Ludwig van Beethoven, Collage, umgeben von Notenblättern

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F02881

El dibujo y el collage en la narrativa de Martín Gaite

Los dibujos y collages realizados por la escritora han sido poco estudiados por la crítica. Se cuenta con el excelente artículo de Kathleen Glenn titulado ┤Collage, Textile and Palimpsest: Carmen Martín Gaite's Nubosidad variable' en el que analiza detalladamente el collage que adorna la portada de la novela y lo considera como "a visualization of the novel's content and structure" (Glenn, 1993: 409). Años anteriores a la publicación de dicha novela, Martín Gaite ya había elaborado otros collages. Cinco de ellos aparecen en From Fiction to Metafiction. Con la publicación de Cuadernos de todo, se incrementa el material visual elaborado por la escritora ya que además de collages, se pueden apreciar algunos dibujos. Cualquier persona que haya leído Caperucita en Manhattan se habrá dado cuenta que los dibujos de la novela fueron hechos por la autora de la novela. Durante los años noventa, Martín Gaite escribe conferencias donde comenta el trabajo de pintores españoles como Dalí, Murillo, Maura y Montaner y Tuset. En esa misma época, participa en el Museo Thyssen Bornemisza con el comentario sobre Habitación de hotel de Edward Hopper. En este artículo, voy a trabajar con los dibujos, los collages y los artículos sobre los pintores ya mencionados porque en todos ellos radica la idea de que lo visual es material para lo literario y lo literario también se entrecruza con lo visual. Me interesa mostrar el proceso de cómo Martín Gaite utiliza la imagen visual y la convierte en texto porque considero que existe una serie de acciones similares a las identificadas y señaladas en sus reflexiones de cómo construir una novela vaciadas en El cuento de nunca acabar. También analizaré el proceso inverso, es decir, el de tener primero un texto que posteriormente se represente visualmente. Con esto, pretendo mostrar la relación intrínseca entre lo visual y lo literario por medio del dibujo, el collage y la pintura en la narrativa de los noventa de Martín Gaite.

El dibujo y el collage en la narrativa de Martín Gaite

Los dibujos y collages realizados por la escritora han sido poco estudiados por la crítica. Se cuenta con el excelente artículo de Kathleen Glenn titulado ┤Collage, Textile and Palimpsest: Carmen Martín Gaite's Nubosidad variable' en el que analiza detalladamente el collage que adorna la portada de la novela y lo considera como "a visualization of the novel's content and structure" (Glenn, 1993: 409). Años anteriores a la publicación de dicha novela, Martín Gaite ya había elaborado otros collages. Cinco de ellos aparecen en From Fiction to Metafiction. Con la publicación de Cuadernos de todo, se incrementa el material visual elaborado por la escritora ya que además de collages, se pueden apreciar algunos dibujos. Cualquier persona que haya leído Caperucita en Manhattan se habrá dado cuenta que los dibujos de la novela fueron hechos por la autora de la novela. Durante los años noventa, Martín Gaite escribe conferencias donde comenta el trabajo de pintores españoles como Dalí, Murillo, Maura y Montaner y Tuset. En esa misma época, participa en el Museo Thyssen Bornemisza con el comentario sobre Habitación de hotel de Edward Hopper. En este artículo, voy a trabajar con los dibujos, los collages y los artículos sobre los pintores ya mencionados porque en todos ellos radica la idea de que lo visual es material para lo literario y lo literario también se entrecruza con lo visual. Me interesa mostrar el proceso de cómo Martín Gaite utiliza la imagen visual y la convierte en texto porque considero que existe una serie de acciones similares a las identificadas y señaladas en sus reflexiones de cómo construir una novela vaciadas en El cuento de nunca acabar. También analizaré el proceso inverso, es decir, el de tener primero un texto que posteriormente se represente visualmente. Con esto, pretendo mostrar la relación intrínseca entre lo visual y lo literario por medio del dibujo, el collage y la pintura en la narrativa de los noventa de Martín Gaite.

