{"product_id":"art-workers-radical-practice-in-the-vietnam-war-era-paperback","title":"Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Bryan-Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of American artists and critics sought to expand the definition of creative labor by identifying themselves as \"art workers.\" In the first book to examine this movement, Julia Bryan-Wilson shows how a polemical redefinition of artistic labor played a central role in minimalism, process art, feminist criticism, and conceptualism. In her close examination of four seminal figures of the period--American artists Carl Andre, Robert Morris, and Hans Haacke, and art critic Lucy Lippard--Bryan-Wilson frames an engrossing new argument around the double entendre that \"art works.\" She traces the divergent ways in which these four artists and writers rallied around the \"art worker\" identity, including participating in the Art Workers' Coalition--a short-lived organization founded in 1969 to protest the war and agitate for artists' rights--and the New York Art Strike. By connecting social art history and theories of labor, this book illuminates the artworks and protest actions that were central to this pivotal era in both American art and politics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Best Book of 2009, Artforum Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt stands to reason that art works are made by art workers, but in this searching account of artistic labor in the 1960s and 1970s, Julia Bryan-Wilson shows us that reason is supplanted by ambivalence and ambiguity as artists grappled with the massive upheavals wrought by feminism, the student movement, and the Vietnam War. The art made in the wake of these social transformations toggles between reform and revolution, and the definition of 'artist' has not been the same since.--Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this engaging history of the Art Workers' Coalition, Julia Bryan-Wilson considers the dilemmas and contradictions as well as the artistic innovation and activism that resulted when 'artist' and 'worker' were brought into conjunction at a volatile moment in the late 1960s. Carl Andre in blue coveralls, Robert Morris driving a forklift, Hans Haacke polling gallery-goers, Lucy Lippard delivering her art reviews right after delivering her baby--to such iconic images and moments Bryan-Wilson brings her thorough scholarship and keen analysis.\"--Douglas Crimp, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Museum's Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Julia Bryan-Wilson's deeply researched and insightful \u003ci\u003eArt Workers\u003c\/i\u003e, episodes that had seemed familiar and safely filed away take on a new narrative drive, a more profound salience for contemporary art practice, and a greater weight in our historical understanding of a crucial period.\"--Thomas Crow, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This brilliant, vital, and timely study opens up a view of 1960s and 1970s American art that we didn't know we needed until we had it. One by one, the remarkably perceptive chapters of Bryan-Wilson's book converge to form a volume in the best tradition of the intellectual and interdisciplinary freedoms that remain the chief legacy of the period. The political lives of makers and objects have a new champion in Bryan-Wilson.\"--Darby English, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to See A Work of Art in Total Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Bryan-Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.9 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52422958154035,"sku":"9780520269750","price":69.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/clUyS3RxVGJNaTFqc1VTcEtSaGl5UT09.webp?v=1758577825","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/art-workers-radical-practice-in-the-vietnam-war-era-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}