{"id":3639,"date":"2010-08-06T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:22:01","slug":"matej-krens-scanner-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-in-bologna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2010\/08\/06\/matej-krens-scanner-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-in-bologna\/","title":{"rendered":"Matej Kren&#8217;s &#8220;Scanner&#8221; at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mambo-bologna.org\/en\/mostre\/mostra-37\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-851\" title=\"krenbooks\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/krenbooks.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Artist Matej Kren uses books and mirrors to create a narrow space for the viewer that evokes &#8220;a sensation of sublime terror.&#8221; Why books? &#8220;Chosen because of their nature as seat of knowledge, as symbols of  intrinsically human free thought, books are here &#8216;used&#8217; as raw materials  for an artistic process existing and communicating on many distinct  levels.&#8221; Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/08\/05\/a-house-of-books.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Matej Kren uses books and mirrors to create a narrow space for the viewer that evokes &#8220;a sensation of sublime terror.&#8221; Why books? &#8220;Chosen because of their nature as seat of knowledge, as symbols of intrinsically human free thought, books are here &#8216;used&#8217; as raw materials for an artistic process existing and communicating on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-WH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}