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Forthcoming Issues March, April & May 2012 Protest Art Protest art aims at engaging the attention of the public and provoke a reaction. Ever since art became the vehicle of individual self-expression it has been there throughout the history of social movements, wars and revolutions. Modern ...protest art was initiated probably by the Dada artists who used art as the weapon to criticize the irrational brutality of the World War I. Now protest art encompasses race, gender, colour and caste issues, neo-capitalism, political beliefs, social hierarchy or any kind of brutality towards human and nature. Protest art means questioning the authority and thus it is subversive, anti-institutional and often a form of counter culture. Its mediums are diverse that include demonstrations, marches, signs, posters, banners, performances, installations, music, songs, literature, comics, theatres, paintings, graffiti, photographs, video art etc. With the advent of new media, both printed and virtual, protest has ceased to be localized that targeted a comparatively small circle of audience. Transcending geographical boundaries, social classes, language barriers and the white cube of a gallery space its voice is universal and all-encompassing. ‘Protest artist’ is not a generic term. Any artist, as a socially conscious being, can be infuriated by any event, any injustice and express his/her anger through his/her chosen medium. There are many politically charged pieces of fine art - such as Picasso’s Guernica, some of Norman Carlberg's Vietnam war -era work, or Susan Crile's images of torture at Abu Ghraib and among Indians Husain’s Safdar Hashmi, Bikash’s Naxal Period, Shuvaprasanna’s Change, and works of Frida Kahlo, Goya, Andy Warhol, Dali, Van Gogh to Mona Hatoum, Ai Weiwei, Larissa Sansour, Banksy among others. For example Willie Bester is one of South Africa's most well known artists who originally began as a resistance artist. His works commented on important blackRead More

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The magazine has a focus on each issue that is published such as Antiquities and Art treasure which was in three parts, Indian Printmaking again in three parts and Cutting Edge in two parts are some of the themes that have been dealt with. We do not only stop at this. We have a committed editori...Read more

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