Kommentar |
The course gives a broad introduction into the development of activism and socially engaged art practice, with a strong focus on artists & activists of color and art exhibitions by minority artists since 1960s. It addresses the critical reading of the work and practice by forty artists and activists from different cultural backgrounds, who established their careers and were driven to activism during a period of profoundly challenging social change. The course will look at the different communities - from East European, ex-Yugoslavian, to Afro-American and Latinx, to prioritize the voices of women artists, and following chronological order of art movements on American and European continents. |
Literatur |
We Wanted a Revolution. Black Radical Women 1965-85. A Source Book (Eds. Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley. Brooklyn Museum, 2018 New York.
Paul Oritz. An African American and Latinx History of the United States. 2018 Beacon Press Boston.
Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe (Eds. Ana Janevski, Roxana Marocci and Ksenia Nouril). The Museum of Modern Art. 2018 New York. |