[PDF] Secrets of Life; Secrets of Death: Essays on Science and Culture by Evelyn Fox Keller in Arts-Photography

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Fifty of the worldrsquo;s greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli; expanding our own views on place; creativity; and the meaning of homeAll of us; at some point in our daily lives; have found ourselves looking out the window. We pause in our work; tune out of a conversation; and turn toward the outside. Our eyes simply gaze; without seeing; at a landscape whose familiarity becomes the customary ground for distraction: the usual rooftops; the familiar trees; a distant crane. The way of life for most of us in the twenty-first century means that we spend most of our time indoors; in an urban environment; and our awareness of the outside world comes via; and thanks to; a framed glass hole in the wall.In Windows on the World: Fifty Writers; Fifty Views; architect and artist Matteo Pericoli brilliantly explores this concept alongside fifty of our most beloved writers from across the globe. By pairing drawings of window views with texts that revealmdash;either physically or metaphoricallymdash;what the drawings cannot; Windows on the World offers a perceptual journey through the world as seen through the windows of prominent writers: Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul; Daniel Kehlmann in Berlin; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Lagos; John Jeremiah Sullivan in Wilmington; North Carolina; Nadine Gordimer in Johannesburg; Xi Chuan in Beijing. Taken together; the viewsmdash;geography and perspective; location and voicemdash;resonate with and play off each other.Working from a series of meticulous photographs and other notes from authorsrsquo; homes and offices; Pericoli creates a pen-and-ink illustration of each window and the view it frames. Many readers know Pericolirsquo;s work from his acclaimed series for The New York Times and later for The Paris Review Daily; which have a devoted following. Now; Windows on the World collects from Pericolirsquo;s body of work and features fifteen never-before-seen windows in one gorgeously designed volume; as well as a preface from the Paris Reviewrsquo;s editor Lorin Stein. As we delve into what each writerrsquo;s view may or may not share with the othersrsquo;; as we look at the map and explore unfamiliar views of cities from around the world; a new kind of map begins to take shape.Windows on the World is a profound and eye-opening look inside the worlds of writers; reminding us that the things we see every day are woven into our selves and our imaginations; making us keener and more inquisitive observers of our own worlds.