Disobedient objects
2014
Book
From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. Included are arts of rebellion from around the globe: banners, defaced currency, designs for barricades and blockades, political video games, an inflatable general assembly to facilitate consensus decision-making, experimental activist-bicycles, and textiles bearing witness to political murders, along with earlier inspirational objects of protest such as a suffragette tea set and the barricades and balloons of the Paris Commune. Disobedient Objects focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how artists have produced work within the context of social movements, which become the vibrant engines for ingenuity and collective creativity.
Main title:
Disobedient objects / edited by Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon.
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Imprint:
London V&A Publishing, 2014.
Collation:
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Barricades as Material and Social Constructions / Mark Traugott -- The Disobedient Objects of Protest Camps / Anna Feigenbaum -- Making Worlds -- From Tute Bianche to the Book Bloc / Francesco Raparelli -- Direct Action -- On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets / David Graeber -- Unpopular Pamphlets / Nicholas Thoburn -- Speaking Out -- Disobedient Bodies: Art Activisms in Argentina / Ana Longoni -- Solidarity -- A Multitude of Struggles.
Exhibitions:
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 26th July 2014-1st February 2015
ISBN:
9781851777976 (pbk)1851777970 (pbk)
Dewey class:
745.2
Language:
English
BRN:
282744