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Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond

Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond Paperback / softback - 2006

by Peter Selz

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Paperback / softback. New. Takes a comprehensive look at the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. This work offers the reader a historical sense of the significant role California has played in generating political art and also how the state has stimulated politically engaged art throughout the world.
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  • Title Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond
  • Author Peter Selz
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition New
  • Pages 310
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date January 9, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780520240537
  • ISBN 9780520240537 / 0520240537
  • Weight 2.31 lbs (1.05 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.96 x 8.64 x 0.82 in (25.30 x 21.95 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Geographic Orientation: California
  • Library of Congress subjects Politics in art, Art, American - California - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005023950
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.794

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First line

WAR HAS BEEN A MAJOR SUBJECT OF WESTERN ART and poetry since before the time of Homer.

From the rear cover

"The Art of Engagement represents a singular contribution to debates about the politics of art in California and far beyond."--Derrick R. Cartwright, author of Benjamin West: Allegory and Allegiance and co-author of Luis Gispert/Loud Image, and An Interlude in Giverny

"This book's combination of California as a subject, especially the social and political components, with the visual arts, makes it of wide interest to both scholars and general readers."--Paul J. Karlstrom, editor of On the Edge of America

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2006, Page 1978

About the author

Peter Selz is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books are Nathan Oliveira (California, 2002), Barbara Chase-Riboud, Sculptor (1999), Beyond the Mainstream (1996), and Art in Our Times (1981). Susan Landauer is Kate and Drew Gibson Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art and the author of many books.

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