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July 16, 2008
Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, eds. Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 304 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780816644629)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.70

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Reviewing the Van Abbemuseum’s recent exhibition Forms of Resistance (Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 22, 2007–January 6, 2008), art historian and critic Hal Foster poses the questions, “What is the ‘social’ that ‘desires’ to be ‘changed,’ and how might ‘forms of resistance’ bear on this change? Do radical art and politics converge only at moments of crisis?” (Artforum XLVI, no. 4 [January 2008]: 273). How can we describe the relationship between political activism and the production...