What is the place of materiality - the expression or condition of a physical substance - in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in technology? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, se[...]
In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, B[...]
Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, Giuliana Bruno enriches our understanding of early Italian film as she guides us on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of this century. This innovative approach - the interweaving of examples of[...]
"Riot" is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Julien's trail-blazing career has moved across film and art, documentary, biography, narrative film and multi-screen installation[...]
This is an astonishing psychogeography of cultural life, mapping connections between film, architecture, and the body. Traversing a varied and enchanting landscape with forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography and film, Giuliana Bruno's "Atlas of Emotion" is an awa[...]
This retrospective monograph documents the career of director Chantal Akerman (born 1950), who made her breakthrough in 1975 with "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles," a film about the everyday activities of a housewife. Her work since then has continued to investigate ideas of biog[...]