Everything Is Connected
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Art and Conspiracy
Douglas Eklund and Ian Alteveer; With contributions by Meredith Anne Brown, John Miller, Kathryn Olmsted, and Beth Saunders, and a preface by Jonathan Lethem
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A timely exploration of artists whose work addresses the subject of conspiracy and media manipulation in modern culture
Shaped by events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11, conspiracy theories have flourished and influenced our collective worldview. This provocative book examines how artists from the 1960s to the present explore both the covert operations of power and the mutual suspicion between governments and their citizens. Featured are works by 30 contemporary artists—including Sarah Charlesworth, Hans Haacke, Rachel Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Mark Lombardi, Cady Noland, Trevor Paglen, Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shaw, and Sue Williams—in media ranging from painting, drawing, and photography to video and installation art.
Whether they uncover webs of deceit hidden in the public record or dive headlong into the paranoid fever dreams of the disaffected, artists examine the rhetorical strategies of conspiracy researchers and endeavor to expose evil in high places. Everything Is Connected elucidates the many ways in which artists use their work to take a powerful and proactive stance against the political corruption, consumerism, bureaucracy, and media manipulation that are hallmarks of contemporary life.
Shaped by events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11, conspiracy theories have flourished and influenced our collective worldview. This provocative book examines how artists from the 1960s to the present explore both the covert operations of power and the mutual suspicion between governments and their citizens. Featured are works by 30 contemporary artists—including Sarah Charlesworth, Hans Haacke, Rachel Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Mark Lombardi, Cady Noland, Trevor Paglen, Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shaw, and Sue Williams—in media ranging from painting, drawing, and photography to video and installation art.
Whether they uncover webs of deceit hidden in the public record or dive headlong into the paranoid fever dreams of the disaffected, artists examine the rhetorical strategies of conspiracy researchers and endeavor to expose evil in high places. Everything Is Connected elucidates the many ways in which artists use their work to take a powerful and proactive stance against the political corruption, consumerism, bureaucracy, and media manipulation that are hallmarks of contemporary life.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Met Breuer, New York
(09/17/18–01/06/19)
Douglas Eklund is curator in the Department of Photographs and Ian Alteveer is curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, both in The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Jonathan Lethem is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer; he teaches in the English Department of Pomona College, Claremont, California.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The Met Breuer, New York
(09/17/18–01/06/19)
“The catalog has several fine essays, including one by Mr. Miller that outlines the persistence of conspiratorial thinking in American history, with the Masons in the 19th century and many groups after identified as malevolent powers that secretly rule our lives.”—Richard B. Woodward, Wall Street Journal
ISBN: 9781588396594
Publication Date: October 16, 2018
Publishing Partner: Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Publication Date: October 16, 2018
Publishing Partner: Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
196 pages, 9 x 10 1/2
222 color illus.
222 color illus.
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