Bøger af John Seed

The first book to survey the works of 38 contemporary painters who are "disrupting" figurative painting with technology- and memory-inspired alterations.

A curated softcover book containing hi-resolution images of the works of 22 visual artists, all of whom incorporate words into their art.The artists are: Sandow Birk, Amber Lia-Kloppel, Carol Diehl, F.Scott Hess, Robert Jackson, Jamie Adams, Franck de las Mercedes, Glen Hayward, Mark Lloyd, Kelly Detweiler, Leslie Nichols, Morley, Randall Rosenthal, Shirin Moosavi, Rodger Schultz, Steven Wolkoff, Kim Rae Taylor, Alicia Rothmans, Wini Brewer. Krista Franklin, Christopher Kane Taylor and Mark Dutcher. Further information from www.poetsandartists.com.

"If the great European artists of the past were alive today, what kinds of statements would they need to write to explain and justify their work?" In his newly released book, Artist's Statements of the Old Masters, HuffingtonPost Arts blogger John Seed answers this question for 24 great European works of art, satirizing the language of Postmodern art writing in the process. In Seed's hilarious sendup, Old Master artists make pretentious comments that sound a lot like those made by today's postmodern academics and MFA candidates. For example, the 18th century painter Fragonard talks about "investigating the callipygian forms of a complex homosocial nexus in an anti-Lacanian context." The Northern Renaissance master Hieronymous Bosch "investigates a lexicon of parafictional erotic proclivities." Early Reviews: McArthur Prize winning critic Dave Hickey says: "No young art-historian should be without this book. It fills a gaping hole in Old Master Studies." Art Dealer and critic Mat Gleason comments: "A great takedown and easily the best art world satire in a decade." The book contains 24 color images and statements for the following European Masters: Leonardo da Vinci Jan Van Eyck Jean Baptiste Greuze Diego Velázquez Hieronymus Bosch Jean-Honore Fragonard Titian Peter Paul Rubens Frans Hals Raphael Jean-Baptiste Greuze Rachel Ruysch Juan Sánchez Cotán Pieter Aertsen Pieter Claesz Michelangelo Buonarroti Jean-Antoine Watteau Van Dyck Jusepe de Ribera Jacques Louis David Joachim Patinir Jacob Van Ruisdael Rembrandt Van Rijn

Reveals the contemporary art phenomenon of disrupted realism through the paintings of 43 artists at its core

'Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819¿ is a poem sequence constructed from historical witness statements of those two days in Manchester. This edition has illustrations from contemporary newspapers as well as an afterword by John Seed. 'There is surely no more radical decentring of the subject/author in modernist writing,' John Seed remarks of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, in the 'Afterword' to this book. The first part of 'Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819¿, written in 1973 but previously unpublished, applies Reznikoff's method to historical materials on the so-called 'Peterloo Massacre'. The second part reflects on this method, noting convergences to some recent discussions in the United States around 'uncreative writing' and 'conceptual writing'.

The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century.Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadow of 'the Great Rebellion' of the 1640s stretched across the division between Church and Dissent.The author is not simply concerned with history as a representation of the past, but history also as part of the bitterly divided collective memory of the present. Focusing on the relationship between the history that historians wrote, and the history that men and women experienced, John Seed provides the reader with new perspectives on eighteenth-century England.

Offers an account of Marx's thought, his works and theories, providing an useful guide to the important ideas of this thinker. This book introduces the key Marxist concepts and themes and examines the ways in which they have influenced philosophical and political thought.

This book of readings, meditations, rituals and workshop notes prepared on three continents provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environment. As relevant today as when it was originally published in 1988, this classic of the sustainability movement helps us experience our place in the web of life - rather than at the apex of some human-centered pyramid. An important deep ecology educational tool for activist, school and religious groups, it can also be used for personal reflection.

Smoke Rising is a documentary poem. Very much in the tradition of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, it utilises oral sources to capture the speech - and perhaps the experience - of those who suffered the London Blitz.

This slim collection gathers together John Seed's poems written since the publication of his New and Collected.

The second volume of John Seed's exploration of Mayhew recasts the voices from the original text in a Reznikoffian manner and frees them from the confines of the narrative to let us hear the voices in a new context.

"Pictures from Mayhew" takes the voices reported by Henry Mayhew in the mid-19th century and splices them together into poems, allowing the voices space and a chance to communicate again to another age. Every word in the book is drawn from Mayhew's transcriptions.