Synopses & Reviews
Art, Politics and Dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalized or overlooked, in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar period.
About the Author
Francis Frascina is John Raven Professor of Visual Arts at Keele University.
Table of Contents
Researching Alternative Histories of the Art Left * "We Dissent": The Artists' Protest Committee and Representations in/of Los Angeles * "There" and "Here", "Then" and "Now": The Los Angeles "Artists' Tower of Protest," 1966 and its Legacy * Angry Arts, the Art Workers Coalition and the Politics of "Otherness" * My Lai, Guernica, MoMA and the Art Left, New York 1969-70 * Conclusion: Culture Wars and the American Left