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Buck-Morss, Susan
Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
Cambridge, MA MIT Press 2000 0262024640 / 9780262024648 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
Cloth, gilt, xvi, 368 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia. As the century closes, this dream is being left behind; the belief that industrial modernization can bring about the good society by overcoming material scarcity for all has been challenged by the disintegration of European socialism, capitalist restructuring, and ecological constraints. The larger social vision has given way to private dreams of material happiness and to political cynicism. Developing the notion of dreamworld as both a poetic description of a collective mental state and an analytical concept, Susan Buck-Morss attempts to come to terms with mass dreamworlds at the moment of their passing. She shows how dreamworlds became dangerous when their energy was used by the structures of power as an instrument of force against the masses. Stressing the similarities between the East and West and using the end of the Cold War as her point of departure, she examines both extremes of mass utopia, dreamworld and catastrophe. / Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory, Department of Government, and Professor of Visual Culture, Department of Art History, Cornell University." - Publisher.
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Sanchez, Osvaldo, and Garza, Cecilia (Joint Editors); Buck-Morss, Susan, and Mesquita, Ivo, and Sanchez, Osvaldo, and Yard, Sally (Curated by)
Fugitive Sites: inSITE 2000-2001 = Parajes Fugitivos: inSITE 2000-2001
San Diego, CA Installation Gallery 2002 0964255448 / 9780964255449 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good Exhibition Catalogue
267 pp., col. illus., biblio., index; 26 cm. Text in English and Spanish. Edition of 3000 copies. Catalogue to accompany a series of arts projects centered in the San Diego-Tijuana, Mexico border region, Oct. 2000-Mar. 2001. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Radical artists redefine public art. Includes: Gustavo Artigas, Judith Barry, Arturo Cuenca, Roman de Salvo, Mauricio Dias, Mark Dion, Rita Gonzales, Silvia Gruner, Diego Gutierrez, Jonathan Hernandez, Norma Iglesias, Alfredo Jaar, Komar & Melamid, Alberto Caro Liman, Iìigo Manglano-Ovalle, Allan McCollum, Monica Nador, Ugo Palavi, Lorna Simpson, Meyer Vaisman, Jeffrey Vallance, Krzysztof Wodiczko, others. "Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice, and public space. Initiated in 1992 as a collaborative venture of cultural institutions in San Diego and Tijuana, inSITE commissions new work by artists from the Americas that responds to the extraordinary context of these two inextricably linked border cities, and is reinvented according to the shifting interests of artists and public institutions in Mexico. This most recent version of inSITE reconfigures public space, disrupts the syntactical order of the city, exposes its patterns, traces the activities of its goods and people, and provides remedies against the intertia of everyday life." - Publisher. Texts by David Joselit, David Avalos, Susan Buck-Morss, Nestor Garcia Cancini, David Harvey, Mary Jane Jacob, Ivo Mesquita, Masao Miyoshi, Nelson Brissac Peixoto, Sally Yard, George Yudice, and Serge Guilbaut. Interesting roster of contributors.
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