A people's art history of the United States : 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements

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Main Author : Lampert Nicolas (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : A people's art history of the United States : 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements / Nicolas Lampert
Published : New York : The New Press , impr. 2013, cop. 2013
Physical Description : 1 vol. (XV-366 p.)
Content : Parallel paths on the same river. Visualizing a partial revolution. Liberation graphics. Abolitionism as autonomy, activism, and entertainment. The battleground over public memory. Photographing the past during the present. Jacob A. Riis's image problem. Haymarket : an embattled history of static monuments and public interventions. Blurring the boundaries between art and life. "The Masses" on trial. Banners designed to break a president. The lynching crisis. Become the media, circa 1930. Government-funded art : the boom and bust years for public art. Artists organize. Artists against war and Fascism. Resistance or loyalty : the visual politics of Miné Okubo. Come let us build a new world together. Party artist : Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party. Protesting the museum industrial complex. "The Living, breathing embodiment of a culture transformed". Public rituals, media performances, and citywide interventions. No apologies : Asco, performance art, and the Chicano civil rights movement. Art is not enough. Antinuclear street art. Living water : sustainability through collaboration. Art defends art. Bringing the war home. Impersonating utopia and dystopia
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