Ace my homework – Write my paper – Online assignment help tutors – Discuss ways in which Larry Kramer and the Act Up organization attempted to call attention to the AIDS crisis
You remember that we asked the question Are Artists “Workers?” when discussing the New Deal.
We are now going to consider whether and how art should be used for political activism. Let’s start by looking at this poster:
Silence=Death, a 1987 poster by the Silence=Death Project
Read this excerpt of an essay file:///Users/iview/Downloads/Green,%20When%20Political%20Art%20Mattered.pdf by Jesse Green, entitled When Political Art Mattered, and this article (Links to an external site.)https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/11/22/silence-equals-death-poster by one of the poster’s creators, Avram Finkelstein, about the rationale for the poster campaign. Thinking about the connection between art and politics, read or listen to several oral histories from Act Up’s Oral History Project site (Links to an external site.)http://www.actuporalhistory.org/interviews/index.html
For your post in this discussion forum answer these questions:
- What kind of political activism did the poster represent?
- What are some examples of the ways in which Larry Kramer and the Act Up organization attempted to call attention to the AIDS crisis? Provide at least one example from Act Up’s Oral History Project (Links to an external site.).
- Do you think artistic works are an appropriate vehicle for political messages? Why or why not?
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