{"product_id":"group-works-ethan-philbrick-9781531502706","title":"Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe artist and author Ethan Philbrick's \u003ci\u003eGroup Works \u003c\/i\u003ere-imagines the group by undertaking an historiographic archaeology of group aesthetics and politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten against both phobic and romantic accounts of collectivity, \u003ci\u003eGroup Works \u003c\/i\u003econtends that the group emerges as a medium for artists when established forms of collective life break down. Philbrick pairs group pieces in dance, literature, film, and music from the 1960s and 1970s downtown Manhattan scene alongside a series of recent group experiments: Simone Forti's dance construction, \u003ci\u003eHuddle \u003c\/i\u003e(1961), is put into relation with contemporary re-performances of Forti's score and huddling as a feminist political tactic; Samuel Delany's memoir of communal living, \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love \u003c\/i\u003e(1969\/78), speaks to performance artist Morgan Bassichis's 2017 communal musical adaptation of Larry Mitchell's 1977 text, \u003ci\u003eThe Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e; Lizzie Borden's experimental documentary of feminist collectivity, \u003ci\u003eRegrouping \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), sits alongside visual artist Sharon Hayes's 2014 piece on Manhattan's Pier 54, \u003ci\u003eWomen of the World Unite! they said\u003c\/i\u003e; and Julius Eastman's insurgent piece of chamber music for four pianos, \u003ci\u003eGay Guerrilla \u003c\/i\u003e(1979), resonates alongside contemporary projects that take up Eastman's legacy by artists such as Tiona Nekkia McClodden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy analyzing works that articulate the politics of race, gender, and sexuality as questions of group formation, Philbrick approaches the group not as a stable, idealizable entity but as an ambivalent way to negotiate and contest shifting terms of associational life. \u003ci\u003eGroup Works \u003c\/i\u003epresents an engaging exploration of what happens when small groups become a material and medium for artistic and political experimentation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ethan Philbrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531502709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531502706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Ethan Philbrick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071597965567,"sku":"9781531502706","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a62ef5a-fbda-45ed-961b-791eaa8d479c.jpg?v=1685437048","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/group-works-ethan-philbrick-9781531502706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}