This section explores how visual arts have engaged with the labor movement, social struggles, and the working class.
Cartoons for the Cause : Designs and Verses for the Socialist and Labour Movement, 1886-1896 by
Preface: "The designs now here collected and reprinted by the Twentieth Century Press have been done from time to time to serve on different occasions the Socialist movement, and have appeared in various journals devoted to the cause, and reprinting its various sides."
The Other America: Art and the Labour Movement in the United States by
Back cover: "This book presents the most extensively documented visual history of the art of the American Labour Movement yet published. Many reproductions trace the work of artists and photographers to reflect the lives of ordinary people..."
Celebrate People's History! The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution by
The best way to learn history is to visualise it! Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over 100 posters by over 80 artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women's rights, queer liberation, labour struggles and creative activism. These essential moments are presented as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today.
Agitate! Educate! Organize! by
In Agitate! Educate! Organize!, Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher share their vast knowledge about the rich graphic tradition of labor posters. Lavish full-color reproductions of more than 250 of the best posters that have emerged from the American labor movement ensure that readers will want to return again and again to this visually fascinating treasury of little-known images from the American past. For more information about this book, visit www.docspopuli.org/ArtWorks.html.
Food, Feminism, and Women's Art in 1970s Southern California by
This book explores how feminist artists continued to engage with kitchen culture and food practices in their work as women's art moved from the margins to the mainstream. In particular, this book examines the use of food in the art practices of six women artists and collectives working in Southern California--a hotbed of feminist art in the 1970s--in conjunction with the Women's Art Movement and broader feminist groups during the era of the Second Wave. Focused around particular articulations of food in culture, this book considers how feminist artists engage with issues of gender, labor, class, consumption, (re)production, domesticity, and sexuality in order to advocate for equality and social change. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, food studies, and gender and women's studies.
Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka by
The performances of Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater, and Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones's) Black Revolutionary Theater (BRT) during the 1960s and 1970s, offer preeminent examples of social protest theater during a momentous and tumultuous historical juncture. The performances of these groups linked the political, the cultural, and the spiritual, while agitating against the dominant power structure and for the transformation of social and theatrical practices in the U.S. Founded during the Delano Grape Pickers' Strike and Black Power rebellions of the mid-1960s, both El Teatro and the BRT professed cultural pride and group unity as critical corollaries to self-determination and revolutionary social action.
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