The Doom Show displayed toys that had been burned and mutilated to summon the aftermath of a nuclear bomb explosion, as well
as agitprop phrases spray - painted onto canvas.
Not exact matches
Perhaps in order to include more women, figures such
as the artist Corita Kent and the
agitprop journalist Penny Lernoux receive attention far beyond their influence.
Director and star Michael Moore stirred up controversy and won an Oscar ® with this dissection of America's fascination with firearms, a skillful work of
agitprop that is by turns infuriating, disturbing and hilarious
as the rotund host gets a free gun with his new bank account, pays an impromptu visit to NRA chief Charlton Heston, and visits K - Mart with survivors of the Columbine High School shootings.
He seems not to recognize this
as a standard
agitprop of the totalitarian mind - set, always repulsive, but more so here in a movie that glosses over the boy - king's frequent massacres.
Closed Curtain is too rich and too accomplished to be seen purely
as political
agitprop.
Comics, band fliers, decorative prints, and other forms of popular visual culture inform the «zine - like nature of the works by Arturo Herrera and the bespoke patterned paintings by Ruth Root,
as well
as the riotous, colorful canvases by Carrie Moyer, a cofounder of the
agitprop art project Dyke Action Machine!
Certainly she does not belong with the explicitly militant artists whose work qualified
as groundbreaking
agitprop.
One can hardly look away or take it all in, and I could forgive you, along with Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times, for dismissing it
as «
agitprop.»
Notably, the most indelible protest artwork of the era — the iconic «Silence = Death» power with its pink triangle — was created by the activist Silence = Death project
as a work of
agitprop.
I think I hold firmly to the belief that
agitprop doesn't work, not
as art.
As is often the case with so - called «political art,» the moment that a work pushes through a clear, unadulterated message, it stops being art and crosses over to
agitprop — propaganda.
After graduating, Moyer fueled her energy into activism, creating
agitprop for groups such
as ACT UP, Queer Nation, and DYKE ACTION MACHINE!
Jesse Darling's #neoliberal
Agitprop Poster (2014) acts
as a rallying cry for those marginalised by a political and economic system that seeks to punish anybody displaying signs of physical or mental illness.
In honor of Pride Month, this month's First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum will focus on celebrating the queer community and highlighting its history of activism
as seen in their current exhibition
Agitprop!.
David Rimanelli: «No longer do we live in a period in which we can confidently predicate the radicality of form
as a necessary concomitant of radical content, the cri de coeur of both the forthrightly
agitprop and ironically subversive historical avant - gardes.
Fahlström's work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Although some critics such
as Frances Richard dismissed him
as a «throwback to Surrealism or
Agitprop at worst» other critics, such
as Mary Flanagan have seen his use of games
as constituting examples of critical play.
She supported herself
as a graphic designer, and her art practice, in turn, became increasingly design - oriented: She put her talents to use creating
agitprop for such groups
as act up, Queer Nation, and Dyke Action Machine!
When Stefan Wolpe (1902 - 1972) began «Battle Piece» in 1942, it was to have been the first of a series of works for solo piano titled «Encouragements,» intended
as a composer's contribution to the struggle against Fascism; part of the genre Kampfmusik that had earlier included chamber operas, theatre music, and
agitprop songs.
Hence, Dessler diminishes the essay
as «
agitprop» and welcomes its removal from the «portal pages».