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Table of Contents: Volume 4: Surface


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contributors and acknowledgements
01

Vanessa Meikle Schulman
Deeply Shallow: Ruminations on Surface
09

Julia Bryan-Wilson
Grit and Glitter
19

Kate Morris
Perec’s Alternative Topography: Figuring Permanence and
the Ephemeral in Lieux

31

Pascale Dubus
Écran, Support, et Trompe-L’Œil: La Toile Peinte de Parrhasios
Screen, Support, and Trompe-L’Œil: Parrhasius’ Painted Fabric
translated by Lindsay Holowach
original text: 61 translation: 67

David Prescott-Steed
Surface and Depth: Inter(facing) the Abyssal Zone
73

Dina Deitsch
Fractured Surfaces: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Late Cibachromes
89

Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst
Tracing the Skin’s Surface from Psychoanalysis to the Television Makeover
103

Nathan Blake
Interviews with Liz Kotzand Jennifer A. González
Kotz: 125 González: 135

Mark K. Cunningham
Surface Tension: Matthew Brandt’s lakes and reservoirs 2
143

Chris Balaschak
Abstract, Representational, and so forth: An Interview with James Welling
153

A. Lee Laskin
Breach Birth: The Hygiene of Screen Skins: An Introduction to the DVD Insert
161

Book Reviews
Eva J. Friedberg on Felicity D. Scott 181
Susan M. King on Walter L. Adamson 185

DVD insert edited by A.Lee Laskin

Featuring an essay by Ken Jacobs
Surface and Substance in Cinema Art

Films by
Mary Billyou 1-9 (2008, 8 mins.)
Eve Heller Ruby Skin (2005, 3:40 mins.)
Ken Jacobs Capitalism: Child Labor (2006, 14 mins.)
Michael Metzger Judgment (2004, 11 mins.)
Leighton Pierce Fall (2002, 12:20 mins.)
Michael Robinson Light is Waiting (2007, 11 mins.)
and You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (2005, 8 mins)
Ryan Trecartin Tommy Chat Just E-mailed Me (2006, 7:15 mins.)

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