Art as demonstration : a revolutionary recasting of knowledge / Sven Spieker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spieker, Sven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Political aspects.

Arts.

Artists--Political activity.

Artists.

Political art.

Art and social action.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

Summary:

"With a focus on political art and protest, this book examines demonstration-practiced as pedagogy, art form, and public protest by artists-as a powerful powerful agent of change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Art-as-Demonstration in the 1960s and Beyond

Ostentatious Neutrality (Bernar Venet, Daniel Buren, Adrian Piper)

Burlesque Lecture Demonstration (Robert Morris, Walter Benjamin)

Film as Operation (Harun Farocki, Paweł Kwiek)

Taking to the Street: Eastern European Art Demonstrations (Milan Knížák, Jiří Kovanda, Endre Tót, Mladen Miljanović, Ciprian Homorodean)

Learning from the Situation (Ulrike Meinhof, Clemens von Wedemeyer)

Instructions for Seeing (Bazon Brock, Wiesław Borowski)

Teaching What Does Not Exist (Gnezdó, Ilya Kabakov)

Demonstration in Post-Soviet Space (Chto delat, Extra-Governmental Commission, Radek Community)

Postscript: The Migrant's Hands. Between Demonstration and Archive in Sylvain George's Qu'ils reposent en révolte (Figures de guerre) (2010)

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-37754-3

0-262-37755-1

OCLC:

1392077461