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OFF THE GRID - WILFRIED RAUSSERT KARTONIERT (TB)

This book examines public art practices in three eras of social and political upheaval: the
1920s-1930s  1960s-1970s  and today. Heydays of artistic innovation and provocation  these
periods see the rise of grassroots and avant-garde practices that intervene in the crises of
their day by reclaiming public space for community building and social transformation. Artists
of various cultural  social  and political movements in these times establish the street and
other public spaces as laboratories for redefining the nation  culture  and community-in short
for endowing the world with new possibilities. Such revolutionary aesthetics can be found in
the public art practices of Jamaican and U.S.-American Garveyism  Mexican muralism  North and
South American 1960s theatre and happenings  and the contemporary Zapatista  Occupy Wall Street
and Black Lives Matter movements. Contents Introduction Public Space  Art Practice  and the
Social ................................... 1 Chapter I Parading and Performing in the Streets:
Cultural and Artistic Practices in Garveyism and the Harlem Renaissance
........................................................ 29 Chapter II Mexican Avant-Gardes and
InterAmerican Flows: Redefining the Relation between Art Practice and Public Space in the 1920s
and 1930s .................................... 63 Chapter III The Body as Public Sphere: Taking
Theatre  Performance  and Music to the Streets in the Turbulent 1960s and 1970s
................................................ 103 Chapter IV Off the Grid: Art Practices and
Public Space in the Contemporary Period ...... 159 Epilogue
....................................................................................... 211

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