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Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint. Weaving together. From the back of the book: “Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening is a complex, beautiful, delirious meditation on just about everything under the sun; a unique and bracing read.”—Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics and Making Comics “An important book, Unflattening is consistently innovative, using abstraction alongside realism, using framing and the (dis)organization of the page. Free PDF Download Books by Nick Sousanis. The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal .
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Cataloging-in-Publication Datais available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: pbk. ITIE:S. OP ALL. UCTE:D. TO 5e'e'INC. SLE:' 51De'. The source of this historical bias can be traced to. Plato, who professed a deep distrust of perception, citing its.
For Plato, human life was a pilgrimage p. Thus, despite a similar. His observations. ANCJ, A. Stodes provid. The following serves as notes to the visual and textual references. You need not read these notes to understand, enjoy, or disagree with Unjl. But some of you may be curious to see the backstory, the hidden influence, unflattening nick sousanis pdf download, behind my words and drawings. The sleepwalking, marching figures first raised-or, unflattening nick sousanis pdf download, lowered- their heads during my time in Detroit and were the centerpiece of the public art billboard I installed along Woodward Avenue in April of For the project, I sought to address and depict transformation by embedding two images-two concepts-in one piece.
The primary image used space as standard, flat billboards do. On a series of equally spaced slats, I encoded a second image, the edges of which faced oncoming traffic such that they. As I wrote in my artist statement from that time"Can art awaken something dormant within us? The flatlander' s body positioning was infl uenced by Cathy Davidson' s description of students marched down their hallways with hands kept behind their backs.
At the time that I was working on this chapter, my dad, a teacher of physics for over four decades in the sort of experiential way that John Dewey would have liked, had retired and then taken a job mid-year ata different school, filling in for a teacher who' d been using worksheets as his mode of instruction apparently for his entire career. My dad's frustration at trying to push at the boundaries of what students had come to expect served as much of the inspiration for the images more directly referencing school institutions.
He reported their being weighed down by having to carry their AP test prep books, and while they were good at taking tests, they couldn't make connections or ask questions. The "great weight" references unflattening nick sousanis pdf download accounts, as well as Italo Calvino's discu ssion of "heaviness," which will be referenced again in the Flatland Interlude.
Page 8: Julie Bosman's article in the New York Times on the declining sale of children's picture books due to pressures on parents to get their kids reading chapter books at earlier and earlier ages to prepare for tests horrified me and inspired the imagery on this page.
We are born with that God-given gift of taking delight in the world, but such delightful activity is fettered and imprisoned, unflattening nick sousanis pdf download, muted by a force called discipline which kills the sensitiveness of the child mind which is always on the alert, restless and eager to receive first-hand knowledge from mother nature. We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hail stones on flowers" Tagore,pp.
I made the sketch first and felt a trace of recognition. I tracked down the image, which turned out to be two different images, one on the cover and the other on the inside splash page, in which Batman's profile also contains a scene within; both images are from Detective Comics vol.
Page A visual reference to Illich"the fundamental approach common to all schools-the idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn" p. Pages I first used tops as metaphorical stand- ins for people in my piece for Maxine Greene's class. Page Text from the Flatlander sequence is derived nearly directly unflattening nick sousanis pdf download paraphrased from Abbott's original novel. Perseus is often depicted riding the winged horse Pegasus.
This gift of winged sandals was intended to transport Perseus to Medusa so he could slay her. In Greek mythology, Medusa can render inanimate all who look upon her. We see another angle of this story in Chapter 6. Page The spider is an orb-weaving, common garden variety. The jumping spiders often have more exotic eyes, but this spider had to have good-looking eyes and also be a web spinner. I can't make these up- my mother is a naturalist, and incorrect spiders won't fly.
Page A reworking of a nearly similar page in my piece "Mind the Gaps" 20 The stars in the original were from the Orion constellation; here they are from the Perseus constellation. I worked out the relative distances for each star. Page I was familiar with Eratosthenes's method for calculating unflattening nick sousanis pdf download circumference of the earth from my dad's physics class; we used the opportunity of students traveling from Michigan to Florida on spring break to perform a similar calculation.
Carl Sagan's explanation of this from his Cosmos TV series was quite helpful-in it, he bends a cardboard mockup of Alexandria to Syene-and a similar bend shows up in my drawing.
Page Information unflattening nick sousanis pdf download Copernicus and Kepler, who is hinted at but not mentioned as one of the "others" to expand on Copernicus is drawn from Koestleras well as the NOVA documentary Hunting the Edge of Space: How Telescopes Have Expanded Our View of the Universe PBS, originally aired June 4, and various websites detailing epicycles and other backflips required of the geocentric model.
