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  • The Radical Unpresent

    Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World

    by Gregory Sholette ...
    **A necessary and timely exploration of art activism today, informed by centuries of protest.How contemporary artists and activists are navigating and resisting the collapse of historical time in our uncanny present.**The Radical Unpresent examines our disorienting contemporary moment, in which our experience of time has become profoundly disrupted. Building on his earlier work on “dark matter” in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Delirium and Resistance

    Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism

    by Gregory Sholette ...
    In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism is now the delirium and crisis of liberal democracy and its culture. And though capitalist crisis does not begin within art, art can reflect and amplify its effects, to positive and negative ends.In this follow-up to his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art

    by Gregory Sholette ...
    Series series New Directions in Contemporary Art
    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, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Matter

    Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture

    by Gregory Sholette ...
    Series series Marxism and Culture
    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 marginalised 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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art

    by Gregory Sholette ...
    Series series New Directions in Contemporary Art
    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, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art as Social Action

    An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art

    Edited by Gregory Sholette, Chloë Bass, Social Practice Queens ...
    "Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." —Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Contemporary Art

    1989 to the Present

    Edited by Alexander Dumbadze, Suzanne Hudson ...
    An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics

    Edited by Randy Martin ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    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 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Art in the After-Culture

    Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

    by Ben Davis ...
    It is a peculiar moment for art, as it becomes both increasingly rarefied and associated with elite lifestyle culture, while simultaneously ubiquitous, with the boom of "creative" industries and the proliferation of new technologies for making art. In these important essays, Ben Davis covers everything from Instagram to artificial intelligence, eco-art to cultural appropriation. Critical, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

    by Ben Davis ...
    9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of political art to the troubled status of "outsider" and street art to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself.Ben Davis currently lives and works in New York City where he is Executive Editor at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis

    Aesthetic Resilience

    Edited by Eliza Steinbock, Bram Ieven, Marijke de Valck ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s.The volume shows the diverse ways in which artists have sought to confront systemic crises around the globe, searching for new and enduring forms of building communities and reimagining the political horizon. The authors engage in a dialogue with these artistic efforts ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Art and Politics

    A Small History of Art for Social Change Since 1945

    by Claudia Mesch ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD