Sister Acts.If the appetites of agitprop agitprop Political strategy in which techniques of agitation and propaganda are used to influence public opinion. Originally described by the Marxist theorist Georgy Plekhanov and then by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, it called for both emotional and reasoned arguments. aesthetes and design mavens were whetted by the recent Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) is an American conceptual artist. She was born in Newark, New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. After a year at Syracuse, she moved to New York, where she began attending Parsons School of Design. retrospective, Julie Ault has curated a show sure to make them fall to their knees and praise, well, someone. In "Power Up" (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Hammer Museum, Feb. 6-Apr. 2), former Group Material member Ault teases out the connections between Sister Corita Kent (1918--86)--nun, teacher, and art department chair, whose best work (posters, wrapping paper, and greeting cards) and sloganeering slo·gan·eer n. A person who invents or uses slogans. intr.v. slo·gan·eered, slo·gan·eer·ing, slo·gan·eers To invent or use slogans. Noun 1. ("War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things") came in response to the upheavals of the '60s--and Donald Moffet, well known for his work with the AIDS-activist collective Gran Fury. Boasting a "lively" installation design, Ault's show promises to turn the Hammer into Our Lady of Perpetual Juxtaposition and Recontextualization. |
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