Isaac Julien: Riot

Julien, Isaac and Cynthia Rose et al

ISBN 10: 0870708872 / ISBN 13: 9780870708879

Published by NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2013

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Hardcover with dustjacket, 248 pages; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Isaac Julien: Riot
• Publisher: NY: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870708872
• ISBN 13: 9780870708879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Film

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Synopsis

"Isaac played a pivotal role in that significant moment in the black diaspora arts, when gay sexuality, masculinity and race exploded into the same visual frame." –Stuart Hall

Riot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Julien’s trail-blazing career has moved across film and art, documentary, biography, narrative film and multi-screen installation, and has drawn on influences as disparate as silent cinema, cultural studies, Chinese myth and pirate radio culture. Riot is the first career-long overview on Julien, situating his work in the context of his personal and intellectual development: the friendships, mentors, night clubs, films, politics, records and the artworks that informed his practice. The backdrop to Julien’s own story is a collage of some of the most important political and cultural events of the past 30 years: Thatcherism and the rise of neo-liberalism, the AIDS epidemic, punk rock, social riots, the globalization of the art market and the movement of filmmakers into the gallery.