Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 by Blake Stimson, Gregory Sholette

Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945



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Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 Blake Stimson, Gregory Sholette
Language: English
Page: 304
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0816644616, 9780816696659
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Review

"Don't start an art collective until you read this book." --Guerrilla Girls

--editor

The ten essays commissioned for this book introduce the reader to dozens of art collectives operating in Cuba, Europe, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Russia, and Africa between 1945 and the present. Together, they provide a rich cross-reading of the politics and practices of contemporary collaborative creativity and begin to write the largely unwritten and unreflected history of collective art in the second half of the twentieth century. Although the book is missing examples from South American, Eastern Europe, China and India (among other places), its value does not come from offering these case studies as nation al files, but rather from allowing us to see them mixed together on one table, under the undifferentiating flatness of contemporary light. It is not when the differences are noted, but when they are let go of, that the most surprising revelations occur. That is when we begin to realize that the accents and idioms of local stories and moved by causes and imbued with visions that transcend the particularities of time and place. -- Eda Cufer, Artforum

To understand the various forms of postwar collectivism as historically determined phenomena and to articulate the possibilities for contemporary collectivist art production is the aim of Collectivism after Modernism. The essays assembled in this anthology argue that to make truly collective art means to reconsider the relation between art and public; examples from the Situationist International and Group Material to Paper Tiger Television and the Congolese collective Le Groupe Amos make the point. To construct an art of shared experience means to go beyond projecting what Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette call the "imagined community": a collective has to be more than an ideal, and more than communal craft; it has to be a truly social enterprise. Not only does it use unconventional forms and media to communicate the issues and experiences usually excluded from artistic representation, but it gives voice to a multiplicity of perspectives. At its best it relies on the participation of the audience to actively contribute to the work, carrying forth the dialogue it inspires. -- Philip Glahn, Bomb Magazine
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edition.

From the Publisher

"Don't start an art collective until you read this book." --Guerrilla Girls

"Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis, blogs and social networks the art of collaboration is back on the agenda. Collectivism after Modernism convincingly proves that art collectives did not stop after the proclaimed death of the historical avant-gardes. Like never before technology reinvents the social and artists claim the steering wheel!" --Geert Lovink, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam

"This examination of the succession of post-war avant-gardes and collectives is new, important, and engaged." -- Stephen F. Eisenman, author of The Abu Ghraib Effect

"Collectivism after Modernism crucially helps us understand what artists and others can do in mushy, stinky times like ours. What can the seemingly powerless do in the face of mighty forces that seem to have their act really together? Here, Stimson and Sholette put forth many good answers." --Yes Men
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edition.

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