Artwash

Big Oil and the Arts

Mel Evans (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2015
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3589-6 (ISBN)

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A hard-hitting exposé into Big Oil sponsorship of the arts.

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2016*

*Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2015*

* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*

Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on the high profile campaign 'Liberate Tate', Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell's collaboration with institutions such as the Tate in an attempt to end the poisonous relationship forever.

Based on years of undercover research, grassroots investigation and activism as well as performance and cultural interventions, Mel Evans draws together the story of the campaign and its journey which has gone from strength to strength. Artwash shows how corporate sponsorship of the arts erases unsightly environmental destruction and obscures the strategies of oil company PR executives who rely on cultural philanthropy.

The conclusion sounds a note of hope: major institutions (such as the Southbank Centre) have already agreed to cut sponsorship, and tribunals are happening which are taking these relationships to task. Artists and employees are developing new methods of work which publicly confront the oil companies. Like the anti-tobacco campaign before it, this will be an important cultural and political turn for years to come.

Mel Evans is an artist and activist associated with artists collective Liberate Tate and arts and campaigning organisation Platform, who challenge the global impacts of the oil industry. She is the author of Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts (Pluto, 2015).

List of Illustrations and Tables

List of Acronyms

List of Characters

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Big Oil’s Artwash Epidemic

3. Capital and Culture

4. Discrete Logos, Big Spills

5. The Impact of BP on Tate: An Unhappy Context for Art

6. Opposition to Oil Sponsorship and Interventions in Gallery Spaces

7. Conclusion

Notes

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.4.2015
Zusatzinfo	17 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 215 mm
Gewicht	438 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7453-3589-6 / 0745335896
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-3589-6 / 9780745335896
Zustand	Neuware