Abu Ghraib unveiled a lengthy list of disastrous actions and cover-ups by the Bush administration and the American military. Abu Ghraib examines the problem from many different perspectives, gathering together timely essays on the prison scandal from prominent progressive writers. Barbara Ehrenreich looks at the story through the lens of feminism, noting that the most infamous photos involve female soldiers. John Gray argues that Iraq is worse than Vietnam. Looking to future ramifications, Meron Benvenisti reflects on the "powerless rage" of an occupied culture. David Matlin deconstructs President Bush's declaration that the Abu Ghraib images do not represent America. Giving voice to those directly impacted, Mark Danner reports on the anger and humiliation experienced by the victims and their families. This book provides a broader understanding of the issue and its repercussions.

Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (Terra Nova)

History

David Levi Strauss

Charles Stein

Military

North Atlantic Books

In his first collection of essays, David Levi Strauss addresses the always conflicted relation between aesthetics and politics by concentrating on specific instances from allopathic art to Desert Storm propaganda, from Columbus s legacy to Robert Smithson s prophesies, and from new art in post-Soviet Russia to public art in the United States and by focusing on the work of artists as various as Grünewald, Jean Genet, Cindy Sherman, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, Carolee Schneemann, Andrei Monastyrsky, and Daniel Joseph Martinez.

Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art & Politics, with a Prolegomenon By Hakim Bey

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Autonomedia

Preface, The Editors; Hope in Rojava, David Levi Strauss; Syria's Kurdish Revolution: The Anarchist Element and the Challenge of Solidarity, Bill Weinberg; Why Is the World Ignoring the Revolutionary Kurds in Syria?, David Graeber; No. This Is a Genuine Revolution, David Graeber &amp; Pinar Ögünç; Abdullah Öcalan, Peter Lamborn Wilson; Öcalan's Angels, Newsha Tavakolian; No Miracles at Work, Havin Güneser; A Revolution of Life, Saleh Muslim &amp; Jonas Staal; Woman Fighters of the YPJ, Murat Bay; The World's First Army of Women, Evren Kocabiçak; Two Excerpts from 'Liberating Life: Women's Revolution', Abdullah Öcalan; New Wars and Autonomous Self-Defense in Kurdistan, Nazan Üstündag; Dispatches From Rojava, El Errante / Paul Z. Simons; Rojava: To Dare Imagining, Dilar Dirik; The Mastery of Non-Mastery, Michael Taussig; Acknowledgments &amp; Bios; Sources &amp; Resources; The Charter of the Rojava Cantons

To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution

Peter Lamborn Wilson

DAVID GRAEBER

Michael Taussig

Murat Bay

Dilar Dirik

Havin Güneser

Evren Kocabiçak

Saleh Muslim

Abdullah Öcalan

Pinar Ögünç

Newsha Tavakolian

Nazan Üstündag

Bill Weinberg

This book has the ambition to stage a multi-phased resistance to the power that images exert in the contemporary world, and, at the same time, to offer something like the keys to the transformation of that power. Peter Lamborn Wilson

