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Iconography --- Sculpture --- capitalism --- folk tales --- humor --- sculpting --- bronze [metal] --- Otterness, Tom --- United States of America

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Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflected forms of protest within their art practice itself. The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art maps, critiques, celebrates and historicises activist art, exploring its current urgency alongside the processes which have given rise to activism by artists, and activist forms of art.

Author Gregory Sholette approaches his subject from the unusual dual perspective of commentator (as scholar and writer) and insider (as activist artist). He describes a new wave of activist art taking place not only within community-based protest groups, as it has for decades, but also amongst professionally trained, MFA-bearing art practitioners, many of whom, by choice or by circumstance, refuse to respect the conventional borders separating painting from protest, or art from utility. The book explores the subtle distinction between activist forms of art and protest by artists, and proposes that contemporary activist art and art activism constitute a broader paradigm shift that reflects the crisis of contemporary capitalism.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Art --- colonization --- capitalism --- protesting --- globalism --- political art --- dekolonisatie --- maatschappijkritiek --- cultuurkritiek --- protest --- anno 2000-2099

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Art --- sculpture [visual works] --- installations [visual works] --- ecology --- capitalism --- industry [economic concept] --- video art --- shell [animal material] --- oil [organic material] --- Al Qadiri, Monira

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Art --- capitalism --- globalization --- Soviet [nationality or culture] --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 2010-2019 --- Russia

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"Exuberant, profane, witty, and provocative, the images in this book reveal the political dimension of Keith Haring's artistic concerns. Through his graffiti-inspired drawings, paintings, sculptures, murals, and other works, Keith Haring created an immediately recognizable visual iconography that spoke to an enormous population--gay and straight, young and old, male and female. His importance in the annals of popular culture is indisputable, but little attention has been paid to his advocacy for social justice. Haring's political perspective is the focus of this visually arresting selection of works that traces the artist's development and historical significance and gives new gravitas to his career. Accompanying a major exhibition at the de Young museum in San Francisco, this book features more than 130 works of art, including large-scale paintings on tarpaulin and canvas, sculptures, and subway drawings. Together they create a narrative that explores Haring's responses to nuclear disarmament, racial inequality, capitalist excess, environmental degradation, and other prevalent social issues. Essays and conversations with writers, critics, and art dealers round out this important analysis of Haring's life, career, and passion"-- "The first comprehensive study of the political nature of Keith Haring's art"--

sculpting --- homosexuality --- political art --- violence --- capitalism --- collages [visual works] --- aids (kunst) --- racial discrimination --- painting [image-making] --- power --- Art --- sexuality --- Haring, Keith --- kunst en politiek --- kunst in de openbare ruimte