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The Art of Activism : Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible / Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: R Books, 2021. New York : Description: 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781682192696
  • 1682192695
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4092 DUN
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Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 658.4092 DUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39002100606459

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Art of Activism is an all-purpose guide to artistic activism, combining the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally with the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change. With contemporary case studies and historical examples, chapters on cultural and cognitive theory, sections on what can be learned from unlikely sources like popular culture and marketing techniques, along with investigations into ethics and evaluation, explorations of the creative process and the importance of utopian thinking, and an attached workbook with over fifty exercises to practice, the co-founders of the Center for Artistic Activism take readers step-by-step through the process of becoming, or becoming even better, artistic activists.

Includes index

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: Art Needs Activism. Activism Needs Art (p. 1)
  • Hello (p. 6)
  • Artistic Activism Works (p. 10)
  • Chapter 1 The Art of Activism (p. 15)
  • Stepping off the Curb (p. 16)
  • We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident (p. 20)
  • The Power of Art (p. 25)
  • Affect, Effect, and Æffect (p. 28)
  • What Is Artistic Activism? (p. 30)
  • What Isn't Artistic Activism? (p. 45)
  • Artistic Activism Is Not Enough (p. 47)
  • Chapter 2 Process (p. 49)
  • The Creative Process (p. 50)
  • Creative Habitats (p. 51)
  • The Artistic Activist Process Model (p. 59)
  • Common Mistakes (p. 68)
  • Perfection Is the Enemy of Completion (p. 73)
  • Double Standards (p. 78)
  • Freedom of Constraint (p. 80)
  • The Slump (p. 81)
  • Risk and Failure (p. 82)
  • Process and Progress (p. 83)
  • Chapter 3 History (p. 85)
  • All Successful Activism Has Been Artistic Activism (p. 86)
  • Jesus (p. 87)
  • The American Revolution (p. 98)
  • The U.S. Civil Rights Movement (p. 102)
  • Black Power! (p. 109)
  • United Farm Workers (p. 115)
  • Feminism(s) (p. 119)
  • ACT-UP! (p. 125)
  • History Is Not Destiny (p. 129)
  • Chapter 4 Culture (p. 131)
  • Culture Is Our Operating System (p. 132)
  • Big C Culture (p. 137)
  • The Impossible Possible (p. 146)
  • Learning to Love Las Vegas (p. 150)
  • The Moral Equivalent to Fast and Furious (p. 154)
  • Alternative Cultures (p. 158)
  • Culture with a Small c (p. 163)
  • Chapter 5 Cognition (p. 169)
  • Remember This (p. 170)
  • Thinking about Thinking (p. 171)
  • The Matlock Method (p. 172)
  • How We Think (p. 175)
  • Prepare to Be Depressed (p. 181)
  • Telling Stories (p. 186)
  • Learning to Listen (p. 188)
  • We're of Two Minds (p. 191)
  • Rewriting the Story (p. 194)
  • Surprise! (p. 195)
  • Figure and Ground (p. 200)
  • Hearts and Minds (p. 207)
  • Chapter 6 Persuasion (p. 209)
  • We Need Nick (p. 210)
  • Yes, Marketing (p. 212)
  • Beyond Raising Awareness (p. 213)
  • The Five Ps (p. 216)
  • Benefits and Costs (p. 220)
  • Benefits and Costs Are Not Equal (p. 225)
  • From Awareness to Action (p. 227)
  • Audiences (p. 235)
  • We Are All Human (p. 241)
  • Chapter 7 Æffect (p. 243)
  • Does It Work? (p. 244)
  • Planning a Campaign (p. 246)
  • Directing Our Efforts (p. 253)
  • You Are Not Alone (p. 258)
  • Why So Much Art and Activism Fails (p. 258)
  • And Then What Happens? (p. 269)
  • Clear Intentions (p. 270)
  • Sublime Propaganda (p. 272)
  • What Do You Want to Do? (p. 276)
  • Chapter 8 Ethics (p. 279)
  • The Dark Side (p. 280)
  • Not Just Nazis (p. 290)
  • Our Ethics (p. 293)
  • Ethical Artistic Activism (p. 294)
  • Rules to Live By (p. 297)
  • Using the Master's Tools (p. 301)
  • Examining Our Own Tools (p. 306)
  • With Great Power (p. 310)
  • Chapter 9 Utopia (p. 313)
  • There Is an Alternative (p. 316)
  • There's No-Place Like Utopia (p. 321)
  • Putting Utopia to Work (p. 323)
  • Dystopia, or Why We Love Imagining the Apocalypse (p. 337)
  • Problems on the Way to Utopia (p. 341)
  • Dreampolitik (p. 346)
  • Making the Impossible Possible (p. 348)
  • Chapter 10 Action! (p. 355)
  • Keywords: (p. 358)
  • Acknowledgements: (p. 362)
  • Index: (p. 364)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Stephen Duncombe is an associate professor at New York University's Gallatin School in the department of Media, Culture and Communications and is a lifelong political activist. He is the author and editor of six books including Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Underground Culture, The Bobbed Haired Bandit: Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York, Cultural Resistance Reader, White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race, and (Open) Utopia. Steve Lambert was born in Los Angeles in 1976. He and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area four days later. His father was a former Franciscan friar, and his mother, an ex-Dominican nun. He dropped out of high school in 1993, but went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in and the University of California, Davis. He teaches at SUNY Purchase. He is a member of the New York based artist group Free Art and Technology Lab. He has won several awards including from Turbulence, the Creative Work Fund, Rhizome/The New Museum, Adbusters Media Foundation, and the California Arts CouncilDuncombe and Lambert are co-founders of The Center for Artistic Activism.

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