The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art
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The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art

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The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art

About this book

Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflected forms of protest within their art practice itself. The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art maps, critiques, celebrates and historicises activist art, exploring its current urgency alongside the processes which have given rise to activism by artists, and activist forms of art.

Author Gregory Sholette approaches his subject from the unusual dual perspective of commentator (as scholar and writer) and insider (as activist artist). He describes a new wave of activist art taking place not only within community-based protest groups, as it has for decades, but also amongst professionally trained, MFA-bearing art practitioners, many of whom, by choice or by circumstance, refuse to respect the conventional borders separating painting from protest, or art from utility. The book explores the subtle distinction between activist forms of art and protest by artists, and proposes that contemporary activist art and art activism constitute a broader paradigm shift that reflects the crisis of contemporary capitalism.

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Information

Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781848224445
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art & Politics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Marcus Verhagen
  6. Chapter 1. The Contemporary Artist as Activist: This is Not Just a Test
  7. Chapter 2. The Situationists’ Total Critique, and Total Cure
  8. Chapter 3. Grupo de Artistas de Vanguardia
  9. Chapter 4. Escaping the Long Greenbergian Shadow
  10. Chapter 5. 1968 and After: The Phantom Archive of Social-Movement Culture
  11. Chapter 6. 1970s: The Activist Turn in Art
  12. Chapter 7. 1980s: Artists respond to the Neoliberal Turn
  13. Chapter 8. 1990s: Repurposing Situationism as Tactical Media
  14. Chapter 9. Back to the Streets: From Tactical Media to Occupy Wall Street (2011)
  15. Chapter 10. Institutional Critique or Cultural Abolition?
  16. Chapter 11. 2016 and After: Winter Is Coming/Winter Is Here
  17. Chapter 12. Black Lives Matter: Fugitivity in Plain Sight
  18. Chapter 13. The Contemporary Artist as Activist: Conjectures, Hauntologies and Inconclusions
  19. Notes
  20. Appreciation
  21. Further reading and archives
  22. Image credits