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Art and Politics Now! - Susan Noyes Platt, PhD - Art Historian & Critic

Table of Contents

Introduction

Overview of Book

A brief historiography of socially engaged art since 1930s

Part I Oppositions: Anti War/Anti Oppression

Introduction to Part I: Theoretical Models Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Marius Babias, Leon Trotsky, Chantal Mouffe, Ernst Laclau, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Iris Rogoff

1. Arts of Resistance: Grassroots Protest From Anti Globalization to Global War, Allan Sekula, Pepper Spray Productions, 9/11 Memorials, Collectives for Resistance
2. Art World Shifts: Exhibitions After 9/11
3. Artists Resist War and Terror I: Atrocities
   Antoni Tapies, Erdag Aksel Alfredo Jaar, Claudia Bernardi, Sue Coe, Selma Waldman, Fernando Botero, Daniel Heymann, Trevor Paglen
4. Artists Resist War and Terror II
   Women and War: Cecilia Alvarez, Deborah Lawrence, Martha Rosler, Coco Fusco The Game of Imperialism: Dominic McGill, Nancy Worthington
5. Racism and Civil Rights: Two Exhibitions; Six Artists:
   Tanis S'eilten, Flo Oy Wong, Roger Shimomura, Faith Ringgold, Clarissa Sligh, Kara Walker

Part II Border Crossings: Defying Divisions

Introduction Part II: From Border Binaries to Hybridity Edward Said, Third Text, Nicholas Papastergiadis

6. Biennial Border Crossings: The Istanbul Biennial, Documenta XI
   "Around the World in 80 Days"
7. Crossing Cultural Borders: Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere
8. Cultural Oscillations Asia/United States: Masami Teraoka, Maki Tamura; Cai Guo Qiang, Zhi Lin, Hung Liu; Wenda Gu, Xu Bing; Nilima Sheikh, Shazia Sikander; Shirin Neshat
9. Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldua/Chicana Art, Judy Baca and SPARC, Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, Chantal Akerman, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Border Art in the Museum; Maquiladoras: Fred Lonidier, Ursula Biemann, Celia Munoz
10. Ecologies: Maya Lin, Jaune Quick to See Smith, Helen and Newton Harrison, etc
    Conclusion