Social Forms
A Short History of Political Art
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Word Count
32,000 words, Guess
Page Count
128 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781941701904
- ISBN-101941701906
- Library of Congress Control Number2018033417
- OCLC Control Number1044770716
- Better World Books9781941701904
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27362908M
Classifications
- LCCN72.P6V58 2018
- LCCN72.P6 V58 2018
Description
In 'Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art', renowned critic, curator and writer Christian Viveros-Fauné has picked 50 representative artworks --from Francisco de Goya's The Disasters of War (1810-20) to David Hammons' In the Hood (1993)-- that give voice to some of modern art's strongest calls to political action.0In accessible and witty entries on each piece, Viveros-Fauné paints a picture of the context in which each work was created, the artist's background and the historical impact of each contribution. Sometimes artists create projects that subvert existing power structures; sometimes they make artwork so powerful it challenges the very fabric of society. Whether it is Picasso's Guernica and its place at the 1937 World's Fair, or Jenny Holzer's Truisms (1977-79), which still stop us in our tracks, this book tells the story behind some of the most important and unexpected encounters between artworks and the real worlds they engage with.
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