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Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise

Name: Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise
Brand: University of Chicago Press
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Contributors:

Rebecca Zorach

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Art

Book Subcategory:

Criticism & Theory, American, History

Book Topic:

African American & Black, Contemporary (1945- )

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Release Date:

2024-03-07

ISBN 13:

9780226831015

Weight:

1.6 lbs

Size:

9.92 x 6.93 x 0.71 inches

Pages:

304

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How art played a central role in the design of America's racial enterprise--and how contemporary artists resist it.

Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power in the US, arguing that it has been central to the design of America's racial enterprise. Confronting closely held assumptions of art history, Zorach looks to the intersections of art, nature, race, and place, working through a series of symbolic spaces--the museum, the wild, islands, gardens, home, and walls and borders--to open and extend conversations on the political implications of art and design.

Against the backdrop of central moments in American art, from the founding of early museums to the ascendancy of abstract expressionism, Zorach shows how contemporary artists--including Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, Maria Gaspar, Kerry James Marshall, Alan Michelson, Dylan Miner, Postcommodity, Cauleen Smith, and Amanda Williams--have mined the relationship between environment and social justice, creating works that investigate and interrupt White supremacist, carceral, and environmentally toxic worlds. The book also draws on poetry, creative nonfiction, hip-hop videos, and Disney films to illuminate crucial topics in art history, from the racial politics of abstraction to the origins of museums and the formation of canons.

About the Author
Rebecca Zorach is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, with affiliations in programs in American Studies and Environmental Policy and Culture. Her books include Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance; The Passionate Triangle; and Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago 1965-1975.

Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise

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