Art, Politics and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America [Hardcover]

Francis Frascina (Author)

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Publication Date: March 16, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0719044685 | ISBN-13: 978-0719044687

Art, Politics and Dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalized or overlooked, in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar period.

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Francis Frascina is John Raven Professor of Visual Arts at Keele University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Manchester University Press (March 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0719044685
• ISBN-13: 978-0719044687
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,877,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Early Contribution Highly Relevant to Future of Public Diplomacy, August 13, 2008

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This review is from: Art, Politics and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America (Paperback)

This is a very special book, an early contribution that is sure to be built upon by others. We all urgently need more such books focusing on dissent everywhere, and the role that art, and especially street theater and "public" art as opposed to "commissioned" art, plays in representing the public consciousness and values that stand in opposition to dictatorships, abusive authority, and predatory operations (e.g. by corporations).

I am persuaded that we will finally create a prosperous world at peace when public art and public intelligence (decision support, collective intelligence, wisdom of the crowds) come together and create a public as an immovable object that no external authority can overthrow.

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Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet

Imagery of Dissent: Protest Art from the 1930s and 1960s (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala

The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe

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