In these fierce and lyrical essays, David Levi Strauss calls for an artand implicitly for an approach to art writingthat is passionately experiential, intellectually grounded, and politically fearless. He addresses the always conflicted relation between aesthetics and politics by concentrating on specific instancesfrom allopathic art to Desert Storm propaganda, from Columbuss legacy to Robert Smithsons prophesies, and from new art in post-Soviet Russia to public art in the United Statesand by focusing on the work of artists ...
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In these fierce and lyrical essays, David Levi Strauss calls for an artand implicitly for an approach to art writingthat is passionately experiential, intellectually grounded, and politically fearless. He addresses the always conflicted relation between aesthetics and politics by concentrating on specific instancesfrom allopathic art to Desert Storm propaganda, from Columbuss legacy to Robert Smithsons prophesies, and from new art in post-Soviet Russia to public art in the United Statesand by focusing on the work of artists as various as Grnewald, Jean Genet, Cindy Sherman, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miville, Carolee Schneemann, Andrei Monastyrsky, and Daniel Joseph Martinez.
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