Prof John Beck

Prof John Beck


2021

Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Beck, J. 2021. Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal. London Reaktion Press.

2020

Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde
Beck, J. and Bishop, R. 2020. Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde. Durham, North Carolina Duke University Press.

2016

Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics
Beck, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) 2016. Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press.

2014

The Art School and the Culture Shed
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2014. The Art School and the Culture Shed. Kingston upon Thames Centre for Useless Splendour.

2009

Dirty wars: landscape, power, and waste in Western American literature
Beck, J. 2009. Dirty wars: landscape, power, and waste in Western American literature. Lincoln University of Nebraska Press.

2005

American visual cultures
Holloway, D. and Beck, J. (ed.) 2005. American visual cultures. London Continuum.

2001

Writing the radical center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American cultural politics
Beck, J. 2001. Writing the radical center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American cultural politics. Albany State University of New York Press.

2024

The Art Schools of the Midlands
Beck, J. 2024. The Art Schools of the Midlands. Martin Hall Gallery, University of Loughborough 16 May - 28 Jun 2024

2023

The Art Schools of the West Midlands
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2023. The Art Schools of the West Midlands. The New Art Gallery Walsall 17 Feb - 02 Jul 2023

2023

The Art Schools of the East Midlands
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2023. The Art Schools of the East Midlands. Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University 22 Sep - 02 Dec 2023

2021

Harmony, Contrast & Discord: Rochdale and the Art Schools of the North West
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2021. Harmony, Contrast & Discord: Rochdale and the Art Schools of the North West. Touchstones Rochdale 18 May - 03 Jul 2021

2019

The North West Art School Record Machine
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2019. The North West Art School Record Machine. Bury Art Museum 12 Oct 2019 - 25 Jan 2020

2018

The Art Schools of North West England
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2018. The Art Schools of North West England. Bluecoat, Liverpool 17 Nov 2018 - 31 Mar 2019

2021

On the Beach
Beck, J. 2021. On the Beach. Cultural Politics. 17 (1), pp. 135-144. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797627

2020

The Time Capsule and the Cut Up: Negotiating Temporality, Anticipating Catastrophe
Beck, J. and Dorrian, M. 2020. The Time Capsule and the Cut Up: Negotiating Temporality, Anticipating Catastrophe. Theory, Culture & Society. 37 (7-8), pp. 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420958049

2018

The Return of the Art and Technology Lab
Beck, J. and Bishop, R. 2018. The Return of the Art and Technology Lab. Cultural Politics. 14 (2), pp. 225-243. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-6609102

2014

The Call of the Anthropocene
Beck, J. 2014. The Call of the Anthropocene. Cultural Politics. 10 (3), pp. 404-414. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2795765

2014

Postcatastrophic utopias
Beck, J. and Dorrian, M. 2014. Postcatastrophic utopias. Cultural Politics. 10 (2), pp. 132-150. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2651729

2012

The art school in ruins
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2012. The art school in ruins. Journal of Visual Culture. 11 (1), pp. 58-83. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412911430467

2012

In and out of the box: Bashir Makhoul’s Forbidden City
Beck, J. 2012. In and out of the box: Bashir Makhoul’s Forbidden City. Theory, Culture and Society. 29 (7-8), pp. 341-357. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412459088

2011

Signs of the sky, signs of the times: photography as double agent
Beck, J. 2011. Signs of the sky, signs of the times: photography as double agent. Theory, Culture and Society. 28 (7-8), pp. 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411423773

2024

The Art School and the Everyday: No Life Without Art
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2024. The Art School and the Everyday: No Life Without Art. in: Co-operative Education, Politics, and Art: Creative, Critical, and Community Resistance to Corporate Higher Education London Routledge.

2017

Utah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret
Beck, J. 2017. Utah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret. in: Lübecker, N. and Rugo, D. (ed.) James Benning's Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 39-54

2016

Introduction: The Long Cold War
Beck, J. and Bishop, R. 2016. Introduction: The Long Cold War. in: Beck, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-32

2016

The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know
Beck, J. 2016. The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know. in: Beck, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 35-49

2016

Overt Research
White, N. and Beck, J. 2016. Overt Research. in: Beck, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 252-272

2016

A Military Definition of Reality: Researching Literature and Militarization
Beck, J. 2016. A Military Definition of Reality: Researching Literature and Militarization. in: Williams, A.J., Jenkings, A., Woodward, R. and Rech, M.F. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods Abingdon Routledge. pp. 84-94

2013

Strangers to the stars: abstraction, aereality, aspect perception
Beck, J. 2013. Strangers to the stars: abstraction, aereality, aspect perception. in: Armitage, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) Virilio and visual culture Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 46-68

