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After many years as a tenured professor of art history, Susan Noyes Platt is currently an independent art historian and freelance art critic and curator, based in Seattle,Washington.
Her first book, Modernism in the 1920s (UMI Research Press, 1985) examined the critical discourse on modern art in the New York art and academic press in the 1920s before the history of modern art was codified.
Art and Politics in the 1930s, Modernism, Marxism, Americanism (Midmarch Arts Press, 1999) looks at the interconnections of art and politics during the Depression years with a focus on criticism by Elizabeth McCausland, Anita Brenner, Charmion Von Wiegand, Alfred Barr and finally, the emergence of Clement Greenberg in 1939.
Art and Politics Now Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis (Midmarch Arts Press, 2011) begins with the 1999 anti WTO demonstrations in Seattle and concludes with reference to the BP Gulf oil spill in the spring of 2010. Topics include opposition to war, terrorism, racism, borders, and the violation of the earth.
Collected Writings Volume 1:
Breaking Ground: Art Modernisms 1920 – 1950 overturns the long-codified history of modernist criticism by demonstrating its roots, expansion and transformations as well as its final ossification.
Print: ISBN 978-1-7345043-0-9 / $18.99 ebook: 978-1-7345043-1-6 / $7.99 Trade paperback, 212pgs, 6×9
Breaking Ground is available to purchase from this website, your local bookstore, and online via Barnesandnoble.com, and other sites.
Retailers /Institutions: available to order from Ingram.
For more information and to purchase a copy of the book, you can do it here http://www.artandpoliticsnow.com
You can purchase books written by Dr. Georgia S. McDade from http://www.georgiasmcdade.org/books Thank you to Wazhma Samizay from Retail Therapy for generously providing an excellent space for the presentation http://www.ineedretailtherapy.com Filming courtesy Scott Story, Bioluminous Commercial Art http://www.bioluminous.com Music: Piano Moment by Benjamin Tissot courtesy http://Bensound.com
Around the World in Twenty-Five Years printing end of January
Spanning from central China to the Southern tip of Latin America the artists discussed here address crucial issues of war, feminism, climate, detention, migration, and, above all, human rights. They create room size installations with multi media projections as well as traditional paintings and sculptures. An invaluable resource for artists, art historians and critics, as well as a textbook for the student; it will also appeal to the general public through its global perspective. The purpose of the book is to suggest our interconnectedness through the introduction of artists and images spanning the globe.