If I Had A Hammer

Name: If I Had A Hammer
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9789053309568
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If I Had a Hammer is the central exhibition from FotoFest Biennial 2022, featuring twenty-three artists who explore how images can reveal and challenge the ideological foundations of cultural movements worldwide. Through both traditional and innovative media, these artists expose the systems behind social and political dogma, drawing inspiration from the historical context of the 1949 protest song by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, which addressed ideological divides and censorship in the McCarthy era.
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Format: Hardback

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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, political history, social activism, and cultural critique. This book appeals to those who appreciate visual arts as a form of ideological exploration and protest.

Description

The FotoFest Biennial 2022 central exhibition, If I Had a Hammer, considers the ways artists utilise images to unpack the ideological underpinnings that inspire collective cultural movements around the globe. Together, the twenty-three included artists propose alternative techniques of seeing and engaging with the world, working with both conventional and new media to shed light on the systems that encourage social theories and political imaginaries to become dogma at the click of a shutter or tap of a button.

The exhibition borrows its title from Pete Seegar and Lee Hays's 1949 protest song of the same name, which was written as a response to growing ideological divides and violence against progressive artists and thinkers in the U.S. during the era of Red Scare McCarthyism. Throughout this period, artists, activists, authors, and musicians, including Seegar and Hays, were made to testify in broadcasted congressional hearings and defend their right to free speech and protest.

This exhibition uses the historical context within which If I Had a Hammer was written as a starting point to explore how those who assert ideological supremacy often do so by employing the very tools used by the communities and individuals they hope to suppress. They use the tools of discursive circulation: broadcast media, text, song, art, and images.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789053309568

Publisher: Schilt Publishing b.v.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 November 2022

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: Schilt Publishing b.v.

Illustration: 171 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Steven Evans
Edited by Max Fields
Edited by Amy Sadao

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 242.0mm

Weight: 1040g

Pages: 296

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Arts & Culture FotoFest International Non-Fiction

About the Author

FotoFest is a Houston-based contemporary arts organization co-founded by photojournalists Fredrick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss. FotoFest is dedicated to advancing photography and visual culture through the presentation of exhibitions, public programs, and publications. The examination of social, cultural, and political histories and contemporary life through the lens of photography and related media is central to FotoFest's mission. In addition to the organization's year-round programming, FotoFest organizes a city-wide biennial project in the form of large-scale central exhibitions, curated lectures, performances, a symposium, and film programs. The organization also hosts several professional development programs, including annually-held Meeting Place Portfolio Reviews, which host over 400 artists and 150 professionals working in the field of art and photography. Through its Literacy Through Photography program, FotoFest organizes K-12 classroom-based learning projects designed to encourage creativity and strengthen student writing, comprehension, and expression, reaching thousands of students. A platform for art and ideas since 1983, FotoFest is committed to promoting lasting international dialogue, cultural exchange, scholarship, and community enrichment by working with artists, audiences, academics, curators, and influential figures in art, culture, and society.