Martin - The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics

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 contributorsa diverse assembly of artists, activists, and 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.

Contributors: Caron Atlas, Wafaa Bilal, Claire Bishop, Swati Chattopadhyay, Patricia Ticiento Clough, Dudley Cocke, Jan Cohen-Cruz, Critical Art Ensemble, Eduardo de la Fuente, Ricardo Dominguez, Mark Driscoll, Boris Groys, Jack Halberstam, Stefano Harney, Shannon Jackson, Joasia Krysa, Suzanne Lacy, Lisa Le Feuvre, Andr Lepecki, Ana Mara Ochoa, Toby Miller, Svetlana Mintcheva, John Roberts, Ned Rossiter, Keng Sen Ong, Jacques Servin, Gregory Sholette, Robert Stam, Diana Taylor, Marta Moreno Vega, Marina Vishmidt, Soenke Zehle, Ultra-red.

Randy Martin is Professor and Chair of Art and Public Policy and founding director of the graduate program in Arts Politics at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He is author of books on the politics of dance, theatre, war, finance, and education.

Edited by Randy Martin
(With editorial assistance from Victor J. Peterson, II)

First published 2015
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2015 Randy Martin for selection and editorial matter; individual contributions the contributors

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The Routledge companion to art and politics / edited by Randy Martin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. ArtsPolitical aspects. I. Martin, Randy, 1957- editor.
NX180.P64R68 2014
700.1'03dc23
2014025554

ISBN: 978-0-415-64510-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-73669-3 (ebk)

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