By Brian Holmes
Zagreb: WHW; Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 2009
Pages:414
Dimensions: 6.375 in x 7.875 in
Cover: hard cover
Binding: perfect bound
Process: offset
Color:full color cover, two-color throughout
Edition size: unknown
ISBN: 978-90-70149-98-7

IMPORTANT NOTE: Our remaining copies of this book have slightly bumped corners or spines from shipping, or from the press cutting the thick covers. We've reduced the price accordingly. Of course the contents are perfect otherwise, and the dings are pretty small, but we want you to know before you order.

This book is absolutely beautiful, a real pleasure to hold in your hands and read through. It was designed by one of our favorite designers Dejan Kršić, whose work with WHW (Zagreb-based curatorial collective), is well known and loved by many.

This publication contains a selection of texts and essays by the writer Brian Holmes that engage with the possibilities and problematics of geopolitics and geopoetics. Holmes is a crucial contemporary writer and thinker whose insight into current social and political developments and how they relate to artistic processes opens up a new field of “geocritique”.

The examples he cites extend across Latin America, Europe and Asia, where he looks at networks, artworks, films, institutions and protest movements for signs of how future progressive strategies might be shaped. The texts here are connected in part with the long-term collaborative research project Continental Drift.

Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society was published by the Van Abbemuseum in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, as the second publication in the Van Abbemuseum Public Research Series. This series is dedicated to putting new knowledge about the political possibilities of art and its institutions into the public domain.

We had to raise the price a bit on our latest import of this book in order to cover shipping costs but we fully believe that you will feel the price is justified when you see how exceptional this book is. Half Letter Press is the only distributor of this title in North America right now. We have plenty of copies so tell your friends, students, activists and teachers!