Art as Activism and Global Citizenship · Global Contemporary Art
Propaganda versus Protest Art
Distinguishing between art used for institutional control and art used for grassroots liberation.
Key Questions
- 1What visual strategies are most effective in mobilizing a population toward a cause?
- 2How can we distinguish between art that informs and art that manipulates?
- 3What is the ethical responsibility of an artist when depicting social trauma?
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
ON: Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing - Grade 12ON: Foundations - Grade 12
Grade: Grade 12
Subject: The Arts
Unit: Art as Activism and Global Citizenship
Period: Global Contemporary Art
Suggested Methodologies
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