{"product_id":"delirium-and-resistance-9780745336886","title":"Delirium and Resistance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDraws on thirty years of critical debates and practices by artists and activist groups to advocate the undermining of capitalism through art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Read this book and you will never see contemporary art the same way again.' -- Guerrilla Girls\u003cbr\u003e'Sholette is representative of a new artist type that emerged after Conceptualism in that his work as a critic, theorist, and curator is central to his practice as an artist. He is one of the most cogent artist-theorists currently working in the domain of social practice art' -- Andrew Hemingway, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University College London\u003cbr\u003e'Shifting between artistic practice, curating, writing, and activism Gregory Sholette has been surfing the waves of activist art for more than three decades' -- Gerald Raunig, philosopher and author of DIVIDUUM: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Part 1 (2016)\u003cbr\u003e'A timely contribution to this ongoing global conversation between several generations of art activists around the ways in which their practice weaves between the contexts of art display, political campaigning and social movements' -- Frieze\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e  Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e  Foreword: Is Another Art World Possible? - Lucy R. Lippard\u003cbr\u003e  Art on the Brink: Bare Art and the Crisis Of Liberal Democracy - Kim Charnley\u003cbr\u003e  Part I: Art World \t\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction I: Welcome to Our Art World\u003cbr\u003e  1. Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: Within and Beyond the Post-Cold War Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e  2. Let’s Do It Again Comrades, Let’s Occupy the Museum!\u003cbr\u003e  3. Bare Art, Debt, Oversupply, Panic! (On the Contradictions of a Twenty-First-Century Art Education)\u003cbr\u003e  Part II: Cities Without Souls\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction II: Naturalizing the Revanchist City\u003cbr\u003e  4. Nature as an Icon of Urban Resistance on NYC's Lower East Side, 1979–1984\u003cbr\u003e  5. Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I Have Seen the Enemy and They Is Us\u003cbr\u003e  6. Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of Disorder versus the People’s Archive\u003cbr\u003e  7. Art After Gentrification\u003cbr\u003e  Part III: Resistance\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction III: Critical Praxis\/Partisan Art\u003cbr\u003e  8. Counting on Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice\u003cbr\u003e  9. Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere\u003cbr\u003e  10. On the Maidan Uprising and Imaginary Archive, Kiev\u003cbr\u003e  11. Delirium and Resistance After the Social Turn\u003cbr\u003e  Postscript: December 2016\u003cbr\u003e  Notes \u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404311109975,"sku":"9780745336886","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745336886.jpg?v=1730486063","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/delirium-and-resistance-9780745336886","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}