We Make Each Other Beautiful

Art, Activism, and the Law

Yxta Maya Murray (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2024
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7558-1 (ISBN)

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We Make Each Other Beautiful focuses on woman of color and queer of color artists and artist collectives who engage in direct political action as a part of their art practice. Defined by public protest, rule-breaking, rebellion, and resistance to governmental and institutional abuse, direct-action "artivism" draws on the aims, radical spirit, and tactics of the civil rights and feminist movements and on the struggles for disability rights, queer rights, and immigrant rights to seek legal and social change.

Yxta Maya Murray traces the development of artivism as a practice from the Harlem Renaissance to Yoko Ono, Judy Baca, and Marsha P. Johnson. She also studies its role in transforming law and society. We Make Each Other Beautiful profiles the work and lives of four contemporary artivists —Carrie Mae Weems, Young Joon Kwak, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Imani Jacqueline Brown—and the artivist collective Drawn Together, combining new oral histories with sharp analyses of how their diverse and expansive artistic practices bear important aesthetic and politicolegal meanings that address a wide range of injustices.

Yxta Maya Murray is David P. Leonard Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of eight novels, including Art Is Everything and God Went Like That. Her art criticism and journalism have appeared in Artforum and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.

Introduction
1. Artivism Avant La Lettre
2. From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried: Carrie MaeWeems' Challenge to Copyright and Property Law
3. "I just didn't feel safe, but I don't feel safe a lot of times in alot of different places:": Young Joon Kwak's Mutant Salon andthe queer need for safer and thriving spaces
4. "How did we get here?": Tanya Aguiñiga's art about theborder and disability law
5. "There are so many stories like that, too, of the governmentand private companies relinquishing their responsibility to thepeople of New Orleans, who had lost everything":: Imani Jacqueline Brown, Blights Out, and Live Action Painting(2015
6. "We wanted to open up and surpass those usualunderstandings:": Drawn Together and fair artists' contracts
Conclusion: An art dedicated to survival: Art, law, hope, and the wayahead

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices
Zusatzinfo	2 b&w halftones, 26 color halftones, 3 illustrations - 3 Illustrations, unspecified - 2 Halftones, black and white - 26 Halftones, color
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5017-7558-8 / 1501775588
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7558-1 / 9781501775581
Zustand	Neuware