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Imperfections: Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures

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Contents\\\\r\\\\n\\\\r\\\\nList of Illustrations vii\\\\r\\\\nForeword by Steven J. Jackson ix\\\\r\\\\nIntroduction 1\\\\r\\\\nEllen Rutten\\\\r\\\\nPart I Imperfect Shapes\\\\r\\\\n1 The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Everyday Life 23\\\\r\\\\nYuriko Saito\\\\r\\\\n2 Making Meaning with Mistakes 51\\\\r\\\\nMieke Bal\\\\r\\\\n3 The Vertical Inverted? Dirt Aesthetics in Russian Conceptualist\\\\r\\\\nand Protest Art 83\\\\r\\\\nYngvar Steinholt\\\\r\\\\n4 Promoting the Imperfect: Marketing Strategies to Reduce\\\\r\\\\nProduct Waste 103\\\\r\\\\nIlona E. de Hooge\\\\r\\\\nPart II Imperfect Sounds and Systems\\\\r\\\\n5 Electronic Contingencies: Goeyvaerts’s Sine Wave Music and\\\\r\\\\nthe Ideal of Perfect Sound 129\\\\r\\\\nMelle Jan Kromhout\\\\r\\\\n6 Imperfection in Experimental Instruments and Their\\\\r\\\\nPerformances 149\\\\r\\\\nCaleb Kelly\\\\r\\\\n7 Silicon Ashes to Silicon Ashes, Digital Dust to Digital\\\\r\\\\nDust: Chronolibido and Technological Fragility in GlitchHiker 165\\\\r\\\\nJakko Kemper\\\\r\\\\n8 The Imperfections of Listing the Past: Listing Names in\\\\r\\\\nHolocaust Commemoration 189\\\\r\\\\nErnst van Alphen\\\\r\\\\n9 Imperfect Metamorphoses of Language: Retracing a Childlike\\\\r\\\\nVision with Artist Xu Bing 201\\\\r\\\\nTingting Hui\\\\r\\\\nPart III Imperfect Selves\\\\r\\\\n10 “I Am a Strange Video Loop”: Digital Technologies of the Self\\\\r\\\\nin Picture-Perfect Mediations 221\\\\r\\\\nPatricia Pisters\\\\r\\\\n11 [Essay] The Forced Samaritan: On Face-Distorting Wearable\\\\r\\\\nObjects 243\\\\r\\\\nLinor Goralik\\\\r\\\\n12 Dream in a Suitcase: An Immigrant’s Transformative Journeys\\\\r\\\\nto Imperfect Homes 251\\\\r\\\\nDomnica Radulescu\\\\r\\\\n13 Polder Panda: Imperfection and Love in Dutch Dairy Farming 279\\\\r\\\\nOskar Verkaaik\\\\r\\\\nAfterthought 301\\\\r\\\\nJoanna van der Zanden\\\\r\\\\nList of Contributors 305\\\\r\\\\nIndex 309

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701.17 Cal i

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New York : Bloomsbury Academic., 2021

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xi, 344 hlm. : 21,6 x 14 cm

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English

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978-1-5013-8033-4

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701.17

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Aesthetics, Modern
Failure (Psychology) in art
Errors in art

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