2013

Beyond the darkness of the just lived moment
Beck, J. 2013. Beyond the darkness of the just lived moment. in: Makhoul, B. (ed.) Palestinian video art: constellation of the moving image Jerusalem Al Hoash. pp. 156-169

2013

Between the castle and the village
Beck, J. 2013. Between the castle and the village. in: Bishop, R. and Hon, G. (ed.) Bashir Makhoul, Aissa Deebi: otherwise occupied Jerusalem Al Hoash. pp. 150-165

2011

The place of catastrophe: Clarence King, Mike Davis and the politics of contingency
Beck, J. 2011. The place of catastrophe: Clarence King, Mike Davis and the politics of contingency. in: Wragg, D.A. and Heffernan, N. (ed.) Culture, environment and eco-politics Newcastle Upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 84-110

2009

Et in Arizona ego: Baudrillard on the Planet of the Apes
Beck, J. 2009. Et in Arizona ego: Baudrillard on the Planet of the Apes. in: Bishop, R. (ed.) Baudrillard now: current perspectives in Baudrillard studies Cambridge Polity. pp. 100-115

2005

Zapruder, Warhol, and the accident of images
Beck, J. 2005. Zapruder, Warhol, and the accident of images. in: Holloway, D. and Beck, J. (ed.) American visual cultures London Continuum. pp. 183-189

2004

Reading room: erosion and sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk
Beck, J. 2004. Reading room: erosion and sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk. in: Long, J.J. and Whitehead, A. (ed.) W.G. Sebald: a critical companion Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 75-88

2000

‘A certain but fugitive testimony': witnessing the light of time in Cormac McCarthy's Southwestern fiction
Beck, J. 2000. ‘A certain but fugitive testimony': witnessing the light of time in Cormac McCarthy's Southwestern fiction. in: Wallach, R. (ed.) Myth, legend, dust: critical responses to Cormac McCarthy Manchester Manchester University Press. pp. 209-216

1999

Buckminster Fuller and the politics of shelter
Beck, J. 1999. Buckminster Fuller and the politics of shelter. in: Hughes, J. and Sadler, S. (ed.) Non-plan: essays on freedom, participation and change in modern architecture and urbanism Oxford Architectural Press. pp. 116-125

2016

Introduction: Photography and Abstraction
Beck, J. and Cunningham, D.I. 2016. Introduction: Photography and Abstraction. Photographies. 9 (2), pp. 129-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2016.1181971

2016

High Formalism: The aerial view and the colour field
Beck, J. 2016. High Formalism: The aerial view and the colour field. Photographies. 9 (2), pp. 187-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2016.1181969

2014

The purloined landscape: photography and power in the American West
Beck, J. 2014. The purloined landscape: photography and power in the American West. Tate Papers. 21.

2011

Concrete ambivalence: inside the bunker complex
Beck, J. 2011. Concrete ambivalence: inside the bunker complex. Cultural Politics. 7 (1), pp. 79-102. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174311X12861940861789

2007

Velocities of power
Beck, J. and Crosthwaite, P. 2007. Velocities of power. Cultural Politics. 3 (1), pp. 23-34. https://doi.org/10.2752/174321907780031034

2007

Resistance becomes ballistic: Vanishing Point and the end of the road
Beck, J. 2007. Resistance becomes ballistic: Vanishing Point and the end of the road. Cultural Politics. 3 (1), pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.2752/174321907780031070

2001

Without form and void: the American desert as trope and terrain
Beck, J. 2001. Without form and void: the American desert as trope and terrain. Nepantla: views from South. 2 (1), pp. 63-83.

2000

An over-illuminated world: Reyner Banham and art history in the wilderness
Beck, J. 2000. An over-illuminated world: Reyner Banham and art history in the wilderness. Everything. 3, pp. 26-33.

2000

Blown away: wars visible and invisible in Richard Misrach’s Desert Cantos
Beck, J. 2000. Blown away: wars visible and invisible in Richard Misrach’s Desert Cantos. European Journal of American Culture. 19 (3), pp. 156-166. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.19.3.156

2021

Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s, Natasha Zaretsky (2018)
Beck, J. 2021. Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s, Natasha Zaretsky (2018). European Journal of American Culture. 40 (1), pp. 85-87. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00039_5

2016

Photography and Abstraction [Special Issue of Photographies journal]
Cunningham, D.I. and Beck, J. 2016. Photography and Abstraction [Special Issue of Photographies journal]. Photographies. 9 (2), pp. 129-228.


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