Nato Thompson
Auteur van Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
Over de Auteur
Nato Thompson is an author and curator. He currently works as artistic director of Philadelphia Contemporary. Before that he was artistic director at Creative Time, where he worked since 2007. His other books include Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century, and the speculative toon meer fantasy novel, Marshsong. toon minder
Werken van Nato Thompson
The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (2004) 78 exemplaren
Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (2009) 58 exemplaren
9th Street Stock Exchange 1 exemplaar
Converge 45 : Art on the 45th parallel 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Thompson, Nato Christian
- Geboortedatum
- 1972-03-09
- Geslacht
- male
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Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday… door Nato Thompson
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
In 2007, artist Mike Nelson transformed the disused interior of the Essex Street Market on New York's Lower East Side, taking audiences on a journey through his installation “A Psychic Vacuum,” a series of reconstructed rooms and passageways filled with enigmatic props, clues and assemblies. Over the next two years, the artist meticulously recreated that journey in this superbly designed and fully illustrated artist's book.
Solid collection on the topic of socially engaged art (participatory art, relational aesthetics, social practice, etc.). The introductory essays alone are worth picking it up. They're thoughtful as well as surprisingly balanced and critical towards this approach to art-making. The remainder of the book provides a broad survey of significant works/events/projects/artists that can be loosely fit under this artistic umbrella. At times the survey portions felt a little superficial, yet it does give a rich glimpse of the range of this kind of work. Not a perfect book, but definitely worth reading if at all interested in the intersection of art and social action. Also- sexy design. I'm a sucker for a nice-looking/feeling book.… (meer)
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- Werken
- 16
- Leden
- 374
- Populariteit
- #64,496
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 17
- Talen
- 1
