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Art Of Engagement Takes The First Comprehensive Look At The Key Role Of California's Art And Artists In Politics And Culture Since 1945. Tracing The Remarkably Fertile Confluence Of Political Agitation And Passionately Engaged Art, Peter Selz Leads Readers On A Journey That Begins With The Nazi Death Camps And Moves Through The Bay Area's Free Speech Movement Of 1964, The Birth Of Beat And Hippie Countercultures, The Chicano Labor Movement In The San Joaquin Valley, The Beginning Of The Black Panther Party In Oakland, And Some Of The Most Radical Manifestations Of The Women's Movement, Gay Liberation, Red Power, And Environmental Activism. It Also Deals With Artists' Responses To Critical Issues Such As Censorship And Capital Punishment. Selz Follows California's Outpouring Of Political Art Into The Present With Responses To September 11 And The War In Iraq. In The Process, Selz Considers The Work Of Artists Such As Robert Arneson, Hans Burkhardt, Jerome (caja), Enrique Chagoya, Judy Chicago, Llyn Foulkes, Rupert García, Helen And Newton Harrison, Wally Hedrick, Suzanne Lacy, Hung Liu, Peter Saul, Miriam Schapiro, Allan Sekula, Mark Di Suvero, Masami Teraoka, And Carrie Mae Weems.

Author

Selz, Peter Howard; Landauer, Susan; San Jose Museum of Art

Publisher

University of California Press ; San Jose Museum of Art

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520240537

Subjects

Political Science, Art, History