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The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life | 
 enlarge | Creators: Joseph Thompson, Nato Thompson, Gregory Sholette
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 146467
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 154
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 026220150X
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.05
EAN: 9780262201506
ASIN: 026220150X
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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Condition: New Collectible Hard Cover, 2006 MIT Press, 2nd Edition, Absolutely Clean Covers and Text, No Damage of Any Kind to Binding, Covers or Text! Buy with Confidence!
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Art made to attach to buildings or to be given away? Wearable art for street demonstrations or art that sets up a booth at a trade show? This is the art of the interventionists, who trespass into the everyday world to raise our awareness of injustice and other social problems. These artists don't preach or proselytize; they give us the tools to form our own opinions and create our own political actions. The Interventionists, which accompanies an exhibit at MASS MoCA, serves as a handbook to this new and varied work. It's a user's guide to art that is exciting, provocative, unexpected, inspiring (artistically and politically), and fun. From Michael Rakowitz's inflatable homeless shelter and William Pope.L's "Black Factory" truck with pulverizer, gift shop, and giant inflatable igloo to the Biotic Baking Brigade's political pie-throwing, the art of The Interventionists surveys a growing genre and offers a guide for radical social action.
The book classifies the artists according to their choice of tactics: the Nomads, who create mobile projects; Reclaim the Streets, artists who act in public places; Tools for Resistance: Ready to Wear, artists who produce fashion for political action; and the Experimental University, artists whose work engages pedagogy and theory. The accompanying text includes essays by noted scholars putting the work in a broader cultural and social context as well as texts by the artists themselves.
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