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Bad Writing by Travis Jeppesen
$42.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Sternberg Press Ser.
Essays that forge a path to a truly radical "bad" modernism in art and literature.What, exactly, constitutes the "bad"? Can one consciously produce in the name of "badness," or is badness a value judgment that comes after the fact, from an Other? How does one begin to assign aesthetic value to an object ...Show more
Conflictual Aesthetics - Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere by Oliver Marchart
$54.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Sternberg Press Ser.
Leaping into current debates about the political efficacy of art, the essays in Conflictual Aesthetics critique the supposition that all art is inherently political. Opposed to the political art defended by art world functionaries that hides behind “simplistic complexity,” Oliver Marchart argues for a s ...Show more
Design in a Frame of Emotion by Hannah Beachler; Jacqueline Stewart (Contribution by); Toni L. Griffin (Contribution by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Industrial Design | Series: Sternberg Press / the Incidents Ser.
A conversation about design, filmmaking, Afrofuturism, world-building, and other topics with Hannah Beachler, Academy-Award-winning production designer of Black Panther. Hannah Beachler is known as an award-winning production designer, but she tells an audience that she considers herself to be more of a ...Show more
Double Lives in Art and Pop Music by Jorg Heiser
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Sternberg Press Ser.
Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years. Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she developed in the artistic avant-garde in pop m ...Show more
Navigation Beyond Vision by E-Flux Journal (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Sternberg Press / e-Flux Journal Ser.
How the shift from montage to navigation alters the way images--and art--operate as models of political action and modes of political intervention. Navigation begins where the map becomes indecipherable. Navigation operates on a plane of immanence in constant motion. Instead of framing or representing t ...Show more
Of Other Spaces - Where Does Gesture Become Event? by Sophia Yadong Hao (Editor)
$56.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Sternberg Press Ser.
Resonating with the ethos of open dialogue and the experimentation of women artists' collectives in the 1970s and 1980s, Of Other Spaces constructs a dynamic, open, and collaborative arena that foregrounds practices of resistance, collectivity, and self-organization. Highlighting the inherent seditiousn ...Show more
Reinventing Daily Life by Martijn De Rijk (Editor); Thomas Spijkerman (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Sternberg Press / Sandberg Ser.
On the possibility to merge art and life, fiction and reality, and on the importance of this process for the future of artistic practice. Does art possess the power to cause structural and meaningful changes in daily life? How can we inject our daily reality with the estranging, binding, and reflective ...Show more
What about Activism? by Steven Henry Madoff
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: Sternberg Press Ser.
Curators and thinkers about contemporary art consider how to engage audiences in creative forms of protest and advocacy.With the global rise of a politics of shock, driven by nationalist and authoritarian regimes, what paths to resistance and sites of sanctuary can cultural institutions offer? In this b ...Show more
e-Flux Journal: What is Contemporary Art? by Julieta Aranda
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Sternberg Press / e-Flux Journal Ser.
This book began as a two-part issue of e-flux journal devoted to the question: What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this question not asked? That is to say, why do we simply leave it to hover in the shadow of attempts at critical summation in the grand tradition of twentieth-centu ...Show more
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