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Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto

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By Vid Simoniti An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism.Artists Remake the World introduces readers to the political ambitions of contemporary art in the early twenty-first century and puts forward a new, wide-ranging account of art’s political potential. Surveying such innovations as evidence-driven art, socially engaged art, and ecological art, the book explores how artists have attempted to offer bold solutions to the wor...
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A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art

$25.95
By Catherine Grant In A Time of One’s Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from 2002 to 2017 by artists including Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Lubaina Himid, Pauline Boudry, and Renate Lorenz, Grant maps a revival of feminism that takes up the creative and political implicatio...
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On view Oct 1 – Feb 13

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81 constitutes the most comprehensive survey exhibition to date to examine the exceptional fertility and diversity of art practice in California between 1974 and 1980, a unique period in American history when the political and social roles of artists, the authority of institutions, and the "objecthood" of art were all being questioned. The exhibition argues that the rise of pluralism was the result not only of the collapse of established canons but al…
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50 Feminist Art Manifestos

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Edited by Katy Deepwell This anthology contains the original manifestos of 50 women artists/feminist groups/feminist protests. What is a manifesto? A political program, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief. Neither institutional mission statement, nor religious dogma; neither a poem nor a book. As a form of literature, manifestos occupy a specific place in the history of public discourse as a means to communicate radical ideas. Distributed as often ephemeral documents, as leaflets...
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Sunday, Jun 2, 2019 12pm

Sunday Studio

Sunday Studio is MOCA’s free, drop-in event featuring art activities for makers of all ages and experience levels. As part of MOCA Community Day, write a letter to a particular person, a future generation, or to the public at large about a social or political change you want to see in the world. Express yourself using classic typewriters and calligraphy.
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Pubic Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good

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By Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, Dominic Willsdon and Lisa Phillips Essays, dialogues, and art projects that illuminate the changing role of art as it responds to radical economic, political, and global shifts. How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term “public art” is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as “new genre public art,” “social practice,” or “socially engaged art” may imply a synergy be...
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Xican-a.o.x. Body

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Edited by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Marissa Del Toro, and Gilbert Vicario Xican-a.o.x. Body centers political and creative resistance of Xicanx artists from 1968 to the present. This publication presents new histories of Xicanx art, illustrating how artists foreground the Brown body to explore, expand, and complicate conceptions linked to Chicanx, Latinx, and Xicanx experiences. Offering new insights into more than 50 years of Xicanx art, Xican-a.o.x. Body examines influential works by some 70 ar...
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As Radical, as Mother, as Salad, as Shelter: What Should Art Institutions Do Now

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Edited by Paper Monument Have you sensed a change in the position of the art institution vis-à-vis political activism? Can an art institution go from being an object of critique to a site for organizing? How? Should the art institution play this kind of role? What other roles can or should it play? What other institutions, curators, or publics do you look to in formulating your own institution's position? How can an institution address the dichotomy between art as cultural entertainment and a...
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Martine Syms and Charles Gaines

A conversation between artists Martine Syms and Charles Gaines that took place in Gaines' studio in Los Angeles, 2015.
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Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

$29.95
By Claire Bishop Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson.Artificial Hells is the fir...
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Sunday, Apr 8, 2018 1pm

Sunday Studio: Matt Lipps: The Power (Struggle) of Images

In tandem with the exhibition Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin, Los Angeles–based artist Matt Lipps will lead a workshop to make two- and three-dimensional photo collages inspired by the historical use of collage in political propaganda, absurdist strategies found in Surrealism and Dada, and methods of appropriation used by the 1970s-era Pictures Generation. Sunday Studio is MOCA’s free, drop-in event featuring art experiences for makers of all ages and experience levels. Programs include fam…
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Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

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Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective of political feminist artists who expose discrimination and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture all around the world. This book explores all their provocative street campaigns, unforgettable media appearances, and large-scale exhibitions. The Guerrilla Girls quickly became a global phenomenon, and the fearl...
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Faith Ringgold: American People

$79.95
Edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari. The most comprehensive survey to date of the work of Faith Ringgold, whose groundbreaking art and political activism span more than sixty years – featuring a stellar line-up of contributors and an unprecedented collection of images Faith Ringgold is a critically acclaimed American artist whose unique methods of visual storytelling have documented and advanced art historical, feminist, and civil-rights movements for more than half a centu...
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Situation

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Edited by Claire Doherty Key texts on the notion of “situation” in art and theory that consider site, place, and context, temporary interventions, remedial actions, place-making, and public space. Situation—a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations—has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended the...
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Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism

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Edited by Mira Dayal and Josephine Heston Critics who prioritize social, ideological, or political concerns are often admonished for “having an agenda.” But judgments are never neutral, and writers who articulate their commitments can productively heighten the stakes and impact of criticism. In Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism, twenty-five art writers and editors share strategies for critical writing and editing that encourage solidarity and reparative decision-making to actively c...
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Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century

$49.95
By Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter. Essays, discussions, and image portfolios map the evolution of art forms engaged with the Internet. Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium—with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, M...
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Bob & Bob: The First Five Years (Signed)

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By Linda Frye Burnham, introduction by Llyn Foulkes Bob & Bob began their multi-media art career in 1974 while attending the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. For the next 10 years, they worked almost exclusively as an Art Team, producing drawings, paintings, sculptures, performances, happenings, short films, songs, and more. In addition to their wry political observations, Bob & Bob brought a much needed sense of humor to the early world of Performance Art and Conceptua...
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On view Jan 15 – Apr 28

Long Story Short

Long Story Short presents artworks dating from the 1940s to the present day, drawn from MOCA’s world-renowned, ever-growing collection of more than 7,500 objects. It demonstrates the myriad ways contemporary artists have addressed aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns in the last seventy-five years, whether by innovating new forms of abstract art, commemorating loves and losses, rethinking the conventions of portraiture, or challenging the secondary status of craft. By exhibiting artw…
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Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art

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By Lex Morgan Lancaster In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a drag—dragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them while pulling their work away from direct representation—these artists reimagine midcentury forms of abstraction and expose the violence of the tendency t...
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Chosen Memories

$45.00
Edited with text by Inés Katzenstein Chosen Memories presents artworks that find their poetic and political vitality by mobilizing histories of Latin America. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the publication presents artworks by contemporary Latin American artists who, over the last four decades, have looked to history as the source material for new work. Videos, photographs, paintings and sculptures, many of which were donated to the museum ...

Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto

A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981

50 Feminist Art Manifestos

Sunday Studio

Pubic Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good

Xican-a.o.x. Body

As Radical, as Mother, as Salad, as Shelter: What Should Art Institutions Do Now

Martine Syms and Charles Gaines

Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

Sunday Studio: Matt Lipps: The Power (Struggle) of Images

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

Faith Ringgold: American People

Situation

Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism

Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century

Bob & Bob: The First Five Years (Signed)

Long Story Short

Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art

Chosen Memories