Reading Revolutionaries

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Reading Revolutionaries is written by John Sparagana and published by Benteli Verlags Ag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3716518131 (ISBN 10) and 9783716518137 (ISBN 13).

An investigation of the way we read and process (visual) language.John Sparagana is an artist and the Grace Christian Vietti Chair in the Visual Arts and Chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. Reto Geiser is an architect and scholar of modern architecture with a focus on the intersections between architecture, pedagogy, and media. The work of Sparagana is known for its various types of physical manipulation. Following this concept, this book proposes an alternative "reading" of his work in the form of a literal understanding of visual information as text. His large-scale work of art "Crowds & Powder: The Revolutionaries" is translated into the format of a mass-market paperback book. Arranged over eighty double-page spreads, each individual page frames a full-scale fragment of this work. Not only does it allude to a growing discourse on the control and manipulation of visual narrative, as increasingly witnessed from political imagery to popular culture, but it also investigates the way we read and process (visual) language.