Usable Pasts

Social Practice and State Formation in American Art

AvLarne Abse Gogarty

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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Beskrivning

Usable Pasts zeros in on two periods in the United States that saw the state increase its financial support for socially engaged works of culture. In the 1990s the political artworks by Suzanne lacy, Rick Lowe, and Martha Rosler helped usher in an era of social practice art, while in the 1930s saw the creation of the leftist Cultural Front and its proliferation of experiential theatre, modern dance, and photography. By analyzing these trends and their relationship to one another this book unpicks the mythic and material afterlives of the New Deal in American cultural politics, and in so doing writes a new history of social practice art in the United States.From teenage mothers organising exhibitions that challenged welfare reform, to communist dance troupes choreographing their struggles as domestic workers, Usable Pasts addresses the aesthetics and politics of these attempts to transform society through art in relation to questions of state formation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-02
Mått:152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9781642599008

Utforska kategorier

Konstböcker inom Kultur
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Larne Abse Gogarty is a Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art. She writes about modern and contemporary art, and has recently published essays in Third Text, and the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte.

Recensioner i media

“[A] well-researched [...] exploration of how large-scale, social justice-oriented art has evolved in the United States.”—Holly Bass, Dance Chronicle

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Historicising Social Practice1 The New Deal Imaginary2 The Stakes of Social Practice3 Prevented Futures and Usable Pasts1 Rehearsals for Real Life1 Performance and Critical Realism2 The Roof Is on Fire3 Code 334 Injunction Granted5 Conclusion: Legislation and Rehearsals2 Social Practice / Social Reproduction1 Introduction2 Cells in Organisms/Cogs in Machines3 Black and White at the Rockland Palace: The Body against the Belt4 Dance and Domestic Labour5 Expectations and Welfare Reform6 'Each Week We started with the Body'7 Expectations at Capp Street Gallery8 Conclusion: Reproducing Culture, Reproducing Life3 Housing, Homelessness and Documentary1 If You Lived Here …2 One-Third of a Nation4 Race, Nation and Usable Pasts1 Documentary and Nationalism2 Blackness and the Limits of a Usable Past3 Project Row HousesCoda: Utility and Social PracticeBibliographyIndex