Main entry:

Eshun, Kodwo.

Title & Author:

Dan Graham : rock my religion / Kodwo Eshun.

Publication:

London : Afterall, 2012.

Description:

1 online resource (105 pages) : color illustrations

Series:

One work

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-105).
One Work Series; One Work Series Foreword; Contents; On First Encounter; The Gods of Hardcore; The Trailer; It's Her Factory; The Turbine; Mother Ann Lee Leads the Shakers to the New Land; The Puritans; Rock and the Commodity Form; The Great Day of His Wrath; In the Court of the Lizard King; The Necessity of Violence; Endnotes.
English.

Summary:

An illustrated exploration of a groundbreaking work and its connections to New York's art and music scenes of the 1980s. Dan Graham's Rock My Religion (1982'1984) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Eddie Cochran) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). It represented a coming together of narrative voice-overs, singing and shouting voices, and jarring sounds and overlaid texts that proposed a historical genealogy of rock music and an ambitious thesis about the origins of North America's popular culture. Because of its passionate embrace of underground music, its low-fi aesthetics, interest in politics, and liberal approach to historiography, the video has become a landmark work in the history of contemporary moving image and art; but it has remained, possibly for the same reasons, one of Graham's least written about works'underappreciated and possibly misunderstood by the critics who otherwise celebrate him. This illustrated study of Graham's groundbreaking work fills that critical gap. Kodwo Eshun examines Rock My Religion not only in terms of contemporary art and Graham's wider body of work but also as part of the broader culture of the time. He explores the relationship between Graham and New York's underground music scene of the 1980s, connecting the artistic methods of the No Wave bands'especially their group dynamics and relationship to the audience'and Rock My Religion's treatment of working class identity and culture.

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ISBN:

9781846381119 (electronic bk.)
1846381118 (electronic bk.)
1283637766
9781283637763
9781846380853
1846380855
9781846380860
1846380863

Subject:

Graham, Dan, 1942-2022. Rock my religion.
Graham, Dan, 1942-2022 Criticism and interpretation.
Graham, Dan, 1942-2022
Rock my religion (Graham, Dan)
Video art United States.
Conceptual art United States.
Art vidéo États-Unis.
Art conceptuel États-Unis.
ART Individual Artists Artists' Books.
ART Individual Artists Essays.
ART Individual Artists Monographs.
Conceptual art
Video art
United States

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

One work.

Rock my religion