Ebook: Art of engagement : visual politics in California and beyond
Author: Selz Peter, Landauer Susan
- Tags: Art American -- California -- 20th century. Art and society -- California -- History -- 20th century. Politics in art. Social movements in art. Art américain -- Californie -- 20e siècle. Art et société -- Californie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. Politique dans l'art. Mouvements sociaux dans l'art. ART -- American -- General.
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: San Jose Museum of Art
- City: Berkeley, San Jose, California
- Language: English
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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, Read more...
Abstract: 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 lib