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'It is by seeing the roles culture takes in various human struggles for power and resources that we can also make out the shape of systems in all of their oppressive structure. Let us put that at the centre of our art-historical analysis. Let us stop being affirmative. Let us examine the barbarism supported by and emanating from art.'
—Paul B. Jaskot

In this lively polemic, Paul B. Jaskot confronts art history’s ideological preoccupation with the art object.
The Tyranny of the Object is the third title for Power Polemics, a series that puts art hard up against political and personal viewpoints from some of the leading thinkers and writers in the field today.

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Between 2005 and 2019, Hong Kong-born Australian artist John Young Zerunge created 11 art series which he called ‘The History Projects’. This book is a critical guide to this expansive body of artworks, which explore diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an ‘ethical responsibility’ towards the past. Featuring more than 400 images, and a wide variety of texts—including new essays and interviews, key republished articles, poetry, artist reflections, and diary pages—this book is a definitive reference for Young’s transformative recent practice and its urgent reckoning with history as unfinished business.