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Jacob and Bass, eds., Learning Mind: Experience into Art SAIC & UC Press, 2009

Michael Brenson, Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America The New Press, 2000

What are you looking at? The Spanish artist Juan Munoz called that his first artistic question. Art critic Michael Brenson has been thinking about that question for a decade; it's changed the way he encounters art. According to Brenson, that question leads to many others, all of which can enhance how we go about engaging with, and learning from, works of art.

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Why is the San Francisco Bay Area such a hotbed of radical poster making? And why, nonetheless, do outspoken and brilliant artists of the left like Doug Minkler encounter censorship in various guises here? The radical printmaker has been both celebrated and gagged. One of his posters may have even inspired someone to burn down an army recruitment center in the 1970s. He discusses the politics of art.

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Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams at YBCA

Renée Green

Spheres of Interest

A number of installations at an exhibition of Renée Green's art address topics like the recovery of unfashionable ideas, the importance of specialized investigation, the relevance of music to political activism, and the search for a meaningful existence.

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"Wherever there was a struggle for peace and justice, Howard was on the front lines: inspiring in his integrity, engagement, eloquence and humor, in his dedication to nonviolence and in his sheer decency." Noam Chomsky used these words to describe his late friend Howard Zinn. In the second part of an extended interview with the historian, Zinn talks about his politics, art, social change, and what a just society might look like, as well as speaking about war and governments.

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Hinderliter et al., eds., Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics Duke U. Press, 2009

David Joselit, Feedback: Television Against Democracy MIT Press, 2007

What happens to people in suburbs and exurbs? What kind of political community is produced there? And what role do, and can, pictures and images play in situating humans as isolated and aloof, or communal and democratic? David Joselit shares his perspective on these and other issues.

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Margaret A. Lindauer, Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo Wesleyan U. Press, 1999

Frida Kahlo's life and work are world famous -- yet what has become of the Mexican artist's radical politics? Art historian Margaret A. Lindauer argues that Kahlo's artistic legacy has been done a disservice by those who would read the painter's works off her personal life, instead of looking at the complex intellectual and political processes that created them.