Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Art as a pollitical tool - notes on the 1968 art workers co-alition/collaboration

Art workers co-alition/collaboration
-May 1968
-Began in Paris but spread all across Europe and the states
-collective action
-ideological possition
-anti-government
-pro-classlessness
-in response to the vietnam war
-artists removed their own names from their work and became a co-alition/collaboration
-created posters instead of the regular art of that time to removed their work from the gallery institution and the art market
-Paris was taken over by students who kicked out the accedemics and invited in new teachers who they felt would be truthfull and they invited in factory workers.

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