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Legislating Creativity: The Intersections of Art and Politics

Legislating Creativity: The Intersections of Art and Politics

Kidd, Dustin

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology, Book 51

American Art - GeneralGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0415871190
ISBN13: 9780415871198
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the National Endowment for the Arts during the Culture Wars (late 1980s-1990s). Though there have always been tensions in government funding for the arts, these controversies intensified the public debates surrounding art/politics and remain as a focal point in conversations that continue today. The book focuses on three case studies: Mapplethorpe's controversial photography, an exhibit on the impact of AIDS entitled Witnesses, and the Guerrilla Girls. Dustin Kidd has provided a thoroughly enriching look at the intersections of art and politics--the ways that political practices transform creative expression and the ways that artistic drives shape political policies.

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