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Vanguardia: Socially Engaged Art and Theory

Vanguardia: Socially Engaged Art and Theory
Library Shelf Location 07.LEGE
Publication Date 2019
Description

The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike. But in an era of neoliberal austerity, neocolonial militarism and ecological crisis, this postmodern view seems increasingly outmoded. Rejecting 'end of ideology' post-politics, Vanguardia delves into the changing praxis of socially engaged art and theory in the age of the Capitalocene. Covering the major events of the last decade, from anti-globalisation protests, Occupy Wall Street, the Maple Spring, Strike Debt and the Anthropocene, to the Black Lives Matter and MeToo campaigns, Vanguardia puts forward a radical leftist commitment to the revolutionary consciousness of avant-garde art and politics

ISBN 9781526134899
Quantity 1
Pages 256 Pages; 156mm x 234mm x 28mm
Author Marc James Leger
Format Hardback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Categories Theory, Social Practice
Keywords Theory, Political art, politcally engaged, Political activism, socially engaged, neo-avant-garde, Protest
Language English

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