GRID
&
COUNTER
GRID
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DEFINITIONS
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OED " A grating - a network of lines on a
map..."
Funk &Wagnell, "a grating of parallel bars
- a gridiron - a metallic framework employed in an electric
battery - system of coordinate lines superimposed upon a map
and used a basis for reference..."
St Lawrence, the saint associated with the
grid, "In his rage the prefect threatened to kill Lawrence
slowly. He took a huge gridiron, heated it until it glowed,
and binding Lawrence to the metal, roasted him to
daeth."James Bentley, A Calendar of Saints, Orbis London 1986
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SURREALISM
general
histories
documents
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Marcel
Jean, The History
of Surrealist Painting, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, (trans. Simon
Watson-Taylor, London 1960. Informed and balanced account of
the history of the movement.
Dawn
Ades, Dada and
Surrealism Reviewed, Arts Council, Hayward Gallery, London
1978, and an exhibition catalogue devoted in the main to the
story of the Surrealist magazine/printed polemic.
Hal
Foster, Compulsive Beauty, MIT Press, Cambridge 1993, thermes - the
Uncanny, Death, and repetition.
Mary
Ann Caws, The
Surrealist Look, An Erotics of Encounter, MIT, Cambridge, 1997.
Dickran
Tashjian, A
Boatload of Madmen, Surrealism and the American
Avant-Garde,
Thames & Hudson New York 1995
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grids
and sequence
structures
in
photography
and art
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Eadward
Muybridge, Human
Locomotion
etc
photographic ordering by grids (the
exhibition catalogue 1992)
Gary
Garrels (ed) SOL
LEWITT : a retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yale
University Press, New Haven and London 2000.
see also works by Mel Bochner p.64 and
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, p.78
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GRIDS
AND
DESIGN
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Allan Hurlburt, The Grid,
Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire,
Conn., 1990 (Escaping Flatland;Micro/Macro
Readings;Layering and Separation; Small Multiples; Coplor
and Information; Narratives of Space and Time)
Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative
Information,
Graphics Press, Cheshire, Conn., 1983
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