The Critique of the Image... Is the Defense of the Imagination

Diane Di Prima

Robert Kelly

Christopher Bamford

Carolee Schneeman

Gerrit Lansing

Ivan, Illich

At this transitional moment in the field of photography, how should we consider what is to come for the medium? Can its past and present practitioners help guide us, both as creators and as observers? David Levi Strauss--eminent author, critic and teacher--rises to the challenge of these questions and more in "Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography." In the course of 25 essays, some of which appear for the first time in this volume, Strauss discusses the work of artists who provoke us with revealing, clear-eyed investigations of the ostensibly patent world in front of us, and others who transport us to new realms, poetic and unreal--creative minds ranging from Frederick Sommer, Helen Levitt, Daido Moriyama and Joseph Beuys to contemporary photographers Sally Mann, James Nachtwey, Susan Meiselas, Tim Davis and many others. Also considered are the groundbreaking theoretical writings of Susan Sontag and Jean-Luc Nancy, the films of Chris Marker and Stan Brakhage, and issues and events that have irrevocably altered the way we consider the medium of photography and how it communicates: 9/11, Abu Ghraib, the death of Osama bin Laden, the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street. Published in the "Aperture Ideas" series, "Words Not Spent Today" is an incisive exploration of photography's changing role as a tool of evidence and conscience as we move forward into--can we say it?--a post-photographic era. David Levi Strauss is the author of "From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual" (2010); "Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics," with an introduction by John Berger (2003); and "Between Dog and Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics" (1999, updated in 2010 with a prolegomenon by Hakim Bey). Strauss was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003 and received the Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 2007. He is chair of the graduate program in art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

David Levi Strauss: Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography (Aperture, 10-4)

Photography & Video

Aperture

Ten international art related professionals consider the increased influence of independent curators and cultural producers and how the role of the curator has changed over the last ten years. Using examples from past exhibitions and personal experiences, the writers address how working within an institution differs from being independent, the difficulties of balancing artistic vision with expectations of funders and institutions, and the ethical issues of working with artists and collectors, among many other subjects. A resource text for students and others interested in the curatorial field, Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating will provide valuable and interesting reading for students considering a curatorial career and others interested in current trends in today's art world.

Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating

Jean-Hubert Martin

Sara Arrhenius

David Carrier

Boris Groys

Kate Fowle

Dave Hickey

Geeta Kapur

Young Chul Lee

apexart

Bill Jensen: Transgressions

Bill Jensen

New York: Cheim & Read, 2017

Swiss artist Hannah Villiger (1951-1997) was trained as a sculptor and always considered her work sculpture. Her artistic medium, however, was photography. In the early-1980s Villiger's own body became the focus of her work: it appears fragmented, distorted, twisted beyond recognition. Villiger developed her own unique way of working: Polaroid shots that she enlarged to a size of approximately one square meter (40 x 40 inches). With the Polaroid camera she circled around her own body using the straightforwardness of the medium. The "blindness" of the camera redefined the structure and the volume of her body parts. This first international monograph, with catalogue raisonné, reveals Villiger as a radical predecessor of many of today's artists who create images of their own bodies. In her in-depth essay Claudia Spinelli traces the outlines of Hannah Villiger's personal and artistic development and poignantly examines the crucial relationship between Villiger's life and her work. Griselda Pollock's essay takes a close look at Villiger as a woman and an artist, highlighting the visionary power of the work. Pollock lucidly discusses the problems and obstacles Villiger, as a female-identified artist, had to face in a phallocentric, patriarchal visual culture. David Levi-Strauss ponders the intricate relationship of sculpture, photography and the human body in the work, whose daring and radical formal concepts and innovations remain as cutting-edge as ever. 
Edited by Jolanda Bucher and Eric Hattan. Essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Bice Curiger, Annelie Pohlen, Griselda Pollock, Claudia Spinelli, David Levi Strauss and Hannah Villiger. 
150 color and 300 b&amp;w. 9.5 x 12.5 in.

Hannah Villiger

GRISELDA POLLOCK

Bice Curiger

Claudia Spinelli

Jean-Christophe Amman

Annelie Pohlen

Individual Artists

Scalo Verlag Ac

While the world wants to forget, Alfredo Jaar, one of the great moralists of our time, reminds us through images that expose the horrors in Rwanda.

Let There be Light.: The Rwanda Project: 1994-1998

BEN OKRI

EDITORIAL ACTAR

This volume traces Gwenn Thomas' ongoing exploration into the possibilities of exposing light-sensitive surfaces, and the ever-changing role of photographic reproduction and how it shapes our contemporary perception of painting. "Picture Mondrian and Maholy-Nagy playing checkers at the intersection between image and abstraction," writes David Levi Strauss.

Gwenn Thomas

Lilly Wei

Edward Leffingwell

Doris Von Drathen

Saul Ostrow

Charta

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