Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage

Book Overview

There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art-often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one-is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of Afterimage-one of the most influential journals in the media and visual arts fields for more than twenty-five years-Grant H. Kester demonstrates that activist art, far...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822320959
• ISBN13: 9780822320951
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"