El dibujo y el collage en la narrativa de Martín Gaite

Los dibujos y collages realizados por la escritora han sido poco estudiados por la crítica. Se cuenta con el excelente artículo de Kathleen Glenn titulado ┤Collage, Textile and Palimpsest: Carmen Martín Gaite's Nubosidad variable' en el que analiza detalladamente el collage que adorna la portada de la novela y lo considera como "a visualization of the novel's content and structure" (Glenn, 1993: 409). Años anteriores a la publicación de dicha novela, Martín Gaite ya había elaborado otros collages. Cinco de ellos aparecen en From Fiction to Metafiction. Con la publicación de Cuadernos de todo, se incrementa el material visual elaborado por la escritora ya que además de collages, se pueden apreciar algunos dibujos. Cualquier persona que haya leído Caperucita en Manhattan se habrá dado cuenta que los dibujos de la novela fueron hechos por la autora de la novela. Durante los años noventa, Martín Gaite escribe conferencias donde comenta el trabajo de pintores españoles como Dalí, Murillo, Maura y Montaner y Tuset. En esa misma época, participa en el Museo Thyssen Bornemisza con el comentario sobre Habitación de hotel de Edward Hopper. En este artículo, voy a trabajar con los dibujos, los collages y los artículos sobre los pintores ya mencionados porque en todos ellos radica la idea de que lo visual es material para lo literario y lo literario también se entrecruza con lo visual. Me interesa mostrar el proceso de cómo Martín Gaite utiliza la imagen visual y la convierte en texto porque considero que existe una serie de acciones similares a las identificadas y señaladas en sus reflexiones de cómo construir una novela vaciadas en El cuento de nunca acabar. También analizaré el proceso inverso, es decir, el de tener primero un texto que posteriormente se represente visualmente. Con esto, pretendo mostrar la relación intrínseca entre lo visual y lo literario por medio del dibujo, el collage y la pintura en la narrativa de los noventa de Martín Gaite.

Out of the ordinary : Anne Ryan and collage

Anne Ryan (1889-1954) was an active member of New York’s vibrant avant-garde art community during the tumultuous period marked by World War II. Ryan participated in the famed 1951 “Ninth Street Show,” and was an early member of Betty Parsons’s legendary stable of artists. She is not widely known today, however, and her influence is rarely acknowledged. Ryan is primarily known for her abstract collages—works that are frequently linked to Abstract Expressionism.

Alienígenas en la escuela : Collage de reflexiones en torno a la escritura de primera y segunda lengua

Fil: Contreras, María de los Angeles. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Nodule

Nodule is 19'54" musical work for two electronic music performers, two laptop computers and a custom built, sensor-based microphone controller - the e-Mic (Extended Mic-stand Interface Controller). This interface was developed by one of the co-authors, Donna Hewitt. The e-Mic allows a vocal performer to manipulate their voice in real time by capturing physical gestures via an array of sensors - pressure, distance, tilt – in addition to ribbon controllers and an X-Y joystick microphone mount. Performance data are then sent to a computer, running audio-processing software, which is used to transform the audio signal from the microphone in real time. The work seeks to explore the liminal space between the electro-acoustic music tradition and more recent developments in the electronic dance music tradition. It does so on both a performative (gestural) and compositional (sonic) level. Visually, the performance consists of a singer and a laptop performer, hybridising the gestural context of these traditions. On a sonic level, the work explores hybridity at deeper levels of the musical structure than simple bricolage or collage approaches. Hybridity is explored at the level of the sonic gesture (source material), in production (audio processing gestures), in performance gesture, and in approaches to the use of the frequency spectrum, pulse and meter. The work was designed to be performed in a range of contexts from concert halls, to clubs, to rock festivals, across a range of staging and production platforms. As a consequence, the work has been tested in a range of audience contexts, and has allowed the transportation of compositional and performance practices across traditional audience demographic boundaries.

