Afterall: Art, Context and Enquiry

Journal: Spring/Summer 2004

Desperate Dreams

I find I have been thinking a lot recently about the early twentieth-century avant-garde. This probably has something to do with my long-standing nostalgia for the idea of standing apart from mainstream culture...

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Books: One Work

Joan Jonas: I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)

In Joan Jonas's 1967 I Want to Live in the Country... she investigates a geography of displacement and desire. Susan Morgan considers how Jonas has used performance and video since 1968 to explore ways of seeing and the authority of objects and gestures.

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