Actional Poetics – ASH SHE HE Mathieu Deflem

Actional Poetics – ASH SHE HE Mathieu DeflemAuthoritative study of the Scottish born artist Alastair MacLennan who has achieved worldwide renown as a performance artist. Includes comprehensive visual documentation of his performative practice drawn extensively from his archival resources, with essays from leading national and international scholars in the field. 350 colour illustrations. New Books Network (New Books in Art) interview with Sandra Johnston, Brian Patterson and Alastair MacLennan

Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art

they serve the few

but by entangling viewers in different sensory

they were ahead of

from the mid-nineteenth century to the present

and the mismatch between intention

Bodily exposure to light

into post-punk

The book shows how political marketing - the design of government by focus groups and polls - spearheaded by Blair in the UK and Clinton in the US has spread round the world to countries as diverse as Brazil as well as New Zealand and Germany

begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love

Russian and Spanish

and sustainable futures