Our cause, our art: Eda Cufer on Collectivism After Modernism.(BOOKS)(Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945)(Book review)

Artforum International | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

COLLECTIVISM AFTER MODERNISM: THE ART OF SOCIAL IMAGINATION AFTER 1945, EDITED BY BLAKE STIMSON AND GREGORY SHOLETTE. MINNEAPOLIS/LONDON: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2007. 312 PAGES. $28.

TO SOME, THE NOTION of collectivism lies at the heart of twentieth-century utopian visions, evoking the image of selfless communities defined by what they share (labor, space, property, belief systems). In contrast to individualism, collectivism connotes the ideals of community, solidarity, proximity, and trust. To others--whose formation in the art and political world was shaped ...

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