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Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary - Nonfictions Paolo Magagnoli
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Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary - Nonfictions
Paolo Magagnoli
"This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists in today's global art world: Hito Steyerl, Joachim Koester, Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulaene, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, and Anri Sala. Their films, videos, and photographic series address the history of failed Utopian experiments and counter-hegemonic social practices. This study illustrates the political significance of these artistic practices and offers a crucial contribution 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 the pole of remembrance. This book therefore provides one of the first critical examinations of the recent turn towards documentary in the field of contemporary art." -- Back cover.
Commendation Quotes: Drawing on a dazzling array of sources, "Documents of Utopia" makes a significant contribution to our understanding of two, seemingly opposed, trends in contemporary art practice: the archival turn and the burgeoning interest in utopia. Paolo Magagnoli offers a clear and sophisticated argument that a desire to recover the past can also be one to rethink the future. Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Nostalgia: Pathological and Critical1. Ruins of Utopia2. Reinventing Propaganda Films3. Archives of Commodities 4. Digital Utopia in the Post-Internet AgeEpilogue: Utopia NowBibliographyIndexBiographical Note: Paolo Magagnoli is a Lecturer in Art History in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia. He writes widely on modern and contemporary art, with a focus on the history of experimental cinema and photography.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 12, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231172714 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 235 × 14 mm · 342 g |
| Language | English |
