Yxta Maya Murray

We Make Each Other Beautiful

Art, Activism, and the Law

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book concerns women of color and queer of color artist-activists-"artivists"-whose work challenges discriminatory and oppressive US laws. Written by a law professor and art critic, the book examines how artivists critique, protest against, and create new interpretations of law through their direct action and their art"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781501775581
• ISBN-10: 1501775588
• Artikelnr.: 69937490

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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