SEEING POWER: ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Book ID/图书代码: 08885019C00020
English Summary/英文概要: A fog of information and images has flooded the world: from advertising, television, radio and film to the information glut produced by the new economy. With the rise of social networking, contemporaries, peers and friends are all suddenly selling us the ultimate product: themselves. Curator and critic Nato Thompson interrogates the implications of these developments for those dedicated to socially engaged art and activism. How can anyone find a voice and make change when the world is flooded with images and information?
Chinese Summary/中文概要: ★亞馬遜81%以上讀者給予滿分5顆星推薦
本世紀最重要的名策展人納托·湯普森(NATO THOMPSON),為我們展示藝術可以帶來何種政治和權力結構的改變!
在這個充斥影像的混亂世界當中,藝術是否仍然具有力量?
如今,一片由影像和訊息所形成的迷霧已滲透到了世界上每個角落,大量產製的影像和訊息早已供過於求,這些影像和訊息來自電視、廣播、電影和新科技經濟及社群媒體,甚至連我們的朋友都突然開始向我們推銷某種終極商品:他們自己。
在本書中,本世紀最重要的名策展人納托·湯普森(NATO THOMPSON),為我們調查了這種影像洪流對於致力於社會參與藝術以及行動主義者有何意義。在充斥著「偽藝術」(pseudo-arts)的世界中,人們要如何真正發聲並創造改變呢?當消費資本主義這永不停止的巨大機器不斷挪用藝術、歷史,甚至是草根社會運動團體及社交網路,只為了產製各種最新產品,我們又該如何辨認何者為真?
Nato Thompson對這些問題提出了精采的回答,為我們展示了當代許多最傑出和最有趣的藝術家及行動主義者,以及那些促使社群看見權力結構並提出對於權力全新想像的社會運動團體,從合作式住宅會社(cooperative housing)、無政府主義者的infoshop到各式各樣的藝術展示空間,本書為我們展示了當今的藝術可以帶來怎樣啟發人心的創新和最戲劇性的變革,而其力量或許是史上前所未見。
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Awards/获奖情况:「本書如同約翰.伯格經典之作《觀看的方式》的更新版本,Nato Thompson這本書為我們當代藝術所面臨的困局做了睿智且淺顯易懂的介紹。作為當代最具影響力的公共知識分子,他討論了當代最重要的文化政治議題,包括佔領華爾街運動、對於社會資本的運用以及濫用、以及關於何謂精緻文化和文以載道的藝術的爭論。本書是獻給有社會責任的藝術家、批評家和策展人的21世紀使用者指南。」
──Gregory Sholette,著有《暗物質:企業文化時代的藝術與政治》
本書為藝術家該如何立足於這個賺錢已經和文化產製脫離不了關係的系統,提出了發人深省的宣言。本書不僅為藝術家和社會運動者所寫,對於任何想要重新思考他們消費習慣的人,以及想要辨認深深影響我們日常生活之權力結構的人,也是必讀之作。
──Peace News
"Like an updated version of John Berger’s groundbreaking Ways of Seeing, Nato Thompson’s Seeing Power delivers a smart, accessible introduction to the prevailing artistic predicaments of our time. Written by one of our leading public intellectuals, it covers a wide range of key issues from the cultural politics of Occupy Wall Street; to the use and abuse of accumulated social capital; to the perennial antagonism between sophisticated cultural ambiguity and didactic, artistic impact. Seeing Power is a twenty-first-century user’s manual for the social responsible artist, critic, and curator."--Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
About the Author/作者介绍: NATO THOMPSON,紐約最具聲望的藝術機構Creative Time的首席策展人。他編輯的書籍包括:The Interventionists: A Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life(干涉主義者:如何在日常生活中實踐創造性破壞)、Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism(實驗性地理:地景、製圖學和都市主義的基本方法)和 Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History(藝術的歷史性時刻:當藝術家創造歷史)。他著有《文化作為武器:發生在我們每日生活周遭的文化操弄和影響力的藝術
》(CULTURE AS WEAPON: THE ART OF INFLUENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE)一書。
NATO THOMPSON is a writer and curator whose work primarily focuses on the intersection of art, politics, and the city. He has curated numerous large-scale exhibitions and projects both at the public arts institution Creative Time, where he is chief curator, and as a Curator at MASS MoCA. He is the editor of The Interventionists: A Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life, and author of Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (Melville House), and Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History. He lives in Philadelphia.
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