Art Was Their Weapon

Author : Dylan Hyde
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1925815900
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Was Their Weapon written by Dylan Hyde and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics, art and culture of Perth's Workers Art Guildare detailed in this comprehensive history, as well as the personal andprofessional lives of some of the movement's key figures.The Workers' Art Guild was a left-leaning political force andinfluential cultural movement of the 1930s and 1940s in Perth. Policeand intelligence arms kept close tabs on the Guild and its members,jailing some and intimidating many others prior to and during theperiod of the banning of the Communist Party in Australia.The book covers the personal and professional lives of key figuressuch as writer Katharine Susannah Prichard and theatre maverickKeith George, while charting the influence of the Communist Party onWestern Australian artists.

Author : Dylan Hyde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925815917
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Was Their Weapon written by Dylan Hyde and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nato Thompson
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612195741
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture as Weapon written by Nato Thompson and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are more sophisticated than ever, the onslaught more relentless. In Culture as Weapon, acclaimed curator and critic Nato Thompson reveals how institutions use art and culture to ensure profits and constrain dissent--and shows us that there are alternatives. An eye-opening account of the way advertising, media, and politics work today, Culture as Weapon offers a radically new way of looking at our world.

Author : Jonathan Ferrara
Publisher : Inkshares
ISBN 13 : 194175872X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns in the Hands of Artists written by Jonathan Ferrara and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s, the New Orleans murder rate exploded. In 1996, 350 people were killed—the highest number in the city’s history, and the highest rate in the nation. In response to this crisis, gallery owner and artist Jonathan Ferrara and artist Brian Borrello, launched a powerful project: Guns in the Hands of Artists. Over sixty artists, including painters, glass artists, sculptors, photographers, and poets, used decommissioned guns taken off the city streets via a gun buyback program to express a thought, make a statement, open a discussion, and to stimulate thinking about guns and gun violence in America. As gun violence continues to devastate the nation on a daily basis, Guns in the Hands of Artists reemerged in 2012 as a community-based social activist art project that has since traveled to six cities across the US. Using art as a mirror for life and interweaving the works of thirty diverse artists with the voices of seventeen national thought leaders, this book is an important outgrowth of the exhibition and an extension of its efforts to employ art as a vehicle for dialogue, as a call to action, and—ultimately—as an agent of change. Essays by: Walter Isaacson, Senator Tim Kaine, Lupe Fiasco, Richard Ford, Joe Nocera, Trymaine Lee, Lolis Eric Elie, John M. Barry, Dan Cameron, Lucia McBath, Harry Shearer, Jonathan Ferrara, Brian Borrello, Maria Cuomo Cole, Michael Waldman, E. Ethelbert Miller, Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly.

Author : Robert Philippe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Graphics written by Robert Philippe and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of political graphics is really the history of mass graphic reproduction. The whole course of its development is traced here though a vast number of engravings, prints, leaflets, posters, caricatures, and periodical illustrations. The book also examines the changing modes of political graphics over the last five hundred years ... through an analysis of more than four hundred significant examples arranged according to both chronology and theme"--Dustjacket.

Author : Ben Boos
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763631485
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swords written by Ben Boos and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the details of design and history of swords.

Author : Alfred Hutton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486449319
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold Steel written by Alfred Hutton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1889 classic by a pioneer of modern fencing offers both technical and historical views of the art of the sabre. Topics include a variety of different strokes and parries, and associated weapons. 55 illustrations.

Author : Sarah Sentilles
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 039959034X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Draw Your Weapons written by Sarah Sentilles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference. “How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?” Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to war: Howard builds a violin; Miles paints portraits of detainees. With echoes of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Sentilles investigates images of violence from the era of slavery to the drone age. In doing so, she wrestles with some of our most profound questions: What does it take to inspire compassion? What impact can one person have? How should we respond to violence when it feels like it can’t be stopped? Praise for Draw Your Weapons “A collage of death, savagery, torture, and trauma across generations and continents, Sarah Sentilles’s Draw Your Weapons is painful to read, hard to put down, and impossible to forget.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “In her dynamic, impressionistic (and cleverly titled) book, Sentilles focuses on language and images–particularly photography–and considers what role they play in peace and war. Eschewing a traditional narrative, Sentilles focuses on two men–one a World War II conscience objector who makes violins, and the other an Abu Ghraib prison guard who paints detainee portraits. In brief, delicately layered pieces rather than a narrative, Sentilles has created a collage that explores art, violence, and what it means to live a principled life.”—The National Book Review “It’s the kind of book that, after reading just half, you have to stop and catch your breath, because reading it changes you, not just in terms of what you know–it changes the way you think and how you feel–so much so that, halfway in, I wanted to go back and start again because I felt I was already a different person to the person I was when I began.”—Turnaround

Author : Cara Levine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998500690
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is Not a Gun written by Cara Levine and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Iain M. Banks
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316068799
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Use of Weapons written by Iain M. Banks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata