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The Black Arts Movement
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 28.95Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates... more...
Reality Hunger
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00With this landmark book, David Shields fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past... more...
Anarchy and Art
Arsenal Pulp Press 2007; US$ 23.95A fascinating study of anarchist artists confronting pivotal historical moments over the past 140 years. more...
Celebrate People's History!
The Feminist Press at CUNY 2010; US$ 24.95A graphic history of dissent and activism around the world. more...
Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current economic crisis and the subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008 have brought about a worldwide skepticism regarding the last four decades of... more...
Globalization and Contemporary Art
Wiley 2011; US$ 120.95In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly... more...
Surveillance Means Security
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 21.95Subversive and incendiary, this full-color poster book reworks classic war propaganda to comment on corporate corruption, domestic spying, election fraud, gay marriage, blind patriotism, the "War on Terror," and surveillance in America today. With laughs and jeers, Wright’s distinctive artwork and astute political commentary offers timely and... more...
Arts for Change
New Village Press 2009; US$ 17.95Activist arts educators reveal best methods for engaging students and community in critical social issues more...
Vision and Communism
New Press, The 2011; US$ 24.95In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky?s art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism?s moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky?s art demonstrates what an ?avant-garde late Communist art? would have looked like if we had ever... more...
Brave New Avant Garde
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99Brave 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... more...









