Kill for peace
Subtitle: American artists against the Vietnam War
By: Matthew Israel
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780292745421; 9780292748309
Subjects: American Art; Protest movements; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Art and society; Art; Themes, motives; History
Description: "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."--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement; title: The beginnings of artistic antiwar engagement : Artists and Writers Protest and the Artists' Protest Committee; title: Creating antiwar art; title: Angry arts; title: 1968; title: 1969 : AWC, dead babies, dead American soldiers; title: The invasion of Cambodia, the New York Art Strike, and conceptual art as antiwar; title: Toward an end.