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Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004 The Joy of Cooking

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ISBN-10: 0819569291

ISBN-13: 9780819569295

Edition: 2009

Authors: Tan Lin

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How do we read a book as an object in a network, in a post-book, post-reading, meta-data environment? 7 Controlled Vocabularies models a generic book, a kind of field guide to the arts, wherein distinctions between various aesthetic disciplines are relaxed or dissolved and where avant-garde notions of difficulty are replaced with more relaxing and ambient formats such as yoga, disco, and meditation. Each of the book's seven sections is devoted to a particular art form--film, photography, painting, the novel, architecture, music, and theory--and includes both text and found photographs as it explores the idea of what it means to be a book in an era when reading is disappearing into a diverse…    
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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

A Dedication
Some Acknowledgments
A Field Guide to American Painting
A Field Guide to the American Landscape
American Architecture Meta Data Containers
2 Identical Novels
A Dictionary of Systems Theory
Various Library Standards
A Field Guide to American Cinema
Two Colophons