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We Make Each Other Beautiful
We Make Each Other Beautiful
focuses on woman of color and queer of color artists and
artist collectives who engage in direct political action as a part
of their art practice. Defined by public protest,
rule-breaking, rebellion, and resistance to governmental and
institutional abuse, direct-action \"artivism\" draws on the aims,
radical spirit, and tactics of the civil rights and feminist
movements and on the struggles for disability rights, queer rights,
and immigrant rights to seek legal and social change.
Yxta Maya Murray traces the development of artivism as a
practice from the Harlem Renaissance to Yoko Ono, Judy Baca, and
Marsha P. Johnson. She also studies its role in transforming law
and society. We Make Each Other Beautiful profiles the
work and lives of four contemporary artivists -Carrie Mae Weems,
Young Joon Kwak, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Imani Jacqueline Brown-and the
artivist collective Drawn Together, combining new oral histories
with sharp analyses of how their diverse and expansive artistic
practices bear important aesthetic and politicolegal meanings that
address a wide range of injustices.
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Disability culture and community performance : find a strange and twisted shape
Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.
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Subversive ceramics
\"Satire has been used in ceramic production for centuries. Historically, it occurred either as a slogan or proverb written on to the ceramic surface; as pictorial surface imagery; or as a satirical figurine. The use of satire in contemporary ceramics is a rapidly evolving trend, with many artists subverting or otherwise rethinking well known historic forms to make their point. Claudia Clare examines the relationship between ceramics, social politics, and political movements and the way both organisations and individual artists have used these predominantly domestic objects to agitate among the masses or simply express their ideas. 90 colour illustrations of various subversive, satirical and campaigning works illustrate her arguments and enliven debate. Divided into two parts, Subversive Ceramics discusses a selection of historical and contemporary works by artists and makers from twenty-one different countries, from 500BC to the present day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art
This book explores the important and barely examined connections between the humanitarian concerns embedded in the religious heritage of Jewish American artists and the appeal of radical political causes between the years of the Great Migration from Eastern Europe in the 1880s and the beginning of World War II in the late 1930s. Visual material consists primarily of political cartoons published in leftwing Yiddish- and English-language newspapers and magazines. Artists often commented on current events using biblical and other Jewish references, meaning that whatever were their political concerns, their Jewish heritage was ever present. By the late 1940s, the obvious ties between political interests and religious concerns largely disappeared. The text, set against events of the times--the Russian Revolution, the Depression and the rise of fascism during the 1930s as well as life on New York's Lower East Side--includes artists' statements as well as the thoughts of religious, literary, and political figures ranging from Marx to Trotsky to newspaper editor Abraham Cahan to contemporary art critics including Meyer Schapiro.
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An atlas of agendas : mapping the power, mapping the commons
A political, social and economic atlas, informing the public about sociopolitical power structures and activating opportunities for the self and the commons. Utilizes the opportunities of infographics from the local to the global and back again.
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Bodies in commotion
Bodies in Commotion is the first book to explore the lively intersection of performance studies and disability studies, provoking new ways of looking at body, space, spectatorship, and identity. In this groundbreaking collection, leading critics, artists, and activists take on topics that range from theater and dance to multimedia performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. The multiple perspectives illustrate how disabled bodies are \"bodies in commotion\"—bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. Bodies in Commotion exposes for the first time the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, making this a unique, dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars.
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Essays in Migratory Aesthetics
This volume addresses the impact of human movement on the aesthetic practices that make up the fabric of culture. The essays explore the ways in which cultural activities--ranging from the habitual gestures of the body to the production of specific artworks--register the impact of migration, from the forced transportation of slaves to the New World and of Jews to the death camps to the economic migration of peoples between the West and its erstwhile colonies; from the internal and external exile of Palestinians to the free movement of cosmopolitan intellectuals. Rather than focusing exclusively on art produced by those identified as migrant subjects, this collection opens up the question of how aesthetics itself migrates, transforming not only its own practices and traditions, but also the very nature of our being in the world, as subjects producing, as well as produced by, the cultures in which we live. The transformative potential of cultures on the move is both affirmed and critiqued throughout the collection, as part of an exploration of the ways in which globalisation implicates us ever more tightly in the unequal relations of production that characterise late modernity. This collection brings academic scholars from a variety of disciplines into conversation with practising visual and verbal artists; indeed, many of the essays break down the distinction between artist and academic, suggesting a dynamic interchange between critical reflection and creativity.
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