Aeffect: The Affect and Effect of Artistic Activism
Stephen Duncombe, "Aeffect: The Affect and Effect of Artistic Activism"
English | ISBN: 153150650X | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 153150650X | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 10 MB
The first book to seriously identify how artistic activism works and how to make it work better
The past decade has seen an explosion in the hybrid practice of “artistic activism,” as artists have turned toward activism to make their work more socially impactful and activists have adopted techniques and perspectives from the arts to make their interventions more creative. Yet questions haunt the practice: Does artistic activism work aesthetically? Does it work politically? And what does “working” even mean when one combines art and activism? In Æffect, author Stephen Duncombe sets out to address these questions at the heart of the field of artistic activism.
Written by the co-founder and current Research Director of the internationally recognized Center for Artistic Activism,
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