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Book Synopsis Fred Forest's Utopia by : Michael F. Leruth
Download or read book Fred Forest's Utopia written by Michael F. Leruth and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “France's most famous unknown artist,” the innovative media provocateur Fred Forest, precursor of Eduardo Kac, Jodi, the Yes Men, RT Mark, and the Guerilla Girls. The innovative French media artist and prankster-provocateur Fred Forest first gained notoriety in 1972 when he inserted a small blank space in Le Monde, called it 150 cm2 of Newspaper (150 cm2 de papier journal), and invited readers to fill in the space with their own work and mail their efforts to him. In 1977, he satirized speculation in both the art and real estate markets by offering the first parcel of officially registered “artistic square meters” of undeveloped rural land for sale at an art auction. Although praised by leading media theorists—Vilém Flusser lauded Forest as “the artist who pokes holes in media”—Forest's work has been largely ignored by the canon-making authorities. Forest calls himself “France's most famous unknown artist.” In this book, Michael Leruth offers the first book-length consideration of this iconoclastic artist, examining Forest's work from the 1960s to the present. Leruth shows that Forest chooses alternative platforms (newspapers, mock commercial ventures, video-based interactive social interventions, media hacks and hybrids, and, more recently, the Internet) that are outside the exclusive precincts of the art world. A fierce critic of the French contemporary art establishment, Forest famously sued the Centre Pompidou in 1994 over its opaque acquisition practices. After making foundational contributions to Sociological Art in the 1970s and the Aesthetics of Communication in the 1980s, the pioneering Forest saw the Internet as another way for artists to bypass the art establishment in the 1990s. Arguing that there is a strong utopian quality in Forest's work, Leruth sees this utopianism not as naive or conventional but as a reverse utopianism: rather than envisioning an impossible ideal, Forest reenvisions and probes the quasi-utopia of our media-augented everyday reality. The interface is the symbolic threshold to be crossed with an open mind.
Book Synopsis Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism by : Aaron Jaffe
Download or read book Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism written by Aaron Jaffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new methodologies, experimental literary practices, and expanded hermeneutics that trouble traditional practices of literary/literate knowledge, shared experience, reception, and communication. Working within an expanded concept of modernism, Flusser presciently noted the power inherent in algorithmic information apparatuses to reshape our fundamental conceptions of culture and history. In an increasingly technological world, Flusser's form of experimental theory-fiction pits philosophy against cybernetics as it forces the category of “the human” to confront the inhuman world of animals and machines. The contributors to Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Flusser's thought as they provide a general analysis of his work, engage in comparative readings with other philosophers, and offer expanded conceptualizations of modernism. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary clarifying the playful terminology used by Flusser, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike.
Book Synopsis Prophets at a Tangent by : Geoff Mulgan
Download or read book Prophets at a Tangent written by Geoff Mulgan and published by Elements in Creativity and Ima. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element asks if the arts can help us imagine a better future society and economy, without deep social gulfs or ecological harm. It argues that at their best, the arts open up new ways of seeing and thinking. They can warn and prompt and connect us to a bigger sense of what we could be. But artists have lost their role as gods and prophets, partly as an effect of digital technologies and the ubiquity of artistic production, and partly as an effect of shifting values. Few recent books, films, artworks or exhibitions have helped us imagine how our world could solve its problems or how it might be better a generation or more from now. This Element argues that artists work best not as prophets of a new society but rather as 'prophets at a tangent'.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Happening by : Catherine Spencer
Download or read book Beyond the Happening written by Catherine Spencer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even ‘dead’, but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during the late 1960s and 1970s, developing it into a vehicle for studying interpersonal communication that simultaneously deployed and questioned contemporary sociology and psychology. Focussing on the artists Allan Kaprow, Marta Minujín, Carolee Schneemann and Lea Lublin, it charts how they revised and retooled the premises of the Happening within a wider network of dynamic international activity. The resulting performances directly intervened in the wider discourse of communication studies, as it manifested in the politics of countercultural dropout, soft power and cultural diplomacy, alternative pedagogies, sociological art and feminist consciousness-raising.
