{"product_id":"learning-how-to-fall","title":"Learning How to Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Richard Drew’s controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, Learning How to Fall investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation, asking:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoes the mediatization of the event overwhelm the fact of the event itself?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow does the mode by which information is disseminated alter the way in which we perceive such information?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow does this impact upon our memory of an event?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eT. Nikki Cesare Schotzko posits contemporary art and performance as not only a stylized re-envisioning of daily life but, inversely, as a viable means by which one might experience and process real-world political and social events. This approach combines two concurrent and contradictory trends in aesthetics, narrative, and dramaturgy: the dramatization of real-world events so as to broaden the commercial appeal of those events in both mainstream and alternative media, and the establishment of a more holistic relationship between politically and aesthetically motivated modes of disseminating and processing information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy presenting engaging and diverse case studies from both the art world and popular culture – including Aliza Shvarts’s censored senior thesis at Yale University, Kerry Skarbakka’s provocative photographs of falling, Didier Morelli’s crawl through Toronto, and Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom – \u003ci\u003eLearning How to Fall\u003c\/i\u003e creates a new understanding of the relationship between the event and its documentation, where even the truth of an event might be called into question.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234626949464,"sku":"9781138796881","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138796881.jpg?v=1779170430","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/learning-how-to-fall","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}