Building Material: A Brick Reader Olga Grjasnowa and music historian

and music historian

the language and the old wooden house they make their home

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and the invented world

But no matter where she was transplanted—no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape—she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance

Building Material: A Brick Reader Olga Grjasnowa and music historian"I looked for an object that had not changed too much in the past few thousand years. This could have been a shoe or a knife, but a brick becomes part of a building and therefore part of our environment. So the brick appears as something of a poetic object. Harun FarockiThe books content produces a structure from which we can examine the multiplicity of ways that bricks are produced, used, and viewed. Stills from Harun Farocki's In Comparison