| Isaac Julien: Riot Contributor(s): Julien, Isaac, Bruno, Giuliana (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), Gilroy, Paul (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 0870708872 ISBN-13: 9780870708879 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Film & Video |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2013948967 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 9.7" W x 12.3" (4.10 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Riot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Julien's trail-blazing career has moved across film and art, documentary, biography, narrative film and multi-screen installation, and has drawn on influences as disparate as silent cinema, cultural studies, Chinese myth and pirate radio culture. Riot is the first career-long overview on Julien, situating his work in the context of his personal and intellectual development: the friendships, mentors, night clubs, films, politics, records and the artworks that informed his practice. The backdrop to Julien's own story is a collage of some of the most important political and cultural events of the past 30 years: Thatcherism and the rise of neo-liberalism, the AIDS epidemic, punk rock, social riots, the globalization of the art market and the movement of filmmakers into the gallery. |