We Make Each Other Beautiful

Art, Activism, and the Law

AvYxta Maya Murray

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

We Make Each Other Beautiful focuses on woman of color and queer of color artists and artist collectives who engage in direct political action as a part of their art practice. Defined by public protest, rule-breaking, rebellion, and resistance to governmental and institutional abuse, direct-action "artivism" draws on the aims, radical spirit, and tactics of the civil rights and feminist movements and on the struggles for disability rights, queer rights, and immigrant rights to seek legal and social change. Yxta Maya Murray traces the development of artivism as a practice from the Harlem Renaissance to Yoko Ono, Judy Baca, and Marsha P. Johnson. She also studies its role in transforming law and society. We Make Each Other Beautiful profiles the work and lives of four contemporary artivists —Carrie Mae Weems, Young Joon Kwak, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Imani Jacqueline Brown—and the artivist collective Drawn Together, combining new oral histories with sharp analyses of how their diverse and expansive artistic practices bear important aesthetic and politicolegal meanings that address a wide range of injustices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-15
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:907 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Cornell University Press
ISBN:9781501775581

Utforska kategorier

Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Konstböcker inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Yxta Maya Murray is David P. Leonard Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of eight novels, including Art Is Everything and God Went Like That. Her art criticism and journalism have appeared in Artforum and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.

Recensioner i media

We Make Each Other Beautiful swan dives into the activist projects of US-based and diasporic artists as wide-ranging as Carrie Mae Weems, Young Joon Kwak, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Imani Jacqueline Brown that trace the emergence and cultural trajectories of these artivists' networks of radical affinities and models of care.(Hyperallergic) An important bridge between the academic and artistic worlds she inhabits, We Make Each Other Beautiful elucidates not only the role that artists play in society with syntactical brio but also how the most rigorous critiques of the law often emerge from artistic practice.(Hyperallergic)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Artivism Avant La Lettre2. From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried: Carrie MaeWeems' Challenge to Copyright and Property Law3. "I just didn't feel safe, but I don't feel safe a lot of times in alot of different places:": Young Joon Kwak's Mutant Salon andthe queer need for safer and thriving spaces4. "How did we get here?": Tanya Aguiñiga's art about theborder and disability law5. "There are so many stories like that, too, of the governmentand private companies relinquishing their responsibility to thepeople of New Orleans, who had lost everything":: Imani Jacqueline Brown, Blights Out, and Live Action Painting(20156. "We wanted to open up and surpass those usualunderstandings:": Drawn Together and fair artists' contractsConclusion: An art dedicated to survival: Art, law, hope, and the wayahead