The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics

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Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take.
The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world – discuss and demonstrate ways of making art and politics legible and salient in the world. As such the 32 chapters in this volume reflect on performing and visual arts; music, film and new media; as well as covering social practice, community-based work, conceptual, interventionist and movement affiliated forms.
The Companion is divided into four distinct parts:


Conceptual Cartographies
Institutional Materialities
Modalities of Practice
Making Publics


Randy Martin has assembled a collection that ensures that readers will come away with a wider view of what can count as art and politics; where they might find it; and how it moves in the world. The diversity of perspectives is at once challenging and fortifying to those who might dismiss political art on the one hand as not making sufficient difference and on the other to those embracing it but seeking a means to elaborate the significance that it can make in the world.

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics brings together a range of issues and approaches and encourages critical and creative thinking about how art is produced, perceived, and received.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
Author:
Randy Martin, Victor J. Peterson
ISBN:
9781317567790
Related ISBNs:
9781315736693, 9780415645102, 9780367201227
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
332
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-09-24
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2015
Copyright by:
Randy Martin, Victor J. Peterson 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Social Studies