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• Title:Delirium and resistance : activist art and the crisis of capitalism / Gregory Sholette ; edited by Kim Charnley ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sholette, Gregory, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Charnley, Kim, editor.
  
• Published/Created:London : Pluto Press, 2017.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N72.P6 S595 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art--Political aspects--History--21st century.
  Art and society--History--21st century.
  Art, Modern--21st century.
  
• Description:xix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:Capitalist crises do not begin within art, but art reflects and even amplifies their effects. The dizzying prices achieved by artists who pander to the financial elites, the proliferation of museums that contribute to the global competition between cities to attract capital, and the strange relationship between art and the rampant gentrification that restructures the urban landscape: these are the obvious features of art's subservience to capitalism. There is a flipside, however, which shows art playing an increasingly important role in resistance to austerity and the prefiguration of a different world. Delirium and Resistance engages in critical dialogue with artists' collectives, counter-institutions and activist groups, while reflecting on the inequalities of neoliberal culture. It draws on over thirty years of critical debates and practices both in and beyond the art world to historicise and advocate for the art activist tradition that radically entangles the visual arts with political struggles.
  
• Notes:Include bibliographical references (pages 238-276) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780745336848 (paperback)
  0745336841 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I ART WORLD
  Introduction I Welcome to Our Art World
  1. Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: Within and Beyond the Post-Cold War Art Museum
  2. Let's Do It Again Comrades, Let's Occupy the Museum!
  3. Bare Art, Debt, Oversupply, Panic! (On the Contradictions of a Twenty-first-century Art Education)
  pt. II CITIES WITHOUT SOULS
  Introduction II Naturalizing the Revanchist City
  4. Nature as an Icon of Urban Resistance on NYC's Lower East Side, 1979
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  5. Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I have Seen the Enemy and They Is Us
  6. Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of Disorder versus the People's Archive
  7. Art After Gentrification
  pt. III RESISTANCE
  Introduction III Critical Praxis/Partisan Art
  8. Counting on Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice
  9. Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere
  10. On the Maidan Uprising and Imaginary Archive, Kiev
  11. Delirium and Resistance After the Social Turn.