Where the actions are : bring reality into virtual reality

This paper describes a work-in-progress on developing design environments that combine wireless and mobile technologies with augmented reality to facilitate bringing context from the physical environment to the virtual models for design work. One of the challenges for designers in a variety of end-user-oriented design disciplines such as architecture and industrial design has been capturing and replaying the contextual information of the intended domain of the artifact being designed. Either the technology is decidedly low-tech, such as charcoal drawings in a sketchbook, out-of-reach, such as immersive virtual reality CAVEs, or a “make-do” with existing technologies, such as a collage of digital photos. This paper describes a novel combination of “off-the-shelf” technologies that may allow designers more capability to create models using standard computer-aided design applications and augmented reality to combine the current, physical context with the projected, digital context. We demonstrate this approach in the building design domain to address a common problem in building construction, construction defect resolution.

The passionate critic

It's hard to be dispassionate about Reyner Banham. For me, and for the plethora of other people with strong opinions about Banham, his writing is compelling, and one’s connection to him as a figure quite personal. For me, frankly, he rocks. As a landscape architect, I gleaned most of my knowledge about Modern architecture from Banham. His Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, along with Rowe and Koetter’s Collage City and Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture were the most influential books in my library, by far. Later, as a budding “real scholar”, I was disappointed to find that, while these authors had serious credibility, the writings themselves were regarded as “polemical” – when in fact what I admired about them most was their ability and willingness to make rough groupings and gross generalizations, and to offer fickle opinions. It spoke to me of a real personal engagement and an active, participatory reading of the architectural culture they discussed. They were at their best in their witty, cutting, but generally pithy, creative prose, such as in Rowe’s extrapolation of the modern citizen as the latest “noble savage”, or Banham railing against conservative social advocates and their response to high density housing: “those who had just re-discovered ‘community’ in the slums would fear megastructure as much as any other kind of large-scale renewal program, and would see to it that the people were never ready.” Any reader of Banham will be able to find a gem that will relate, somehow, personally, to what they are doing right now. For Banham, it was all personal, and the gaps in his scholarship, rather, were the dispassionate places: “Such bias is essential – an unbiased historian is a pointless historian – because history is an essentially critical activity, a constant re-scrutiny and rearrangement of the profession.” Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future, Nigel Whiteley’s recent “intellectual biography” (the MIT Press, 2002), allowed me to revisit Banham’s passionate mode of criticism and to consider what his legacy might be. The book examines Banham’s body of work, grouped according to his various primary fascinations, as well as his relationship to contemporaneous theoretical movements, such as postmodernism. His mode of practice, as a kind of creative critic, is also considered in some depth. While there are points where the book delves into Banham’s personal life, on the whole Whiteley is very rigorous in considering and theorizing the work itself: more than 750 articles and twelve books. In academic terms, this is good practice. However, considering the entirely personal nature of Banham’s writing itself, this separation seems artificial. Banham, as he himself noted, “didn’t mind a gossip”, and often when reading the book I was curious about what was happening to him at the time. Banham’s was an amazing type of intellectual practice, and one that academics (a term he hated) could do well to learn from. While Whiteley spends a lot of time arguing for his practice to be regarded as such, and makes strong points about both the role of the critic, and the importance of journalism, rather than scholarly publishing, I found myself wondering what his study looked like. What books he had in his library. Did he smoke when he wrote? What sort of teaching load did he have? He is an inspiration to design writers and thinkers, and I, personally, wanted to know how he did it.

Whatever it takes : an exploration of writing tools and strategies for completing a novel

This thesis consists of a novel written with the express purpose of exploring what practices and strategies are most useful in writing novel-length fiction as well as an exegesis which discusses the process. By its very nature, an undergraduate degree in Creative Writing is broad and general in approach. The Creative Writing undergraduate is being trained to manage many and varying writing tasks but none of them larger than can be readily marked and assessed in class quantities. This does not prepare the writing graduate for the gargantuan task of managing a project as large as a single title novel which can be up to 100,000 words and often is more. This study explores the question of what writing tools and practices best equip an emerging writer to begin, write and manage a long narrative within a deadline.