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Forty-five different writers each offer an interpretation, personal impression or literary description of a work of art in the North Carolina Museum of Art's collections.

"This book grew out of an exhibition of the same title, held at the Gallery of Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, March 23-May 14, 2006, and reproduces the sixty gelatin silver prints selected for the show by guest curator Huston Paschal." - - T.p. verso.

Catalog of a juried exhibition held at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C., Sept. 25, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006 and at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, N.C., Jan. 28-Aug. 6, 2006.

"The centenary of the Wright Brother's outlandish feat prompted the North Carolina Museum of Art to organize an exhibition celebrating their creativity. The show and this accompanying, fully illustrated publication show how the human obsession with flight has provided fertile ground for contemporary artists working in disparate media." "Works by artists ranging from Panamarenko and Malcolm Morley to Albert Chong and Vera Lutter illustrate the protean response flight has engendered. The exhibition notes the paradoxical gifts of technology and the psychic benefits of fantasy concoctions (hybrids merging man, machine and natural fliers like birds, bats and butterflies)." - book jacket.