Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art (Historical Materialism Book, Band 239) - Hardcover

Gogarty, Larne Abse

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004297146 ISBN 13: 9789004297142

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2022

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Usable Pasts addresses projects dating to two periods in the United States that saw increased financial support from the state for socially engaged culture. By analysing artworks dating to the 1990s by Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe and Martha Rosler in relation to experimental theatre, modern dance, and photography produced within the leftist Cultural Front of the 1930s, this book unpicks the mythic and material afterlives of the New Deal in American cultural politics in order to write a new history of social practice art in the United States. From teenage mothers organising exhibitions that challenged welfare reform, to communist dance troupes choreographing their struggles as domestic workers, Usable Pasts addresses the aesthetics and politics of these attempts to transform society through art in relation to questions of state formation.

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Larne Abse Gogarty, PhD 2015, University College London, is a Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art. She writes about modern and contemporary art, and has recently published essays in Third Text, and the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004297146
• ISBN 13: 9789004297142
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland