Astro Noise A Survival Guide to Living under Total Surveillance Laura Poitras • Introduction by
Jay Sanders, with contributions by Lakhdar Boumediene, Kate Crawford, Cory Doctorow, Dave Eggers, Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen, Edward Snowden, Hito Steyerl and Ai Weiwei Filmmaker, artist and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of mass surveillance, ‘war on terror’, drone programme, Guantánamo and torture in her work for more than ten years. In 2013, Poitras was contacted by Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency subcontractor who leaked classified information about government-sponsored surveillance. Her resulting documentary, Citizenfour is the third film in her post9/11 film trilogy. For this volume, Poitras has invited authors ranging from artists and novelists to technologists and academics to respond to the modern-day state of mass surveillance. Among them are author Dave Eggers, artist Ai Weiwei, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, writer and researcher Kate Crawford and Edward Snowden. Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, 05/02/16–05/05/16 Laura Poitras is a filmmaker, artist and journalist. Jay Sanders is curator of performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
100 colour illus. 176 pp. 241x165mm. Slipcased PB ISBN 978-0-300-21765-0 May £30.00/$45.00 Translation rights: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
This Is a Portrait if I Say So Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today Anne Collins Goodyear, Jonathan Frederick Walz and Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo
With contribution by Dorinda Evans This book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring works by artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe to Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns and Glenn Ligon, this publication probes the ways we think about and picture the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during which non-mimetic portraiture flourished – 1912–25, 1961–70 and 1990–the present – the authors investigate issues related to technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics and social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the visual representation of identity. Exhibition Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 24/06/16–17/10/16 Anne Collins Goodyear is co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Jonathan Frederick Walz is curator of American art at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo is an independent curator and scholar. Dorinda Evans is professor emerita, art history, Emory University. Published in association with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
107 colour illus. 240 pp. 279x229mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-21193-1 June £40.00/$60.00
Journeys from Xanadu
Art History and Emergency
Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection
Crises in the Visual Arts and Humanities
Edited by Madhuvanti Ghose
Essays by Madhuvanti Ghose, Usha Bala Krishnan, Jane Casey, Li Qianbin, Anne Richter and Maria Zagitova This book commemorates the remarkable gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding pieces of jewellery and ritual objects from across Asia offer a material record of vanishing cultures. The objects were used as portable forms of wealth, as personal adornment and in religious practice. They also represent a broad spectrum of cultures: the majority come from the Himalayan region, including Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Mongolia, and other pieces hail from Afghanistan, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 19/06/16–21/08/16 Madhuvanti Ghose is the Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan, and Islamic Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
Edited by David Breslin and Darby English Art History and Emergency assesses art history’s role and responsibilities in what has been described as the ‘humanities crisis’ – the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of critical essays and creative pieces addresses several thought-provoking questions on the subject. For instance, as this so-called crisis is but the latest of many, what part has ‘crisis’ played in the humanities’ history? How are artists, art historians and professionals in related disciplines responding to current pressures to prove their worth? How does one defend the practical value of knowing how to think deeply about objects and images without losing the intellectual intensity that characterises the best work in the discipline? Does art history as we know it have a future? David Breslin is John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, the Menil Drawing Institute. Darby English is Carl Darling Buck Professor in the Department of Art History, the University of Chicago, and consulting curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art.
300 colour illus. 272 pp. 305x241mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-21484-0 July £45.00/$65.00
Clark Studies in the Visual Arts • Distributed for the Clark Art Institute
64 Art
Translation rights: Clark Art Insitute, Massachusetts
Translation rights: Art Institute of Chicago
36 b/w illus. 200 pp. 241x178mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-21875-6 April £14.95/$24.95