Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism

In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Greogory Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists' collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.  

Sholette lays out clear examples of art's deep involvement in capitalism: the dizzying prices achieved by artists who pander to the financial elite, the proliferation of museums that contribute to global competition between cities in order to attract capital, and the strange relationship between art and rampant gentrification that restructures the urban landscape. 

With a preface by noted author Lucy R. Lippard and an introduction by theorist Kim Charnley, Delirium and Resistance draws on over thirty years of critical debates and practices both in and beyond the art world to historicize and advocate for the art activist tradition that radically - and, at times, deliriously - entangles the visual arts with political struggles. 

Gregory Sholette is a New York City based artist, writer and core member of the activist art collective Gulf Labor Coalition. He is the author of Dark Matter (2010) and co-author of It's The Political Economy, Stupid (2013). He currently teaches in the Queens College Art Department, City University of New York.  

Lucy R. Lippard is an internationally known art critic, activist and curator.  

Kim Charnley is an art theorist and art historian based at Plymouth College of Art.

• Dimensions 15.2 x 23.1 x 2.4 cm
• Author Gregory Sholette
• ISBN 9780745336848
• Paperback Yes
• Number of illustrations 36 Black and white illustrations
• Publisher Pluto Press
• No of pages 320