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  1. We can't stop thinking about the future
    artist Aleksandra Mir speaks with the space world
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Strange Attractor Press, London

    This book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work 'Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions', exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley's Comet in... more

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    This book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work 'Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions', exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley's Comet in 1066, the 'Space Tapestry' is a large-scale, hand-drawn monochrome wall-hanging that forms an immersive environment. Much like a graphic novel, 'Space Tapestry' tells an episodic visual story of space travel. Over the past three years, Mir has maintained dialogues with professionals in the space industry and academia who have informed and inspired her. The work draws on themes relating to current debates, recorded events, scientific discoveries, technological innovations and predictions of imagined futures that currently affect all our lives.This book contains both reproductions of the finished work and images from its collaborative creation with twenty-five young artists. It also contains sixteen in-depth new interviews with a wide range of professionals working in the space industries today, providing an intimate and informative insight into the present and future of space exploration --

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Gorman, Alice (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text); Moretti, Andrea (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text); Kuh, Andrew (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1907222545; 9781907222542
    RVK Categories: LI 99999
    Subjects: Mir, Aleksandra; Outer space
    Other subjects: Mir, Aleksandra
    Scope: 144 Seiten
  2. We can't stop thinking about the future
    artist Aleksandra Mir speaks with the space world
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Strange Attractor Press, London

    This book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work 'Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions', exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley's Comet in... more

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    No inter-library loan

     

    This book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work 'Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions', exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley's Comet in 1066, the 'Space Tapestry' is a large-scale, hand-drawn monochrome wall-hanging that forms an immersive environment. Much like a graphic novel, 'Space Tapestry' tells an episodic visual story of space travel. Over the past three years, Mir has maintained dialogues with professionals in the space industry and academia who have informed and inspired her. The work draws on themes relating to current debates, recorded events, scientific discoveries, technological innovations and predictions of imagined futures that currently affect all our lives.This book contains both reproductions of the finished work and images from its collaborative creation with twenty-five young artists. It also contains sixteen in-depth new interviews with a wide range of professionals working in the space industries today, providing an intimate and informative insight into the present and future of space exploration --

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Gorman, Alice (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text); Moretti, Andrea (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text); Kuh, Andrew (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1907222545; 9781907222542
    RVK Categories: LI 99999
    Subjects: Mir, Aleksandra; Outer space
    Other subjects: Mir, Aleksandra
    Scope: 144 Seiten