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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Larne Abse GogartyPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 239 Weight: 0.528kg ISBN: 9789004297142ISBN 10: 9004297146 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 24 March 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: Historicising Social Practice 1 The New Deal Imaginary 2 The Stakes of Social Practice 3 Prevented Futures and Usable Pasts 1 Rehearsals for Real Life 1 Performance and Critical Realism 2 The Roof Is on Fire 3 Code 33 4 Injunction Granted 5 Conclusion: Legislation and Rehearsals 2 Social Practice / Social Reproduction 1 Introduction 2 Cells in Organisms/Cogs in Machines 3 Black and White at the Rockland Palace: The Body against the Belt 4 Dance and Domestic Labour 5 Expectations and Welfare Reform 6 ‘Each Week We started with the Body’ 7 Expectations at Capp Street Gallery 8 Conclusion: Reproducing Culture, Reproducing Life 3 Housing, Homelessness and Documentary 1 If You Lived Here … 2 One-Third of a Nation 4 Race, Nation and Usable Pasts 1 Documentary and Nationalism 2 Blackness and the Limits of a Usable Past 3 Project Row Houses Coda: Utility and Social Practice Bibliography IndexReviews"""From Dance of the Washerwomen and Living Newspapers in the 1930s, to artist Rick Lowe’s collaborative reimagining of a defunded Black neighborhood in modern-day Houston, Larne Abse Gogarty’s Usable Pasts is exactly what it claims to be: a superbly narrated history of the socio-economic conditions that make today’s surge of socially engaged art possible. Working against cultural amnesia, Larne Abse Gogarty’s work is precisely that: a smart deep dive into the historical and structural conditions that make today’s surge of socially engaged art possible. To paraphrase Lucy R. Lippard: we would be a lot further along if we had more studies like Usable Pasts."" – Professor Gregory Sholette, Queens College, Art Department, CUNY ""Neither a partisan nor an opponent of aesthetic 'usefulness', Larne Abse Gogarty rather brings the concept into long-overdue dialectical focus. By showing its interrelationships with the state, law, social reproduction, race and urban rebellion as well as its own immanent 'non-contemporaneity' (Bloch), her book makes a major contribution both to a revived Marxist art theory and a communist art history freed from the blinkers of comfortable nostalgia. Full of insightful close analysis of art practices as well as big-picture argument, this book is for any reader looking to confront the realities of political artmaking in a world of ever more contradictions and determinations – and to leave behind the stale verities of formalism versus engagement."" – Dr. Marina Vishmidt, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of [Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital] (Brill, 2018)" From Dance of the Washerwomen and Living Newspapers in the 1930s, to artist Rick Lowe's collaborative reimagining of a defunded Black neighborhood in modern-day Houston, Larne Abse Gogarty's Usable Pasts is exactly what it claims to be: a superbly narrated history of the socio-economic conditions that make today's surge of socially engaged art possible. Working against cultural amnesia, Larne Abse Gogarty's work is precisely that: a smart deep dive into the historical and structural conditions that make today's surge of socially engaged art possible. To paraphrase Lucy R. Lippard: we would be a lot further along if we had more studies like Usable Pasts. - Professor Gregory Sholette, Queens College, Art Department, CUNY Neither a partisan nor an opponent of aesthetic 'usefulness', Larne Abse Gogarty rather brings the concept into long-overdue dialectical focus. By showing its interrelationships with the state, law, social reproduction, race and urban rebellion as well as its own immanent 'non-contemporaneity' (Bloch), her book makes a major contribution both to a revived Marxist art theory and a communist art history freed from the blinkers of comfortable nostalgia. Full of insightful close analysis of art practices as well as big-picture argument, this book is for any reader looking to confront the realities of political artmaking in a world of ever more contradictions and determinations - and to leave behind the stale verities of formalism versus engagement. - Dr. Marina Vishmidt, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of [Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital] (Brill, 2018) Author InformationLarne Abse Gogarty, PhD 2015, University College London, is a Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art. She writes about modern and contemporary art, and has recently published essays in Third Text, and the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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