Index
Abbot, Berenice
160, 164–66, 168–69, 180
Abu-Jamal, Mumia
41, 42, 45
Aesthetics
9, 11, 21, 24, 133, 142–43, 196, 199
aesthetic form
26, 28, 81, 141
aestheticism
164
aesthetic nominalism
198
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
3, 21, 39, 74, 102–5
American Canvas report
15, 187
Arceneaux, Edgar
200–201
Arent, Arthur
6, 48, 148–49, 152, 155–57
Arte Útil
112, 205–207
Artists’ Union
17, 161
Baldwin, James
182, 194
Biggers, John
178, 191–92, 194
Bishop, Claire
9–13, 19, 22, 124
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
38, 41, 185–6
Bloch, Ernst
17–18, 21, 82–83, 89–91, 142, 158, 192, 194
Blue Blouse theatre troupe
4–5, 27, 151
Boal, Augusto
25, 28
Bourriaud, Nicolas
8–9, 113
Brecht, Bertolt
7, 20, 28–30, 36, 45–46, 49, 51, 62, 66, 69, 72, 142, 151
Browder, Earl
7–8, 98, 146, 157
Bruguera, Tania
23, 112, 198
Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International
204–6
Burrough, Allison
85–91
Capp Street Gallery
73, 102, 107, 113–15, 119
Carter, Michael
170, 174–75, 177
Chicago, Judy
109–10, 116
Clinton, Bill
39, 102, 106, 117
Code 33 (The Oakland Projects)
20–21, 25, 28, 31–32, 37–48, 62, 66, 68–69, 72–73, 79, 101
focus on police-youth relations
38–41
performance of
37, 47
video documentation of
44
Communist Party USA
4–5, 7–8, 21, 26, 29, 63–65, 75–76, 79, 87, 94–96, 99, 151, 157, 161, 166–67, 173–74, 178
Congress of Industrial Organizations
48, 63–64, 66–68, 99, 157
theatrical productions
63
Cooke, Marvel
84
Creative Time
74, 193–194, 204
Cultural Front
3–4, 8, 16, 23, 144, 151–52, 160, 162, 172, 179
Culture Wars
1, 13, 15, 22, 127, 187, 204
Democratic Front
60, 151–52, 157, 163–64, 168, 173–74, 179, 182, 195, 198
Dia Art Foundation
127–28, 127, 130–32, 134, 137–38, 140, 161, 175
Documentary
22, 36, 123, 125–27, 129–31, 133, 135–37, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 157, 160–61, 168–72
documentary conventions
144, 170, 176–77
documentary photography
125–126, 137–138, 158, 196
Domestic labour
21, 74, 91, 93, 96–97, 110–12, 120, 198
domestic sphere
106, 119, 135, 141, 143, 146
unwaged
100
domestic work
92, 94–96, 98, 110–11, 116
Duke Ellington
4, 87, 89–91
Duncan, Isadora
75, 92
Dunham, Katharine
162
Engels, Friedrich
81, 96
Ethiopia (Living Newspaper)
4, 6, 85, 174
cancellation of
157
Expectations (The Oakland Projects)
21, 48, 101–2, 106–7, 111–15, 117–18, 120–21
Expectations exhibition
114
Expectations summer school
103, 113, 117, 119
Fanon, Frantz
177
Federal Housing Administration
159, 186–87
Feminist Art Program
109
Flanagan, Hallie
5–7, 64–65, 147
Ford, James
173–74
Foster, William Z.
87
Freire, Paulo
10
Gastev, Alexei K.
81
Gates, Theaster
23, 198, 201–2, 204–5, 223
Gentrification
22, 36, 39, 128–30, 138, 141, 158, 194, 196, 211, 218
Glass-Steagall Act
2–3
Gold, Mike
166–168, 175, 180, 182
Graham, Martha
12, 26–27
Group Material
127
Hampton, Carl
185–86
Hearst, William Randolph
60–61, 150
Holland, Unique
43–44, 102, 106–8, 114–15
Homelessness
21–22, 126–27, 130, 136, 138, 141, 161, 175, 195
Homelessness and documentary
123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151
House Un-American Activities Committee
7
Industrial Workers of the World
31, 63
Injunction Granted (Living Newspaper)
20–21, 25–26, 28, 31–32, 48–53, 55–56, 58, 60–73, 79, 84, 144, 146, 149–51, 157, 167
Inman, Mary
21, 95–99, 110, 111, 120
International Ladies Garment Workers Organisation
62–63, 75–76, 77, 79, 92, 95
Jackson, Shannon
12–13
Jameson, Fredric
29–30, 46, 141–43
cognitive mapping
22, 141–44, 155, 158
John Reed Clubs
162
Kaprow, Allan
27, 109
Kelly, Mary
110, 113
Kester, Grant
10–13, 42
Koch, Ed
128, 130–131
Kracauer, Siegfried
80–81
Kristeva, Julia
116
Kwon, Miwon
13
Laban, Rudolf
87
Lacy, Suzanne
2, 13, 20–29, 33–36, 38–46, 69, 73–74, 100–102, 105–9, 113–118, 138, 170–71, 202, 204
Lacy’s subjects
73
Lacy’s pedagogy
108
Laderman Ukeles, Mierle
