The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant-gardes in film and in painting--these are among the many topics of Peter Wollen's essays. Interwoven with fictional treatments of such themes as memory, dream, sexuality and writing, they compose a remarkable, perhaps unique, volume. These readings and writings are informed by Marxism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the history of art itself. Their concern is with signification: with the ways in which meanings are produced in dominant art...
The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the...
Exploring the relationship between film and other art forms, this book looks at new approaches to thinking about film. Peter Wollen's new book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about cinema, but, rather a plethora of paths leading in very different directions.
Exploring the relationship between film and other art forms, this book looks at new approaches to thinking about film. Peter Wollen's new book is base...
In this new collection of texts on visual art Peter Wollen explores an extraordinary range of topics, from an analysis of Global Conceptualism to a study of Magritte and the Bowler Hat. The book includes provocative essays on the work of artists such as Victor Burgin, Frida Kahlo and Derek Jarman. Other essays deal with the relationships that have developed between visual art and other media, including one on the convergence of art and fashion and another that explores the role of art, along with film, in creating the American myth of the West. architecture, as well as the relationship of art...
In this new collection of texts on visual art Peter Wollen explores an extraordinary range of topics, from an analysis of Global Conceptualism to a st...
The reach of the car today is almost universal, and its effect on landscapes, cityscapes, cultures indeed, on the very fabric of the modern world is profound. Cars have brought benefits to individuals in terms of mobility and expanded horizons, but the cost has been very high in terms of damage to the environment and the consumption of precious resources. Despite the growing belief that a Faustian price is now being paid for the freedom cars have bestowed on us, we are none the less manufacturing them in ever greater numbers. Autopia is the first book to explore the culture of the...
The reach of the car today is almost universal, and its effect on landscapes, cityscapes, cultures indeed, on the very fabric of the modern world is p...
Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art.
Beginning with an analysis of the role of Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet, Wollen argues that modernism has always had a hidden, suppressed side which cannot easily be absorbed into the master-narrative of modernity.
Wollen reviews the hopes, fears and expectations of artists and critics such as the Bauhaus movement, as fascinated by Henry Ford s assembly line as...
Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerfu...
