American Artists Against War | Joyce Kozloff, David McCarthy, Martha Rosler | An Art Book Series Event

Beginning with responses to fascism in the 1930s and ending with protests against the Iraq wars, David McCarthy shows how American artists—including Philip Evergood, David Smith, H. C. Westermann, Ed Kienholz, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, Chris Burden, Robert Arneson, Martha Rosler and Coco Fusco—have borne witness, registered dissent, and asserted the enduring ability of imagination to uncover truths about individuals and nations. During what has been called the American Century, the United States engaged in frequent combat overseas while developing technologies of unprecedented lethality.

Many artists, working collectively or individually, produced antiwar art to protest the use or threat of military violence in the service of an expansionist state. Charting a seventy-five-year history of antiwar art and activism, American Artists Against War, 1935–2010 lucidly tracks the continuities, preoccupations and strategies of several generations.











When: Wed., Feb. 10, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: Free
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Beginning with responses to fascism in the 1930s and ending with protests against the Iraq wars, David McCarthy shows how American artists—including Philip Evergood, David Smith, H. C. Westermann, Ed Kienholz, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, Chris Burden, Robert Arneson, Martha Rosler and Coco Fusco—have borne witness, registered dissent, and asserted the enduring ability of imagination to uncover truths about individuals and nations. During what has been called the American Century, the United States engaged in frequent combat overseas while developing technologies of unprecedented lethality.

Many artists, working collectively or individually, produced antiwar art to protest the use or threat of military violence in the service of an expansionist state. Charting a seventy-five-year history of antiwar art and activism, American Artists Against War, 1935–2010 lucidly tracks the continuities, preoccupations and strategies of several generations.

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