MashUp : the birth of modern culture / editors: Daina Augaitis, Bruce Grenville and Stephanie Rebick.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Vancouver, BC, Canada : London, UK : Vancouver Art Gallery ; Black Dog Publishing, [2016]Copyright date: ℗♭2016Description: 341 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm ; casedContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 191043339X (hbk.) :
- 9781910433393 (hbk.) :
- 709.04 AUG
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 709.04 AUG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100633479 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture traces the inexorable rise of collage, montage, sampling and the cut-up. Tracing its roots from the multiple-perspectives, montages and readymades of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Hoch, to the present - with its postmodern network culture, where remixing and co-production are the norm and where the New Aesthetic seeks to harmonise the now-everyday crossover of the digital and the actual. The book addresses the development of detournement and deconstruction in art, architecture, music and society. Each chapter is a detailed, inclusive look at a cross-section of the main artists and thinkers that have embraced and developed all forms of 'mashup' culture, since its inception in the nineteenth century as early experiments of Braque and Picasso.MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture finds parallels between the works of luminaries such as Jean-Luc Godard, Joseph Cornell, Elizabeth Price, Joyce Wieland and Jeff Wall. The book traces the lasting impact of such seemingly
Published to accompany the exhibition MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, curated by Daina Augaitis, Bruce Grenville and Stephanie Rebick, and held at Vancouver Art Gallery, February 20-June 12, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
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