TY  - GEN
T1  - Usable pasts : social practice and state formation in American art
T2  - Historical materialism book series ;
A1  - Gogarty, Larne Abse
LA  - English
PP  - Leiden ; Boston
PB  - Brill
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1277182555
AB  - "Usable Pasts addresses projects dating to two periods in the United States that saw increased financial support from the state for socially engaged culture. By analysing artworks dating to the 1990s by Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe and Martha Rosler in relation to experimental theatre, modern dance, and photography produced within the leftist Cultural Front of the 1930s, this book unpicks the mythic and material afterlives of the New Deal in American cultural politics in order to write a new history of social practice art in the United States. From teenage mothers organising exhibitions that challenged welfare reform, to communist dance troupes choreographing their struggles as domestic workers, Usable Pasts addresses the aesthetics and politics of these attempts to transform society through art in relation to questions of state formation"--
OP  - 228
CN  - N7433.915 .G64 2022
SN  - 9004471553
SN  - 9004297146
SN  - 9789004297142
SN  - 9789004471559
KW  - Social practice (Art) : United States.
KW  - Art and society : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Art social : États-Unis.
KW  - Art et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Social practice (Art)
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -