Robert Abele,Guillermo del Toro: The Art of the Strain

The Art of the Strain


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The Art of The Strain delves into the amazing design work that went into creating this chilling TV series, including del Toro's own designs for the menacing beings that pose a threat to humanity's survival. The book features interviews with key members of the cast and crew. Filled with stunning concept art and candid behind-the-scenes imagery, The Art of The Strain is the perfect accompaniment to the series.

In this book readers are led on a powerful and inspiring journey through the inner dimensions of a range of Islamic acts, including prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage. "Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bok has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." "The Guardian"Internationally best-selling poet Christian Bok has spent more than ten years writing what promises to be the first example of "living poetry." After successfully demonstrating his concept in a colony of "E. coli," Bok is on the verge of enciphering The Art of the Strain free epub a beautiful, anomalous poem into the genome of an unkillable bacterium ("Deinococcus radiodurans"), which can, in turn, "read" his text, responding to it by manufacturing a viable, benign protein, whose sequence of amino acids enciphers yet another poem. The engineered organism might conceivably serve as a post-apocalyptic archive, capable of outlasting our civilization.Book I of "The Xenotext "constitutes a kind of "demonic grimoire," providing a scientific framework for the project with a series of poems, texts, and illustrations. A Virgilian welcome to the Inferno, Book I is the "orphic" volume in a diptych, addressing the pastoral heritage of poets, who have sought to supplant nature in both beauty and terror. The book sets the conceptual groundwork for the second volume, which will document the experiment itself. "The Xenotext "is experimental poetry in the truest sense of the term.Christian Bok is the author of "Crystallography "(1994) and "Eunoia "(2001), which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada."


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Author: Robert Abele,Guillermo del Toro
Number of Pages: 156 pages
Published Date: 26 Sep 2016
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781783299645
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