Brilliant Absence : Pursuing the Kingfisher in the Work of Hans Waanders
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 184568072
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Uniformbooks
- ISBN
- 978 1 910010 20 4
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- My book is based on original research that introduces the work of the Dutch artist and bookmaker Hans Waanders to a wider audience. Additionally, Brilliant Absence sets out to re-think the possibilities and scope of so called ‘nature writing’ by examining the ways in which the conceptual art, serialism, mail art and appropriation practised by Waanders offers an alternative to its generic conventions. In researching the book, Waanders’s rare publications and prints were consulted alongside his personal correspondence with various collaborators and publishers. The book is also informed by my close involvement with the Small Publishers Fair, which has exhibited Waanders’s work and hosted a number of his publishers and collaborators with whom I was able to consult and discuss my work as the book progressed. Brilliant Absence outlines the key themes and concerns of Waanders’s work, paying particular attention to its rich conceptual underpinnings. The book is also pertinent to a range of disciplinary interests; from art history and artists’ books to cultural geography and ‘nature writing.’ An underpinning theme of Brilliant Absence is borders and boundaries—not only between disciplines and territories, but also in terms of time and memory—and what it means to challenge or dissolve them. Uniform books was an apposite choice of publisher as the interdisciplinary scope of my book builds on the press's considerable reputation as an ‘independent imprint for the visual and literary arts, cultural geography and history, music and bibliographic studies.’ There is a distinctly creative component to the book in terms of Colin Sackett’s editorial design. My text and Waanders’s images work in dialogue throughout, thereby meaningfully and innovatively extending my research expertise on the dialectics of word and image in literature and visual art.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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