For Reasons of State
, by Angelique Campens, Erica Cooke, and Steven Lam- ISBN: 9780300146943 | 0300146949
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 2/3/2009
For Reasons of Stateexamines how our ability to function as a democracy is compromised by governmental secrecy. Looking at contemporary art, the book explores notions of institutional concealment through the work of such artists as the Bureau of Inverse Technology, Jenny Holzer, Lin + Lam, Mark Lombardi, Trevor Paglen, and Susan Schluppiall of whom provide the public with a new way of looking at information that is otherwise censored or misrepresented due to government or corporate influence.