
Democracy
A Project by Group Material
Brian Wallis(Author)
The New Press
Published on 15. October 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-56584-499-5 (ISBN)
Description
A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, this collection of essays covers a range of topics, from "Education and Democracy" and "Politics and Election" to "Cultural Participation" and "AIDS and Democracy: A Case Study."
With contributions by: Erma Bombeck
Noam Chomsky
Alexander Cockburn
David Deitcher
Lisa Duggan
Barbara Ehrenreich
Deirdre English
Stuart Ewen
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Group Material
bell hooks
Gary Indiana
Catherine Lord
Bill Moyers
William Olander
Mark P. Petracca
Yvonne Rainer
Vito Russo
Ira Shor
Tom Stoddard
Polly Thistlethwaite
Brian Wallis
Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.
With contributions by: Erma Bombeck
Noam Chomsky
Alexander Cockburn
David Deitcher
Lisa Duggan
Barbara Ehrenreich
Deirdre English
Stuart Ewen
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Group Material
bell hooks
Gary Indiana
Catherine Lord
Bill Moyers
William Olander
Mark P. Petracca
Yvonne Rainer
Vito Russo
Ira Shor
Tom Stoddard
Polly Thistlethwaite
Brian Wallis
Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56584-499-5 (9781565844995)
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Person
Brian Wallis is chief curator and director of exhibitions at the International Center for Photography (ICP) and is on the faculty of the ICP-Bard Program. He was previously a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and a senior editor at Art in America. He is the editor of Democracy: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #5 and If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #6 by Martha Rosler, both published by The New Press.