{"product_id":"rock-my-religion-writings-and-projects-1965-1990-9780262571067","title":"Rock My Religion: Writings and Projects 1965-1990","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRock My Religion\u003c\/i\u003e collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had an enormous influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. \u003ci\u003eRock My Religion\u003c\/i\u003e collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternating with these theoretical essays are descriptions and documentations of Graham's own works and installations--projects that trace his explorations in conceptual art, video, photography, architecture, and public sculpture, showing the integral connections between Graham's criticism and his own artwork. Although as an artist Graham has been associated with minimalism, conceptual art, and postmodernism, his writing does not conform to the stylistic and theoretical constraints of any specific movement. With sources and topics ranging from Ronald Reagan to the Sex Pistols, from Michel Foucault to Dean Martin, Graham's eclectic investigations into the complex cultural relationships between art production and social reality are always strikingly original. What makes these writings particularly astonishing, though, is Graham's willingness to examine specific manifestations of popular culture (television, magazines, rock and roll, drugs) without regard to traditional qualitative judgments and without separating \"high\" or \"low\" culture from the processes of everyday life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262571067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.53h x 7.40w x 0.83d","brand":"Dan Graham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43838729158837,"sku":"9780262571067","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3f2ca2cc-36e5-4a5c-bae5-a6fe4c24239b.jpg?v=1712028934","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rock-my-religion-writings-and-projects-1965-1990-9780262571067","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}