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Provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar

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Introduction: Researching Alternative Histories of the Art Left
Ch. 1: "We Dissent": the Artists' Protest Committee and Representations in/of Los Angeles
Ch. 2: "There" and "Here", "Then" and "Now": The Los Angeles 'Artists' Tower of Protest', 1966 and its Legacy
Ch. 3: Angry Arts, the Art Workers Coalition and the Politics of "Otherness"
Ch. 4: My Lai, Guernica, MoMA and the Art Left, New York 1969-70
Conclusion: Culture Wars and the American Left

Art Politics and Dissent Aspects of the Art Left

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 12/30/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719044694, 978-0719044694
      ISBN10: 0719044693

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Researching Alternative Histories of the Art Left
      Ch. 1: "We Dissent": the Artists' Protest Committee and Representations in/of Los Angeles
      Ch. 2: "There" and "Here", "Then" and "Now": The Los Angeles 'Artists' Tower of Protest', 1966 and its Legacy
      Ch. 3: Angry Arts, the Art Workers Coalition and the Politics of "Otherness"
      Ch. 4: My Lai, Guernica, MoMA and the Art Left, New York 1969-70
      Conclusion: Culture Wars and the American Left

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