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A study of Group Material, the influential but underexamined New York–based artist collective, investigating a series of key works.
 

Key predecessor of contemporary art’s most radical activist gestures, the 1980s collective Group Material seized upon the temporary exhibition as a prime mode of intervention. Projects sited on walls, subways, and billboards targeted some of the most sensitive political conflicts of the era, from U.S. military interventions in Latin America to the AIDS crisis. In Art Demonstration, Claire Grace examines Group Material’s New York–based collaboration across a decade that saw a wave of renewed interest in art as a domain of political mobilization. As Grace argues here, Group Material’s art was never just a means to an end; looking itself held urgency.
 
Grace distinguishes between two types of Group Material projects: room-scale interiors featuring distinctive wall treatments, soundtracks

Art Demonstration Group Material and the 1980s

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      Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/05/2022
      ISBN13: 9780262543521, 978-0262543521
      ISBN10: 0262543524
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of Group Material, the influential but underexamined New York–based artist collective, investigating a series of key works.
       

      Key predecessor of contemporary art’s most radical activist gestures, the 1980s collective Group Material seized upon the temporary exhibition as a prime mode of intervention. Projects sited on walls, subways, and billboards targeted some of the most sensitive political conflicts of the era, from U.S. military interventions in Latin America to the AIDS crisis. In Art Demonstration, Claire Grace examines Group Material’s New York–based collaboration across a decade that saw a wave of renewed interest in art as a domain of political mobilization. As Grace argues here, Group Material’s art was never just a means to an end; looking itself held urgency.
       
      Grace distinguishes between two types of Group Material projects: room-scale interiors featuring distinctive wall treatments, soundtracks

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