What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? Can it be a genuine form of political resistance?

Product Code: 9543
ISBN: 9781324078753
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Pages: 272
Published Date: 11/05/2024
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Price: $17.99

What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers—such as Gran Fury, Billie Holiday, Alexis Wright, Claude Cahun, Rick Lowe, and Joseph Beuys—alongside collectives, communities, and organizations that have used protest sites as their canvas and spearheaded political movements.

From writer Ken Saro Wiwa combatting oil pollution in Nigeria and Susan Sontag directing Waiting for Godot in besieged Sarajevo to the women stitching subversive patchworks in Pinochet’s Chile and the artist-activists who blocked the building of a new airport in France, with stories drawn from environmentalism, feminism, anti-fascism, and other movements, Acts of Resistance brings together remarkable acts of creativity that have shifted history on its axis.


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"Delving into political art across genres, places, and periods… Massie-Blomfield maintains that the sense of hope inherent in producing resistance art is necessary for continued human existence." - Kirkus Reviews

"Riveting [and] galvanizing… A powerful rejoinder to the notion of art for art’s sake." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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