GRID & COUNTER-GRID

for Ming Chang Tien

GRID

&

COUNTER

GRID

DEFINITIONS

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

SURREALISM

 

general

 

histories

 

documents

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

specific image

makers

using grids

in

surreality

Magritte

Max Ernst

Salvador Dali

Joseph Cornell

Francis Bacon

grids

and sequence

structures

in

photography

and art

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

GRIDS

AND

DESIGN

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

GRIDS

IN

EVERYDAY

LIFE

The Man Hole Cover

Chess and Chessboards - see V.Nabokov, The Defence, his novel about a chess Grand Master. See also Lewis Carroll, Alice through the Looking Glass.