Art Metropole

#14711

Distributed

Date

2018

Publisher

Open Editions

Format

Anthologies

ISBN

9780949004093

Size

16 × 22 cm

Length

264 pp

Genre

Criticism

This new volume in the Occasional Table series of critical anthologies focusses on the act of distribution as a subject for serious creative consideration and one of great social and economic importance. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds paint a picture that embraces the actions of the individual along-side the workings of global markets. From the attention-seeking impulse of the poseur to the democratisation of art and knowledge through books, digital networks, pop music, and self-organised libraries, and to the question of what can be known and by whom, the urge to disseminate is explored here as an elemental phenomenon of our time.