The first of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona's 'la Caixa' Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newlycommissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Spanish-language writers working today. Established in Barcelona in 1985 by Fundación 'la Caixa', the 'la Caixa' Collection of Contemporary Art features over 1,000 works of international contemporary art from the last 30 years, including artists such as Antoni Tàpies, Joseph Beuys, Cornelia Parker and Doris Salcedo. For a major four-part display running from 2019-20, Whitechapel Gallery has partnered with 'la Caixa' Collection to showcase key pieces from the Collection, with each of the four 'chapters' curated by a contemporary writer, who will also contribute a brand new work of fiction in response to their selection. Each display will be accompanied by a fullyillustrated catalogue featuring the works displayed and the new text, accompanied by a foreword and introduction from both institutions.

Maria Fusco: Nine Qwerty Bells: Fiction for Live Voice

Arts & Photography

Fusco, Maria

History & Criticism

Whitechapel Gallery

Matters of value and judgment are the subject of recently intensified debate within art criticism. Has art criticism suffered a collective failure of nerve as names and styles boom and bust with increasing rapidity? Conversely, does a discourse that traffics in value judgments risk being coopted into serving--or perhaps even serve outright--as a consumer guide to a bloated contemporary art market in which commerce and critical discourse frequently seem to be at odds with each other? Growing out of a forum that was held in Vancouver, Canada, Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism includes transcripts of the forum's discussions, an extensive bibliography on art criticism, as well as newly commissioned texts by Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, James Elkins, Maria Fusco, Sven Lütticken, Tom Morton, Kristina Lee Podesva, William Wood and Tirdad Zolghadr.

Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism: Folio Series: A

Zolghadr, Tirdad

Diederichsen, Diedrich

Fillip Editions/Artspeak

A Rather Large Weapon (Happy Hypocrite)

Book Works

Who does not envy with us is against us is a collection of essays on working-classness that demonstrates Maria Fusco's exceptional talent for weaving together the analytical and the poetic to create an affecting and profound work. With expressive prose, Fusco deftly captures the experiences of the global working class, illuminating emotions that unite them across borders and lines. This is a tribute to the resilience and tenacity of working-class communities, and an invitation to readers to join in a deeper understanding of their struggles and triumphs. Through her masterful storytelling, Fusco utilises the power of language to elevate the voices of those who have long been silenced, creating a symphony of words that will echo long after the final page.

Who does not envy with us is against us: three essays on being working-class

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Broken Sleep Books

Sean Edwards: un un un un un un

McAleese, Kim

Individual Artists

The Bluecoat

Give Up Art is the first collected anthology of Belfast-born writer Maria Fusco (born 1972).
Operating across the genres of fiction, criticism and theory, Fusco’s work has helped forge a contemporary space for critical art writing in the UK and beyond. This interdisciplinary mode allows her to “write through the art object,” collapsing her art and writing practice. Give Up Art brings together nearly two dozen essays, reviews and smaller pieces published between 2005 and 2015 as well as interviews with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Kraus and Paul Winstanley. This is the second book by Maria Fusco published by New Documents, following the 2013 publication of With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form.

Give Up Art: Collected Writings (2005–15)

New Documents

''The first thing you notice is nothing. It takes your eyes a little while to get used to this, after ten seconds you can't remember looking at anything else,'' writes Maria Fusco, founding editor of The Happy Hypocrite, in ''How You Lost the Stars,'' part of her first collection of short stories. Stripping bare the accord of culture and commodity, this sequence of stories tracks the slimy path of social mobility with serious playfulness and an eye for the absurd. Tales of Donald Sutherland f---ing a doll, two men eating a clown and how the obsessive searching through garbage cans can transform trash into meaning, this is a book about the porous relationship between the extra mundane and the average. Maria Fusco is Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

The Mechanical Copula

Sternber Pr

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