Paula Serafini (UK. University of Westminster)

Broschiertes Buch

Performance Action

The Politics of Art Activism

Beschreibung

This book draws on ethnographic research among a variety of activist groups and initiatives that use art and performance-based art forms as a vehicle for social change, to examine the tensions between aesthetics and politics that lie at the heart of art activism.

Autor

Paula Serafini is a cultural politics scholar, practitioner and organiser. Her work is concerned with the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and with artistic and media interventions in art institutions, labour struggles, and environmental and social justice movements. She is currently a Research Associate at CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester, and holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Analysis (King's College London), an MA in Anthropology & Cultural Politics (Goldsmiths College) and a BA in Art History and Cultural Management (Universidad del Salvador, Argentina). Her previous publications include journal articles in Third Text and Anarchist Studies, and the edited collection artWORK: Art, Labour and Activism, co-edited with Alberto Cossu and Jessica Holtaway (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017).

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780367862541
• ISBN-10: 0367862549
• Artikelnr.: 58314252