{"product_id":"arrows-of-desire-isbn-9781836741176","title":"Arrows of Desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new anthology of uncollected writings by Peter Wollen, cultural critic, avant-garde filmmaker and curator of paradigm-shifting exhibitions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArrows of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e indexes numerous intellectual, political, and artistic histories of the twentieth century. The book presents Wollen’s engagement with anti-imperialist politics and counter-cinema, gathering essays, lectures, and proposals that contest the dominant geographies of the avant-garde. At once playful, theoretically rigorous, and historically precise, Wollen’s writing reinvented criticism as a formally experimental practice that extends into poetry and sci-fi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together unpublished and inaccessible writings on Eisenstein and Godard with texts that champion developments in independent moving image after the 1970s. It tracks the political energies running through Wollen’s filmmaking and writing on political crises in Iran and Indonesia published under his pseudonym Lucien Rey, his introduction to Michel Khleifi’s film \u003ci\u003eWedding in Galilee\u003c\/i\u003e, and an interview concerning his visionary film \u003ci\u003eFriendship’s Death\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWollen’s extensive engagement with revolutionary Mexican art is revealed in the paradigm-shifting exhibitions he conceived and curated, culminating in \u003ci\u003eThe Continent\u003c\/i\u003e, an ambitious, unrealised project that brought together Mexican muralism, Native American abstraction, and US abstract expressionism for the first time. \u003ci\u003eArrows of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e reveals, in its breadth and detail, the restless imagination, iconoclastic approach, and lucid style of Peter Wollen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first of three books of uncollected essays by Peter Wollen, to be published consecutively.The place from which we fire our arrows… – Kodwo Eshun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. \u003cu\u003eCounter-cinema and Beyond\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Two Mayakovsky Scenarios\u003cbr\u003eJean-Luc Godard: \u003ci\u003eLe Gai Savoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean-Luc Godard: \u003ci\u003eBritish Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean-Luc Godard: \u003ci\u003eWind from the East\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean-Luc Godard: Counter-cinema\u003cbr\u003eLandscape, Meteorology and Chris Welsby\u003cbr\u003eThe Avant-Gardes: Europe and America\u003cbr\u003e- Reply to Sitney\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003ePassion 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- L’Eternel Retour\u003cbr\u003e- Arrows of Desire\u003cbr\u003e- Interview on ‘Arrows of Desire’, ICA Biennial of Film and Video\u003cbr\u003e- Diagram on the History of Experimental Film - Perhaps…\u003cbr\u003e- Knight’s Moves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. \u003cu\u003eAnti-Imperialisms\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe That Shall Come\u003cbr\u003eThe Revolution in Zanzibar\u003cbr\u003eAden\u003cbr\u003eThe Crisis in Sterling\u003cbr\u003eIran Today – and Tomorrow?\u003cbr\u003eGuilt by Association\u003cbr\u003eDossier of the Indonesian Drama\u003cbr\u003eWas Christ a Collaborator?\u003cbr\u003eContradiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriendship’s Death \u003c\/i\u003ediagrams\u003cbr\u003eTwo Weeks on Another Planet\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to \u003ci\u003eWedding in Galilee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIraq\u003cbr\u003eJohn Wesley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3. \u003cu\u003eThe Continent: Renarrating ‘American’ Art\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (with Laura Mulvey)\u003cbr\u003eEisenstein in Mexico\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to \u003ci\u003eJ.G. Posada, Messenger of Mortality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Continent – Letter to David Ross\u003cbr\u003eThe Continent – Sketch for an Exhibition\u003cbr\u003eThe Continent – Notes to a Sketch for an Exhibition\u003cbr\u003eMasculinity: Siqueiros and Pollock\u003cbr\u003eGlobal Conceptualism: North America – Exhibition Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Trialogue on Arrows of Desire – Kodwo Eshun, Oliver Fuke and Nicolas Helm-GrovasPeter Wollen (1938-2019) was a cultural critic, film theorist, curator and avant-garde filmmaker. His books include \u003ci\u003eSigns and Meaning in the Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaiding the Icebox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReadings and Writings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSingin’ in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-wrote the screenplay for Antonioni’s \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e, and subsequently made six films in collaboration with Laura Mulvey, including \u003ci\u003eRiddles of the Sphinx\u003c\/i\u003e. His final film was a solo project, \u003ci\u003eFriendship’s Death\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Tilda Swinton.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232934834405,"sku":"NP9781836741176","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781836741176.jpg?v=1773168526","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/arrows-of-desire-isbn-9781836741176","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}