TY  - BOOK
AU  - Magagnoli,Paolo
TI  - Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary 
T2  - Nonfictions
SN  - 9780231172714
AV  - PN1995.9.E96 M365 2015
U1  - 335.02 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Experimental films
KW  - Utopia
KW  - Government and politics
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/maga17271
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231850773
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231850773/original
ER  -