Author:
Weschler, Lawrence.
Imprint:San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, c2006.
Description232 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Note:Introduction -- Echos at ground zero -- The view from the prow of the Getty -- Cuneiform Chicago -- Helen Levvitt: Ilium off the bowery -- Ziggurats of perception -- Expressions of an Absolute -- Gazing out towards -- Magritte standard time -- Found triptych -- Girls in their turning -- Languorous landscapes -- Face as Torso, torso as face -- Fathers and daughters -- The darling little being -- Images without texts -- The graphics of solidarity -- The contras and the battle of Algiers -- How suddenly it could all just end -- Modern times -- Allegories of easter Europe -- Loving or leaving Bosnia-- Pillsbury Dough Messiahs -- A field of blackbirds -- Life against death -- Mona Lewinsky -- Those wacky htoo twins -- Thumb in eye -- Trees and eyeballs -- Branching out yet further -- Compounding unscientific postscript -- We join spokes together in a wheel.
