Art and its Responses to Changes in Society

Art and its Responses to Changes in Society
Author: Martin Germ
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-08-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1443898074

Art and its Responses to Changes in Society brings together studies of young researchers dealing with the topics of decline, transformation, and rebirth from various points of view, characteristic of several different fields of the humanities and social sciences, in order to yield new insights into the analyzed subjects. The topics discussed here are diverse: on the one hand, several chapters deal with the metamorphosis of particular pictorial or architectural motifs and concepts, while on the other, studies are included that are dedicated to the analysis of the opera of individual artists, to various periods in architecture and landscape architecture, and to national and state commissions in art, as well as representations of WW2 atrocities in Yugoslavia and attempts to artistically reaffirm Christian symbolism after the end of socialism. As such, the book entails diverse scientific perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, from architecture to moving picture, from the USA to Yugoslavia, and from research on an object to observations on a concept.

Art and Social Change

Art and Social Change
Author: Will Bradley
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"This reader gathers together an international selection of artists' proposals, manifestos, theoretical texts and public declarations that focus on the question of political engagement and the possibility of social change"--Back cover.

British Art and the Environment

British Art and the Environment
Author: Charlotte Gould
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2021-07-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000408213

This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. At a time of pressing ecological concerns, the international group of contributors provide a series of case studies that reconsider the nature–culture divide and aim at identifying the contours of a national narrative that stretches from enclosed lands to rising seas. By adopting a longer historical view, this book hopes to enrich current debates concerning art’s engagement with recording and questioning the impact of human activity on the environment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, environmental humanities, and British studies.

Art and Politics

Art and Politics
Author: Claudia Mesch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0857734105

Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political message. This book provides readers with the tools to decode and appreciate political art, a crucial and understudied direction in post-war art. From the postwar works of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Deineka to thie Border Film Project and web-based works of Beatriz da Costa, Art and Politics: a Small History of Art for Social Change after 1945 considers how artists visual or otherwise have engaged with major political and grassroots movements, particularly after 1960. With its broad definition of the political, this book features chapters on postcolonialism, feminism, the anti-war movement, environmentalism, gay rights and anti-globiliaztion. It charts how individual artworks reverberated with enormous idealogical shifts. While emphasising the West, Art and Politics takes global developments into account as well - looking at art production practiced by postcolonial African, Latin American and Middle Eastern artists. Its case-study approach to the subject provides the reader with an overview of a most complex subject. This book will also challenge its readers to consider often devalued and marginalised political artworks as properly part of the history of modern and contemporary art.

The Art of Activism

The Art of Activism
Author: Stephen Duncombe
Publisher: OR Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781682192696

The Art of Activism is an all-purpose guide to artistic activism, combining the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally with the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change. With contemporary case studies and historical examples, chapters on cultural and cognitive theory, sections on what can be learned from unlikely sources like popular culture and marketing techniques, along with investigations into ethics and evaluation, explorations of the creative process and the importance of utopian thinking, and an attached workbook with over fifty exercises to practice, the co-founders of the Center for Artistic Activism take readers step-by-step through the process of becoming, or becoming even better, artistic activists.

Art and the Moving Image

Art and the Moving Image
Author: Tanya Leighton
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781854376251

"This book traces the story from early spatial experiments with film and video technologies to the current widespread use of projected images in museums and galleries."--BOOK JACKET.

Art as Social Practice

Art as Social Practice
Author: xtine burrough
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000546144

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and digital practices. Suzanne Lacy’s Foreword and section introduction authors Anne Balsamo, Harrell Fletcher, Natalie Loveless, Karen Moss, and Stephanie Rothenberg present twenty-five in-depth case studies by established and emerging contemporary artists including Kim Abeles, Christopher Blay, Joseph DeLappe, Mary Beth Heffernan, Chris Johnson, Rebekah Modrak, Praba Pilar, Tabita Rezaire, Sylvain Souklaye, and collaborators Victoria Vesna and Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Artists offer firsthand insight into how they activate methods used in socially engaged art projects from the twentieth century and incorporated new technologies to create twenty-first century, socially engaged, digital art practices. Works highlighted in this book span collaborative image-making, immersive experiences, telematic art, time machines, artificial intelligence, and physical computing. These reflective case studies reveal how the artists collaborate with participants and communities, and have found ways to expand, transform, reimagine, and create new platforms for meaningful exchange in both physical and virtual spaces. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of art, technology, and new media, as well as artists interested in exploring these intersections.

Art as an Agent for Social Change

Art as an Agent for Social Change
Author: Hala Mreiwed
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004442871

Art as an Agent for Social Change explores through original research, experiences, and personal narratives the role of the arts in bringing forth social change within three interconnected themes: community building, collaborations, and teaching and pedagogy.

Art and Climate Change

Art and Climate Change
Author: Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500777845

Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence is incontrovertible: an environmental crisis is upon us. Art and Climate Change presents an overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that addresses the climate emergency, as artists across the world call for an active, collective engagement with the planet, and illuminate some of the structures that threaten humanitys survival. Across five chapters, curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes examine artworks that respond to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impact on our world, from scenes of nature decimated by ongoing extinction events and landscapes turned to waste by extraction, to art from marginalized communities most affected by the injustice of climate change. What guides the artists gathered together here is an ardent concern for the living, breathing subject of the Earth and all fellow terrestrials caught up in this fast-moving climate drama.

Art and Response: One Nation Divided by Art

Art and Response: One Nation Divided by Art
Author: Michael D'Antuono
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0578181266

Through his highly provocative art, Michael D'Antuono, reveals a nation deeply divided. Not just an art book, "ART & RESPONSE: One Nation Divided By Art" serves as a barometer of our country's disparate attitudes and values.