Anarchism And Art

Author : Allan Antliff
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781551523002

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Anarchy and Art by Allan Antliff Pdf

One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events. In this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism, Allan Antliff interrogates critical moments when anarchist artists have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. The survey begins with Gustave Courbet’s activism during the 1871 Paris Commune (which established the French republic) and ends with anarchist art during the fall of the Soviet empire. Other subjects include the French neoimpressionists, the Dada movement in New York, anarchist art during the Russian Revolution, political art of the 1960s, and gay art and politics post-World War II. Throughout, Antliff vividly explores art’s potential as a vehicle for social change and how it can also shape the course of political events, both historic and present-day; it is a book for the politically engaged and art aficionados alike. Allan Antliff is the author of Anarchist Modernism.

Author : Mark Mattern
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438459196

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Anarchism and Art by Mark Mattern Pdf

Interprets popular art forms as exhibiting core anarchist values and presaging a more democratic world. Situated at the intersection of anarchist and democratic theory, Anarchism and Art focuses on four popular art forms—DIY (Do It Yourself) punk music, poetry slam, graffiti and street art, and flash mobs—found in the cracks between dominant political, economic, and cultural institutions and on the margins of mainstream neoliberal society. Mark Mattern interprets these popular art forms in terms of core anarchist values of autonomy, equality, decentralized and horizontal forms of power, and direct action by common people, who refuse the terms offered them by neoliberalism while creating practical alternatives. As exemplars of central anarchist principles and commitments, such forms of popular art, he argues, prefigure deeper forms of democracy than those experienced by most people in today’s liberal democracies. That is, they contain hints of future, more democratic possibilities, while modeling in the present the characteristics of those more democratic possibilities. Providing concrete evidence that progressive change is both desirable and possible, they also point the way forward.

Author : Allan Antliff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226021033

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Anarchist Modernism by Allan Antliff Pdf

Reveals that during the World War I era modernists participated in a wide-ranging anarchist movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics.

Author : Josh MacPhee,Erik Reuland
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1904859321

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Realizing the Impossible by Josh MacPhee,Erik Reuland Pdf

Looks at the history of the depiction of anti-authoritarian social movements in art.

Author : Patricia Leighten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226471389

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The Liberation of Painting by Patricia Leighten Pdf

The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their engagement with radical politics. In this provocative study of art and anarchism in prewar France, Patricia Leighten argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed by war fever and then forgotten. Leighten examines the circle of artists—Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, František Kupka, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees Van Dongen, and others—for whom anarchist politics drove the idea of avant-garde art, exploring how their aesthetic choices negotiated the myriad artistic languages operating in the decade before World War I. Whether they worked on large-scale salon paintings, political cartoons, or avant-garde abstractions, these artists, she shows, were preoccupied with social criticism. Each sought an appropriate subject, medium, style, and audience based on different conceptions of how art influences society—and their choices constantly shifted as they responded to the dilemmas posed by contradictory anarchist ideas. According to anarchist theorists, art should expose the follies and iniquities of the present to the masses, but it should also be the untrammeled expression of the emancipated individual and open a path to a new social order. Revealing how these ideas generated some of modernism’s most telling contradictions among the prewar Parisian avant-garde, The Liberation of Painting restores revolutionary activism to the broader history of modern art.

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990623076

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The Anarchist's Design Book by Christopher Schwarz Pdf

Author : Wiebke Gronemeyer,Isabel Wünsche
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443856867

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Practices of Abstract Art by Wiebke Gronemeyer,Isabel Wünsche Pdf

Recent decades have seen a renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, particularly regarding its ability to speak to the political, social, and cultural conditions of our times. This collection of essays, which looks at historical examples of artistic practice from the early pioneers of abstraction to late modernism, investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years. In addition, it explores various theoretical and critical narratives that seek to articulate new perspectives on its legacy in the visual arts. From metaphysical considerations and philosophical reflections to debates on interculturality and global perspectives, the contributors examine and reconsider abstraction in the visual arts from a contemporary point of view that acknowledges the many social, economic, cultural, and political aspects of artistic practice. As such, the volume progressively expands the boundaries of thinking about abstract art by engaging it in its increasingly diverse cultural environment.

