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Mexican MelodramaFilm and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave
In Mexican Melodrama, Elena Lahr-Vivaz explores the compelling ways that new-wave Mexican directors use the tropes and themes of Golden Age films to denounce the excesses of a nation characterized as a fragmented and fictitious construct. Analyzing big hits and quiet successes of both Golden Age and new-wave cinema, the author offers in each chapter a comparative reading of films from the two e…
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Kachina DollsThe Art of Hopi Carvers
Much has been written about the popular kachina dolls carved by the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona, but little has been revealed about the artistry behind them. Now Helga Teiwes describes the development of this art form from early traditional styles to the action-style kachina dolls made popular in galleries throughout the world, and on to the kachina sculptures that have evolved in the last…
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Neoliberal UndeadEssays on Contemporary Art and Politics
The Neoliberal Undead describes the frightening world of class restoration, neoliberal austerity, ecological meltdown, and neo-imperialism a disaster capitalism that breeds mutant ideological justifications for itself and the inevitability of disorder, poverty and suffering. What role does culture play in this world of markets and how do new contestatory forms enable a leftist solidarity that c…
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Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism
The main affirmation of artistic practice must today happen through thinking about the conditions and the status of the artist's work. Only then can it be revealed that what is a part of the speculations of capital is not art itself, but mostly artistic life. Artist at Work examines the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addresses them from the perspective of performance.
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Brave New Avant GardeEssays on Contemporary Art and Politics
Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? With this it asks the related question, echoing Alain Badiou: must the avant garde hypothesis be abandoned? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to postmodern post-politics and the view that radical practice has no ot…
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Claude CahunThe Soldier with No Name
Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resistance fighter - Cahun witnessed the birth of the Paris avant-garde, lived through two World Wars and, as "Der Soldat ohne Namen", risked death by inciting mutiny on Nazi-occupied Jersey. And yet, she's until recently been merely a peripheral figure…
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Now and ForeverTowards a Theory and History of the Loop
Elvis Presley and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Beatles and Andy Warhol. Terry Riley and Ken Kesey. What all these artists have in common is that loops have played a significant role in their work. The short sequences of sounds or images repeated using recording media have proved to be an astonishingly flexible, versatile and momentous aesthetic method in post-World War II art and music. Today, lo…
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After the Great RefusalEssays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Dif…
A Western Marxist reading of contemporary art, focusing on the question of the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde’s transgressive impulse. Taking art’s ability to contribute to radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussens new title from Zero Books analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary ar…
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Brightening GlanceArt and Life
For more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo: from her pioneering days juggling painting and single motherhood in a redesigned factory loft on Wooster Street; to Paris, where an enchanting friendship develops with the former director of the Lo…
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Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq., R.A., Composed Chiefly of His Le…
Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq., R.A., Composed Chiefly of His Letters by Charles Robert Leslie is one of the most intimate and revealing artist biographies ever written — a portrait not only of the painter, but of the man who changed the way we see the English landscape. Drawing on Constable's own correspondence, Leslie constructs a deeply personal narrative that captures the str…
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