Politics & Passions
Anna Ostoya and Chantal Mouffe
MACK
English
Softcover
224 page
125 x 195 mm
2021
ISBN 9781913620196
In 2009, the artist Anna Ostoya created a booklet with textual collages using an essay by the political theorist Chantal Mouffe, ‘Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy’ (2002). In the essay, Mouffe critiqued the then-dominant ‘beyond left and right’ politics of neoliberalism and warned of its dangers – the rise of right-wing populist parties. Fascinated by Mouffe’s strikingly prophetic ideas, as well as her bold call to fight the status quo in order to radicalise democracy and to prevent violence, Ostoya returned to the booklet in 2019. She composed for it a series of portraits based on sketches of people on the New York City subway and on reproductions of her paintings and collages from the preceding decade. She also conducted a conversation with Mouffe about the politics of the last forty years, about the contemporary moment and about art, which is included in this publication.
DISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended illustrated text.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/politics-passions-anna-ostoya-and-chantal-mouffe-1?_pos=3&_sid=d6e195660&_ss=r)
About the Authors
Anna Ostoya (b. 1978 in Krakow, Poland) is an artist and writer who lives and works in New York, New York.
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Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster.
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Mouffe)
About the Publisher
MACK is an independent art and photography publishing house based in London. Mack works with established and emerging artists, writers and curators, and cultural institutions, releasing between 20-25 books per year. The publisher was founded in 2010 in London by Michael Mack.
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