ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take.
The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world – discuss and demonstrate ways of making art and politics legible and salient in the world. As such the 32 chapters in this volume reflect on performing and visual arts; music, film and new media; as well as covering social practice, community-based work, conceptual, interventionist and movement affiliated forms.
The Companion is divided into four distinct parts:
- Conceptual Cartographies
- Institutional Materialities
- Modalities of Practice
- Making Publics
Randy Martin has assembled a collection that ensures that readers will come away with a wider view of what can count as art and politics; where they might find it; and how it moves in the world. The diversity of perspectives is at once challenging and fortifying to those who might dismiss political art on the one hand as not making sufficient difference and on the other to those embracing it but seeking a means to elaborate the significance that it can make in the world.
The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics brings together a range of issues and approaches and encourages critical and creative thinking about how art is produced, perceived, and received.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|77 pages
Conceptual Cartographies
chapter 5|14 pages
Thinking Contradictory Thoughts
part II|89 pages
Institutional Materialities
chapter 15|11 pages
Evangelicalism and the Gay Movement in Singapore
chapter 16|14 pages
A Transformative Initiative for Achieving Cultural Equity
part III|67 pages
Modalities of Practice
part IV|72 pages
Making Publics