CULTURE AS WEAPON: THE ART OF INFLUENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 08885016B95003

English Summary/英文概要： One of the country’s leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.

The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are more sophisticated than ever, the onslaught more relentless. In Culture as Weapon, acclaimed curator and critic Nato Thompson reveals how institutions use art and culture to ensure profits and constrain dissent--and shows us that there are alternatives. An eye-opening account of the way advertising, media, and politics work today, Culture as Weapon offers a radically new way of looking at our world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 美国知名活动策划人探讨了企业和政府是如何利用艺术和文化令大众感到困惑并操纵大众。

文化产出曾经是艺术家的领域，但从20世纪初期开始，公共关系、广告和市场营销的兴起改变了和公众的交流方式。一个世纪以后，这些工具变得越发成熟，对公众的冲击也变得愈发无休无止。在本书中，知名策展人、评论家Nato Thompson揭开了机构利用艺术和文化确保利润并限制争议的方式，并告诉读者，其实还有其他选择。本书记录了现在广告、媒体、政治运作的方式，令人大开眼界，也为大家看待这个世界提供了一个崭新的视角。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“Nato Thompson的《文化就是武器》揭示了艺术所具有的深远的社会功能。乌托邦式的冲动植根于我们的世界之中，而本书探讨了艺术处于承接乌托邦愿景和社会现实之间的地位。通过对当代民众对艺术和生活的理解的深刻分析，作者提出我们应该如何在艺术、文化及其不断涌现的生产者和消费者之间开疆扩土。”——Hans Ulrich Obrist

“艺术一直在塑造当代社会中起着巨大的作用……而在本书中，作者指出，艺术，尤其是艺术批评也能成为获取政治资本的无价之宝。”——《时代周刊》

“（作者探讨了）从高端艺术到战争规划，具有说服力的文化机制是如何在更加广泛的社会结构中被解读的……本书是关于日常生活中的文化控制的精准的评论文章。”——《科克斯评论》

"Culture As Weapon is a brilliant and scathing take no prisoners critique of contemporary culture. Spanning military occupation, capitalism masquerading as charity, and personal computing, Nato shows us the dark side of how culture is deployed to fortify power." --Laura Poitras, filmmaker Citizenfour

"Nato Thompson’s Culture as Weapon reveals the profound social function that art plays. Rather than existing as separate from reality, the utopic impulse is rooted in our world and Thompson’s book explores how art is situated at this nexus of utopic vision and social reality. Through an astute analysis of our contemporary understanding of the relationship between art and life, Thompson suggests how we can navigate a landscape where art, culture, and its producers and consumers, seem to be emerging. This is the book that we have been waiting for." --Hans Ulrich Obrist

"[Thompson explores] how persuasive cultural mechanisms are encoded in broader social structures, from high art to war-planning...A precisely written critique of cultural manipulation in our daily lives." --Kirkus Reviews

"Yes, art works,’ as the saying goes, but what work does it do? Does it make us wiser? Does it help us to understand ourselves? Not necessarily. As Nato Thompson shows us in this wide-ranging and provocatively written book, art sometimes takes us down a different road entirely. Art sells; art gentrifies; art puts a nice glossy shine on the neoliberal project. Read it and discover exactly how mistaken is our assumption that human creativity brings us always closer to some earthly utopia." --Thomas Frank, author of Listen Liberal and What’s The Matter With Kansas?

"Art has played a huge role in shaping modern society... But In Culture as Weapon, Nato Thompson argues that art - or more specifically, the criticism of art - can also be an invaluable way to score political points." -- Time

"Nato Thompson is one of the most compelling curators and thinkers in the arts today. In Culture as Weapon, he turns his discerning eye to the new politics of the culture war. Roaming widely from Hollywood to Washington D.C., Madison Avenue to Mosul, while unpacking ’creative city’ boosterism, the new ’corporate sociability’, and the 21st century charity complex, his provocative argument is that the powerful have learned from artists the tools and tactics of the counterculture and we are not the better for it. A powerful, bracing, important read." --Jeff Chang, author of We Gon’ Be Alright, Who We Be, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

About the Author/作者介绍： NATO THOMPSON，纽约最具声望和令人激动的艺术机构Creative Time的首席策展人。他是The Interventionists: A Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life（干涉主义者）、Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism（实验性地理）和 Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History（历史性时刻）的编辑，还著有《Seeing Power （看见权力）》一书。

NATO THOMPSON is chief curator at Creative Time, one of New York’s most prestigious and exciting art organizations. He is the editor of The Interventionists: A Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life; Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (Melville House), and Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History. And he is the author of Seeing Power (Melville House).

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