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001 2011051301
003 DLC
005 20111222150921.0
008 111222s2012 txu bc 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011051301
020 $a9780300179606 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aTR184$b.N35 2012
082 00 $a770$223
084 $aART015100$aART015110$aPHO010000$aART006010$2bisacsh
100 1 $aNakamori, Yasufumi.
245 10 $aUtopia/dystopia :$bconstruction and destruction in photography and collage /$cby Yasufumi Nakamori with Graham Bader.
260 $a[Houston] :$bMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston ;$aNew Haven :$bDistributed by Yale University Press,$cc2012.
263 $a1203
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"From the time of its invention, photography has enabled artists not only to capture the world around them but also to create worlds of their own. Utopia/Dystopia investigates how artists from the late 19th century to the present have used photographic fragments or techniques to represent political, social, or cultural states of utopia or dystopia. Artists have employed a number of strategies to this end, such as cutting, fragmenting, and puncturing images as well as reassembling those culled from ready-made materials or giving a subject multiple exposures. The resulting photographs, photocollages, photomontages, and other creations question the validity of seamless pictorial images, and attempt to dismantle the notion of photography as an objective medium.This publication features approximately forty-five exemplary works by artists such as Herbert Bayer, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Arata Isozaki, El Lissitzky, Carter Mull, László Moholy-Nagy, Vik Muniz, Man Ray, Okanoue Toshiko, and many others. Also included are essays that offer new ways of thinking about photography's uses and implications"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aPhotography$xPolitical aspects$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aPhotography$xSocial aspects$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aPhotography$xPhilosophy$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aPhotography, Artistic$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aPhotocollage$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aDystopias$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aUtopias$vExhibitions.
650 7 $aART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / History / Contemporary (1945-).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHOTOGRAPHY / History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aBader, Graham.
700 1 $aBader, Graham.
710 2 $aMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston.