Author: Keri Smith
- Non-Fiction
- Editorial Paidós
- ISBN: 9786077473473
Synopsis
From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, a curious, engaging, and creative rethinking of all the different things a book can be. In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of a "book", Keri Smith offers an illustrated guide that challenges readers to creatively examine all the different ways This Is Not a Book can be used. With intriguing prompts, readers will discover that the book can be:
A secret message-tear out a page, write a note on it for a stranger, and leave it in a public place.
A recording device-have everyone you contact today write their name in the book.
An instrument-create as many sounds as you can using the book, like flipping the pages fast or slapping the cover.
This Is Not a Book forces you to ask, "If it's not a book, what is it then?"-with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.
La artista que ha revolucionado nuestra concepción tradicional del libro, revierte en esta obra los tradicionales papeles de autor y lector, y desafía a los usuarios de este libro a enfrentar incomodidad y molestia, a abandonarse a la falla y el error, para cuestionar su identidad, construirla, enmascararla; para sembrar sus pensamientos, ocultarlos, exponerlos; para intervenir objetos e intervenir el mundo.
Desde el título, claro guiño al genio del surrealismo, René Magritte, y al icono del postestructuralismo, Michel Foucault, Keri Smith nos sumerge en un juego de palabras que lleva a cuestionar nuestras concepciones del conocimiento, del arte y del proceso creativo.
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