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Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
Yates McKee
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Description for Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
Paperback. The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; ACXJ; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious, indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in order to construct of a new-if internally fraught-political imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. In the process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an increasing proximity to Wall Street on the ... Read more
What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious, indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in order to construct of a new-if internally fraught-political imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. In the process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an increasing proximity to Wall Street on the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784786816
SKU
V9781784786816
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About Yates McKee
Yates McKee is a PhD candidate in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center, and has worked with various post-Occupy groups including Strike Debt and Global Ultra Luxury Faction. His writing has appeared in October, Grey Room, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Nation and Artforum. He is co-editor of the movement magazine Tidal, and the anthology Sensible Politics: The Visual Cultures of ... Read more
Reviews for Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
This irrepressibly vibrant page-turner is the first art historical reading of Occupy Wall Street, and a canny account of politically engaged art before, during and after the events of 2011. I'm tempted to call it the sequel to Artificial Hells, but this would do a disservice to its enthusiastic approach to activism. No left melancholia here-just a powerful commitment to ... Read more