03924nam 2200625 a 450 991082424270332120230803030412.00-292-74543-510.7560/745421(CKB)2670000000386587(EBL)3443679(SSID)ssj0000915939(PQKBManifestationID)12446551(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000915939(PQKBWorkID)10870273(PQKB)11328306(MiAaPQ)EBC3443679(Au-PeEL)EBL3443679(CaPaEBR)ebr10724858(OCoLC)852159153(DE-B1597)588072(DE-B1597)9780292745438(EXLCZ)99267000000038658720121023d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKill for peace[electronic resource] American artists against the Vietnam War /Matthew Israel1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20131 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-292-74542-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.The beginnings of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement -- The beginnings of artistic antiwar engagement: Artists and Writers Protest and the Artists' Protest Committee -- Creating antiwar art -- Angry arts -- 1968 -- 1969: AWC, dead babies, dead American soldiers -- The invasion of Cambodia, the New York Art Strike, and conceptual art as antiwar -- Toward an end.The Vietnam War (1964–1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art dominated the American art world, individual artists and art collectives played a significant role in antiwar protest and inspired subsequent generations of artists. This significant story of engagement, which has never been covered in a book-length survey before, is the subject of Kill for Peace. Writing for both general and academic audiences, Matthew Israel recounts the major moments in the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement and describes artists’ individual and collective responses to them. He discusses major artists such as Leon Golub, Edward Kienholz, Martha Rosler, Peter Saul, Nancy Spero, and Robert Morris; artists’ groups including the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC) and the Artists Protest Committee (APC); and iconic works of collective protest art such as AWC’s Q. And Babies? A. And Babies and APC’s The Artists Tower of Protest. Israel also formulates a typology of antiwar engagement, identifying and naming artists’ approaches to protest. These approaches range from extra-aesthetic actions—advertisements, strikes, walk-outs, and petitions without a visual aspect—to advance memorials, which were war memorials purposefully created before the war’s end that criticized both the war and the form and content of traditional war memorials.Art, American20th centuryThemes, motivesArtPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryArt and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryVietnam War, 1961-1975Protest movementsUnited StatesArt, AmericanThemes, motives.ArtPolitical aspectsHistoryArt and societyHistoryVietnam War, 1961-1975Protest movements701/.03097309046Israel Matthew(Matthew Winer)1607041MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824242703321Kill for peace3933122UNINA