$20.00
Humans Make Robot Movies to Feel Better About Being Human in a Robot World | David Barringer | 7.5 x 7.5 | 60 pages | Full color | 2011 | Shock Books
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This 60-page, full-color graphic book contains 108 thematic riffs on 108 robot movies (from 1927's Metropolis to 2015's I, Robot 2), accompanied by photographs of 47 little homemade robots, with flowers. Words, robots, photos, and design by David Barringer, who teaches at Winthrop University and MICA. Barringer runs a seminar in which students produce their own illustrated Shock Books. The theme for 2011 was Beauty Shock. The book includes an essay about our relationship to robots, as expressed in movies, and an essay that explains the Shock Book seminar. Find more info and photos on the davidbarringer.com website.