{"product_id":"somebodys-got-to-do-it-pavel-buchler-9781909932319","title":"Somebody's Got to Do It: Selected Writings by Pavel Buchler Since 1987","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents the first comprehensive collection of writings by expatriate Czech artist, Pavel B chler alongside extensive contextual material. As a teacher, critic and occasional curator B chler has made significant interventions into debates about the history of photography, theories of media, the paradoxes of art education and artistic research, the peculiarities of art as a form of work, and the politics and poetics of 'making nothing happen'. Spanning three decades, the selections are pooled in three parent sections that together cover seven thematic areas: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection One - includes a sample of B chler's exhibitions, book reviews and a spread of his more systematic writings on analogue media and their afterlives in our digital age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection Two - gathers articles and lecture scripts on the topic of teaching art and design and interventions into cultural theory with a small 't'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection Three - presents a selection of more discursive, formally playful contributions to catalogues and artists' pages as well as an extensive new interview prepared during winter 2014-15 for this book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetween each of these sections are Editor's Notes, which focus on the poetic status of language in the foreground of B chler's gallery works, to loop attention back to the interplay between what he writes about art and what he writes in his art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pavel Buchler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1909932310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781909932319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ridinghouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.70d","brand":"Pavel Buchler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44890884374783,"sku":"9781909932319","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_acd95975-5728-4ae7-bad6-14eaf0b21d56.jpg?v=1709740306","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/somebodys-got-to-do-it-pavel-buchler-9781909932319","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}