On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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Paleolithic Flints: Is an Aesthetics of Stone Tools Possible?1
Riva Berleant
This paper asks whether an aesthetics of Paleolithic tools is possible, and if so, what it might be. The application of our own aesthetic sensibilities to artifacts of prehistory is not difficult. We easily recognize and appreciate their visual and tactile qualities. The more complicated questions that the paper explores are whether we can uncover the aesthetic sensibilities of their makers and, if we cannot, whether aesthetic examination of prehistoric tools from our own perspectives is adequate or useful. The paper is based on study of Paleolithic flints from French archaeological sites dating from about 500,000 years ago to about 11,000 years ago. The stone tools are held in the collections of the Wilson Museum (Castine, Maine, U.S.A.), and the paper is illustrated from these collections.
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Oral History Interview with Ronald (Ron) Binks, May 3, 2007
Ronald Binks, Andrew Martinez, and RISD Archives
Interview of Ronald Binks, conducted by Andrew Martinez in Providence, RI on May 3, 2007 for European Honors Program (EHP) documentation. Binks speaks of his time in Rome at the American Academy during the 1950s and 1960s and the beginning of the RISD European Honors Program. Binks also recalls his different experiences being the director of the EHP and their reliance on Signora Charis DeBosis at the Cenci along with other people and students he worked with in Rome. Along with this, Binks discusses the financial situation in Rome during the years he was there and how it has changed.
Recorded by Peter O'Neill and Andrew Martinez for European Honors Program documentation. Made possible in part through a gift from William Whelan and family in memory of John Whelan, RISD Class of 1937.
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Oral History Transcript | Interview with Ronald (Ron) Binks, May 3, 2007
Ronald (Ron) Binks, Andrew Martinez, RISD Archives, and Peter O'Neill
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Connect the Dots
Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
long stitch with cloth-covered cover boards, housed in a wrap box with plexi front and magnet closure; closed book inside cloth covered box; cloth covered box open with book inside; interior of cloth covered box; book cover without box; interior page; page spread. number 9 in an edition of 18, signed by the artist
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Chimurenga 11: Conversations with Poets Who Refuse to Speak
Chimurenga Press and Ntone Edjabe
This issue is about silence, disappearing oneself as act. Though it’s often one of abdication, could it be defiance, resistance even? – a challenging idea, in a culture where struggle about seeking exposure, giving voice, making visible and all that stuff...See the Webvert by Stacy Hardy and François Naudé.
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Cartoon Workshop : Pig Tales
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Paper Rad
Cover for Cartoon Workshop : Pig Tales, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Enclosure exposure : data protection patterning
Elizabeth Duffy, Dikko Faust, Esther K. Smith, Purgatory Pie Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
8 unnumbered pages : illustrations . "Instabook 3" Letterpress, diecut, and printed collagraph, and handset type in blue and black, signed and numbered in an edition of 200 by the artist together with Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith of Purgatory Pie. "Purgatory Pie Press and the artist Elizabeth Duffy have collaborated on a book that utilizes as source material everyday ephemeral patterns, specifically the interior security patterns of envelopes and the visual language of analog mail. The result is a page-turner of overlapping patterns and forms. Purgatory and Duffy culled patterns from their junk mail to create this paean to the quotidian"--Http://printedmatter.org Library has no. 187 of 200. Five printed cut-out envelope "windows" housed in envelope colophon page. Gift of artist.
