{"product_id":"social-forms","title":"Social Forms","description":"In an increasingly polarized world, with shifting and extreme politics,  Social  Forms  illustrates artists at the forefront of political and social resistance.  Highlighting different moments of crisis and how these are reflected and  preserved through crucial artworks, it also asks how to make art in the  age of Brexit, Trump, and the refugee and climate crises.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art , renowned critic, curator, and  writer Christian Viveros-Fauné has picked fifty representative artworks- from Francisco de Goya's  The Disasters of War  (1810-1820) to David  Hammons's  In the Hood  (1993)-that give voice to some of modern art's  strongest calls to political action. In accessible and witty entries on each  piece, Viveros-Fauné paints a picture of the context in which each work  was created, the artist's background, and the historical impact of each  contribution. At times artists create projects that subvert existing power  structures; at other moments they make artwork so powerful it challenges  the very fabric of society. Whether it is Picasso's  Guernica  and its place at  the 1937 Worlds Fair, or Jenny Holzer's  Truisms  (1977-1979), which still  stop us in our tracks, this book tells the story behind some of the most  important and unexpected encounters between artworks and the real  worlds they engage with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever professing to be a definitive history of political art,  Social Forms  delivers a unique and compelling portrait of how artists during the last 150  years have dealt with changing political systems, the violence of modern  warfare, the rise of consumer culture worldwide, the prevalence of inequality  and racism, and the challenges of technology.","brand":"David Zwirner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42665087926308,"sku":"9781941701904","price":54.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9781941701904.jpg?v=1774922427","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/social-forms","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}