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Series
Personal/public scholarship volume Volume 8
Publisher
Brill Sense
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Series
Reflect volume 08
Publisher
NAi
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Art and activism in the age of globalization" takes the measure of contemporary activist art. Is it a relevant practice or a pseudo-activity in the margins of its politics proper? What is the position of art and activism in the post-Fordian society of the spectacle? The book makes space for a critique of engagement as pose, but also for the present era's urgencies. Besides case studies by established figures such as Steven Cohen and Christoph Schlingensief,...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw's Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the Black child has been--and continues to be--a social agent that demands change. Because children carry a compelling aura of human value and...