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Spanning from central China to the southern tip of Latin America, the artists discussed here address crucial issues of war, feminism, climate, detention, migration, and, above all, human rights. They create room-sized installations with multimedia projections as well as traditional paintings and sculptures. The thematic exhibitions such as the themes of detention, human rights and social justice discussed in the first section make the international connections obvious. Within different cultural formations, and whether the audience is national or international, these artists speak to us about survival on our planet. They address many topics within that umbrella, but all speak to a sense of preserving history and tradition, and finding ways to end homelessness, racism, migration, and, above all, that ancient and contemporary destroyer-war. This book is an homage to all those courageous voices.

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In this selected survey of her reviews of art over the past quarter century, Susan Platt explores international art as she experienced it in various formats from Biennials to one person shows. This third book of her collected writings is an invaluable resource for artists, art historians and critics, as well as a textbook for the student. The reviews are insightful and relevant. Platt also connects her reviews to current events and politics. Platt's writing is as powerful as the works she discusses; I urge you to dive in and consider what the writings have meant for your own political consciousness. You will be glad you did! -Pamela Allara, Associate Professor Emerita, Brandeis University, August, 2024

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Susan Noyes Platt was born in New York City. She has held tenured positions in art history in Texas, California, and Washington State. Fulbright Fellowship supported a full year residency in Istanbul, Turkey in 1999-2000 and she has returned many times since then to review the Istanbul Biennial.She is currently an independent art historian and freelance art critic and curator, based in Seattle, Washington. She has written for national and international publications as well as maintaining a blog at www.artandpoliticsnow.com. Her first book, Modernism in the 1920s (UMI Research Press, 1985) examined the critical discourse on modern art in the New York art and academic press in the 1920s before the history of modern art was codified.Art and Politics in the 1930s, Modernism, Marxism, Americanism (Midmarch Arts Press, 1999) looks at the interconnections of art and politics during the Depression years with a focus on criticism by Elizabeth McCausland, Anita Brenner, Charmion Von Wiegand, Alfred Barr and finally, the emergence of Clement Greenberg in 1939.Art and Politics Now Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis (Midmarch Arts Press, 2011) begins with the 1999 anti WTO demonstrations in Seattle and concludes with reference to the BP Gulf oil spill in the spring of 2010. Topics include opposition to war, terrorism, racism, borders, and the violation of the earth.

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