Author : Nina Gourianova
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520268760

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The Aesthetics of Anarchy by Nina Gourianova Pdf

"In this meticulously-researched, in-depth examination of anarchism and modernism, Gurianova provides a new and compelling interpretation of the early Russian avant-garde. Her study has major implications for our understanding of some of the twentieth century’s most important modernists and is an important contribution to the history and theory of radical political thought."— Allan Antliff, author of Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. “Gurianova is the first scholar to study the early Russian avant-garde not as a precursor to the Constructivism of the 1920s, but as a distinctive movement in its own right. In this important book, she identifies an “aesthetics of anarchy” that characterized the movement’s politics and poetics—a concept with provocative implications for our understanding of the relationship between word and image. This is a work of original and compelling scholarship that will profoundly alter our understanding of the Russian avant-garde.”— Nancy Perloff, Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), curator of the exhibit Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde (1910-1917).

Author : Mark Mattern
Publisher : Suny Series in New Political S
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1438459203

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Anarchism and Art by Mark Mattern Pdf

Situated at the intersection of anarchist and democratic theory, Anarchism and Art focuses on four popular art forms DIY (Do It Yourself) punk music, poetry slam, graffiti and street art, and flash mobs found in the cracks between dominant political, economic, and cultural institutions and on the margins of mainstream neoliberal society. Mark Mattern interprets these popular art forms in terms of core anarchist values of autonomy, equality, decentralized and horizontal forms of power, and direct action by common people, who refuse the terms offered them by neoliberalism while creating practical alternatives. As exemplars of central anarchist principles and commitments, such forms of popular art, he argues, prefigure deeper forms of democracy than those experienced by most people in today s liberal democracies. That is, they contain hints of future, more democratic possibilities, while modeling in the present the characteristics of those more democratic possibilities. Providing concrete evidence that progressive change is both desirable and possible, they also point the way forward."

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Carpentry
ISBN : 0578084139

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Anarchist's Tool Chest by Christopher Schwarz Pdf

Author : Robyn Roslak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351556545

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Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Si?e France by Robyn Roslak Pdf

In Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Si?e France, Robyn Roslak examines for the first time the close relationship between neo-impressionist landscapes and cityscapes and the anarchist sympathies of the movement's artists. She focuses in particular on paintings produced between 1886 and 1905 by Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce, the neo-impressionists whose fidelity to anarchism, to the art of landscape and to a belief in the social potential of art was strongest. Although the neo-impressionists are best known for their rational and scientific technique, they also heeded the era's call for art surpassing the mundane realities of everyday life. By tempering their modern subjects with a decorative style, they hoped to lead their viewers toward moral and social improvement. Roslak's ground-breaking analysis shows how the anarchist theories of Elis?Reclus, Pierre Kropotkin and Jean Grave both inspired and coincided with these ideals. Anarchism attracted the neo-impressionists because its standards for social justice were grounded, like neo-impressionism itself, in scientific exactitude and aesthetic idealism. Anarchists claimed humanity would reach its highest level of social and moral development only in the presence of a decorative variety of nature, and called upon progressive thinkers to help create and maintain such environments. The neo-impressionists, who primarily painted decorative landscapes, therefore discovered in anarchism a political theory consistent with their belief that decorative harmony should be the basis for socially responsible art.

Author : Theresa Papanikolas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351576574

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Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada by Theresa Papanikolas Pdf

Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada sheds new light on Paris Dada's role in developing the anarchist and individualist philosophies that helped shape the cultural dialogue in France following the First World War. Drawing on such surviving documentation as correspondence, criticism, periodicals, pamphlets, and manifestoes, this book argues that, contrary to received wisdom, Dada was driven by a vision of social change through radical cultural upheaval. The first book-length study to interrogate the Paris Dadaists' complex and often contested position in the postwar groundswell of anarcho-individualism, Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada offers an unprecedented analysis of Paris Dada literature and art in relation to anarchism, and also revives a variety of little known anarcho-individualist texts and periodicals. In doing so, it reveals the general ideological diversity of the postwar French avant-garde and identifies its anarchist concerns; in addition, it challenges the accepted paradigm that postwar cultural politics were monolithically nationalist. By positioning Paris Dada in its anarchist context, this volume addresses a long-ignored lacuna in Dada scholarship and, more broadly, takes its place alongside the numerous studies that over the past two decades have problematized the politics of modern art, literature, and culture.

Author : Kristian Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1849353204

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Resist Everything Except Temptation by Kristian Williams Pdf

A book that penetrates the surface of the Oscar Wilde mythos to uncover the radical politics that propelled his art.

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300156522

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The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott Pdf

From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.

Author : Emma Goldman
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465597335

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Anarchism: What It Really Stands For by Emma Goldman Pdf