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020 _a9781388827793
040 _aUK-LoR,
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082 _a686.224 BUS
100 1 _aBush, Lewis
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245 _aWar primer 3 :
_b a work primer /
_c Lewis Bush
264 _a[Place of publication not identified] : www.lewisbush.com 2015
300 _aVarious pagings : chiefly colour illustrations ; 27 cm.
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
_2 rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2 rdacarrier
500 _aWar primer 3 is a reworking of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin?s War primer 2 itself a reworking of Bertolt Brecht?s Kriegsfibel. In this remarkable critique of the relationship between war and photography, Brecht sought to extract the hidden meanings behind images of conflict with short poems inspired by the funereal epigrams of the ancient world. Broomberg and Chanarin in turn updated Brecht?s book by introducing images from the so-called War on Terror, each intended to resonate with Brecht?s original text. While in some respects brilliant, in other ways Broomberg and Chanarin?s follow up was deeply problematic, particularly the book?s existence as an expensive, editioned art object, and the use of unpaid, uncredited intern labour in its production. In the spirit of Brecht?s playful invocation not to ?start with the good old things but the bad new ones? I have reworked Broomberg and Chanarin?s book into a new work primer, a meditation on inequality, labour and capital. By restructuring the book around the text of Brecht?s poem A Worker Reads History, and adding new images and text a third incarnation of the book came into being, one designed as a tribute to the anonymous many who keep the engines of the world turning - from www.lewisbush.com.
650 _aWar in art
650 _aArtists' books
650 _aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009 ? In art.
650 _aBroomberg, Adam. ? War primer 2.
650 _aChanarin, Oliver. ? War primer 2
650 _aBrecht, Bertolt 1898-1956. ? Kriegsfibel. English.
650 _aBrecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 ? Influence.
650 _aSpecimen
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