Documents of Utopia : the politics of experimental documentary /
This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists in today's global art world, including Hito Steyerl, Joachim Koester, Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jon Thomson and Alison Craigh...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Nonfictions.
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| Summary: | This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists in today's global art world, including Hito Steyerl, Joachim Koester, Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead and Anri Sala. Their films, videos and photographic series address the history of failed Utopian experiments and counter-hegemonic social practices. This study illustrates the political significance of these artistic practices and offers a crucial contribution to the debate on the conditions of Utopian thinking in late capitalist society, arguing that contemporary artists' interest in the past is the result of a shift within the temporal organization of the Utopian imagination from its futuristic pole toward the pole of remembrance. This book therefore provides one of the first critical examinations of the recent turn towards documentary in the field of contemporary art. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231172707 0231172702 9780231172714 0231172710 |