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Author:   Lindsay Caplan ,  Kerry Greaves
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.749kg
ISBN:  

9781526177568

ISBN 10:   1526177560
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   02 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Contesting models – art and democracy since the 1990s – Lindsay Caplan Part I: Assembly: between intervention and institution 1 Performance and militant curating: rehearsing democratic imaginaries through critical spaces and publics – Gigi Argyropoulou 2 Nordic exceptionalisms: convivial curating and Denmark’s CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics – Kerry Greaves 3 Practices of avant-garde negation in Belarusian art during the 2020 anti-authoritarian uprising – Olga Kopenkina 4 From revolutionary art to democratic art: Oliver Ressler and Wolfgang Tillmans in the shadow of the Situationists – Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen Part II: Party/people: forms of collective identity and their limits 5 Party formalism: formlessness and collective form in contemporary art – Julian Nykolak 6 I am one people: the demos as aporia and opera in the work of Christoph Schlingensief – Jonah Westerman 7 Re-citing, re-siting: art and the figural politics of ‘the people’ in Europe – Sudeep Dasgupta 8 Monumental shadows: renegotiating public monuments and radicalising democracy in today’s culturally pluralised societies – Sabine Dahl Nielsen 9 Public art and democratic fallacies: patriarchal resilience in Erik A. Frandsen’s ‘toppled’ statue BAR ROMA – Mathias Danbolt and Amalie Skovmøller Part III: The state: within, against, beyond 10 ‘BITTERFELD IS EVERYWHERE’: industrial hauntings in the former East Germany – Sara Blaylock 11 Contemporary necropolitical mafia structures or necrodemocracy and contemporary European art and culture – Marina Gržinic 12 The financial system as public resource: Núria Güell’s post-Indignados activist practice – Tatiana Rybaltchenko and Sophie Cras 13 Off-state relations as resilience: grassroots arts instituting in Hungary – Eszter Szakács Index -- .

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Lindsay Caplan is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Kerry Greaves is Assistant Professor of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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