Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond / Edition 1

Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0520240537
ISBN-13:
9780520240537
Pub. Date:
01/09/2006
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN-10:
0520240537
ISBN-13:
9780520240537
Pub. Date:
01/09/2006
Publisher:
University of California Press
Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond / Edition 1

Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond / Edition 1

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Overview

Art of Engagement takes the first comprehensive look at the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. Tracing the remarkably fertile confluence of political agitation and passionately engaged art, Peter Selz leads readers on a journey that begins with the Nazi death camps and moves through the Bay Area's Free Speech Movement of 1964, the birth of Beat and hippie countercultures, the Chicano labor movement in the San Joaquin Valley, the beginning of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, and some of the most radical manifestations of the women's movement, gay liberation, Red Power, and environmental activism. It also deals with artists' responses to critical issues such as censorship and capital punishment. Selz follows California's outpouring of political art into the present with responses to September 11 and the war in Iraq. In the process, Selz considers the work of artists such as Robert Arneson, Hans Burkhardt, Jerome (Caja), Enrique Chagoya, Judy Chicago, Llyn Foulkes, Rupert García, Helen and Newton Harrison, Wally Hedrick, Suzanne Lacy, Hung Liu, Peter Saul, Miriam Schapiro, Allan Sekula, Mark di Suvero, Masami Teraoka, and Carrie Mae Weems. Abundantly illustrated and beautifully produced, Art of Engagement showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage. Readers will come away from the book with a historical sense of the significant role California has played in generating political art and also how the state has stimulated politically engaged art throughout the world.

Copub: San Jose Museum of Art

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520240537
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01/09/2006
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 310
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Peter Selz is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books are Nathan Oliveira (California, 2002), Barbara Chase-Riboud, Sculptor (1999), Beyond the Mainstream (1996), and Art in Our Times (1981). Susan Landauer is Kate and Drew Gibson Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art and the author of many books.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue: Countering Cultures: The California Context
Susan Landauer
Introduction: Paths to Engagement
1. Against War and Violence
2. Countercultural Trends
3. Human Rights and Ethnic and Gender Identity
4. Toward a Sustainable Earth

Timeline
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
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