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Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art (Paperback)

by GH Kester (Author)
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  • Paperback: 253 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press (3 Aug 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0520238397
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520238398
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 14.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29,200 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This book is brilliant, brave, and enormously informative. Read it, buy an extra copy, send it to friends, and make sure every student and adult in North America becomes aware of it." - Henry A. Giroux, author of The Abandoned Generation"


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Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai, Thailand - artists operating at the intersection of art and cultural activism have been developing new forms of collaboration with diverse audiences and communities. Their projects have addressed such issues as political conflict in Northern Ireland, gang violence on Chicago's West Side, and the problems of sex workers in Switzerland. Provocative, accessible, and engaging, this book, one of the first full-length studies on the topic, situates these socially conscious projects historically, relates them to key issues in contemporary art and art theory, and offers a unique critical framework for understanding them. Grant Kester discusses a disparate network of artists and collectives - including The Art of Change, Helen and Newton Harrison, Littoral, Suzanne Lacy, Stephen Willats, and WochenKlausur - united by a desire to create new forms of understanding through creative dialogue that crosses boundaries of race, religion, and culture. Kester traces the origins of these works in the conceptual art and feminist performance art of the 1960s and 1970s and draws from the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, Jurgen Habermas, and others as he explores the ways in which these artists corroborate and challenge many of the key principles of avant-garde art and art theory.

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5.0 out of 5 stars art and democracy, 21 Jan 2008
Kester's book and his ideas about contemporary practices is a joy to read. Firstly it is lucid and straightforward and without much postmodern/philosophical jargon. He cleverly puts together many like minded practices from artists and collectives around the world which aim to improve peoples lives in the real world, one riven with limiting life opportunities and social exclusion and sees the interchange of ideas and thoughts between artists and the public as a valid tool for social/political expression. It isnt all about the artist having the grand idea and vision and then imposing it on society, then asking for oodles of cash from pompous high minded galleries and gaining the requisite exposure and media profile to enable the next lucrative project to come along. No, art is there to serve and help people in many different ways to speak the truth on social ills etc and not to be exploited by cultural elitists and vulgar commercialism.
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