Anarchy and art : from the Paris Commune to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Allan Antliff.

One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events, ranging from war to revolution to sexual liberation. Art can also transform society, a theme that pervades this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism since the nineteenth century. In numerous essays,...

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Main Author: Antliff, Allan, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver [B.C.] : Arsenal Pulp Press, ©2007.
Series:desLibris. Books collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • A beautiful dream: Courbet's realism and the Paris Commune of 1871
  • Wandering: neo-impressionists and depictions of the dispossessed
  • Obscenity: the advent of Dada in New York
  • True creators: Russian artists of the anarchist revolution
  • Death to art!: the post-anarchist aftermath
  • Gay anarchy: sexual politics in the crucible of McCarthyism
  • Breakout from the prison house of modernism: an interview with Susan Simensky Bietila
  • With open eyes: anarchism and the fall of the Berlin Wall.