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I Swear I Saw This: Drawings In Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
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I Swear I Saw This Records Visionary Anthropologist Michael Taussigs Reflections On The Fieldwork Notebooks He Kept Through Forty Years Of Travels In Colombia. Taking As A Starting Point A Drawing He Made In Medellin In 2006As Well As Its Caption, I Swear I Saw Thistaussig Considers The Fieldwork Notebook As A Type Of Modernist Literature And The Place Where Writers And Other Creators First Work Out The Imaginative Logic Of Discovery.Notebooks Mix The Raw Material Of Observation With Reverie, Juxtaposed, In Taussigs Case, With Drawings, Watercolors, And Newspaper Cuttings, Which Blend The Inner And Outer Worlds In A Fashion Reminiscent Of Brion Gysin And William Burroughss Surreal Cutup Technique. Focusing On The Small Details And Observations That Are Lost When Writers Convert Their Notes Into Finished Pieces, Taussig Calls For New Ways Of Seeing And Using The Notebook As Form. Memory Emerges As A Central Motif In I Swear I Saw This As He Explores His Penchant To Inscribe New Recollections In The Margins Or Directly Over The Original Entries Days Or Weeks After An Event. This Palimpsest Of Afterthoughts Leads To Ruminations On Freuds Analysis Of Dreams, Prousts Thoughts On The Involuntary Workings Of Memory, And Benjamins Theories Of Historyfieldwork, Taussig Writes, Provokes Childhood Memories With Startling Ease.I Swear I Saw This Exhibits Taussigs Characteristic Verve And Intellectual Audacity, Here Combined With A Revelatory Sense Of Intimacy. He Writes, Drawing Is Thus A Depicting, A Hauling, An Unraveling, And Being Impelled Toward Something Or Somebody. Readers Will Exult In Joining Taussig Once Again As He Follows The Threads Of A Tangled Skein Of Inspired Associations.
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