Books on (making) art in times of political chaos.
created by Emmalee
last updated January, 2026
Banksy. You are an Acceptable Level of Threat and If You Were Not You Would Know About it
Patrick Potter
Those Passions: On Art and Politics
T.J. Clark
Street Art of Resistance (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)
Sarah H. Awad
Artists' Survival Kit
Andrea Bellini
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Claire Bishop
The Civil Contract of Photography
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Draw for Change: Six female cartoonists redefining the lines
Catherine Vuylsteke
The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
Hanan Toukan
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
bell hooks
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
Jonathan Petropoulos
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
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