Explode every day : an inquiry into the phenomena of wonder
Denise Markonish (Author)
"Harnessing the idea of wonder as a thematic metaphor, the exhibition features both existing and new works by twenty-three international artists, each touching on certain facets of wonder, including: the perceptual/visionary, the technological/scientific, the philosophical/meditative, time/cosmos, and illusion/fear."--MoCA website
Print Book, English, 2016
MASS MoCA and DelMonico Books/Prestel, Munich, 2016
Exhibition catalogs
336 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
9783791355658, 3791355651
1133661851
Foreword / Joseph C. Thompson
Introduction : Like two black holes colliding / Denise Markonish
Unknown unknowns : an inquiry into wonder, the rainbow, and the aesthetics of every day experiences / Denise Markonish
Negotiating wonder / Sean Foley
Wonder, wondrous, wondering... / Jill Tarter
Still I wonder / Stefan Sagmeister
Faith and the cultured despisers of the possible / Steven Holmes
On wonder / Robin Ince
Dark wonder : belowness, or the ineffable underground / Barbara Maria Stafford
On the Guinness Book of Records / Sam Green
The thing itself / Maria Popova
Exuberance : the passion for life / Kay Redfield Jamison
After a rain ; Argot ; Glory ; The day ; Fireworks ; Peridot ; Timberland ; Perpetually attempting to soar / Mary Ruefle
In conversation with Lawrence Weschler
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