Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage

Author:   Branden W. Joseph (Associate Professor, Columbia University)
Publisher:   Zone Books
ISBN:  

9781890951863


Pages:   480
Publication Date:   16 May 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18
Format:   Hardback
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Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage


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"Examining Tony Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections in 1960s art. Tony Conrad has significantly influenced cultural developments from minimalism to underground film, ""concept art,"" postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rock and roll. Creator of the ""structural"" film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt's radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and the first incarnation of The Velvet Underground, and early associate of Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman, Conrad has eluded canonic histories. Yet Beyond the Dream Syndicate does not claim Conrad as a major but under-recognized figure. Neither monograph nor social history, the book takes Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections in 1960s art. Such an approach simultaneously illuminates and estranges current understandings of the period, redrawing the map across medium and stylistic boundaries to reveal a constitutive hybridization at the base of the decade's artistic development. This exploration of Conrad and his milieu goes beyond the presentation of a relatively overlooked oeuvre to chart multiple, contestatory regimes of power simultaneously in play during the pivotal moment of the 1960s. From the sovereign authority invoked by Young's music, to the ""paranoiac"" politics of Flynt, to the immanent control modeled by Conrad's films, each avant-garde project examined reveals an investment within a particular structure of power and resistance, providing a glimpse into the diversity of the artistic and political stakes that continue to define our time."

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Author:   Branden W. Joseph (Associate Professor, Columbia University)
Publisher:   Zone Books
Imprint:   Zone Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9781890951863


ISBN 10:   1890951862
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   16 May 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Branden W. Joseph's new book Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage is a necessary and timely one. In sum, Joseph has succeeded in substantially altering our notion of the so-called expanded field of art and film. With its meticulous research and precise mode of argumentation, Beyond the Dream Syndicate sets an important standard for future scholars... -- Texte zur Kunst


A superb book. Daniel Birnbaum Artforum [A] meticulous and imaginative study... a vital argument for recasting in unlikely, counterintuitive or even absurd ways the cultural histories we think we know best... a compelling and exemplary history. Art Review Branden W. Joseph's new book Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage is a necessary and timely one. In sum, Joseph has succeeded in substantially altering our notion of the so-called expanded field of art and film. With its meticulous research and precise mode of argumentation, Beyond the Dream Syndicate sets an important standard for future scholars... Texte zur Kunst Branden W. Joseph s new book, Beyond the Dream Syndicate, is a major contribution to our thinking about this period... an immensely engaging -- and important -- book. Modern Painters Joseph writes powerfully... and with a brio most academic writers can only dream about... a major book The Wire


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Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and an editor of the journal Grey Room (MIT Press).

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