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Facing Black Star

Edited by Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie

ISBN: 9780262047845

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 13, 2023

The Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency's print collection.

Dissonant Waves

Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century

by Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie

ISBN: 9781913380564

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: May 16, 2023

An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.

Making Art Work

How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

by W. Patrick McCray

ISBN: 9780262044257

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 20, 2020

The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.

Deserting from the Culture Wars

Edited by Maria Hlavajova and Sven Lütticken

ISBN: 9780262539432

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 6, 2020

Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.

Think Tank Aesthetics

Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present

by Pamela M. Lee

ISBN: 9780262043526

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 17, 2020

How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.