Issue 27 Mountains Fall 2007

Table of Contents

This issue, with a themed section on Mountains, is 112 pages. It reaches new peaks; read with caution.

Columns
  • Inventory / Artist's Impact
    Mats Bigert
    Naming Mercury's craters
  • A Minor History Of / Giant Spheres
    Joshua Foer
    An invitation to the ball
  • Colors / White
    Joseph Grigely
    Bleached world
  • Black Pyramid / Concrete & Cement
    Peter Lamborn Wilson
    Form and Spectre
Main
  • Making Sense at the Movies
    Amelie Hastie
    Habit and memory by the light of the silver screen
  • Readymade Remade
    Leland de La Durantaye
    Pierre Pinoncelli and the legacy of Duchamp's
  • Artist Projects / CMYK
    Mathew Brannon, Morgan Fisher, Liam Gillick, Amy Granat, Elin Hansdottir & Darri Lorenzen, Leslie Hewitt, Cory McCorkle and James Welling
    Curated by Walead Beshty
  • Ready for Takeoff
    Viktoria Tkaczyk
    Robert Hooke's flying experiments
  • Men of War
    The faces behind the weapons
  • Figuring Life
    Margaret Wertheim
    Redrawing Darwin's evolutionary tree
Mountains
  • Mont Blanc Montage
    Colby Chamberlain
    Up the mountains, in fiction and in fact
  • O Altitudo!: An Interview with Robert Macfarlane
    Brian Dillon and Robert Macfarlane
    Peak aesthetics
  • Mountain and Fog
    Nina Power
    Kant and the Nazi sublime
  • Artist Project / Much Was Decided When You Were Born
    Mariele Neudecker
  • Lunar Park
    Christopher Turner
    James Nasmyth and the mountains of the moon
  • Surveying the Alps
    Jeffrey Kastner
    The mountain views of Hans Conrad Escher
  • Salvation Mountain
    Joel Sternfeld
    Leonard Knight's epiphany
  • Artist Project / Mountain with No Name (Pandjsher Valley, Afghanistan)
    Marine Hugonnier
  • A Note of Warning Concerning "Bashford's Grotto"
    Maiken Umbach weighs in on the Chadwicks’ “discovery”
  • Bashford's Grotto
    Chadwick Dalton
    America's least known (and most dangerous) mountain
  • Talking with the Volcanoes
    Jesse Lerner
    Devotion to the twin peaks
  • Utopia on the Roof of the World
    Chris Wiley
    The search for Shambhala
And
  • Postcard / Russian Mountains
    Ryo Manabe
  • Bookmark / The Growing Pains of Mont Blanc
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