{"product_id":"collectivism-after-modernism-blake-stimson-9780816644629","title":"Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Don't start an art collective until you read this book.\" --Guerrilla Girls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis, blogs and social networks the art of collaboration is back on the agenda. \u003ci\u003eCollectivism after Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e convincingly proves that art collectives did not stop after the proclaimed death of the historical avant-gardes. Like never before technology reinvents the social and artists claim the steering wheel \" --Geert Lovink, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This examination of the succession of post-war avant-gardes and collectives is new, important, and engaged.\" -- Stephen F. Eisenman, author of\u003ci\u003e The Abu Ghraib Effect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCollectivism after Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e crucially helps us understand what artists and others can do in mushy, stinky times like ours. What can the seemingly powerless do in the face of mighty forces that seem to have their act really together? Here, Stimson and Sholette put forth many good answers.\" --Yes Men\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the globe from Europe, Japan, and the United States to Africa, Cuba, and Mexico, \u003ci\u003eCollectivism after Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which collectives function within cultural norms, social conventions, and corporate or state-sanctioned art. Together, these essays demonstrate that collectivism survives as an influential artistic practice despite the art world's star system of individuality. \u003ci\u003eCollectivism after Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e provides the historical understanding necessary for thinking through postmodern collective practice, now and into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Irina Aristarkhova, Jesse Drew, Okwui Enwezor, Rub n Gallo, Chris Gilbert, Brian Holmes, Alan Moore, Jelena Stojanovi c, Reiko Tomii, Rachel Weiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake Stimson is associate professor of art history at the University of California Davis, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eVisual Worlds and Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology. \u003c\/i\u003eGregory Sholette is an artist, writer, and cofounder of collectives Political Art Documentation\/Distribution and REPOhistory. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To understand the various forms of postwar collectivism as historically determined phenomena and to articulate the possibilities for contemporary collectivist art production is the aim of Collectivism after Modernism. The essays assembled in this anthology argue that to make truly collective art means to reconsider the relation between art and public; examples from the Situationist International and Group Material to Paper Tiger Television and the Congolese collective Le Groupe Amos make the point. To construct an art of shared experience means to go beyond projecting what Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette call the \"imagined community\" a collective has to be more than an ideal, and more than communal craft; it has to be a truly social enterprise. Not only does it use unconventional forms and media to communicate the issues and experiences usually excluded from artistic representation, but it gives voice to a multiplicity of perspectives. At its best it relies on the participation of the audience to actively contribute to the work, carrying forth the dialogue it inspires.\" --BOMB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blake Stimson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816644624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816644629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.13h x 6.94w x 0.68d","brand":"Blake Stimson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926484254975,"sku":"9780816644629","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7cacb58a-23b0-4d7c-b7e6-237797381bb4.jpg?v=1681083327","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/collectivism-after-modernism-blake-stimson-9780816644629","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}