{"title":"Donal Mcgraith","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"angel-day-turning-book-donal-mcgraith-9781895166170","title":"Angel Day Turning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAngel Day Turning\u003c\/em\u003e is a provocative work of art on the iconography and meaning of angels. A collaboration between philosopher Donal McGraith and artist Greg Thompson, \u003cem\u003eAngel Day Turning\u003c\/em\u003e uses text and imagery to explore many of the ideas that underlie these fictional characters and how they are manifested in philosophy, technology, the arts, religion, and popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51269615714577,"sku":"NIN9781895166170","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1895166179.jpg?v=1750931409"},{"product_id":"leaving-no-mark-book-donal-mcgraith-9781895166408","title":"Leaving No Mark","description":"Art is fakery, a lie, begins Leaving No Mark: Prolegomena to an Evanescent Art. In this striking essay, one by one, Donal McGraith dismantles our fundamental assumptions about Western art; especially that it consists of static works of originality and rare genius. Such views of art, as a specialized activity, are the basis for its academic study and the foundation of the multi-billion dollar art market. In particular in discussing, copies, fakes and reproductions he destroys the foundation for aesthetic uniqueness. This fallacy has given rise to a cult of personality and a prison house of style, whose only purpose to inflate the art market. The so-called original operates in a similar mystifying way to the religious relic, the value lies less in aesthetic quality but only in the notion, more often untrue as fakes abound, that the 'genius' has touched the object. McGraith seeks to reclaim art as the lived expression of our creativity urging that we not direct these impulses into forms that can be quickly turned into commodities. Like Navajo sand painting or the ceilidh, such endeavours would soon be lost to time. Other strategies supporting an evanescent approach are developed in a section entitled, Anonymity, Pseudonymity \u0026amp; Polynymity. Donal McGraith is the author of The Wild and the Free: Shane, Rousseau, Hippies. also published by Charivari Press. He has produced a number of articles on music and art for the magazines Musicworks and Sub Rosa. His seminal essay 'Anti-Copyright and Cassette Culture' was included in Sound By Artists. McGraith's provocative views, unsettling to those who benefit from high art, are clearly on display in Leaving No Mark. A more interesting polemic that takes a run at the history of contemporary art and underground music id Donal McGraith's 'Anti-Copyright and Cassette Culture.' -Clive Robertson, Fuse, Winter 1991.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52755997196561,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52755998015761,"sku":"NIN9781895166408","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781895166408.jpg?v=1763574995"},{"product_id":"wild-and-the-free-book-donal-mcgraith-9781895166323","title":"The Wild and the Free","description":"The Wild \u0026amp; The Free begins as a series of meditations about wilderness and freedom; about the American frontier in fact and fiction, and its promise of freedom for refugees. But then it draws back to consider Rousseau, Zerzan and the largely negative effects on humanity and personal freedom which stem from the advent of agriculture. Along the way, Donal McGraith considers such topics as 'buyer's regret, ' which is evidenced by our consumerism and attempts to convince ourselves that we have not lost something of value. And he takes a detailed look at the film Shane whose chief protagonist exemplifies the impossibility of personal integrity when faced by the demands of loyalty brought about by civilization. With his insistence on individual responsibility, Shane chooses to become an outsider, to stand apart from the family, law and gangs that compete for his allegiance. The Wild and the Free is a clarion call about the trajectory of society since the advent of agriculture, one that has led to an abdication of moral responsibility, to ecological disaster, and to complacency with poverty and homelessness. Donal McGraith is a writer and editor in the politics of contemporary music and art. His essay, 'Anti-Copyright and Cassette Culture' was included in the critically acclaimed Sound By Artists (Lander \u0026amp; Lexier ed. Charivari Press Facsimile Edition, 2013). He has published several essays in Musicworks and Sub Rosa.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53187495231761,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53187495493905,"sku":"NIN9781895166323","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781895166323.jpg?v=1772392621"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-donal-mcgraith.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}