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Narrative Artists' Books and the Human Condition: The Work of Philip Zimmermann

Narrative Artists' Books and the Human Condition: The Work of Philip Zimmermann Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 FEATURE personal experiences, historical incidents, and contemporary issues, he examines how knowledge and belief shape the way humans share the world with one another. Zimmermann uses the narrative artist’s book especially Narrative effectively to expound the long history of the self and society. Five recent works—Celsius 233 (2015), Cruising Altitude (2011), Incident in Deseret (2014), Paradise Lost: An Allegory (2013), and Reaper (2015)—all Artists’ Books integrate photographic images with a running text. Celsius 233 and Paradise Lost: An Allegory also include drawn imagery, each to different and the Human effect. Zimmermann often combines original (personal) content with appropriated (more universal) text and image, augmenting or reconfiguring the borrowed media to construct new meaning. He Condition: The manipulates the imagery to create a cohesive visual vocabulary from disparate sources. Drawing on expertise in photomechanical color Work of Philip separations, his signature exaggerated halftone dots, color screens, and other devices clue the reader in to a media-critical mindset. One must consider how the aesthetics of commerce and warfare, Zimmermann propaganda and exoticism, and objectivity and sentimentality ultimately contribute to the repeated shortcomings of humanity that Zimmermann addresses. As investigations into human nature, totalitarianism, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism University of California Press

Narrative Artists' Books and the Human Condition: The Work of Philip Zimmermann

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2578-8531
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10.1525/aft.2016.44.1-2.44
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Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 FEATURE personal experiences, historical incidents, and contemporary issues, he examines how knowledge and belief shape the way humans share the world with one another. Zimmermann uses the narrative artist’s book especially Narrative effectively to expound the long history of the self and society. Five recent works—Celsius 233 (2015), Cruising Altitude (2011), Incident in Deseret (2014), Paradise Lost: An Allegory (2013), and Reaper (2015)—all Artists’ Books integrate photographic images with a running text. Celsius 233 and Paradise Lost: An Allegory also include drawn imagery, each to different and the Human effect. Zimmermann often combines original (personal) content with appropriated (more universal) text and image, augmenting or reconfiguring the borrowed media to construct new meaning. He Condition: The manipulates the imagery to create a cohesive visual vocabulary from disparate sources. Drawing on expertise in photomechanical color Work of Philip separations, his signature exaggerated halftone dots, color screens, and other devices clue the reader in to a media-critical mindset. One must consider how the aesthetics of commerce and warfare, Zimmermann propaganda and exoticism, and objectivity and sentimentality ultimately contribute to the repeated shortcomings of humanity that Zimmermann addresses. As investigations into human nature, totalitarianism, and

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Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism – University of California Press

Published: Jul 1, 2016

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