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  Guerilla art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guerilla art is the surreptitious, and often sudden, creation or installation of unauthorized public art, often with the purpose of making an overt political statement.
Guerilla art has arisen as a small underground movement starting in the 1980s, partially as a response to the perceived takeover of public space by commercial interests, the perceived banality of many authorized public art pieces, and the frequent lack of authorized exhibition opportunities for artists.
Although guerilla art is sometimes equated with the use of disposable media, one of the most famous pieces of guerilla art was the installation of the bronze sculpture Charging Bull by Arturo Di Modica in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guerilla_art   (424 words)

  
 Guerilla art -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Guerilla art refers to the surreptitious, and often sudden, creation or installation of unauthorized (additional info and facts about public art) public art, often with the purpose of making an overt political statement.
Guerilla art has arisen as a small underground movement starting in the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s, partially as a response to the perceived takeover of public space by commercial interests, the perceived banality of many authorized public art pieces, and the frequent lack of authorized exhibition opportunities for artists.
One of the most popular forms of guerilla art is the alteration of (Large outdoor signboard) billboards, often with the intent of creating an absurd or ironic message from the original advertising content.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guerilla_art.htm   (239 words)

  
 Installation art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Installation art is art that, through the use of sculptural materials and other media, seeks to modify the way we experience a particular space.
It is a genre of Western contemporary art and came to prominence in the 1970s.
The intention of the artist is paramount in much later installation art whose roots lie in the conceptual art of the 1960s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Installation_art   (256 words)

  
 Links for Guerilla Art and Printmaking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Break the Silence Mural and Arts Project (BTS) is an arts/activist group committed to using creative projects to facilitate social change and greater awareness of the complexities of the conflict in Occupied Palestine.
Republic Art is a transnational research project exploring and developing progressive practices of public art.
Art in the Public Interest (API) is a nonprofit organization that supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, and that community-based arts provide significant value both to communities and artists.
www.artsci.wustl.edu /~lbulawsk/guerillalinks.html   (1812 words)

  
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the end result of both the art and the group itself is of no importance.
socio-political activism in the arts has always been the hallmark of forward thinking.
this collective is devoted to this way of life, not necessarily the detritus / art derived from it.
www.guerrillaartnation.com   (101 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Guerilla art
Public art is art that is exposed in a public space, either an outdoor location or in a publicly accessible building.
Street Art defines all art developed in the streets and public spaces, usually in a non authorized way including what its usually known as Graffiti.
Although unauthorized, the sculpture became an immediate hit with many New Yorkers, leading to its permanent installation a few blocks away in Bowling Green plaza.Jason Sprinkle, part of Fabricators of the Attachment (FA), tied a chain to the hammering man in Seattle, WA.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guerilla-art   (879 words)

  
 Notes on the art of guerilla marketing
I define guerilla marketing as alternatives to traditional media tactics that are high impact but also very eye-level with the consumer, very grassroots and in-the-streets.
The kind of feedback you get from guerilla marketing is not what you often get from a TV commercial; things like how cool, I never knew you guys existed, I’m surprised that you’re here.
We did a guerilla telemarketing campaign for them where we hired a telemarketing company to call 10,000 people in the entertainment, media and internet industries at 3 a.m.
medialifemagazine.com /news2001/july01/july23/3_wed/news4wednesday.html   (1135 words)

  
 Guerilla girls
The Guerilla Girls are a group of anonymous women activists fighting for gender and racial equality.
In their "real" lives, the Guerilla Girls are artists, curators, art historians; in other words, women who have seen and experienced the discrimination in the male-dominated world of art.
The Guerilla Girls have a lot of work to do to bring female artists into the mainstream, but they are off to a good start.
ks.essortment.com /guerillagirls_rfps.htm   (524 words)

  
 Feminism | MetaFilter
I think the discussion of what is versus what isn't art is largely a moot one, especially since most of the decisions that art is not art are made by politically-motivated people hoping that an image they don't like would just go away.
Since half of my love for art comes from being an audience and from the joy of discovery, it comes across in my work in such a way that I hope to transmit the joy of discovery.
And while it's fine to appreciate works of art simply for their surface appearance (many people do), you've got to assume that a work of art is telling you something.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/42382   (3429 words)

  
 Installation art Article, Installationart Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Installation art is a genre of western contemporary art which came to prominence in the 1970s.
Many trace the roots of this form of art to earlier artists such as Marcel Duchamp and the use of readymade objects rather than more traditional craft based sculpture.
The intension of the artist is paramount in most installation art due to itsroots in the conceptual art of the 1960’s.
www.anoca.org /media/artists/installation_art.html   (184 words)

  
 wish jar journal: how to be a guerilla artist
Guerilla art is a fun and insidious way of sharing your vision with the world.
When I was in art school, whenever my chums and I went out to a restaurant, we would do impromtu portraits of our waitstaff on the back of the paper napkins, paper place mats or whatever there was to draw on.
We suspect that it is guerilla art a la Edward Scissorhands, and it looks as though the park gardeners are keeping it up.
www.kerismith.com /blog/archives/000079.html   (1909 words)

