work depicts a man asleep with owls and bats swooping menacingly around his head; Cardiff and Miller's title also refers to the habit among crows of flocking to a dead crow and cawing collectively, often for over a day, in a "crow funeral." The installation is composed of 98 speakers that visually mimic the flocking crows and issue both ambient and musical sounds, and a desk (mimicing Goya) with a megaphone from which Cardiff's voice relays a series of dreams. This artist's book account of the project--as well as selected earlier projects--includes documents, interviews with the artists, ornithological and literary texts referring to crows, plus a DVD and 3-D reproductions with glasses.
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