A people's art history of the United States : 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements /
"Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People's Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough-and-tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial er...
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New York, NY :
The New Press,
2013.
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| Series: | New Press people's history.
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Table of Contents:
- Parallel paths on the same river
- Visualizing 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.