Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People´s Culture: Angela Y. Davis
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Author: Angela Y. Davis
Originally published in 1985, this stirring essay from American scholar and activist icon Angela Y. Davis calls into question the role of art in the pursuit of social and racial liberation, and asserts the inequities exacerbated by the art world. Looking to the cultural and artistic forms born of Afro-American struggles, Davis insists that we attempt to understand, reclaim and glean insight from this history in preparing a political offensive against the racial oppression endemic to capitalism.
ISBN 9783960989011. Walther Koenig. pb. 64 pages. 36 colour ills. 15 x 21 cm.
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Originally published in 1985, this stirring essay from American scholar and activist icon Angela Y. Davis calls into question the role of art in the pursuit of social and racial liberation, and asserts the inequities exacerbated by the art world. Looking to the cultural and artistic forms born of Afro-American struggles, Davis insists that we attempt to understand, reclaim and glean insight from this history in preparing a political offensive against the racial oppression endemic to capitalism.
ISBN 9783960989011. Walther Koenig. pb. 64 pages. 36 colour ills. 15 x 21 cm.
available