Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art /
Gogarty, Larne Abse,
Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art / Larne Abse Gogarty. - 1 online resource. - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 239 Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316 . - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 239. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Historicising Social Practice -- Chapter One: Rehearsals for Real Life -- Chapter Two: Social Practice / Social Reproduction -- Chapter Three: Housing, Homelessness and Documentary -- Chapter Four: Race, Nation and Usable Pasts -- Coda: Utility and Social Practice -- Bibliography.
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.
9789004471559 9789004297142
10.1163/9789004471559 DOI
Art and history.
D16.9
901
Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art / Larne Abse Gogarty. - 1 online resource. - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 239 Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316 . - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 239. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Historicising Social Practice -- Chapter One: Rehearsals for Real Life -- Chapter Two: Social Practice / Social Reproduction -- Chapter Three: Housing, Homelessness and Documentary -- Chapter Four: Race, Nation and Usable Pasts -- Coda: Utility and Social Practice -- Bibliography.
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.
9789004471559 9789004297142
10.1163/9789004471559 DOI
Art and history.
D16.9
901