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oapen-20.500.12657-577792022-08-06T03:00:05Z Mobilizing Pedagogy Gonzales, Elyse A. Reisman, Sara Helguera, Pablo. Lacy, Suzanne. Art and social action. Art and society. bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues What is—what should be—the place of art in society? Is it merely decorative? Is it only to affirm a given set of cultural preferences? Or should it examine, challenge, even upend these norms to bring open new perspectives for those who experience what artists create? Social practice artists offer a clear and unflinching answer to this question, setting before us works intended not merely to ask questions but to propose pathways toward large societal change. In this volume, the work of two social practice artists of different generations and different social locations—Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera—are brought into creative tension by two visionary curators: Elyse A. Gonzalez of the Art, Design & Architecture Museum of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sara Reisman of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation of New York. Working together, Gonzales and Reisman bring the work of these two engaged and activist artists into dialogue, showing how art can be not merely the mirror of society but the means of making it more just, more inclusive, and more humane. 2022-08-05T12:45:58Z 2022-08-05T12:45:58Z 2018 book ONIX_20220805_9781943208135_8 9781943208135 9781943208128 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57779 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781943208135.pdf Amherst College Press Amherst College Press 10.3998/mpub.11348302 10.3998/mpub.11348302 bd61c84b-c01e-472d-a7b1-a72ad38700ed 9781943208135 9781943208128 Amherst College Press 104 open access
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What is—what should be—the place of art in society? Is it merely decorative? Is it only to affirm a given set of cultural preferences? Or should it examine, challenge, even upend these norms to bring open new perspectives for those who experience what artists create? Social practice artists offer a clear and unflinching answer to this question, setting before us works intended not merely to ask questions but to propose pathways toward large societal change. In this volume, the work of two social practice artists of different generations and different social locations—Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera—are brought into creative tension by two visionary curators: Elyse A. Gonzalez of the Art, Design & Architecture Museum of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sara Reisman of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation of New York. Working together, Gonzales and Reisman bring the work of these two engaged and activist artists into dialogue, showing how art can be not merely the mirror of society but the means of making it more just, more inclusive, and more humane.
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