True to its title, the exhibition Abstract Resistance considers the metaphor of "resistance" as a complex political and compositional force defining art of the past half-century. Starting with Michel Foucault's assertion that "where there is power, there is resistance," it explores art made since World War II that has been shaped by traumatic historical events in complex ways. Rather than creating an explicit art of social protest, artists have responded to violence and upheaval with a type of art that rejects comforting moral certainties. Such art is resistant to interpretation; it withholds information, it tends to evade identification, and certainly it protests interrogation.
- ISBN10 0935640959
- ISBN13 9780935640953
- Publish Date 27 June 2011 (first published 30 November 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 July 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Walker Art Centre,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English