{"product_id":"collective-sisyphus","title":"Collective Sisyphus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Allan Sekula is one of the most important figures in modern photography of the second half of the twentieth century. His work focuses on a critique of the links that photography has always maintained with the economy, work and the politics of representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his beginnings in the 1970s, Sekula became a reference by incorporating textuality into photography in a way that had been previously denied it by modern art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis book \u003cem\u003e‘Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973–1983 (1984)\u003c\/em\u003e’, a key work of the new photographic discourse of the late twentieth century, enshrined him as one of the least orthodox historians of the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eCollective Sisyphus: The Case of Allan Sekula’s Ship of Fools \/ The Dockers’ Museum (2010−2013)\u003c\/em\u003e’ is a major and long-term research project jointly pursued by M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) and the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art, and Visual Culture (2014-2019). It has received generous funding by the Research Council of the University of Leuven and by the Research Foundation-Flanders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnglish and Spanish text.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Koenig Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357456638292,"sku":"A8B-27438","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/after8_20200205_142949.jpg?v=1790812060","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/collective-sisyphus","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}