{"product_id":"beyond-the-dream-syndicate-tony-conrad-and-the-arts-after-cage-9781890951863","title":"Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage","description":"\u003cp\u003eTony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the \"structural\" film, \u003ci\u003eThe Flicker\u003c\/i\u003e, collaborator on Jack Smith's \u003ci\u003eFlaming Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNormal Love\u003c\/i\u003e, follower of Henry Flynt's radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and the first incarnation of The Velvet Underground, and early associate of Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman, Conrad has significantly impacted cultural developments from minimalism to underground film, \"concept art,\" postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rock and roll. Yet \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Dream Syndicate\u003c\/i\u003e does not claim Conrad as a major but under-recognized figure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather, by drawing on Deleuzian notions of the \"minor\" and the Foucauldian problematization of authorship found in Conrad's own artistic\/musical project, \u003ci\u003eEarly Minimalism\u003c\/i\u003e, it disperses him into an \"author function.\" Neither monograph nor social history, the book takes Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections amongst the arts of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph, Branden W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and an editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eGrey Room\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50475987370258,"sku":"9781890951863","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e9d41e96-32ec-4386-8581-52b9c01fe67d.jpg?v=1730242006","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beyond-the-dream-syndicate-tony-conrad-and-the-arts-after-cage-9781890951863","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}