Book Synopsis Modern France by : Michael F. Leruth
Download or read book Modern France written by Michael F. Leruth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers perspective on modern French society and culture through thematic chapters on topics ranging from geography to popular culture. Ideal for students and general readers, this book includes insightful, current information about France's past, present, and future. France is the country most visited by international tourists. Aside from clichéd images of baguettes and the Eiffel Tower, however, what is French society and culture really like? Modern France is organized into thematic chapters covering the full range of French history and contemporary daily life. Chapter topics include: geography; history; government and politics; economy; religion and thought; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage, and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; art and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media and popular culture. Each chapter contains an overview of the topic and alphabetized entries on examples of each theme. A detailed historical timeline covers prehistoric times to the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Special appendices offer profiles of a typical day in the life of representative members of French society, a glossary, key facts and figures about France, and a holiday chart. The volume will be useful for readers looking for specific topical information and for those who want to develop an informed perspective on aspects of modern France.
Book Synopsis Angel in the Forest by : Marguerite Young
Download or read book Angel in the Forest written by Marguerite Young and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first paperback edition of Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.Angel in the Forest recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana. The original community was founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who, with a group of English immigrants, implemented his own theories for a perfect community, this time based on rationalism. Both experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterize the American spirit to this day: a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owen's New Moral World to George Bush's New World Order. Written with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction, Angel in the Forest was widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Doren's introduction to Scribner's 1966 reprint.
Book Synopsis The So-called Utopia of the Centre Beaubourg by : Luca Frei
Download or read book The So-called Utopia of the Centre Beaubourg written by Luca Frei and published by Book Works (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing under the pseudonym Gustave Affeulpin in 1976, and coinciding with the inauguration of the Centre Beaubourg in Paris, Albert Meister's text imagines a radical libertarian space submerged beneath the newly erected centerpiece of French Culture. In a world turned upside down, the seventy-six storeys submerged beneath the official centre for culture provide a platform for alternative modes of work and creation. Reporting, in sometimes hysterical, sometimes more poetic language, and with tongue firmly in cheek, the narrator recounts the vacillations of free organisation, in a satire that never takes its eye of the main target: state sponsored culture.
Download or read book Chasing Utopia written by Fred Hudson and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Fred Warren Harker was anxious when Dad asked him to quit school forever in summer 1924 and take off to far west, desert Texas, while the younger kids got to hang around home, get Mama's cooking and a clean bed to sleep in. Dad's ideas were extreme. He wanted to raise cotton some place where the banks, ginners and the retailers had nothing to do with anything by gathering a community of like-minded farmers, working out the details and forming a cooperative. And Fred was supposed to make the gas and food money for the trip. It turned out he was one of the best cotton pickers anybody had ever seen. There were pretty girls in the cotton patch and fun in between work and traveling. Then there were also wonderful folk of all cultures for their polka and waltz across Texas, accompanied by Dad's charming fiddle playing.
Book Synopsis Angel in the Forest by : Marguerite Young
Download or read book Angel in the Forest written by Marguerite Young and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Visions of Utopia by : Fred E. Baumann
Download or read book Visions of Utopia written by Fred E. Baumann and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catch of the Day
Book Synopsis An American Utopia by : Fredric Jameson
Download or read book An American Utopia written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking essay "An American Utopia" radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are-among other things-universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the acceptance that the division between work and leisure cannot be overcome. To create a new world, we must first change the way we envision the world. Jameson's text is ideally placed to trigger a debate on the alternatives to global capitalism. In addition to Jameson's essay, the volume includes responses from philosophers and political and cultural analysts, as well as an epilogue from Jameson himself. Many will be appalled at what they will encounter in these pages-there will be blood! But perhaps one has to spill such (ideological) blood to give the Left a chance.
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Download or read book Annual Year Book - United States Trotting Association written by United States Trotting Association and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Biennial Report of the State Board of Forestry for the Years ... to the ... Legislative Assembly, Regular Session written by Oregon State Board of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology by : Andreas Broeckmann
Download or read book Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology written by Andreas Broeckmann and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents sixteen studies about the complex interactions between, art, media, science and technology."--Back cover.
