{"title":"Nicolas Ballet","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"shock-factory-the-visual-culture-of-industrial-music","title":"Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndustrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) and initiated a close inspection of the legacy of modernity and the growing, pervasive influence of technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally British, the movement soon outgrew Europe, extending into the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments conducted by industrial bands – designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes, either recycled or laid down by the artists – were backed up by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. Such saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, manipulated through the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003edétournement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of reprographic techniques (Xerox art), that investigated polemical themes: mind control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book introduces the visual and aesthetic elements of 1970s and 1980s industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement, who perceptively anticipated the current discourse concerning the media and their collective coercive power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53700984996171,"sku":"R7348-0592","price":54.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/81ly1FFZg5L._SY522.jpg?v=1761149482"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/nicolas-ballet.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}