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But is it art? : the spirit of art as activism
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Year: 1995 Publisher: Seattle Bay Press

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Delirium and resistance : activist art and the crisis of capitalism
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ISBN: 1786800608 1786800594 9781786800596 9781786800602 9780745336886 0745336884 9780745336848 0745336841 0745336841 9780745336848 Year: 2017 Publisher: London, England : Pluto Press,

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Capitalist crises do not begin within art, but art reflects and even amplifies their effects. The dizzying prices achieved by artists who pander to the financial elites, the proliferation of museums that contribute to the global competition between cities to attract capital, and the strange relationship between art and the rampant gentrification that restructures the urban landscape: these are the obvious features of art's subservience to capitalism. There is a flipside, however, which shows art playing an increasingly important role in resistance to austerity and the prefiguration of a different world. Delirium and Resistance engages in critical dialogue with artists' collectives, counter-institutions and activist groups, while reflecting on the inequalities of neoliberal culture. It draws on over thirty years of critical debates and practices both in and beyond the art world to historicise and advocate for the art activist tradition that radically entangles the visual arts with political struggles.


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Of what one cannot speak : Doris Salcedo's political art
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ISBN: 9780226035789 9780226035802 0226035808 0226035786 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,

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Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a "theoretical object" that invites-and demands-certain kinds of considerations about history, death, erasure, and grief. Bal ranges widely through Salcedo's work, from Salcedo's Atrabiliarios series-in which the artist uses worn shoes to retrace los desaparecidos ("the disappeared") from nations like Argentina, Chile, and Colombia-to Shibboleth, Salcedo's once-in-a-lifetime commission by the Tate Modern, for which she created a rupture, as if by earthquake, that stretched the length of the museum hall's concrete floor. In each instance, Salcedo's installations speak for themselves, utilizing household items, human bones, and common domestic architecture to explore the silent spaces between violence, trauma, and identity. Yet Bal draws out even deeper responses to the work, questioning the nature of political art altogether and introducing concepts of metaphor, time, and space in order to contend with Salcedo's powerful sculptures and installations. An unforgettable fusion of art and essay, Of What One Cannot Speak takes us to the very core of events we are capable of remembering-yet still uncomfortably cannot speak aloud.


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Citizens Against Crime and Violence : Societal Responses in Mexico.
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ISBN: 1978827652 1978827679 9781978827653 9781978827677 Year: 2022 Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,

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Mexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence within one of Mexico’s most affected regions, the state of Michoacán. Based on comparative ethnography conducted over twelve months by a team of anthropologists and sociologists across six localities of Michoacán, ranging from the most rural to the most urban, the contributors consider five varieties of societal responses: local citizen security councils that define security and attempt to influence its policing, including by self-defense groups; cultural activists looking to create safe 'cultural' fields from which to transform their social environment; organizations in the state capital that combine legal and political strategies against less visible violence (forced disappearance, gender violence, anti-LGBT); church-linked initiatives bringing to bear the church’s institutionality, including to denounce 'state capture'; and women’s organizations creating 'safe' networks allowing to influence violence prevention.


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Connessioni remote : artivismo, teatro, tecnologia
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ISSN: 27242722 Year: 2020 Publisher: Milano [Italy] : Universita di Milano, Dipartimento di Beni culturali e ambientali,


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For the Wild : Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism
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ISBN: 0520967895 9780520967892 9780520294950 0520294955 9780520294967 0520294963 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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For the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the more-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood. The book addresses the question of how and why activists come to value nonhuman animals and the natural world as worthy of protection. Emotions and memories of wonder, love, compassion, anger, and grief shape activists' protest practices and help us understand their deep-rooted dedication to the planet and its creatures. Drawing on analyses of activist art, music, and writings, as well as interviews and participant-observation in activist communities, Sarah M. Pike delves into the sacred duties of these often misunderstood and marginalized groups with openness and sensitivity.


