Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows

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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows

2018-02-20 Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows

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This artist's book account of the project--as well as selected earlier projects--includes documents, interviews with the artists, ornithological and literary texts referring to crows, plus a DVD and 3-D reproductions with glasses.. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's "The Murder of Crows" is a surrealistic sound installation inspired in part by Goya's famous etching "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters." This hallucinatory work depicts a man asleep with owls and bats swooping menacingly around his head; Cardiff and Miller's title also refer