Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer

Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley, Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781350022461
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350022447
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art & Politics

Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer brings together a collection of text-based and visual essays, commissioned artworks and graphics. This richly illustrated book responds to the concept, aesthetics and function of the political pamphlet. It is diverse in content, interpreting the 'pamphlet' in the broadest terms, and encompassing a number of case studies that offer historical or specific examples of contemporary pamphleteering practice that can be seen to perform 'a clear political implication' or protest. Besides exploring the radical history and diverse cultures of the pamphlet, it also celebrates the rich visual rhetoric, typography and contemporary relevance of the format for both artists and activists. Contributions include an historical overview and essays by: Andy Abbott, Angeliki Avgitidu, Aziz Choudry and Désirée Rochat, David Murrieta Flores, Michelle Kempson, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Rachel Schreiber, Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley; visual contributions by Gary Anderson and Steven Shakespeare, Ruth Beale, Ami Clarke, Common Culture, Jeremy Deller, Freee, Patrick Goddard, Gavin Grindon, Ferenc Grof, Marc Herbst, Joanne Lee, Josh MacPhee, Manual Labours, Mark McGowan, Minute Works, Chris Morton, radicalreThink, Hester Reeve, Oliver Ressler, Greg Sholette & Christopher Darling, Laura Wild, Andrew Wilson.
As the book was conceived as predominantly visual from the outset, the book concept has been a collaboration with The Little Riot Press (Phil Eastwood and Chris Dunne). Overall, an aesthetic of protest and propaganda was considered integral to the design to reiterate the generally handmade, analogue techniques found in political pamphlets. The Little Riot Press have thus approached the illustration and overall visual cohesion from the perspective of the radical artist pamphleteer. www.thelittleriotpress.com

Table of contents

• Cover page
• Halftitle page
• Copyright page
• Title page
• CONTENTS
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• TEXT
• Introduction
• ONE The allure of pamphilos: the radical art of pamphleteering
• TWO Power in the hands of the elite #01 The Little Riot Press
• THREE Essaying the pamphlet Joanne Lee
• FOUR The pamphlet is personal: becoming pamphleteers in the neo-liberalizedHE sector
• FIVE Pamphlets as poetic fragments
• SIX Un-Publish
• SEVEN JOY in PEOPLE
• EIGHT MANIFESTO for ART
• NINE YESTERDAY’S FUTURE
• TEN HOW TO Gavin Grindon
• ELEVEN Who is not Against Us is With Us, Currency Alphabet Series
• TWELVE MOON Cycle
• THIRTEEN The rise of the reproducible political graphic
• FOURTEEN Manual Labours Manuals
• FIFTEEN Who made you God?
• SIXTEEN RiotID GUIDE from DISMALAND
• SEVENTEEN I SPY CULTURAL HEGEMONY
• EIGHTEEN 4th Meeting of the Emily Davison Lodge
• NINETEEN Leaflets fromthe Project ‘Fly Democracy’
• TWENTY Double City (Chapter One)
• TWENTY ONE A NEW ART OF ROAMING?
• TWENTY TWO Let’s forget everything and get drunk
• TWENTY THREE TIPS TIPS for ARTISTS
• TWENTY FOUR Power in the hands of the elite #02 The Little Riot Press
• TWENTY FIVE From DIY to UBI: the political horizons of a Gig Guide Pamphlet: 1999-2017 and beyond.
• TWENTY SIX The politics of form: zines and the aesthetics of grassroots knowledge production
• TWENTY SEVEN ‘Breed!’: the graphic satire of the Birth Control Review
• TWENTY EIGHT You Must Destroy The Student Within You: three programmes by the Situationist International, King Mob, and the International Werewolf Conspiracy (1966-1968)
• TWENTY NINE From Other City to Same City: manifestos for the everyday
• THIRTY Reading lineages of migration and resistance through Montreal’s community archives
• THIRTY ONE The pamphleteer in the age of the Dark Enlightenment: online manifestos of theAlt-Right
• THIRTY TWO radical reThink(ing) HE a polyphonic manifesto for six voices – not a rant but a chorale
• THIRTY THREE Pursuing the digital pamphleteer
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY