{"product_id":"isaac-julien-isaac-julien-9780870708879","title":"Isaac Julien: Riot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Isaac played a pivotal role in that significant moment in the black diaspora arts, when gay sexuality, masculinity and race exploded into the same visual frame.\" -Stuart Hall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiot\u003c\/i\u003e is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Julien's trail-blazing career has moved across film and art, documentary, biography, narrative film and multi-screen installation, and has drawn on influences as disparate as silent cinema, cultural studies, Chinese myth and pirate radio culture. \u003ci\u003eRiot\u003c\/i\u003e is the first career-long overview on Julien, situating his work in the context of his personal and intellectual development: the friendships, mentors, night clubs, films, politics, records and the artworks that informed his practice. The backdrop to Julien's own story is a collage of some of the most important political and cultural events of the past 30 years: Thatcherism and the rise of neo-liberalism, the AIDS epidemic, punk rock, social riots, the globalization of the art market and the movement of filmmakers into the gallery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isaac Julien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870708872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870708879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Museum of Modern Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.30h x 9.70w x 1.10d","brand":"Isaac Julien","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947422810367,"sku":"9780870708879","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5af526ba-7849-451e-bd15-3919e3dc1932.jpg?v=1681518634","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/isaac-julien-isaac-julien-9780870708879","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}