110–13, 119
Landy, Avram
96–97, 99
Lenin
77, 98–99, 209, 216
Leninist strategy
79
Lenin Memorial Pageant
75
Lippard, Lucy
16–17, 23, 109
Living Newspaper
4–8, 20, 25, 48–50, 52, 54–61, 64–65, 69, 144, 146, 148–50, 157, 172, 179
Los Angeles Workers’ School
96
Losey, Joseph
6–7, 48–49, 51, 62, 64–65
Lott, Jesse
183, 188, 190
Lowe, Rick
2, 13, 183–85, 187–90, 192–94, 196, 198, 200–202
Lukács, Georg
20, 28, 29–30, 46–47, 64, 72
Lukács’ aesthetics
142
Lukács’ dialectic
66
Lukács’realism
29–30
Lukácsean typification
72, 167
Lukács and Brecht debate
29–30, 142
Mad Housers
138–40
Maintenance Art Manifesto
110–111
Marx, Karl
9, 80–81, 83, 96, 97, 100, 105–6, 109, 124–25
Marxist-feminism
98–110
Mass incarceration
34–35, 69–71
McCausland, Elizabeth
161–64, 168, 170, 196
Mother Art
111–13, 198
Museum of Arte Útil
205
Nance, Marilyn
132
National Endowment for the Arts
1, 13–16, 39, 127, 187–88, 193
Nature Friends Dance Group
77, 92
Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union Dance Group
63, 77–78, 83, 87, 89
New Dance Group
26, 77, 87
New Dance League
77
New Deal
1–4, 8, 66, 68–69, 102, 104, 123, 136, 138, 143, 145, 151, 153, 157, 159
New Duncan Dancers
77, 92–93
New Masses
26, 51, 67, 161, 167, 211, 218, 221
New Theatre
26, 29, 78
Newton, Huey
38, 89
Noble, Elizabeth (pseudonym of Elizabeth McCausland)
161–163
Ocko, Edna
26, 74
One-Third of a Nation (Living Newspaper)
144–58
Paterson Strike Pageant
31, 48, 63
People’s Party II
186–87, 192
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
21, 39, 102–7
Petry, Ann
169, 175–76, 181
Photo League Feature Group
23, 154, 160, 165–66, 169–77, 178–179, 182, 195, 197
Photo League Feature Group’s Harlem Document
23, 154, 160, 165, 169–79, 181–82, 187, 192, 194–95
Harlem Document and Native Son
179
Harlem Document exhibition
172
Photo Notes
171–73
Popular Front
3, 6–7, 26, 29, 63, 71, 77, 87, 91, 94–95, 144, 151, 154, 162, 173–74
Project Row Houses
1–2, 23, 160, 183–85, 187–90, 192–96, 198–201, 205–6
Rand School
75, 94
Reagan, Ronald
209, 112
Red Dancers
26, 74, 77, 92–93
Relational Aesthetics
8–9, 113
Rice, Elmer
5–6
Rockland Palace Interracial Ball
85–88, 91
Roofs for Forty Million
160–65, 168, 170, 182, 194–95
The Roof is on Fire (The Oakland Projects)
20–21, 25, 28, 31–38
Rosler, Martha
2, 36, 110, 117, 130–31, 134, 137, 139–43, 163, 194, 197
Rosskam, Edwin
179–81
Segal, Edith
Segal’s formation
74–76
Black and White
82–87
Kinder Küche Kirche
91–95
Dance of the Washerwomen
21, 92–93, 95, 152, 154
Siskind, Aaron
165, 170–71
Siskind’s photographs for Harlem Document
174–176
Social documentary
22–23, 123, 126, 136, 138–39, 141, 143–44, 155, 158, 162, 165, 169, 195–96
Socialist Party
61, 63, 75, 95
Social reproduction
21, 73–75, 77, 79, 81, 93–95, 99–101, 109–13, 117, 119–21, 124, 135, 186–87, 197–99, 205–6
Social Security Act
3, 21, 69, 74, 102, 104
Taft Hartley Act
67, 99
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
103
Third Period
77, 87, 163, 173
Triple-A Plowed Under (Living Newspaper)
6–7, 48, 157
United Council of Working Class Housewives
94–95, 155
Unity House
75–77
Vogel, Lise
99–100
Wagner Act
63, 66–67
Wagner-Steagall Housing Act
144–45, 156–59, 161
Watts House Project
183, 199–202
Watts Towers
199
Watts Towers Art Center
199, 201
WochenKlausur
205–206
Wodiczko, Krzysztof
138
Womanhouse
109, 116–17
Workers’ Alliance of America
20, 31, 65–66, 69, 95
Workers’ Dance League
77
Workers’ Film and Photo League/Film and Photo League
162–64, 171
Works Progress Administration
3, 6, 13, 16, 18, 25, 65, 104, 172
Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project
18, 165–66
Works Progress Administration Federal Theatre Project
1, 5, 7–8, 17–18, 20, 25–26, 29, 31, 62, 64–65, 95, 144, 147, 151, 157
Wright, Richard
Wright’s Native Son
175, 177, 179–182, 192
Twelve Million Black Voices
23, 158, 160–65, 168, 170, 173, 176, 179–82, 194–95