The aesthetics of creative activism: Introduction

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dc.citation.issue2
dc.citation.volume81
dc.contributor.authorHolm N
dc.contributor.authorTilley E
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-29T02:57:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-04T01:41:58Z
dc.date.available2023-08-29T02:57:47Z
dc.date.available2023-09-04T01:41:58Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-01
dc.date.updated2023-08-29T02:53:09Z
dc.description© The Author(s) 2023.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this introduction to The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism special issue on the aesthetics of creative activism, we canvas influential scholarship of political aesthetics to sculpt a broad typology of six interconnected mechanisms by which art might intervene in the world. We label these: Documentation, Disruption, Recognition, Participation, Imagination, and Beauty. Each has a compelling tradition of theory and application, augmented, extended, and sometimes challenged by the thirteen fresh and provocative contributions in the special issue. Yet, we ask, if both politically minded artists and culturally minded activists are convinced of the power of art to provoke social change, and if we live a world that by almost all measures is now saturated with politically inclined, aesthetically informed practices, interfaces, objects, and texts, why does art not seem to be making a difference? Clearly, we need to think harder about the relationships between art and action, a task the articles assembled here call upon us to take seriously.
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dc.format.extent131-140
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dc.identifier.citationHolm N, Tilley E. (2023). The aesthetics of creative activism: Introduction. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 81. 2. (pp. 131-140).
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jaac/kpad015
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
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dc.identifier.issn0021-8529
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/20044
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.publisher.urihttps://academic.oup.com/jaac/article/81/2/131/7185629
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpad015
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectartistic activism
dc.subjectsocial change
dc.subjectpolitical art
dc.subjectcreative activism
dc.subjectaesthetics
dc.titleThe aesthetics of creative activism: Introduction
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id479976
pubs.organisational-groupCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences
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