Intellect Books Catalogue 2018
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Intellect is an independent academic publisher in the arts and humanities, publishing scholarly books and journals that exemplify our mission as publishers of original thinking. We aim to provide a vital space for widening critical debate in new and emerging subjects, and in this way we differ from other publishers by campaigning for the author rather than producing a book or journal to fill a gap in the market.
We are best known for our work in the visual arts, film studies, cultural studies, communication studies, media studies, fashion and performing arts. These categories host Intellect’s ever-expanding topics of enquiry, which include photography, drawing, curation, community music, gaming and scenography. Intellect titles are often multidisciplinary, presenting scholarly work at the cross section of arts, media and creative practice.
Intellect seeks to offer an unbiased platform for quality critical debate. We are committed to representing the author’s voice authentically, without imposition of our personal ideas or opinions. We place great emphasis on serving our authors and editors, customers, and communities. As a mission-based publisher, we are committed to reinvesting in our publishing activities.
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Across the Art/Life Divide<br />
Performance, Subjectivity, and Social<br />
Practice in Contemporary Art<br />
By Martin Patrick<br />
ISBN 978-1-78320-854-8<br />
250 pp | £20, $26.50<br />
Paperback | Spring <strong>2018</strong><br />
230 x 170 mm<br />
eBook available<br />
Martin Patrick is an art critic and a<br />
senior lecturer at the Whiti o Rehua<br />
School of Art, Massey University in<br />
Wellington, New Zealand.<br />
Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists<br />
across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both<br />
public and private spheres. Examining the impact of various art<br />
movements on notions of performance, authorship and identity,<br />
Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most defining feature<br />
of contemporary art is the ongoing interest of artists in the<br />
problematic relationship between art and life. Looking at<br />
under-examined forms, such as stand-up comedy and sketch<br />
shows, alongside more traditional artistic media, he situates<br />
the work of a wide range of contemporary artists to ask:<br />
To what extent are artists presenting themselves? And does the<br />
portrayal of the ‘self’ in art necessarily constitute authenticity?<br />
By dissecting the meta-conditions and contexts surrounding<br />
the production of art, whether aesthetic or conceptual, social<br />
or political, Across the Art/Life Divide examines how ordinary,<br />
everyday life is transformed into art.<br />
‘In this inspired consideration of twentieth and twenty-first-century<br />
international avant-gardes, Martin Patrick reveals secret histories,<br />
tendencies and subtexts that defy the weary exchangeability of<br />
institutional contemporary art. Looking beyond the usual suspects,<br />
Patrick charts the charged space between art and life, and channels<br />
the artists and art works that describe the indescribable.’<br />
Chris Kraus, author of After Kathy Acker<br />
CULTURAL & MEDIA STUDIES | FILM STUDIES | PERFORMING ARTS | VISUAL ARTS<br />
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