| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and social crises and reveals a crisis of confidence regarding resistance's very possibility. Specifically, this collection casts contemporary avant-gardes as a reaction to a crisis in the reproduction of life that accelerated in the 1970s--a crisis that encompasses living-wage rarity, deadly epidemics, and other aspects of an uneven management of vitality indexed by race, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability. The contributors collectively argue that a minoritarian concept of the avant-garde, one attuned to uneven patterns of resource depletion and infrastructural failure (broadly conceived), clarifies the interplay between art and politics as it has played out, for instance, in discussions of art's autonomy or institutionality. Writ large, this book seeks to restore the historical and political context for the debates on the avant-garde that have raged since the 1970s. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Against possession / Sarah Dowling -- The poetics of drift: coloniality, place, and environmental racialization / Samia Rahimtoola -- Pansexual public porn: trans gender docu-porn in the Long 1970s / RL Goldberg -- The ethics of provocation: censoring the past in German Cold War punk / Priscilla Layne -- Indexing post-Fordism at P.S. 1 / Andrew Strombeck -- Under the figure of the palm tree / Jennifer Wild -- I felt like a machine: Martha Rosler's aesthetics of survival / Matt Tierney -- Yayoi Kusama's immaterial drive / Shannon Finck -- Sandinista! The US avant-garde's response to Central American upheavals in the long 1970s / Javier Padilla -- The making of new narrative: gay liberation and the poetics of revolutionary agency / David W. Pritchard |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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Art -- Political aspects. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
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Art and society -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and society. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Tremblay, Jean-Thomas, editor.
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Strombeck, Andrew, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781438485157 1438485158 (DLC) 2021024222 (OCoLC)1240773698 |
| ISBN |
9781438485171 (electronic book) |
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1438485174 (electronic book) |
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9781438485157 (hardcover) |
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1438485158 (hardcover) |
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