Micrographia

61 Pages·2009·0.568 MB·English

by  Wilson, Emily

Micrographia

Micrographia
Emily Wilson
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright © 2009 by Emily Wilson
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lccn: 2008935531
isbn-13: 978-1-58729-801-1
isbn-10: 1-58729-801-5
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Contents

« i »
3 Fugitive
4 Morpho Terrestre
5 Interior
6 Small Study
7 Endemic
8 Camperdown Elm
9 Monadnock
10 Motif
11 Little Gothic
12 Event
13 Sunset: Rouen?
14 Growth and Form
15 Stereotype
16 Prospect

« ii »
19 Blue Hill
20 Poem
21 Picturesque
22 Little Discourse
23 Spring Intensive
24 Tableau
25 Coal Age
26 Monoprint
27 Round the Mountain
28 Zoetrope
29 Johnny Rotten’s Produce
30 Watercolor with Scraping-Out
31 Notchland

« iii »
35 Micrographia
36 The Yew
37 Pleasant Hill
38 Protea
39 Gray and Greens
40 Synthetic Figment
41 Fidelity
42 The Spruce
43 Spiral Bound
44 North
45 Red-Legged Kittiwake
48 Excursion
« i »