The dance steps and dance notations are my amalgamation of actual notation. Page Bakhtinp. Oskin's article on Scott Page's work on the value of divergence and diversity for the creation of new ideas within groups p. The composition of many eyes had me thinking back unflattening nick sousanis pdf download the cover of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Doar and the "drive of dragons" pictured on it.
Deleuze and Guattari I think their writing really lends itself to being presented in comics form. Page For more about canine senses, see Bilger and Williams Page The ship is my recollection of a carved wooden canoe my parents have. Page Carse offers a notion of "horizonal vision," and the passage comes from p.
The walking figures reference Muybridge's photographic examinations of movement. Page My friend and mentor Fred Goodman suggests that tetra- hedrons enclose a single space in such a way that they 'beg" to be "turned over in one's mind. Latourpp.
The page also references sculptor David Barr's globe-spanning "Four Corners Project"-the largest sculpture ever made with the least amount of material. The coastline explored here is that of Ithaca, Greece. Page The passage "Did it flow? A trace of some text from my mom, Anne Sousanisremains in the text: "Our ecosystems may have visual boundaries but unflattening nick sousanis pdf download are not isolated from one another.
Page I had previously used the title of this chapter for an essay in comics form in the journal of Visual Arts Research Sousanis,and this chapter reworks and greatly expands upon ideas from that previously published piece, unflattening nick sousanis pdf download. Page 62 is most directly drawn from that earlier piece; it's a new drawing, but with the same composition and scene for the most part, unflattening nick sousanis pdf download, with altered text, unflattening nick sousanis pdf download.
Page The terms "anchor" and "relay" are a nod to Roland Barthes's theory o f the interaction o f image and text, which is quite applicable to thinking on comics as well. Page I did set fire to several pages in an attempt to get this to look just right. That did not go well and I can't recommend trying it at home. In the dissertation version of this work, I was required by the Office of Doctoral Studies to include a "List of Figures" at the front of the document to refer solely to the "figure" on this page-the page.
Their til- --j8:J1 tp-t., unflattening nick sousanis pdf download. The moon and telescope belong to Galileo, who is never mentioned in the text but has his fingerprints all over it. Adam Gopnik's article on Galileo helped inform both the imagery and the integration of reason and perception that doses the page-what he called a "fluid mixture of sense impression and strong argument.
You can learn more about the Dymaxion Map and other projects on the Buckminster Fuller Institute website, www. Page Langerp. The sentence diagram was provided by Russell Willerton, who kindly responded to my request for assistance on social media.
Everett Maroon carne up with an alterna tive approach of which I incorporated a few elements. Page Langer claims that dueto its linear form, language falls short in conveying feelings and emotions, and thus discursive forms are seen as intelligent, while everything else is relegated to the realm o f the irrational p.
My finalline references Wallace Stevens, who said of poems, "not ideas about the thing but the thing itself, unflattening nick sousanis pdf download.
Page McCloudp. The lunar calendar is redrawn from a 30,year-old Paleolithic calendar produced at the same time as the cave paintings in Lascaux. While the connection between cave art and comics is often unflattening nick sousanis pdf download, I was thrilled to link this calendar to comics-as here, time is literally written in space.
Page Groensteenp. It should also be noted that while I initially happened upon the Banyan tree because of the imagery, it turns out that, like comics themselves, the Banyan, as Thompson writes, can be seen as 'both hierarchical and rhizomatic!
Page McGilchrist Also, on a related note, Hatfield discusses comics as an art of tensions. Though I do not mention it explicitly here, Hatfield's point merits further discussion. Page HarveyLewisp. Page Nodelmanp. The broader discussion of multimodality though not named as such here draws on Jewitt and KressKressKress and van Leeuwenand Kress, Jewitt, Ogborn, and Tsatsarelis Page The Spiegelman quote is from Witekunflattening nick sousanis pdf download, pp.
My composition on the lower left borrows from Frank Quitely's wonderful perspectiva! The imagery also plays with "you're nothing but a pack of cards" from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to go along with giant Alice in the house. Page The dancers are alighting across an image drawn from a cloud chamber-a machine made for detecting particles invisible to our eyes. Page Arnheimp.
Though not cited, Merleau-Ponty is worth remembering here: "Vision is a palpation by means of the gaze. Page Rosandp. Gombrich discusses recognition, "Making comes before matching" pp.
He also discusses recognizing something in marks, connecting to a resemblance p.
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