Art Matters How the Culture Wars Changed America

Name: Art Matters How the Culture Wars Changed America
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ISBN: 9780814793510

ISBN-10: 0814793517

ISBN-13: 9780814793510

Edition: 1999

Authors: Philip Yenawine, Marianne Weems, Brian Wallis

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The past decade has seen American culture deeply divided by debates over social identity, public morality, communal values and freedom of expression. A key focus of these polarizing discussions has been the role of visual arts in public life. In Art Matters, five leading cultural critics and two prominent contemporary artists show the ways that this debate has profoundly reshaped our view of American culture. Lucy Lippard investigates the extraordinary recent transformations in visual art; Michele Wallace takes on high art, popular culture, and African American identity; David Deitcher discusses queer culture and AIDS; Carole S. Vance ponders censorship and sexually explicit imagery; and…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Philip Yenawine is Chair of Art Matters Inc. and author of many books, including How to Look at Art.

Marianne Weems is President of Art Matters Inc.Philip Yenawine is Chair of Art Matters Inc. and author of many books, including How to Look at Art.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: But What Has Changed?



Artist's Project: Talking to Art Matters




New Approaches to Visual Culture


Artist's Project: "Dear Friend of the Arts"



Too Political? Forget It



Passionate Irreverence: The Cultural Politics of Identity (1993)



Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell (1989)




AIDS, Art, and Reaction


What Does Silence Equal Now?



How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic (1988)




Demanding Presence: Identity Politics


The Culture War Within the Culture Wars: Race



Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary (1991)




Censorship and the Chilling Effect


The War on Culture (1989)



Homophobia at the N.E.A. (1990)



Are Content Restrictions Constitutional? (1992)




Cultural Policy and Funding for the Arts


The Children of John Adams: A Historical View of the Debate Over Arts Funding



Theses on Defunding (1982)



The Privatization of Culture (1997)



Chronology


Contributors