  
 Read about Installation art at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Installation art and learn about Installation art ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
contemporary art which came to prominence in the 1970s.
Installation art incorporates any media to create a visceral and/or conceptual experience in a particular environment.
site specific art; they can only exist in the space for which they were created.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Installation_art   (157 words)

  
 CBC.ca - Arts - Art & Design - Renaissance Women
Highly respected Spanish art curators with a wealth of collective experience, Martinez and de Corral present an overview of today’s artists that corresponds to goals they set out in a statement of intent — one that, lo and behold, can actually be read and understood by someone who doesn’t deconstruct art for a living.
She calls this section "The Experience of Art" and writes that her intent was “not to attempt to offer a false model of universality,” but to explore certain themes — nostalgia, the body, violence — through the work of artists she knows and respects.
Just how overrun the modern art world, and particularly the Biennale, has been by men’s art is in clear evidence in the Arsinale’s first exhibit, courtesy of the feminist group the Guerrilla Girls.
www.cbc.ca /arts/artdesign/venicecurators.html   (1383 words)

  
 Guerilla-art Info Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Anything that could possibly be construed as art, anything subversive, or silly, anything that involves rediculous art concepts, projects or ideas.
Anyone who is interested in callaborating on guerilla art, anyone who wants to share their past works..
Art is to be used, art is meant to effect you, not to be hidden away.
www.pagan.net /mailman/listinfo/guerilla-art   (320 words)

  
 Guerilla tactics / Arts / Culture / Home - Morning Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
MICHAEL K asks if guerilla artists are doing more harm than good by using extreme methods to get their message across.
In their defence, 0100101110101101.org declared it to be a ruse on the art world.
Social change is a hard slog and guerilla art tactics are no substitute for this, but they add colour and playfulness to a mostly serious struggle and, compared to imperialism in Iraq, at least nobody dies as a consequence of these actions.
www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/free/culture/arts/guerilla_tactics   (1082 words)

  
 eGuide Profile: Val Diamond
In 1989, one of their posters asked, "When racism and sexism are no longer fashionable, what will your art collection be worth?" and listed 67 works by well-known women.
Sometimes the Guerrilla Girls' reach extends beyond the art world, as in the 1992 poster "Guerrilla Girls Explain the Concept of Natural Law." It leads off "Protecting the rights of the unborn means precisely that.
Meredith Tromble is a painter who supports her studio habit as editor-in-chief of "Artweek," the national magazine of West Coast art.
www.sfgate.com /eguide/profile/arc98/0226guerilla.shtml   (1072 words)

  
 New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Two weekends ago, the staid art galleries of Chelsea got a shot of guerilla art, when the RIDER Project parked in the area.
For instance, Tracy Gilman teaches art at a high school in Westchester, and furiously does her own work on school vacations.
A former assistant director for a Manhattan art gallery, she expressed frustration at the isolation of being a working artist in New York.
www.nypress.com /17/40/news&columns/DylanFoley.cfm   (1175 words)

  
 Clean-up! Sculpture in aisle nine! | MetaFilter
I thought it was a great idea for public guerilla art until I saw a shot of her with a piece that looked kinda dangerously stacked in the middle of an aisle.
".......I thought it was a great idea for public guerilla art until I saw a shot of her with a piece that looked kinda dangerously stacked in the middle of an aisle." Yep.
I'd be tempted call it art if I saw her do anything other than cement/patio/garden tiles and if the story was a rash of impromptu sculpture of stock items at home depots, but no one knows who it was.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/28356   (6936 words)

  
 Needled: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
But, as you read on, Burdett introduces the art of horimono, traditional Japanese tattoos, and soon you'll find that tattoos are a major player in the story after all.
Ten Years of Pain is a gorgeous art book with powerful photos by Helene Fjell and equally engaging text that follows Havve Fjell's life from his childhood fascination with pain sticking himself with needles to his acceptance into the art world with his Kvinteet body sculpture installations at the Kunsternernes Hus gallery in Norway.
In fact, the body of art contained in Action:Reaction catalyzed at the Hiroshima train station in 2002 when Lee viewed a photo of the station days after the first atomic weapon was dropped.
www.needled.com /archives/books   (2188 words)

