Collision

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623496322
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis Collision by : Pete Gershon

Download or read book Collision written by Pete Gershon and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city’s emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figures, including museum director James Harithas and sculptor James Surls. Harithas was a fierce champion for Texan artists during his tenure as the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum–Houston (CAM). He put Texas artists on the map, but his renegade style proved too confrontational for the museum’s benefactors, and after four years, he wore out his welcome. After Harithas’s departure from the CAM, the chainsaw-wielding Surls established the Lawndale Annex as a largely unsupervised outpost of the University of Houston art department. Inside this dirty, cavernous warehouse, a new generation of Houston artists discovered their identities and began to flourish. Both the CAM and the Lawndale Annex set the scene for the emergence of small, downtown, artist-run spaces, including Studio One, the Center for Art and Performance, Midtown Arts Center, and DiverseWorks. Finally, in 1985, the Museum of Fine Arts presented Fresh Paint: The Houston School, a nationally publicized survey of work by Houston painters. The exhibition capped an era of intensive artistic development and suggested that the city was about to be recognized, along with New York and Los Angeles, as a major center for art-making activity. Drawing upon primary archival materials, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and over sixty interviews with significant figures, Gershon presents a narrative that preserves and interweaves the stories and insights of those who transformed the Houston art scene into the vibrant community that it is today.

Art and Politics Collide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Politics Collide by : Kelly T. Kindig

Download or read book Art and Politics Collide written by Kelly T. Kindig and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strike Art

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784786810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis Strike Art by : Yates McKee

Download or read book Strike Art written by Yates McKee and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious, indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in order to construct of a new—if internally fraught—political imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. In the process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an increasing proximity to Wall Street on the other—oftentimes directly targeting major art institutions themselves as sites of action. Tracking the work of groups including MTL, Not an Alternative, the Illuminator, the Rolling Jubilee, and G.U.L.F, Strike Art shows how Occupy ushered in a new era of artistically-oriented direct action that continues to ramify far beyond the initial act of occupation itself into ongoing struggles surrounding labor, debt, and climate justice, concluding with a consideration of the overlaps between such work and the aesthetic practices of the Black Lives Matter movement. Art after Occupy, McKee suggests, contains great potentials of imagination and action for a renewed left project that are still only beginning to ripen, at once shaking up and taking flight from the art system as we know it.

Collision

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443802530
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Collision by : David Cecchetto

Download or read book Collision written by David Cecchetto and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With very few exceptions, interdisciplinary art and interarts practices—examined as such, including the perspective of artist-researchers, and not subsumed under a singular category of performance or visual art—have, until now, been largely ignored. While it would be simplistic to think that this collection somehow rectifies the “piecemeal” status of this discourse, our wager is that this collection works towards presenting an understanding of this status as, in a certain sense, constitutive of the field. Beginning with an introduction to the very multiplicities that compose and complicate interdisciplinary practices, then moving into questions of body/technology, location/movement, space/practice, performativity/aesthetics, this collection covers an enormous amount, while still retaining an overarching sense of unity in the context of the subject as a whole. Each of these sections negotiates a series of interrelated collisions in order to address a range of theoretical positions, as well as a variety of international and cultural perspectives. In addition to addressing the notion of interdisciplinarity and the challenges of specific interarts practices, this publication seeks to question how we might understand interarts practice in a way that does not exclude perspectives such as spirituality, law, political activism and community development, to name only a few. The inclusion of these disparate practices within this publication—itself a site of collision of the poetic, the conversational, and the theoretical—is thus not presented as an attempt to unify or normalize them, but rather as a productive charting of their radical explosion; a collision that is always a colliding.

Art and politics

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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048531519
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and politics by : Joes Segal

Download or read book Art and politics written by Joes Segal and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, art and politics seem like they couldn't be more separate, with politics focused on the grubbiness of everyday reality and art busily creating a fantasy world of creative expression. Yet the two realms frequently come together, and the collision can be fiery. This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced each other in different conditions. Joes Segal takes us to the Third Reich, where Emil Nolde painted under pressure; shows us Diego Rivera creating Marxist murals in Mexico and the United States; ties Jackson Pollock's drip paintings to their Cold War context; and considers the countless images of Mao Zedong in China. In each case, he analyses the inherent tension between free expression and ideology, the aims of the artist and the exigencies of politics.

Art, Politics and Dissent

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719044694
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (446 download)

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Book Synopsis Art, Politics and Dissent by : Francis Frascina

Download or read book Art, Politics and Dissent written by Francis Frascina and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, Politics and Dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalized or overlooked, in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar period.

Art for All?

