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Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action - Nadja Millner-Larsen
"There are many paths through the radical arts of the 1960s. Nadja Millner-Larsen’s Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action takes one back alley and turns it into a bustling boulevard.
Her central figure: Ben Morea, artist-activist and acolyte of the
Living Theatre and of East Village anarchist Murray Bookchin; member of
Aldo Tambellini’s anti-commodification mixed-media Group Center;
cofounder of the Neo-Dada provocateurs known as Black Mask (their name
likely referencing the 1920s pulp magazine as well as eliding Franz
Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks); and de facto leader of Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers (UAW/MF), the notorious 'street gang with an analysis.' ...”
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