Tag Archive | "art"
Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
An old saying goes that, until lions are the storytellers, hunters will always write history to favor themselves. Countering such understandings is a fundamental aspiration to ideas like popular education as advocated by Paulo Freire.
Continue reading...Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
Sunday, July 18, 2010
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Ostensibly about the recent political strife in the Mexican state, Diario de Oaxaca will likely be far better known for its gorgeous visuals and packaging as a diary, complete with ribbon bookmark. The book, with bilingual versions of the story under the same cover, tells the story of artist Peter Kuper’s life in the community there. However, this book is much more than that.
Continue reading...Colectivo Solidario, El anarcosindicalismo español. Una historia en imagenes
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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Marking the centenary of Solidaridad Obrera, this extensive graphic history of the Spanish libertarian tradition is one of the most recent books published by the Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera.
Continue reading...The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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This richly illustrated and designed volume, featuring indigenous art and photographs on nearly every page and unprecedented interviews with members of the early villages, is a result of the seven years Mexican journalist Gloria Muñoz Ramírez’ spent with the Zapatistas in Southern Chiapas.
Continue reading...Bristle: Political Street Expressions In Bristol And The South West
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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This is a full colour collection of subverts, stencils, graffiti, defaced billboards and other graphical hi-jinks photographed around the Bristol area.
Continue reading...Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Organizers often forget the importance of the imagination. Though cadre may be able to articulate points in Capital, it's the masses who dream for brighter futures for their children that provide the numbers movements need to succeed. And when things look difficult, the imagination helps keep participants focused. One example of this observation was the protest effort in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Continue reading...We Shall Not Be Moved: Posters and the Fight Against Displacement in L.A.’s Figueroa Corridor
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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Gentrification is one of those great battles the working class continues fight on a regular basis. Not that it has much of a choice. Urban desirability and the quest for community in cities across the United States have turned many a block into "neighborhoods in transition," condominium war zones where the enemy combatants are the less well-to-do.
Continue reading...Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte
Monday, April 13, 2009
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Mao Tsetung was famously quoted as saying there was no such thing as art for art's sake, or art detached from politics. In Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte, Carlos Francisco Jackson probes such concepts, as well as their limits. Social justice-oriented creative expressions have proven a transformative force in many eras, from the Black Arts Movement to the explosion of Mexican-American humanities from the 1940s to 1970s.
Continue reading...Become A Friend
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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