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Just making : a guide for compassionate creatives / by Perkins, Mitali,author.(CARDINAL)343105;
Includes bibliographical references."From award-winning author Mitali Perkins comes an essential companion for writers, artists, and other creatives who long for a more just world. Why should we make art while injustice and suffering wreak havoc? How can we justify making beautiful things? Author Mitali Perkins isn't afraid of hard questions about justice and art. She knows that the creative life can seem selfish. As the daughter of immigrants, she studied toward a career of eradicating poverty and knows the internal voice that challenges: "How dare you retreat to your studio to create?" Yet Perkins learned that writing fiction wasn't setting aside her passion for a better world but pursuing it. In Just Making, she offers a justice-driven perspective unique among books on creativity. "My ancestors are village Bengali women who made beautiful things but didn't dare to dream of art as a career," she writes. Women across the globe have crafted beauty and order amid chaos, war, and deprivation, and Perkins turns our attention to what we learn from them. Just Making introduces us to strategies such as forgetfulness in flow, tenderness in trauma, and crossing borders. In conversation with creative guides like Nikki Grimes, Chad Somers, and Carol Aust, Perkins offers ten that help creatives keep making. Persevering through pushback from within and without, we can keep making art that heals human suffering, transmits truth, and confronts the oppressor. Here are dispatches for young and not-so-young creatives, crafted by a writer committed to shalom: the flourishing of all. We must keep making art infused with truth, beauty, and goodness, not to ignore a world in distress but for the sake of loving it. With vivid stories, practical ideas, and reflection and discussion questions, Just Making will inspire you to keep making beauty in a broken world"--
Subjects: Art and social action.; Creative ability.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Acts of resistance : the power of art to create a better world / by Massie-Blomfield, Amber,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? Can it be a genuine form of political resistance? 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."--Publisher.
Subjects: Art and social action.; Art; Art and society.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Nostalgia for the future : modernism and heterogeneity in the visual arts of Nazi Germany / by Maertz, Gregory,1958-author.(CARDINAL)813221;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In the first chapter on the German military's unlikely function as an incubator of modernist art and in the second chapter on Adolf Hitler's advocacy for 'eugenic' figurative representation embodying nostalgia for lost Aryan racial perfection and the aspiration for the future perfection of the German Volk, Maertz conclusively proves that the Nazi attack on modernism was inconsistent. In further chapters, on the appropriation of Christian iconography in constructing symbols of a Nazi racial utopia and on Baldur von Schirach's heretical patronage of modernist art as the supreme Nazi Party authority in Vienna, Maertz reveals that sponsorship of modernist artists continued until the collapse of the regime. Also based on previously unexamined evidence, including 10,000 works of art and documents confiscated by the U.S. Army, Maertz's final chapter reconstructs the anarchic denazification and rehabilitation of German artists during the Allied occupation, which had unforeseen consequences for the postwar art world.
Subjects: National socialism and art.; Art;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Art of the Third Reich / by Adam, Peter.(CARDINAL)192860;
Subjects: Art, German.; Art, German; National socialism and art.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Framing America : a social history of American art / by Pohl, Frances K.(Frances Kathryn),1952-(CARDINAL)196622;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-580) and index.Art and conquest -- Defining America -- Nature and nation -- A nation at war -- Work and art redefined -- The machine, the primitive, and the modern -- Art for the people, art against Fascism -- From Cold War to culture wars.
Subjects: Art and society.; Art, American;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The social art : language and its uses / by Macaulay, Ronald K. S.(CARDINAL)512486;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Language and languages.; Sociolinguistics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Private/public : art and social discourse = Prive/public : art et discours social / by Madill, Shirley,1952-(CARDINAL)224093; Guzman, Antonio J.(CARDINAL)174699; Winnipeg Art Gallery.(CARDINAL)152250;
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art and society.; Installations (Art);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Social justice art : a framework for activist art pedagogy / by Dewhurst, Marit.(CARDINAL)328786;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Art; Arts and society.; Social change.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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On the beaten track : tourism, art, and place / by Lippard, Lucy R.(CARDINAL)142270;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.Introduction : on rubbernecking -- The tourist at home -- Trespassing on common ground : a case study -- Surprise packages -- Seduction and hyperbole -- Santa Fe's tricultural trip -- Crossroads everywhere : cultural tourism -- Exhibitionism -- Curiouser and curiouser -- Tragic tourism -- Parking places -- Taken aback, or, the nostalgia trap.
Subjects: Tourism; Historic sites.; Tourism and art.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sozialistische Gegenwartskunst und proletarisch-revolutionare Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts : Malerei, Grafik, Plastik. by Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany)(CARDINAL)133680;
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Painting, Modern; Socialism and art;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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