DEMOS T. J.

(P/B) THE MIGRANT IMAGE
In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ways their works connect viewers to the lived experiences of political and economic crisis. Demos investigates the cinematic approaches Steve McQuee...
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THE EXILES OF MARCEL DUCHAMP
Marcel Duchamp was a famous expatriate, a wanderer, living and working in Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires and escaping from them in turn. But exile, argues T. J. Demos in this innovative reading, is more than a fact in Duchamp's biography. Exile -in the artist's own words, a "spirit of expatriation"- infuses Duchamp's entire artistic practice. Indeed a profound sense of dislocation - from geographical situation, national identity, and cultural conventions - deeply informs the mobile objects and disjunctive spaces of Duchamp's ready-mades...
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