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Letters from utopia
- Title
- Letters from utopia / Daan Paans ; [editing, Frank van der Stok ; translations, Rosie Heinrich].
- Author
- Paans, Daan.
- Publication
- [Breda] : Eriskay Connection, c2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | MEMZ (Paans) 14-3019 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 158 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims., map, ports.; 20 cm
- Summary
- 'Letters from Utopia' is a documentary photographic research that studies groups who wish to extend the human life span extremely or even aim to become immortal. For this project Daan Paans visited five different movements and their key players who have a shot at an utopian world order. The stories range from an occult belief of the past to a scientific outlook for the future. Since time humans have been fascinated by the idea of an infinite life, with the ultimate goal of overcoming (one's own) mortality. First, a distinction should be made between the immortality of the soul and the immortality of the body. Leaving all forms of religious pre-occupations with the 'afterlife' aside, a fascinating domain remains within which the extension of life is thought about and experimented with in diverse manners. This is where the fascination of Daan Paans begins.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Artists' books – Netherlands – 21st century.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- MEMZ (Paans) 14-3019
- ISBN
- 9789081838467
- 9081838466
- OCLC
- 859643971
- Author
- Paans, Daan.
- Title
- Letters from utopia / Daan Paans ; [editing, Frank van der Stok ; translations, Rosie Heinrich].
- Imprint
- [Breda] : Eriskay Connection, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).
- Added Author
- Stok, Frank van der.Heinrich, Rosie.
- Research Call Number
- MEMZ (Paans) 14-3019