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Exploring inner space : personal experiences under LSD-25 / by Jane Dunlap.

xviii, 187 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Creativity in the arts and science / William R. Shea and Antonio Spadafora, editors.

Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Performance and authenticity in the arts / edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell.

Artscience : creativity in the post-Google generation / David Edwards.

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La Création vagabonde / textes de Etienne Baulieu [and others] ; réunis par Jacques-Louis Binet.

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Critical observations on the writings of the most celebrated original geniuses in poetry. Being a sequel to the Essay on original genius. By W. Duff, A.M.

<p>Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life. Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.</p>

The recovering : intoxication and its aftermath / Leslie Jamison.

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm

How art made the world / Nigel Spivey.

<p>"In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art--the "stuff of the world"--behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying these works--all three deeply embroiled in and enabled by science and technology--allows him to focus on practice through the experiential and affective elements of creation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observation and on his own experience as an artist, Salter investigates how researcher-creators organize the conditions for these experimental, performative assemblages--assemblages that sidestep dichotomies between subjects and objects, human and nonhuman, mind and body, knowing and experiencing. Salter reports on the sound artists Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger (O+A) and their efforts to capture and then project unnoticed urban sounds; tracks the multi-year project TEMA (Tissue Engineered Muscle Actuators) at the art research lab SymbioticA and its construction of a hybrid "semi-living" machine from specially grown mouse muscle cells; and describes a research-creation project (which he himself initiated) that uses light, vibration, sound, smell, and other sensory stimuli to enable audiences to experience other cultures' "ways of sensing." Combining theory, diary, history, and ethnography, Salter also explores a broader question: How do new things emerge into the world and what do they do?" -- Publisher's description.</p>

Alien agency : experimental encounters with art in the making / Chris Salter; afterword by Andrew Pickering.

x, 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

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Exploring inner space : personal experiences under LSD-25 / by Jane Dunlap.

Creativity in the arts and science / William R. Shea and Antonio Spadafora, editors.

Performance and authenticity in the arts / edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell.

Artscience : creativity in the post-Google generation / David Edwards.

La Création vagabonde / textes de Etienne Baulieu [and others] ; réunis par Jacques-Louis Binet.

Critical observations on the writings of the most celebrated original geniuses in poetry. Being a sequel to the Essay on original genius. By W. Duff, A.M.

The recovering : intoxication and its aftermath / Leslie Jamison.

How art made the world / Nigel Spivey.

Alien agency : experimental encounters with art in the making / Chris Salter; afterword by Andrew Pickering.

The one and the many : contemporary collaborative art in a global context / Grant H. Kester.

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Exploring inner space : personal experiences under LSD-25 / by Jane Dunlap.

Creativity in the arts and science / William R. Shea and Antonio Spadafora, editors.

Performance and authenticity in the arts / edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell.

Artscience : creativity in the post-Google generation / David Edwards.

La Création vagabonde / textes de Etienne Baulieu [and others] ; réunis par Jacques-Louis Binet.

Critical observations on the writings of the most celebrated original geniuses in poetry. Being a sequel to the Essay on original genius. By W. Duff, A.M.

The recovering : intoxication and its aftermath / Leslie Jamison.

How art made the world / Nigel Spivey.

Alien agency : experimental encounters with art in the making / Chris Salter; afterword by Andrew Pickering.

The one and the many : contemporary collaborative art in a global context / Grant H. Kester.

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