{"title":"Nicolas Ballet","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicolas Ballet’s work explores the vibrant intersections of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, offering insightful perspectives on contemporary creativity. His writing delves into the provocative and the innovative, inviting readers to reconsider the boundaries of artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles like \u003cem\u003eShock Factory\u003c\/em\u003e, Ballet combines critical analysis with vivid storytelling, making his books essential for anyone interested in the evolving landscape of modern art and cultural phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"shock-factory-by-nicolas-ballet-9781835950784","title":"Shock Factory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn exploration of the multidisciplinary creative culture encapsulated by the term industrial art, which spans musical, visual, multimedia, and performance arts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIndustrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, and video), and initiated a close inspection of the legacy of modernity and the growing pervasive influence of technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the twentieth century, the sound experiments conducted by industrial bands, including designing synthesizers and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes either recycled or laid down by the artists, were backed up by a rich array of radical visual productions. Such saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, manipulated through the \u003cem\u003edétournement\u003c\/em\u003e of reprographic techniques (Xerox art), that investigated polemical themes: mind control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry, and totalitarianism, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShock Factory\u003c\/em\u003e aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the movement and the artists who perceptively anticipated the current discourse concerning the media and its collective coercive power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47420747219180,"sku":"9781835950784","price":123.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81ly1FFZg5L._SL1500.jpg?v=1774394431"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/nicolas-ballet.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}