Delirium and resistance : activist art and the crisis of capitalism /
Capitalist crisis do not begin within art, but art reflects and even amplifies their effects. The dizzying prices achieved by artists who pander to the financial elites, the proliferation of museums that contribute to the global competition between cities to attract capital, and the strange relation...
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Pluto Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Is another art world possible? / by Lucy R. Lippard
- part I. Art world: Introduction I: Welcome to our art world ; Fidelity, betrayal, autonomy : within and beyond the Post-Cold War art museum ; Let's do it again, comrades, let's occupy the museum!
- Bare art, debt, oversupply, panic! (on contradictions of a twenty-first century art education)
- part II. Cities without souls: Introduction II: Naturalizing the revanchist city ; Nature as icon of urban resistance on NYC's Lower East Side, 1979-1984 ; Mysteries of the creative class, or, I have seen the enemy and they is us ; Occupology, swarmology, whateverology : the city of disorder versus the people's archive ; Art after gentrification
- part III. Resistance: Introduction III: Critical praxis/partisan art ; Counting on your collective silence : notes on activist art as collaborative practice ; Dark matter : activist art and the counter-public sphere ; On the maiden uprising and Imaginary Archive, Kiev ; Delirium and resistance after the social turn
