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Art and politics : a small history of art for social change since 1945 / Claudia Mesch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: xiii, 240 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1848851103
  • 9781848851108
  • 184885109X
  • 9781848851092
Other title:
  • Small history of art for social change since 1945
  • Art and politics : a small history of art for social change since nineteeen forty five [Other title]
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Art and Politics.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 709.04 23
LOC classification:
  • N72.P6 M47 2013
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. State-sponsored art during the Cold War -- 2. Post-colonial identity and the Civil-Rights movement -- 3. The anti-war and peace movements -- 4. Feminisms -- 5. Gay identity/queer art -- 6. Environmental art -- 7. Anti-globalization -- Epilogue : protestAR : #OCCUPYWALLSTREET and #arOCCUPYWALLSTREET -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index.
Summary: "Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political message. This book provides readers with the tools to decode and appreciate political art, a crucial and understudied direction in post-war art. From the postwar works of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Deineka to thie Border Film Project and web-based works of Beatriz da Costa, Art and Politics: a Small History of Art for Social Change after 1945 considers how artists visual or otherwise have engaged with major political and grassroots movements, particularly after 1960." --Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. State-sponsored art during the Cold War -- 2. Post-colonial identity and the Civil-Rights movement -- 3. The anti-war and peace movements -- 4. Feminisms -- 5. Gay identity/queer art -- 6. Environmental art -- 7. Anti-globalization -- Epilogue : protestAR : #OCCUPYWALLSTREET and #arOCCUPYWALLSTREET -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index.

"Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political message. This book provides readers with the tools to decode and appreciate political art, a crucial and understudied direction in post-war art. From the postwar works of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Deineka to thie Border Film Project and web-based works of Beatriz da Costa, Art and Politics: a Small History of Art for Social Change after 1945 considers how artists visual or otherwise have engaged with major political and grassroots movements, particularly after 1960." --Publisher's website.

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