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Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art
Grant H. Kester
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Description for Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art
Paperback. Some of the most innovative art over the years has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. This title discusses a disparate network of artists and collectives united by a desire to create new forms of understanding through creative dialogue that crosses boundaries of race, religion, and culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, 32 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai, Thailand - artists operating at the intersection of art and cultural activism have been developing new forms of collaboration with diverse audiences and communities. Their projects have addressed such issues as political conflict in Northern Ireland, gang violence on Chicago's West Side, and the problems of sex workers in Switzerland. Provocative, accessible, and engaging, this book, ... Read more
Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai, Thailand - artists operating at the intersection of art and cultural activism have been developing new forms of collaboration with diverse audiences and communities. Their projects have addressed such issues as political conflict in Northern Ireland, gang violence on Chicago's West Side, and the problems of sex workers in Switzerland. Provocative, accessible, and engaging, this book, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
262
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520275942
SKU
V9780520275942
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About Grant H. Kester
Grant H. Kester is Professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage , and The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context.
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