Nato Thompson: 2 books
Seeing Power
Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power?
A fog of images andinformation permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the glut produced by the new economy and the rise of social media . . . where even our friends suddenly seem to...
Culture as Weapon
The Art of Influence in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
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...