Full Description
This heavily illustrated book contains a full photographic documentation of the installation, as well as the artefacts that inspired it and preliminary studies, accompanied by essays and reactions to the work by artists, scholars and museum professionals.
Cosmogony is typically defined as the scientific field of study dedicated to the exploration of the solar system's origins, but Cogswell embraces a broader use of the term, rooted in the kinds of human storytelling that shape our ethics, morals, and holistic understandings.
With contributions by Gunalan Nadarajan, Terry Wilfong, Kathryn Huss, MaryAnn Wilkinson, Claire Zimmerman, Karl Daubman, Daniel Herwitz and Raymond Silverman.
Contents
Introduction
Guna Nadarajan
Terry Wilfong
Kathryn Huss
Artist Statement
Jim Cogswell
Mind over Matter: Jim Cogswell's Speculative Mythology
MaryAnn Wilkinson
Jim Cogswell's Tattoo Esperanto
Claire Zimmerman
Panic and Play at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Terry Wilfong
Cosmogonic Technologies
Karl Daubman
Enchanted Mott
Daniel Herwitz
Museum Objects: A Conversation with Jim Cogswell
Raymond Silverman
The Installtion in Context
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Selection of Source Artifacts
Biography
