Flying: Practical Training for Beginners, an artist's book by Luca Buvoli, documents his film of the same name and is one component of Buvoli's solo exhibition at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT in Spring 2000. Trapezoidal in shape, like the wing of an airplane, Flying contains two separate books under one cover: an "instruction manual" containing the film script, diagrams, animation cells, maquettes, and notes, and a smaller flipbook reproducing the final sequence of the film. Buvoli, whose artist books are avidly ...
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Flying: Practical Training for Beginners, an artist's book by Luca Buvoli, documents his film of the same name and is one component of Buvoli's solo exhibition at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT in Spring 2000. Trapezoidal in shape, like the wing of an airplane, Flying contains two separate books under one cover: an "instruction manual" containing the film script, diagrams, animation cells, maquettes, and notes, and a smaller flipbook reproducing the final sequence of the film. Buvoli, whose artist books are avidly collected, has created a colorful, surreal film that presents the "33-Step Method" developed by the fictional professor M.a.S. to satisfy one of humanity's most ancient dreams, namely flying. Professor M.a.S. lectures at a darkened classroom using diagrams, animated films, and scientific commentary to instruct his audience on a series of movements which, when performed correctly, allow one to fly without the help of any mechanical device. Buvoli's work has been shown extensively in his native Italy and will also be familiar to American audiences from his exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, the Santa Moncia Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Center for the Arts.
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Seller's Description:
Near Fine. No Jacket, As Issued. Minor wear and soiling to the edge, otherwise fine. Volume one: Flying--Practical Training for Beginners. The 33-step method based on aerodynamic research developed and presented by Professor M.a.S. Volume two: Step 27 from: Flying--Practical Training for Beginners. All images, texts are stills, animation cels, dialogues from, or preparatory studies for the 16mm film, which is 18 minutes, animation and live-action, color & black and white, 1999. Oblong. Inset, two clear plastic pockets hold each volume. Illustrated boards.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 420 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Minor wear and soiling to the front. Volume o-+-++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++ Flying--Practical Training for Beginners. The 27-step method based on aerodynamic research developed and presented by Professor M.a.S. Volume one: Step 27 from: Flying--Practical Training for Beginners. All images, texts are stills, animation cells, dialogues from, or preparatory studies for the 16-mm film, which is 18 minutes in length, animation and live-action, color & black and white, 1999. Oblong structure with two clear plastic pockets holding each volume in excessively tight pockets (now partially cut open), several pages in vol. 2 with handwriitten comments. vol. 1: practical training for beginners; vol. 2: 33-step method based on aerodynamic research developed and presented by Professor M.a.S. with afterword by Jane Farver. II-top