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ISBN 13 : 9780691102641
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Art for All? by : Beth Irwin Lewis

Download or read book Art for All? written by Beth Irwin Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Germany's rich, flourishing, and diversified world of art in the last decades of the nineteenth century--a world that has until recently been eclipsed by the events of the twentieth century. Basing her narrative on a close reading of contemporary periodicals, and lavishly complementing it with cartoons and other illustrations from these publications, Beth Irwin Lewis provides the first systematic, comprehensive study of that German art world. She focuses on how critics and the public responded to new forms of painting that emerged in the 1880s, when the explosive growth of art exhibitions supported by local governments across a recently united Germany was accompanied by skyrocketing attendance of a new mass public. Describing the rapid critical acceptance and dominance of the new modern art in the 1890s, Lewis analyzes these developments within a complex interweaving of social, cultural, and economic factors. Although critics had hoped for a unified new art for the new nation, the success of modern art fragmented the art world, as modern artists and their supporters turned away from the often unreceptive mass public of the great exhibitions. Lewis's approach through the popular journals reveals the public's growing alienation from modern artists and an increasing contempt for the public on the part of these artists and their supporters--all of which prefigured tensions in the contemporary art world. Her wide-ranging text examines not only the various ways art was promoted to and received by the public, but also anti-Semitism, the role of women artists, and changes in style of both art and criticism. Well documented, engagingly written, and vividly illustrated, this book will interest not only scholars and students but all readers interested in German cultural history and art history.

Carlos Villa

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520348893
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Carlos Villa by : Mark Dean Johnson

Download or read book Carlos Villa written by Mark Dean Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhibition was organized to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)"--Acknowledgements.

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317567803
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics by : Randy Martin

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics written by Randy Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take. The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world – discuss and demonstrate ways of making art and politics legible and salient in the world. As such the 32 chapters in this volume reflect on performing and visual arts; music, film and new media; as well as covering social practice, community-based work, conceptual, interventionist and movement affiliated forms. The Companion is divided into four distinct parts: Conceptual Cartographies Institutional Materialities Modalities of Practice Making Publics Randy Martin has assembled a collection that ensures that readers will come away with a wider view of what can count as art and politics; where they might find it; and how it moves in the world. The diversity of perspectives is at once challenging and fortifying to those who might dismiss political art on the one hand as not making sufficient difference and on the other to those embracing it but seeking a means to elaborate the significance that it can make in the world. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics brings together a range of issues and approaches and encourages critical and creative thinking about how art is produced, perceived, and received.

Legislating Creativity

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135165777
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Book Synopsis Legislating Creativity by : Dustin Kidd

Download or read book Legislating Creativity written by Dustin Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the National Endowment for the Arts during the Culture Wars (late 1980s-1990s). Though there have always been tensions in government funding for the arts, these controversies intensified the public debates surrounding art/politics and remain as a focal point in conversations that continue today. The book focuses on three case studies: Mapplethorpe's controversial photography, an exhibit on the impact of AIDS entitled Witnesses, and the Guerrilla Girls. Dustin Kidd has provided a thoroughly enriching look at the intersections of art and politics—the ways that political practices transform creative expression and the ways that artistic drives shape political policies.

Defending Complexity

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Publisher : Hard Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Defending Complexity by : Eleanor Heartney

Download or read book Defending Complexity written by Eleanor Heartney and published by Hard Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most damning charges that can be leveled against artists, curators and critics these days is that they are "reducing art to politics." The idea has taken hold that politics is like a virus, sucking all the aesthetic sophistication, beauty and formal intelligence out of an art work, and leaving behind only an empty husk of tired propaganda. This book looks at art and politics from a variety of standpoints, among them, the failures and successes of art committed to social change, the intersections between art and religion, globalism and economics, the dangers posed by paranoia and censorship to our vision of free expression and the new urgency of these issues in a post 9/11 world.

Worlds in Collision

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Book Synopsis Worlds in Collision by : Carlos Villa

Download or read book Worlds in Collision written by Carlos Villa and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the 1989 San Francisco Art Institute symposium.

When worlds collide

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Book Synopsis When worlds collide by : John Klein

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Dark Matter

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Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745327525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Dark Matter by : Gregory Sholette

Download or read book Dark Matter written by Gregory Sholette and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalized artists, the "dark matter" of the art world, are essential to the survival of the mainstream and that they frequently organize in opposition to it. Gregory Sholette, a politically engaged artist, argues that imagination and creativity in the art world originate thrive in the non-commercial sector shut off from prestigious galleries and champagne receptions. This broader creative culture feeds the mainstream with new forms and styles that can be commodified and used to sustain the few artists admitted into the elite. This dependency, and the advent of inexpensive communication, audio and video technology, has allowed this "dark matter" of the alternative art world to increasingly subvert the mainstream and intervene politically as both new and old forms of non-capitalist, public art. This book is essential for anyone interested in interventionist art, collectivism, and the political economy of the art world.

When Governments Collide

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520039629
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis When Governments Collide by : Wallace J Thies

Download or read book When Governments Collide written by Wallace J Thies and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art as a Political Witness

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Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3847409735
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Art as a Political Witness by : Kia Lindroos

Download or read book Art as a Political Witness written by Kia Lindroos and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.

The Art of Protest

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Publisher : Gestalten
ISBN 13 : 9783967040111
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Protest written by gestalten and published by Gestalten. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to art's ability to communicate and influence, it has always had a charged relationship with activism and politics. And, given the tumultuous times in which we live, with traditional democracies being challenged from all sides, the changing climate, global movements for social justice, and political upheaval causing millions to search for a better life abroad, this relationship has never been more important. The Art of Protest will explore the connection between art, politics, and activism today, revealing how, over the past decade, artists have been engaging with political and social issues of all kinds, through different artistic mediums.