Delirium and Resistance - Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism

About the author

Gregory Sholette is a New York City based artist, writer and core member of the activist art collective Gulf Labor Coalition. He is the author of Delirium and Resistance (Pluto, 2017), Dark Matter (Pluto, 2010) and co-author of It's The Political Economy, Stupid (Pluto, 2013). He currently teaches in the Queens College Art Department, City University of New York.

Kim Charnley is an art theorist and art historian based at Plymouth College of Art, whose work examines the relationship between politics and contemporary art. He is editor of Delirium and Resistance (Pluto, 2017).

Summary

Draws on thirty years of critical debates and practices by artists and activist groups to advocate the undermining of capitalism through art

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Sholette, Sholette Gregory
• Assisted by: Kim Charnley (Editor), Charnley Kim (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2017
• EAN: 9780745336886
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3688-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, ART / General, ART / Business Aspects, Political activism, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, The arts: general topics, Political activism / Political engagement