Arrows of Desire

Selected Writings 1963-2002

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvPeter Wollen,Nicolas Helm-Grovas,Kodwo Eshun,Oliver Fuke

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This collection, the first of three new volumes, brings together unpublished and inaccessible writings on counter-cinema, anti-imperialist politics and revolutionary Mexican art. Playful, theoretically rigorous and historically precise, Peter Wollen's writing reinvented criticism as a formally experimental practice indexing the intellectual, political and artistic histories of the twentieth century.Arrows of Desire presents texts on Eisenstein and Godard alongside essays and interviews tracing developments in film and video from the 1970s to the 1990s. It tracks the political energies running through Wollen's filmmaking and writing on global politics and culture in relation to Iran, Indonesia, Palestine, Aden and Zanzibar. Wollen's rereading of the avant-garde extends into expansive projects linking Mexican muralism, Native American abstraction and US abstract expressionism. These essays and proposals demonstrate his commitment to contesting the dominant histories and geographies of modernism and modernity.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-20
Mått153 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781836741176

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Peter Wollen (1938-2019) was a cultural critic, film theorist, curator and avant-garde filmmaker. His books include Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Raiding the Icebox, Readings and Writings, and Singin' in the Rain. He co-wrote the screenplay for Antonioni's The Passenger, and subsequently made six films in collaboration with Laura Mulvey, including Riddles of the Sphinx. His final film was a solo project, Friendship's Death, starring Tilda Swinton.

The place from which we fire our arrows. - Kodwo EshunPart 1. Counter-cinema and BeyondIntroduction to Two Mayakovsky ScenariosJean-Luc Godard: Le Gai SavoirJean-Luc Godard: British SoundsJean-Luc Godard: Wind from the EastJean-Luc Godard: Counter-cinemaLandscape, Meteorology and Chris WelsbyThe Avant-Gardes: Europe and America- Reply to Sitney- Passion 1- L'Eternel Retour- Arrows of Desire- Interview on 'Arrows of Desire', ICA Biennial of Film and Video- Diagram on the History of Experimental Film- Perhaps.- Knight's MovesPart 2. Anti-ImperialismsHe That Shall ComeThe Revolution in ZanzibarAdenThe Crisis in SterlingIran Today - and Tomorrow?Guilt by AssociationDossier of the Indonesian DramaWas Christ a Collaborator?ContradictionFriendship's Death diagramsTwo Weeks on Another PlanetIntroduction to Wedding in GalileeIraqJohn WesleyPart 3. The Continent: Renarrating 'American' ArtFrida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (with Laura Mulvey)Eisenstein in MexicoIntroduction to J.G. Posada, Messenger of MortalityThe Continent - Letter to David RossThe Continent - Sketch for an ExhibitionThe Continent - Notes to a Sketch for an ExhibitionMasculinity: Siqueiros and PollockGlobal Conceptualism: North America - Exhibition NotesA Trialogue on Arrows of Desire - Kodwo Eshun, Oliver Fuke and Nicolas Helm-Grovas

This thrilling book does more than confirm Peter Wollen's place as perhaps the most incisive thinker to triangulate cinema, art and politics in the post-1968 period: by collecting lesser-known texts and astutely contextualising them, it reveals Wollen's daring interdisciplinary expansiveness. With a critical and passionate gaze, Wollen meets his changing times in essays full of historical consciousness and conviction, launching arrows that sail into the darkness of our present with a shock of illumination. If this first book is anything to go by, the next two volumes of these previously uncollected writings can't come soon enough