New Book Release: Facing the Future: Paintings, 2007-2010

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Sept. 24, 2015 - PRLog -- • Paperback: 131 pages
• Publisher: Cyberwit.net (August 27, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8182536243
• ISBN-13: 978-8182536241
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,366,574 in Books

The 63 paintings collected in Facing the Future were created from 2007 through 2010. At that time, I resided in Bronx, NY, not far from the Bronx Zoo. A few notes and questions on these paintings can provide background on method and art sensibility and values. First, these are painterly works and making them posed a challenge and felt good. I respond with more concern for aesthetic matters than theoretical art ones.  Many of the paintings are in a large format, 60" h x 48" w, in order to capture the frantic energy and all-over activity in the works.  Some have been exhibited in small venues in New York City and appeared in art publications.  This book surveys a very important period in the collected work of the artist.

Biography

Ivan Greenberg was born in Ithaca, NY, and raised in New York City. He received a B.A. from Cornell University (1984) and a doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center (1990). He has taught at several colleges in New York City. In addition to the books, "The Dangers of Dissent" (2010) and "Surveillance in America" (2012), he contributed chapters to several others:

--"The State Response to Occupy: Surveillance and Suppression," in Todd A. Comer, ed., What Comes after Occupy: The Regional Politics of Resistance (2015).
--"Schools for Justice in the United States," in Ira Bogotch and Carolyn Shields, eds., International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice (2014).
--"Reagan Revives FBI Spying," in Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell, eds., The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade (2011).
--"Vocational Education, Work Culture, and the Children of European Immigrants during the 1930s," in Debra Meyers and Burke Miller, eds., Inequity in Education: A Historical Perspective (2009). He published an article in the issue of Radical History devoted to "Historicizing 9/11" (Fall 2011). He wrote "Everyone is a Terrorist Now," Radical Criminology (Fall 2013); and "Impossible Unity," New Labor Forum (Winter 2014). In 2015, his articles appeared in The Journal of Social History and in American Quarterly. He is finishing a book, "Creating Suspects after 9/11."

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