A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. Â 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. Â Â
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Nadja Millner-Larsen
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
288 |
| Edition: |
1 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82424-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
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| LSN: |
0-226-82424-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780226824246 |
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