Destroyer of Naivetés by Nechvatal, Joseph

Destroyer of Naivetés (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692573129)

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Destroyer of Naivetés by Nechvatal, Joseph

Destroyer of Naivetés

$21.00
Destroyer of Naivetés by Nechvatal, Joseph

Destroyer of Naivetés

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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Joseph Nechvatal's epic passion poem, Destroyer of Naivetes, takes up a position of excess from within a society that believes that the less you conceal, the stranger you become. We live and love in a culture where surveillance/intrusion is tied to our drive for self-revealing everything (an anti-private-life culture of curiosity, egotism, solitude, fear, voyeurism, exhibitionism and resentment - where the feeling is that nothing could or should remain unknown to us).The sex farce poetic overindulgence of Destroyer of Naivetes takes inspiration from the books of Jean Genet, Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, drawings by Hans Bellmer, film/performances of Bradley Eros, and the erotic scribblings of Giacomo Casanova, Georges Bataille, Petronius, Vladimir Nabokov, Marquis de Sade, Yukio Mishima, Ovid, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Kathy Acker and I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabia.

Author: Joseph Nechvatal
ISBN-10: 0692573127
ISBN-13: 9780692573129
Publisher: Punctum Books
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2015
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d
By Joseph Nechvatal
By Joseph Nechvatal
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Joseph Nechvatal's digital paintings conjure up an enigmatic world of an almost dreadful depth that signals the dynamic critical intricacy of a contemporary practice engaged in the fragile wedding of image production and image resistance. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and animations are often made up of an oddly excessive concoction of ambiguous sexual body parts (morphed from both sexes) and expressions of political ire that address the global influence of the viral form. Nechvatal brings a subversive reading to computational media by presenting an artistic consciousness that articulates contemporary concerns regarding surveillance and the erotic. His book of essays Towards an Immersive Intelligence: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality (1993-2006) was published by Edgewise Press in 2009. In 2011 he published Immersion Into Noise (Open Humanities Press/MPublishing) and in 2014 he helped to steer and edit punctum's Minóy book + cassette + CD project.

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