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Violence and resistance, art and politics in Colombia
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ISBN: 3031103262 3031103254 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG,

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This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia. These relations are unique because of the ways in which they are saturated by violence, as the country has passed through conquest, struggles for Independence, fighting between political factions, civil war, paramilitaries, narco-traffickers and state violence. This seemingly unending stream of violence gives art in Colombia one of its main themes. The lavishly illustrated essays, written by Colombian authors, examine Colombian visual arts, music, theatre, literature, cinema, indigenous arts, popular culture, militant publications and recent protest movements, analysing them with tools drawn from contemporary philosophy and theory. Approaches include decolonisation theory, cosmopolitics, anthropology after the ontological turn, Colombian philosophy, feminism, and French theory. The essays all offer powerful understandings of how art has not only been complicit in perpetuating political violence in Colombia, but also how it has been a vital form of analysis and resistance. Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher living in Vienna, Austria. His recent publications include: Hacia un "nuevo" nuevo brutalismo. Encuentros con los Jardines de Robin Hood (2022), Head in the Stars, Essays on Science Fiction (2020), La Sensación Más Allá de Los Límites, Ensayos sobre arte y política (2019) and Sublime Art, Towards an Aesthetics of the Future (2017). Nicolás Alvarado Castillo is a Professor of Philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. He is the faculty’s Publishing Director and co-editor of the peer reviewed journal Universitas Philosophica. He is author of Les variations de la ligne parfaite. Enquête philosophique sur l’idée de vers chez Mallarmé (2022). He currently works at the intersection of Aesthetics and Post-Marxist Theory and has published on contemporary French thought, philosophy and literature, and philosophy and theatre.


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Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics
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ISBN: 1787858138 0691197318 9781787858138 9780691197319 9780691198330 0691198330 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton University Press

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An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest artThroughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents a major new chronological look at protest graphics.Beginning in the Reformation, when printed visual matter was first produced in multiples, Liz McQuiston follows the iconic images that have accompanied movements and events around the world. She examines fine art and propaganda, including William Hogarth's Gin Lane, Thomas Nast's political caricatures, French and British comics, postcards from the women's suffrage movement, clothing of the 1960s counterculture, the anti-apartheid illustrated book How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, the "Silence=Death" emblem from the AIDS crisis, murals created during the Arab Spring, electronic graphics from Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, and the front cover of the magazine Charlie Hebdo. Providing a visual exploration both joyful and brutal, McQuiston discusses how graphics have been used to protest wars, call for the end to racial discrimination, demand freedom from tyranny, and satirize authority figures and regimes.From the French, Mexican, and Sandinista revolutions to the American civil rights movement, nuclear disarmament, and the Women's March of 2017, Protest! documents the integral role of the visual arts in passionate efforts for change.

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Political art. --- Political posters --- Protest movements. --- ART / Art & Politics. --- Social movements --- Campaign posters --- Political collectibles --- Posters --- Activist art --- Protest art --- Resistance art --- Social art --- Art --- History. --- Political sociology --- Graphic arts --- graphic design --- history [discipline] --- revolutions --- political art --- graphic arts --- Activism. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Adolf. --- Advertising campaign. --- Advertising. --- Alamy. --- Alberto Korda. --- Anti-war movement. --- Apartheid. --- Art movement. --- Ben Shahn. --- Black people. --- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. --- Caricature. --- Cartoon. --- Cartoonist. --- Charlie Hebdo. --- Che Guevara. --- Civil disobedience. --- Civilization. --- Combatant. --- Communism. --- Dada. --- Defamation. --- Designer. --- Dictatorship. --- Editorial cartoon. --- El Lissitzky. --- Emblem. --- Environmentalism. --- Feminism (international relations). --- Feminism. --- Film poster. --- George Grosz. --- Global warming. --- Guerrilla Girls. --- Gulf War. --- Harper's Weekly. --- Headline. --- Iconography. --- Illustration. --- Illustrator. --- James Gillray. --- Je suis Charlie. --- Jesus Barraza. --- John Heartfield. --- LGBT. --- Le Charivari. --- Manifesto. --- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. --- Modernism. --- Mushroom cloud. --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. --- Nazi Germany. --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- Newspaper. --- Nicaragua. --- Nuclear disarmament. --- Nuclear warfare. --- Nuclear weapon. --- Pamphlet. --- Pass laws. --- Photomontage. --- Political satire. --- Politician. --- Postcard. --- Poster. --- Power politics. --- Princeton University Press. --- Protest. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Racial segregation. --- Racism. --- Riot police. --- Sacco and Vanzetti. --- Satire. --- See Red Women's Workshop. --- Sexism. --- Simplicissimus. --- Soviet Union. --- Spanish Civil War. --- Special Relationship. --- Suffrage. --- Suffragette. --- Tear gas. --- Technology. --- Terrorism. --- The Quarto Group. --- Their Lives. --- Thomas Nast. --- Thomas Rowlandson. --- To This Day. --- Trade union. --- Trafalgar Square. --- Trayvon Martin. --- Tristan Tzara. --- Typography. --- Unemployment. --- communication design

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