  
 URBANIZE.org : RECLAIMING THE CITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
urbanize.org street art, urban art take back the streets tattoo the midget has a bigger posse gallery of street artist anti-consumer art There is wheat pasted posters bombing screen printed sticker billboard corrections, subvertise midget subvert the system.
You'll also find stickers, graffiti, tagging, posters, sticker art, street painting, andre the giant has a posse, Tattoo the midget, urban decay, illegal art, anti-ca construction, detourn, street art, urban art take back the streets using revolutionary means of production www.urbanize.org andre the giant has a posse.
urbanize.org street art, urban art take back the streets tattoo the midget has a bigger posse gallery of street artist anti-consumer art There is wheat pasted posters bombing screen printed sticke rt, wheat pasted posters, spray paint, city art, urbanize.
www.urbanize.org   (404 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Art attack
Battle fatigues, bullet belts and Marxism are nowhere to be seen; instead, the latter-day guerrilla is likely to be an advocate of a very modern, self-motivated creativity.
As five minutes on Google proves, the term's use spans the arts - it may only be a matter of time before someone stages the first guerrilla opera.
It is a method of art-making which entails leaving anonymous art pieces in public places.' Last year, the pocket-sized North London Theatre, the Hen and Chickens, hosted a guerrilla theatre season, showcasing stripped-down productions seemingly staged on a whim.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1283237,00.html   (1709 words)

  
 SUBSOL other worlds
Her art practice is recombinant, using whatever media best accommodates the subject matter, content, and purposes of the project.
Media Art Lab is an independent non-profit center, aiming to provide support to new media initiatives in arts and broader cultural sphere in Russia by distribution of information, organizing events, and building up a resource platform.
Maksimka is an art magazine representing St.Petersburg contemporary art and debating topics which act as central points for contemporary art in general.
subsol.c3.hu /subsol_2/otherworlds.html   (4563 words)

  
 The Scotsman Article
THESE ARE GOOD TIMES FOR guerilla art - and I'm not talking about the 30,000 bananas dumped in Trafalgar Square by Doug Fishbone the other week.
No, I'm talking about what my well-thumbed encyclopedia describes as public art that is "surreptitiously created" and "unauthorised".
Los Angeles is the centre of America's guerilla art scene and Carol Wells has been archiving political public artwork at the city's Center for the Study of Political Graphics for more than 20 years.
www.freewayblogger.com /thescotsmanenglandarticle.htm   (298 words)

  
 Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As for the art itself — the sad-sack fl-and-white faces he was doing at the time, the varied images Kilgallen festooned all over the place — he's OK with its passing.
We basically convinced them that we were "art nerds" and that we were doing "cartoons" on the trains for an "art project." We were cuffed and in the same car and I told my partner to use this story and he sold them on it.
My super cool art history teacher had written me an affadavit saying that all of paint was mine, that I was an art school student and that's why my car was full of paint, and that it was a big mistake to charge this innocent meek art school student.
www.woostercollective.com   (7699 words)

  
 Conceptual Guerilla's Strategy and Tactics
Specifically, he knew that truth doesn't always "out." He knew that a professional prosecutor -- well schooled in the arts of playing on jurors' ignorance, bigotry and fear -- would have no problem at all using a specimen of "poor white trash" who happened to be innocent, as fodder for his neverending quest for re-election.
The art of advocacy is the art of bringing out the best in ordinary people who are -- barring Jesus himself -- universally a "mixed bag" of noble and base qualities.
It is an art and a skill, with defined and teachable techniques and methods -- which techniques and methods I have been practicing and refining for fifteen years as a professional advocate.
www.conceptualguerilla.com   (12019 words)

  
 guerillaart - Community Info
Below is information about the "guerilla art" community on LiveJournal.
This is a space to exchange ideas, tips, art & post flicks of things done related to guerilla art.
19: adbusters, banner drops, billboard liberation, culture jamming, graffiti, guerilla art, guerilla gardening, murals, postering, posters, public art, reclaim the streets, reclaimation of space, scrap metal, statues, stenciling, stencils, subversion, wheatpasting.
www.livejournal.com /userinfo.bml?user=guerillaart   (340 words)

  
 Zenzibar Alternative Culture Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
We're the monthly newsletter that is leading the art revolution against the handful of corporate art and media conglomerate weasels (there are only about 9 now) who control virtually all of the arts and media in the U.S. Guerrilla Girls
spread is new underground guerrilla exploratory art and literature in the new medium.
P4 is a guerilla arts group dealing with issues such as rape, domestic violence, and other violent acts.
www.zenzibar.com /beta/directory.asp?cat=AG   (591 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art: Books: Guerrilla Girls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This irreverent and sometimes angry review of art history makes use of humor and satire to illuminate the issues and to exact a small revenge on a field that has dismissed many gifted individuals on the basis of gender and/or ethnicity.
This colorful reinterpretation of classic and modern art, as outrageous as it is visually arresting, is a much-needed corrective to traditional art history, and an unabashed celebration of female artists.
Most artists and art educators are (or should be) familiar with the Guerilla Girls and their work and may find this a repeat of what is already known, For those who are unfamiliar with their works or who have had a typical western oriented art history background, this book will be an eye opener.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014025997X?v=glance   (1977 words)

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