Documents of Utopia : the politics of experimental documentary / Paolo Magagnoli.

Main entry:

Magagnoli, Paolo, author.

Title & Author:

Documents of Utopia : the politics of experimental documentary / Paolo Magagnoli.

Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Nonfictions

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index.
1 Ruins of Utopia -- 2 Reinventing propaganda films -- 3 Archives of commodities -- 4 Digital Utopia in the post-internet age.

Summary:

"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 Moulène, 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.

ISBN:

9780231172707 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0231172702 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780231172714 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0231172710 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
(e-book)
9780231850773

Subject:

Experimental films History and criticism.
Documentary films History and criticism.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Nonfictions.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290145
Call No.: BIB 232951
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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