"Art of Engagement" takes the first comprehensive look at the key
role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since
1945. Tracing the remarkably fertile confluence of political
agitation and passionately engaged art, Peter Selz leads readers on
a journey that begins with the Nazi death camps and moves through
the Bay Area's Free Speech Movement of 1964, the birth of Beat and
hippie counter-cultures, the Chicano labor movement in the San
Joaquin Valley, the beginning of the Black Panther Party in
Oakland, and some of the most radical manifestations of the women's
movement, gay liberation, Red Power, and environmental activism. It
also deals with artists' responses to critical issues such as
censorship and capital punishment. Selz follows California's
outpouring of political art into the present with responses to
September 11 and the war in Iraq. In the process, Selz considers
the work of artists such as Robert Arneson, Hans Burkhardt, Jerome
(Caja), Enrique Chagoya, Judy Chicago, Llyn Foulkes, Rupert Garcia,
Helen and Newton Harrison, Wally Hedrick, Suzanne Lacy, Hung Liu,
Peter Saul, Miriam Schapiro, Allan Sekula, Mark di Suvero, Masami
Teraoka, and Carrie Mae Weems. Abundantly illustrated and
beautifully produced, "Art of Engagement" showcases many types of
media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints,
murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance
art, and collage. Readers will come away from the book with a
historical sense of the significant role California has played in
generating political art and also how the state has stimulated
politically engaged art throughout the world. Copublisher: San Jose
Museum of Art.
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