{"id":558,"date":"2013-04-17T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=558"},"modified":"2021-09-26T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:35:51","slug":"canned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2013\/04\/17\/canned\/","title":{"rendered":"What good is a canned book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kathleen O&#8217;Gorman&#8217;s Avant-Garde Fiction class began presenting the results of their investigations\u00a0into\u00a0this genre of literature\u00a0yesterday in the archives&#8217; reading room. Special Collections in The Ames Library\u00a0holds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/library\/services\/Documents\/artists-book-collection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of other works<\/a> by\u00a0people who use artistic means\u00a0to challenge our notions of what a book is.<\/p>\n<p>In the following video, Troy Sennett, Class of 2014,\u00a0shares his analysis of\u00a0a particular text and\u00a0concludes\u00a0with a\u00a0one-time-only event: the opening of a canned book called <a title=\"photo of the book taken by the artist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vampandtramp.com\/miniature\/t\/canneryrow3-L.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>An Excerpt from John Steinbeck\u2019s Cannery Row<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0This rendition of a classic was\u00a0created by\u00a0<a title=\"description at the bottom of this page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vampandtramp.com\/miniature\/t\/thomas%20copy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter &amp; Donna Thomas<\/a> of Santa Cruz, CA in\u00a02003.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cannery Row opening\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64184472?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kathleen O&#8217;Gorman&#8217;s Avant-Garde Fiction class began presenting the results of their investigations\u00a0into\u00a0this genre of literature\u00a0yesterday in the archives&#8217; reading room. Special Collections in The Ames Library\u00a0holds dozens of other works by\u00a0people who use artistic means\u00a0to challenge our notions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2013\/04\/17\/canned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,1,10],"tags":[83,84,85],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-units","category-students","category-uncategorized","category-unexplored-collections","tag-artists-books","tag-canned-books-special-collections","tag-literature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}