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Panamarenko: For Clever Scholars, Astronomers and Doctors Hardcover – July 21, 2020

by Panamarenko (Author), Jon Thompson (Author)
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During a career spanning more than 50 years, the Belgian visionary Panamarenko - engineer, poet, artist, physicist, inventor - conducted meticulous studies of the natural world and various scientific principles. He analyzed the secrets of the universe, gravity, and other energetic mysteries, and formulated both logical and well-considered solutions. His work was poetic, the result of a seamless coalescence of artistic skill and scientific research; the outcome of which could take the form of a flying saucer, backpack helicopter, flying carpet, zeppelin, solar powered car, submarine, or prehistoric mechanical bird. Each of his spectacular constructions possessed not only a peculiar beauty and naive playfulness, but also a degree of conspicuous consideration. In 2001, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent held a retrospective of Panamarenko's work, for which the artist designed and wrote this oversized catalog - a work of art in its own right.
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    112 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Ludion Publishers
  4. Publication date
    July 21, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    12 x 0.5 x 16.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    9493039307
  7. ISBN-13
    978-9493039308
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Henri Van Herwegen (5 February 1940-14 December 2019), known by the pseudonym of Panamarenko, was a prominent Belgian artist. He is famous for his work with aeroplanes as theme; none of which are able nor constructed to actually leave the ground. Jon Thompson was emeritus professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University in England and the author of How to Read a Modern Painting, among other titles.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ludion Publishers (July 21, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9493039307
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9493039308
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12 x 0.5 x 16.75 inches
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Jon Thompson received a B.A. and an M.A. from University College, Dublin and a Ph.D from LSU. He has published poems and essays widely in journals such as American Literary Review, Black Box Manifold, Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Interim, The Iowa Review, Jacket 2, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. His collections of poems are Notebooks of Last Things (Shearsman Books, 2019), Strange Country (Shearsman Books, 2016), Landscape with Light (Shearsman Books, 2014) and Pictures of the Floating World (Parlor Press, 2007). He has also published a collection of lyrical essays, After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing (Shearsman Books, 2014). He edits Free Verse Editions and Illuminations: A Series on American Poetics, both published by Parlor Press.

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I have encountered this book a number of times at a friend's house and have lusted over it for years. It's an incredibly fanciful book- full of the most incredible artistic ideas. Panamarenko's creations look like Leonardo Da Vinci's flying machines albeit with modern, and yet, aged twists. I became bound and determined to aquire a copy for myself and found it difficult to do through my usual sources. So I turned to Amazon, found a copy, and was extremely happy that it came beautifully protected from Europe in a very timely fashion. All in all- a success!
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