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Documents of Utopia : The Politics of Experimental Documentary / Paolo Magagnoli.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: NonfictionsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 24 b&wContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231172714
  • 9780231850773
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335.02 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.E96 M365 2015
  • PN1995.9.D6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Nostalgia: Pathalogical and Critical -- Chapter One. Ruins of Utopia -- Chapter Two. Reinventing Propaganda Films -- Chapter Three. Archives of Commodities -- Chapter Four. Digital Utopia in the Post-Internet Age -- Epligue - Utopia Now -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists working in the world today: 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 failed utopian experiments and counter-hegemonic social practices. This study illustrates the political significance of these artistic practices and critically contributes 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 remembrance. The book therefore provides one of the first critical examinations of the recent turn toward documentary in the field of contemporary art.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Nostalgia: Pathalogical and Critical -- Chapter One. Ruins of Utopia -- Chapter Two. Reinventing Propaganda Films -- Chapter Three. Archives of Commodities -- Chapter Four. Digital Utopia in the Post-Internet Age -- Epligue - Utopia Now -- Bibliography -- Index

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This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists working in the world today: 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 failed utopian experiments and counter-hegemonic social practices. This study illustrates the political significance of these artistic practices and critically contributes 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 remembrance. The book therefore provides one of the first critical examinations of the recent turn toward documentary in the field of contemporary art.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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