Culture as Weapon(Reprint) The Art of Influence in Everyday Life द्वारा NatoThompson Paperback, 288 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2018 द्वारा Melville House ISBN-13: 978-1-61219-680-0, ISBN: 1-61219-680-2
"One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are more sophisticated than ever, the onslau ..."
Making Another World Possible(1st Edition) 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects द्वारा Corina L. Apostol, NatoThompson Paperback, 434 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-60354-7, ISBN: 1-138-60354-6
" Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban planning, pedagogy, and ecology. Part I of the book introduces the reader to the field of socially engaged art and cultural practice, spanning the past ten years of dynamism and developm ..."
"As electrifying and colorful as the "Soundsuits" it features, this survey of the renowned artist Nick Cave also features his latest performance work, public installations, and sculptural assemblages. Anyone who's ever encountered one of Nick Cave's Soundsuits--whether in a gallery or on the street--can't help but be fascinated with these brightly hued, provocative constructions that function as both costume and sculpture. The most compr ..."
"Art made to attach to buildings or to be given away? Wearable art for street demonstrations or art that sets up a booth at a trade show? This is the art of the interventionists, who trespass into the everyday world to raise our awareness of injustice and other social problems. These artists don't preach or proselytize; they give us the tools to form our own opinions and ..."
Making Another World Possible 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects (Hardback) द्वारा Corina L. Apostol, NatoThompson Hardcover, 414 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Taylor & Francis Ltd, London ISBN-13: 978-1-138-60353-0, ISBN: 1-138-60353-8
"This is a much needed and timely archive that broadens and deepens the conversation on socially engaged art and culture."
Mark Tribe The Port Huron Project: Reenactments Of New Left Protest Speeches द्वारा Mark Tribe, NatoThompson, Rebecca Schneider Paperback, 72 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2010 द्वारा Charta ISBN-13: 978-88-8158-762-9, ISBN: 88-8158-762-9
"The Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of Vietnam-era protest speeches staged between 2006 and 2008 by artist Mark Tribe. The original speeches were given by Angela Davis in Oakland, Cesar Chavez in Los Angeles, Stokely Carmichael in New York, Paul Potter in Washington, D.C., Howard Zinn in Boston and Coretta Scott King in New York. Each event took place at the site of the original speech, and was delivered by an actor or pe ..."
"A paperback, color book featuring Mass. MoCA's "Ahistoric Occasion" exhibition. Features historically-reimagined art by Felix Gmelin, Greta Pratt, Paul Chan, Yunka Shonibare, Allison Smith, Nebojsa Seric-Shoba, Trevor Paglen, Jeremy Deller, Peggy Diggs and others."
Living as Form(Reprint) Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 (MIT Press) द्वारा NatoThompson Paperback, 264 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2017 द्वारा The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53439-0, ISBN: 0-262-53439-8
"A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to ..."
"This cultural reader, edited by Creative Time curator Nato Thompson, gathers more than 100 artists, thinkers and activists to reflect on the historical roots and current manifestations of democracy in the United States. Taking as a springboard the exhibition Democracy in America: The National Campaign, presented by Creative Time in association with the Park Avenue Armory in September of 2008, this compendium includes writing and artwork ..."
"art. and. politics. Hanka Otte and Pascal Gielen A community art policy could be
the perfect legitimization for public support of the arts, especially in times of
austerity. After all, due to the direct involvement of citizens in the design,
production, ..."
"reForm documents the creative process of artist Pep n Osorio as he translates the closure of Fairhill Elementary School, Philadelphia into a moving installation that honours the history of this school through collaborations with the many ..."
Culture as Weapon The Art of Influence in Everyday Life द्वारा NatoThompson 288 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2017 द्वारा Melville House ISBN-13: 978-1-61219-574-2, ISBN: 1-61219-574-1
"In Culture as Weapon, acclaimed curator and critic Nato Thompson reveals how institutions use art and culture to ensure profits and constrain dissent--and shows us that there are alternatives."
Seeing Power Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production द्वारा NatoThompson 176 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2015 द्वारा Melville House ISBN-13: 978-1-61219-045-7, ISBN: 1-61219-045-6
"In Kester's book Conversation Pieces he discusses the Austrian art collective
WochenKlausur. WochenKlausur defines their work in the following manner:
Since 1993 and on invitation from different art institutions, the artist group
WochenKlausur develops concrete proposals aimed at small, but nevertheless
effective improvements to socio-political deficiencies. Proceeding even further
and invariably translating these proposals into ac ..."
Marshsong द्वारा NatoThompson प्रकाशित 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1-62462-112-3, ISBN: 1-62462-112-0
"YIN. XIUZHEN. PORTABLE CITY: SINGAPORE I went to Singapore twice in 2000
. At the time I felt dizzy and vomited, but I thought it was due to the fatigue. Only
when I came back to China did I know that I was pregnant. My image of
Singapore is that it is always humid, clean, and small, and it also suggests “order”
and “man-made.” The most typical example of the man-made is the Merlion, a
fabricated animal with the body of a fish and t ..."
Mike Nelson A Psychic Vacuum द्वारा Peter Eleey, NatoThompson, Mike Nelson Hardcover, 196 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2010 द्वारा Creative Time Books ISBN-13: 978-1-928570-11-0, ISBN: 1-928570-11-9
"In 2007, artist Mike Nelson transformed the disused interior of the Essex Street Market on New York's Lower East Side, taking audiences on a journey through his installation "A Psychic Vacuum," a series of reconstructed rooms and passageways filled with enigmatic props, clues and assemblies. Over the next two years, the artist meticulously recreated that journey in this superbly designed and fully illustrated artist's book."
"A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. An artificial reef fabricated from 500 tons of industrial waste. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in "Experimental Geography," a groundbreakingcollection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years. "Exp ..."
"This book documents the exhibition On Procession, on view from May 2 through August 10, 2008, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and an associated parade held in downtown Indianapolis on April 26, 2008. The exhibition and parade, made up of more than 50 art projects, included artworks by Francis Alys, Jeremy Deller, Katie Grinnan, Paul McCarthy, and Dave McKenzie; newly commissioned works by FriendsWithYou, Fritz Haeg, Amy O'Neill and A ..."
"In November of 2007, Paul Chan and New York arts organization Creative Time presented Samuel Bekett's Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, together with Christopher McElroen, Director and Producer of The Classical Theatre of Harlem. This three-part reader presents a critical response to New Orleans' post-Katrina devastation by exploring the personal and political conditions facing its citizens through Beckett's emblematic story about waiti ..."
"As part of the 2009 Creative Time-presented project It Is What It Is, British artist Jeremy Deller (born 1966) encouraged the public to address the conflict in Iraq by inviting a revolving cast of participants to take up residence in New York's New Museum and discuss the war, later setting up at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to record conversations and photograph each participant in the p ..."