A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against
the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study
of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New
York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of now-common
protest aesthetics, the group's members employed incendiary modes
of direct action against racism, colonialism, and the museum
system. They shut down the Museum of Modern Art, fired blanks
during a poetry reading, stormed the Pentagon in an antiwar
protest, sprayed cow's blood at the secretary of state, and dumped
garbage into the fountain at Lincoln Center. Black Mask published a
Dadaist broadside until 1968, when it changed its name to Up
Against the Wall Motherfucker (after line in a poem by Amiri
Baraka) and came to classify itself as "a street gang with
analysis." American activist Abbie Hoffman described the group as
"the middle-class nightmare . . . an anti-media phenomenon simply
because their name could not be printed." Up Against the Real
examines how and why the group ultimately rejected art in favor of
what its members deemed "real" political action. Exploring this
notorious example of cultural activism that rose from the ruins of
the avant-garde, Millner-Larsen makes a critical intervention in
our understanding of political art.
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