Title: The Black Album: Writings on Art and Culture
Author: Rubenstein, Bradley
Publisher: Meridian Art Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
Product Weight: 0.68 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9781732221932

The Black Album: Writings on Art and Culture is a collection of writing by painter and writer Bradley Rubenstein. There was once a time when art, technology, science, and poetry collided with politics. Zola and C zanne. F n on and Seurat. Balzac and Rodin. Jean Arp and Hans Arp. Anarchy and beauty combined. In our current moment it seems that we might be well served to remember this past; when art and culture are driven underground, new ideas emerge. Taking Joan Didion's collection of criticism, The White Album, as a point of reference, Bradley Rubenstein creates a new vocabulary for critiquing an age where art has wed technology, fiction has become reality, and images, like words, are not always meant to be trusted. Like Robert Smithson, Rubenstein eschews a personal writing style, instead using screenplays, poetry, science fiction, satire, and other genres styles to create a continuously changing narrative.

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