E-Book Overview
Inspired by the pathbreaking work of Howard Zinn, A People’s Art History of the United States is propelled by a democratic vision of art, showing that art doesn’t just belong within the confines of museums and archives. In fact, art is created every day in the street and all around us, and everyone deserves to be a part of it.Called “important” by renowned art critic Lucy Lippard, A People’s Art History of the United States introduces us to key works of American radical art alongside dramatic retellings of the histories that inspired them. Richly illustrated with more than two hundred black-and-white images, this book by acclaimed artist and author Nicolas Lampert is the go-to resource for everyone who wants to know what activist art can and does do for our society.Spanning the abolitionist movement, early labor movements, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, and up to the present antiglobalization movement and beyond, A People’s Art History of the United States is a wonderful read as well as a brilliant toolkit for today’s artists and activists to adapt past tactics to the present, utilizing art and media as a form of civil disobedience.
E-Book Information
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Series: New Press people's history
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Year: 2,015
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Edition: Paperback edition
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City: United States
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Pages: 366
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Language: English
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Identifier: 162097133X,978-1-62097-133-8
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Org File Size: 16,452,815
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Extension: epub
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Tags: Art -- Political aspects -- United States. Dissident art -- United States. Art, American -- Themes, motives. Art -- Political aspects. Dissident art. United States.
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Toc: Content: Parallel paths on the same river --Visualizing a partial revolution --Liberation graphics --Abolitionism as autonomy, activism, and entertainment --The battleground over public memory --Photographing the past during the present --Jacob A. Riis's image problem --Haymarket : an embattled history of static monuments and public interventions --Blurring the boundaries between art and life --"The Masses" on trial --Banners designed to break a president --The lynching crisis --Become the media, circa 1930 --Government-funded art : the boom and bust years for public art --Artists organize --Artists against war and Fascism --Resistance or loyalty : the visual politics of Miné Okubo --Come let us build a new world together --Party artist : Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party --Protesting the museum industrial complex --"The Living, breathing embodiment of a culture transformed" --Public rituals, media performances, and citywide interventions --No apologies : Asco, performance art, and the Chicano civil rights movement --Art is not enough --Antinuclear street art --Living water : sustainability through collaboration --Art defends art --Bringing the war home --Impersonating utopia and dystopia.