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American Artists Against War, 1935 - 2010 by David McCarthy (2015, Hardcover)

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Many artists, working individually or collectively, produced antiwar art to protest the use or threat of military violence in the service of an expansionist state.

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PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520286707

ISBN-139780520286702

eBay Product ID (ePID)210282775

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Book TitleAmerican Artists Against War, 1935-2010

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicHistory / Contemporary (1945-), Art & Politics, Peace, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), American / General, History / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Political Science, History

AuthorDavid Mccarthy

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight29.3 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

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LCCN2015-005905

ReviewsAn outstanding volume... American Artists Against War, 1935-2010 is a major contribution to the growing history of American political art., [McCarthy's] study is the first to thoroughly examine our artists' devotion to expressing their beliefs in work and art., American Artists against War, 1935-2010 is a welcome addition to scholarship on twentieth-century American art. Well researched and sensitive to the specificities of historical context, David McCarthy's work offers a broad overview of artists' opposition to warfare undertaken in the name of capitalist democracy.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal327.1/720887

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Violence, Art, and the American Century 1. Artists against War and Fascism 2. Doom 3. End Your Silence 4. A Network of Artist-Activists 5. Not in Our Name Conclusion Notes Index

SynopsisBeginning with responses to fascism in the 1930s and ending with protests against the Iraq wars, David McCarthy shows how American artists--including Philip Evergood, David Smith, H. C. Westermann, Ed Kienholz, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, Chris Burden, Robert Arneson, Joyce Kozloff, Martha Rosler, and Coco Fusco--have borne witness, registered dissent, and asserted the enduring ability of imagination to uncover truths about individuals and nations. During what has been called the American Century, the United States engaged in frequent combat overseas while developing technologies of unprecedented lethality. Many artists, working collectively or individually, produced antiwar art to protest the use or threat of military violence in the service of an expansionist state. In so doing, they understood themselves to be fighting on behalf of two liberal beliefs: that their country was the guarantor of liberty against empire, and that modern art was a viable means of addressing the most compelling events and issues of the moment. For many artists, creative work was a way to participate in democratic exchange by challenging and clarifying government and media perspectives on armed conflict. Charting a seventy-five-year history of antiwar art and activism, American Artists against War, 1935-2010 lucidly tracks the continuities, preoccupations, and strategies of several generations.

LC Classification NumberN6512.M357 2015