Art as Demonstration Photography Personal Values

Personal Values

Leonora Carrington

234 x 150 mm (9 1/4 x 5 7/8 in)

Will Wilson

Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton

Art as Demonstration Photography Personal ValuesHow artists wield demonstration to question the status quo both aesthetically and politically, marshaling art and education as powerful agents of change. Demonstration, in short, says: See here. It is the practice of pointing to something in order to explain or contest it. As such, Sven Spieker argues that demonstration has helped reshape art from the height of the Cold War to the late twentieth century, reformatting our understanding of how art and