LEADER 02413nam 2200361 450 001 9910580299903321 005 20230430113607.0 010 $a1-68571-059-X 035 $a(CKB)5600000000474029 035 $a(NjHacI)995600000000474029 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000474029 100 $a20230430d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBroken Narrative $eThe Politics of Contemporary Art in Albania /$fArmando Lulaj, Marco Mazzi 210 1$aGoleta, California :$cPunctum Books,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (358 pages) $cillustrations 330 $aBroken Narrative provides an extensive reflection on history, politics, and contemporary art, revolving around the cornerstones of the artistic practice of Albanian artist Armando Lulaj. The core of the book is formed by an extended interview of Lulaj by Italian artist and writer Marco Mazzi. This inquiry starts in the year 1997, a year of social and political upheaval in Albania, of anarchy, controversies and emigration, of toxic seeds of neoliberalism sprouting in an already wounded country, and continues to the present day, where politics, hidden behind art forms, has practically destroyed (again) every different and possible future of the country. This book also sketches out a connection between the recent Albanian political context and contemporary art by considering the realities of Albania as essential for an understanding of the dynamics of international power in contemporary art and architecture, and the role of politics therein. Broken Narrative comes in a bilingual English-Japanese edition, in part as homage to the subtle esthetics of Japanese poetry, which has inspired many of the Lulaj's works, while equally evoking the subversive films of the Red Army, active in Japan at the turn of the 1960s and '70s. Broken Narrative contains a double preface in English by Albanian scholar Jonida Gashi and in Japanese by photographer Osamu Kanemura. 517 $aBroken Narrative 606 $aArt$xThemes, motives 615 0$aArt$xThemes, motives. 676 $a704.9 700 $aLulaj$b Armando$01351497 702 $aMazzi$b Marco 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910580299903321 996 $aBroken Narrative$93111347 997 $aUNINA