Disobedient Objects - Catherine Flood & Gavin Grindon

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Résumé :
A book about out-designing authority, exploring the material culture of radical change and protest from banners and posters to the more technologically cutting-edge.

Biographie:
Catherine Flood is a Prints Curator in the Word and Image Department at the V&A. and author of British Posters: Advertising, Art & Activism (V&A, 2012). She has curated exhibitions and displays at the V&A on subjects including propaganda, Victorian sentimentality, and satire in fashion. In 2009, she coordinated Designing Democracy, a research project on posters produced during the collapse of communism in Europe. Gavin Grindon is Visiting Research Fellow at the V&A and Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual and Material Culture at Kingston University. He has published in the Oxford Art Journal, Third Text, Art History and Radical Philosophy; co-authored A User's Guide to Demanding the Impossible (2011); and is currently preparing a monograph on art and activism.

Sommaire:
Introduction - Catherine Flood & Gavin Grindon - 26 Barricades as Material and Social Constructions - Mark Traugott - 34 The Disobedient Objects of Protest Camps - Anna Feigenbaum - 44 Making Worlds 52 From Tute Bianche to the Book Bloc - Francesco Raparelli - 60 Direct Action 68 On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets - David Graeber - 78 Unpopular Pamphlets - Nicholas Thoburn - 86 Speaking Out 100 Disobedient Bodies: Art Activisms in Argentina - Ana Longoni - 110 Solidarity 118 A Multitude of Struggles 130 Roundtable 137 Further Reading 138 Endnotes 142 Index 144 Picture Credits 144 Acknowledgements