{"title":"Steve Edwards","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteve Edwards offers insightful explorations into the intersection of environment, culture, and creativity. His work, such as \u003cem\u003eAmphibious Realities\u003c\/em\u003e, delves into how natural and artistic worlds intertwine, inviting readers to reconsider their relationship with both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the fields of \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, Edwards' writing blends thoughtful analysis with vivid narrative, appealing to those interested in the deeper currents behind contemporary art and ecological awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"amphibious-realities-by-gail-day-9781804295045","title":"Amphibious Realities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis acute and overarching analysis of Allan Sekula’s documentary poetics illuminates his critique of neoliberal capitalism through photography, film and prose. The authors trace surprising paths through his practice, emphasising not merely the depicted topics but also his dialectics of form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePosing new questions about the relations between aesthetics and politics, they consider Sekula’s examination of image modes alongside his radical investigations of terraqueous capitalism. Day and Edwards show how Sekula’s purview ‘from below’ allies motley proletarians with ‘colour as comrade’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis project of radical documentary entwines allegorical reading with uneven and combined development. Horizontal montage is addressed through both Marxism’s value-form and post-Freudian ‘anal vision’. Serious subjects slide into a sense of the absurd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnexpectedly, the authors demonstrate how Sekula advances critical realism and ‘critical \u003ci\u003eir\u003c\/i\u003erealism’. Approaching Sekula’s art afresh, they offer detailed interpretations of, among other works, \u003ci\u003eAerospace Folktales\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eFish Story\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Tear Gas\u003c\/i\u003e (1999-2000), and \u003ci\u003eThe Lottery of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383538761964,"sku":"9781804295045","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10964753482830.jpg?v=1773374565"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/steve-edwards.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}