Hannah higgins new book on grids is a confident synthesis of art, architecture, geography, geometry, urbanism, and social history. Hannah higgins book, fluxus experience, was published by university of california press in 2002. The grid book mit press by hannah b higgins 20090123. Higgins emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. Hannah higgins, professor and chair of department of art history at the university of illinois at chicago, lectures on her 2009 mit press publication. Higgins, hannah b art history university of illinois. She is coeditor of mainframe experimentalism and the author of fluxus experience and the grid book, from which this article is adapted. Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available. In addition to articles on the historic and neoavantgardes, her books include fluxus experience 2002 and the grid book 2009, and an anthology mainframe experimentalism. Hannah b higgins is a professor in the school of art and art history at uic, where she has been teaching since 1994. Apr 14, 2010 the grid book wants to show us that the history of building, composing, computing, mapping, lending, painting, printing, trading, and writingthe history of modern existence, in other wordsis really a history of the grid.
The grid book mit press by hannah b higgins 2009 0123. Higgins born 1964 is an american writer and academic living in chicago, illinois. Higgins s research examines various postconceptual art historical subjects visual, musical, computational and material in terms of two philosophically and practically entwined terms. Notated rhythm, as distinct from the rhythm of sung words, dates to the midthirteenth century. Jan 23, 2009 the grid book the mit press higgins, hannah b on. In conjunction with the performing the grid exhibition, hannah higgins, professor and chair of the department of art. And yet, as hannah higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid has a history that long. Hannah higgins the grid book otis college of art and design.
Buy the grid book the mit press by hannah b higgins isbn. Jul 12, 2016 the grid is a welldone book on a topic that is not sexy. Her choice of topic may mystify potential readers, but higgins sees the grid as a critical theme running through human history and technological innovation over the last eleven thousand years. Early computing and the foundations of digital art 2012. The grid book hannah b higgins 2009 ten grids that changed the world. The grid book mit press by hannah b higgins 2009 0123 higgins on. Now higgins has a new book, along with her new job and new d. Hannah higgins is professor of art history and university scholar at university of illinois chicago. In addition to articles on fluxus, dada, and duchamp, she is the author of fluxus experience university of california press, 2002, the grid book. See all books authored by kristan higgins, including now that you mention it, and good luck with that, and more on. From chapters on these subjects, higgins moves on to.
The grid book by hannah higgins ford 2011 critical. The grid book offers a deceptively simple sequence of chapters on different kinds of grid. In conjunction with the performing the grid exhibition, hannah higgins, professor and chair of the department of art history at the university of illinois at chicago, lectures on her 2009 mit press publication, the grid book, which examines the history of ten grids that changed the world. Higgins is solo author of fluxus experience university of california press, 2002 and the grid book mit press, 2009 and coeditor of with douglas kahn of mainframe experimentalism. In the grid book, published by the mit press in march, she analyzes the grid pattern as more than just an icon or a. Grid book journal of design history oxford academic. In addition to refiguring to new sources of power the grid is aging and falling apart. Professor hannah b higgins is solo author of fluxus experience university of california press, 2002 and the grid book mit press, 2009 and coeditor of with douglas kahn of mainframe experimentalism. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Americas electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out. Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to paintings by mondrian and a piece of computer code. Hannah higgins, professor and chair of department of art history at the university of illinois at chicago, lectures on her 2009 mit press publication, the grid book, which examines the history of. The grid book livros na amazon brasil 9780262512404.
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The grid book, her interdisciplinary history of this defining form in western culture, was published by mit press in early 2009. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. At a time when most art historians follow the poststructuralist model of everything is text, her book is refreshingly free of that dogma. And yet, as hannah higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity. The author, hannah higgins, isnt quite able to map out all the facts she. Hannah b higgins is associate professor in the department of art history at the university of illinois at chicago. Of grids and the great chicago fire the mit press reader. Electrical infrastructure for a new era by gretchen. A collective portrait of george maciunas, 193119,78, at the fluxeum in. We can define a grid computing environment as a set of tools and technologies that. Along with articles on food and art, early computer art, the avantgarde, and experimental education in arts, hannah b higgins books include fluxus experience 2002, the grid book 2009 and the anthology mainframe experimentalism.