Uncommitted crimes : the defiance of the artistic imagi/nation /
This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression, survival and resistance. It draws on interviews with transnational artists whose work is representative of emerging trends in art, visual culture and politic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Inanna Publications and Education,
[2018]
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| Summary: | This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression, survival and resistance. It draws on interviews with transnational artists whose work is representative of emerging trends in art, visual culture and political aesthetics. Uncommitted Crimes reflects on a new generation of artists whose creative praxis, sensibilities, influences and frames of reference derive from multiple national, religious and cultural genealogies, and an ambivalent relationship to Western and European nationalisms. Courageously, these racialized, Indigenous and migrant artists straddle the divides of many categories of identity in regards to gender, sexuality and 'race.' Their art challenges the silently imbibed worship of whiteness, heteronormative patriarchies, and colonial settler ideologies of "home." These exceptional cultural producers enter into uncomfortable dialogues, creatively. Inspired by their visionary praxis, this book is an uncommitted crime, attempting to smuggle arresting artistic ideas into a site of intellectual imagi/nation. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781771333931 1771333936 |