The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of
photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in
Russia and in Mexico; the avant-gardes in film and in
painting-these are among the many topics of Peter Wollen's essays.
Interwoven with fictional treatments of such themes as memory,
dream, sexuality and writing, they compose a remarkable, perhaps
unique, volume. These "readings and writings" are informed by
Marxism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the history of art itself.
Their concern is with signification: with the ways in which
meanings are produced in dominant art forms and with the
counter-strategies by which these meanings may be questioned or
dislodged, in the practice of politically and aesthetically radical
alternatives. A concluding retrospect reviews the political,
intellectual and aesthetic avant-garde currents of the fifteen
years over which these texts were written, outlining some
perspectives for oppositional art today.
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