"Disassembled" Images

Allan Sekula and Contemporary Art
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-94-6270-171-7
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 943 g

Reihe: Lieven Gevaert Series

The
canonical legacy of Allan Sekula in contemporary visual art

“Disassembled”
Images takes as a point of
departure Allan Sekula’s productive approach of disassembling elements in order
to reassemble them in alternative constellations. Some of the most pressing
issues of our time, such as human labor in a globalized economy or the claim
for radical democracy, are recurrent themes in Sekula’s oeuvre and are
investigated by a wide range of experts in this book. Addressing a variety of
artworks, both by Sekula and other artists, the collected essays focus on three
crucial aspects within recent politically engaged art: collecting as a tool for
representing folly and madness, the confrontation of the maritime space of
ecological disasters and geopolitical processes with alternative models of
solidarity, and what Sekula named “critical realism” as a reflective method in
search of new social agencies and creative freedom. A text–image portfolio by
Marco Poloni completes this profound reflection on Sekula’s influential legacy
within contemporary visual art.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Contributors
Anthony Abiragi (University of Colorado), Barbara
Baert (KU Leuven), Edwin Carels (School of Arts KASK/HoGent/M HKA), Ronnie
Close (American University in Cairo), Bart De Baere (M HKA), Stefanie Diekmann
(Hildesheim University), Carles Guerra (Fundació Antoni Tàpies), Clara Masnatta
(ICI Berlin), W. J. T. Mitchell (University of Chicago), Marco Poloni (Berlin),
Anja Isabel Schneider (KU Leuven/ M HKA), Stephanie Schwartz (University
College London), Jonathan Stafford (Nottingham Trent University), Alexander
Streitberger (UC Louvain), Hilde Van Gelder (KU Leuven), Benjamin Young
(Parsons School of Design)

Assistant
editor
Federica Mantoan

Autoren/Hrsg.

Streitberger, Alexander

Van Gelder, Hilde

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Alexander Streitberger and Hilde Van Gelder, IntroductionW.J.T. Mitchell, Planetary Madness: Globalizing the Ship of Fools
Part 1. Collecting FollyBart De Baere and Anja Isabel Schneider, Allan Sekula: TheDouble Helix of an Activist Stance and of CuratingStefanie Diekmann, The Stuff in the Studio: On Chris Larson’sLand Speed Record (2016)Ronnie Close, Reframing the Aesthetics of CensorshipEdwin Carels, An Archive of Intensities: Vava’s VideoBarbara Baert, Mining Allan Sekula: Four Exercises
Part 2. Maritime Failures and ImaginariesMarco Poloni, The Land Seen by the SeaClara Masnatta, Senses at Sea: For an Amphibian CinemaJonathan Stafford, Breaking Open the Container: The LogisticalImage and the Specter of Maritime LaborCarles Guerra and Hilde Van Gelder, “Do not Trespass.”An Interview Conversation on the Genesis of Allan Sekula’s BlackTide/Marea negra (2002–03)
Part 3. Critical Realism in DialogueAlexander Streitberger, “Cultural work as a Praxis.”The Artist as Producer in the Work of Victor Burgin, Martha Rosler,and Allan SekulaStephanie Schwartz, The Face of ProtestAnthony Abiragi, Reading Against the Grain: Allan Sekula and theRhetoric of ExemplarityBenjamin J. Young, “Decolonize This Place”: Realism andHumanism in Photography of Israel-Palestine
About the AuthorsA Note on Allan Sekula’s LifeA Note on Allan Sekula’s Works Discussed in the Present Volume
Plates

Über Autor(innen)

Streitberger, Alexander
Alexander Streitberger is professor of modern and contemporary art history at the UCLouvain and director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art, and Visual Culture.

Van Gelder, Hilde
Hilde Van Gelder is professor of contemporary art history at KU Leuven. She is director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture.