a few sources from divers locations:
Found via Josiah:
Durini, Lucrezia De Domizio. The Felt Hat: Joseph Beuys, A Life Told. Milano: Charta Press, 1997.
Found via Project Gutenberg (a trial from Wikipedia mention of the Mad Hatter):
Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-table.html
Found via NYTimes:
Gardiner, Virginia. "In her hands, felt is fashionable."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/garden/08claudy.html?scp=1&sq=in%20her%20hands%20felt&st=cse
Found in the trash:
the chapter entitled "Nests" from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.
By typing sheep + poety into google, the BBC:
"Wooly writing creates new poetry"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2541761.stm
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3 comments:
Stephanie Metz is a contemporary artist who has made a lot of sculptures out of felt. Some of them are really interesting, and might be something to look at.
Hollis did NOT find Bachelard in the trash. He was, indeed, in the recycling, my recycling, and I took him out and said--"Hey this might be interesting...." Truth be told, I did NOT expect she would find ANYTHING about felt in him.
--Andrew
Bachelard always clogs up my cardboard and bottles, too.
If you're interested in a methodological approach that weaves together Benjaminian 'collecting' and the investigation of mundane objects, what Michal calls 'reality of the lowest rank', could be a useful tool to apply to felt. I've previously done some work playing it around Joseph Beuys, which I'm happy to talk about with you. Ditto Beuys in general.
The cite:
Kobialka, Michal. 'Tadeusz Kantor: Collector and Historian'. Performance Research, Volume 12, Issue 4 December 2008 , pages 78 - 96
You might also want to spend some happy hours with Michel Gondry and his fascination with felt, especially in 'The Science of Sleep'.
--Ryan
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