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Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition

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Description for Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition Hardback. How activism is changing contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond Num Pages: 208 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 567.
What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Artexplores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious, indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in order to construct of a new-if internally fraught-political imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. In the process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an increasing proximity to Wall Street on the other-oftentimes ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
483g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784781880
SKU
V9781784781880
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About Yates McKee
Yates Mckee is a historian and critic of contemporary art, and a political organizer with various post-Occupy projects including Strike Debt. His work has appeared in The Nation, October, South Atlantic Quarterly and Artforum, and he is the co-editor of Sensible Politics: The Visual Cultures of Nongovernmental Activism. He lives in New York City.

Reviews for Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
This irrepressibly vibrant page-turner is the first art historical reading of Occupy Wall Street, and a canny account of politically engaged art before, during and after the events of 2011. I'm tempted to call it the sequel toArtificial Hells, but this would do a disservice to its enthusiastic approach to activism. No left melancholia here-just a powerful commitment to the ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition


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