Critical Opalescence Alisa Golden Berkeley, CA: Never Mind the Press, 2004 N7433.4 G65 C75 2004 Critical Opalescence is a 2004 Artists’ book by Alisa Golden. The "Art By Mail" subscription book consists of three, letter-pressed pamphlets themed around an unstable form of water — the phenomenon from which the...
“If a scholar only stays in one place, he will be blocked by one small river and become narrow-minded and ignorant. He must travel everywhere to see human affairs, the social customs of the north and the south, mountains and rivers, and to broaden his...
“…King Montecuma accompanied with his Nobles, and those of the most distinguished Rank in his Court, entertain’d the Spaniards with all sorts of Divertisements, to testify how mightily they were pleased with their Arrival. The King’s Brother came to meet ’em with a splendid Retinue;...
“Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra...