Affinities A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review

Name: Affinities A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review
Brand: Thames & Hudson
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By Adam Green

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An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review. Gathering a remarkable collection of over 500 public domain images, Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review, the book has been assembled from a vast array of sources: from manuscripts to museum catalogues, ship logs to primers on Victorian magic. The images are arranged in a single captivating sequence which unfurls according to a dreamlike logic, through a play of visual echoes and evolving thematic threads - hatching eggs twin with early Burmese world maps, marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways, and fireworks explode beside deep-sea coral. At once an art book, a sourcebook, and a kaleidoscopic visual poem, Affinities is a unique and enthralling publication that will offer something different on each visit. Its playful and imaginative space invites the reader to transcend familiar categories of epoch, style, or historical theme, and to instead revel in a new world of creative possibilities played out between the images - opening up new connections, ways of seeing, and forms of knowledge. Praise for The Public Domain Review 'An Aladdin's cave of curiosity ... the best thing on the web' Guardian 'A gold mine of fantastic images and stories' The New York Times

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 368
Release Date:: 2022-06-07
Publication Date:: 2022-05-12
Publisher:: Thames & Hudson
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0500025207
ISBN13:: 9780500025208
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1200 g
Height:: 28 cm
Width:: 22 cm
Thickness:: 3.8 cm

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