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100 1 _aGogarty, Larne Abse,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aUsable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art /
_cLarne Abse Gogarty.
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2022.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aHistorical Materialism Book Series ;
_v239
490 1 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aList 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.
520 _aUsable 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aArt and history.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tUsable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art.
_dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2022
_z9789004297142
830 0 _aHistorical Materialism Book Series ;
_v239.
830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004471559
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