Books
Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader
Why has there been a turn to the cinematic in contemporary art? Art and the Moving Image traces the mutual fascination between art and film from early spatial experiments to the current use of projected images in museums and galleries.
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Free Radicals
Jess Baines looks back at London's printmaking workshops of the 1970s and 80s, DIY sites of political and community activism that rejected the traditional role of the artist to participate in a network of campaign groups, radical publishers and alternative distributors.
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Workshop Defended Against Its Admirers
David Grubbs remembers a set by Kai Althoff's purportedly fictional band Workshop at the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz in 1998 -- a 'kind of All About Eve without the rival', a 'coquettish singer bursting into bloom'.
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Richard Prince: Untitled (couple)
Drawing on an unpublished interview with Richard Prince, in this book-length study Michael Newman analyses Prince's 1977 Untitled (couple), connecting it to ideas of allegory, simulacrum and the formation of personal identity in a society of commodity and spectacle.
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Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell in Conversation with Stuart Comer
Film-maker Duncan Campbell speaks to Tate curator Stuart Comer about his new film, Make it new John, a combination of documentary and fiction chronicling the automaker John DeLorean.
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Early Asco: 'Your Art Disgusts Me’
Chon Noriega looks at the work of the Chicano collective Asco in Los Angeles during the 1970s, taking stock of their performative challenges to the 'public good'.
