Your Opinion: The Most Politically Influential "Acts of Art" over the Last 30 Years

[RainDog]

The first thing I thought of was the play, then movie Angels In America.

[Brickbat]

1. Hmmmmm. "Influential" makes this a hard one.

[pscot]

19. Influential makes it a non sequitur

n/t

[Hello_Kitty]

2. "Something About Amelia" - TV movie about child sex abuse. eom

[LooseWilly]

3. Politically Influential? How about the PMRC reaction to music?

Part of the reason I couldn't vote for Gore, was his wife's bright idea— the PMRC, a direct attempt to censor music lyrics (Art counter-Act?)

Then there was things like the testimony of Frank Zappa before Congress, which had also led me to vote for Zappa over Clinton in '96— despite the fact that Zappa had died before election day. Though, maybe I'm the only one?...

[awnobles]

25. Me Too

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Does Banksy qualify?

http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm

[LWolf]

8. Yes. I thought of him, as well. nt

[Arctic Dave]

10. +1

Banksy is in a class all his own.

[w8liftinglady]

11. wow-I'd never seen his work...damn!

[jimshoes]

5. John and Yoko staying in bed

naked for peace. I thought it was pretty influential at the time.

[pinboy3niner]

6. A couple

"Rent"
"Platoon"

[blm]

7. ONE of the most significant.....Matuschka's Beauty Out of Damage

http://www.beautyoutofdamage.com/Aboutphoto.html

[MilesColtrane]

9. Steven Van Zandt's "Sun City" helped to bring South African apartheid to...

the attention of the American public, leading to political pressure.

As did "Biko" by Peter Gabriel to a lesser degree.

Errol Morris' "Thin Blue Line" while a documentary was certainly art and it got an innocent man out of jail.

"Dead Man Walking" raised the awareness of the uselessness and barbarity of the death penalty.

[blm]

29. strong choices

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[depakid]

12. Robbie Conal stirred things up in the early 90's

[wiggs]

13. Maya Lin vietnam war memorial nt

[Voice for Peace]

14. Aids Quilt

http://www.google.com/images?q=aids+quilt&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=c0y&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=i&source=lnms&tbs=isch:1&ei=eatgTPnxHIn2tgPsq-iXCA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&ved=0CA4Q_AU&biw=1118&bih=632

[donco6]

17. +1

[blogslut]

15. My favorite piece was made by a friend of mine

A terrible watercolor of Osama bin Laden with pretzles glued to the background, entitled "I Know Where You Live".

[donco6]

16. Piss Christ made a lot of people mad.

I don't know how politically influential it was in the long run, though.

[Morning Dew]

18. For sheer political divisiveness

I'd go with Andres Serrano's Piss Christ.

[RainDog]

20. kick - great answers

[corkhead]

21. Sinead O'Connor on SNL tearing up a picture of the pope comes to mind

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

22. For me it's music

Ohio - Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Chicago - Graham Nash
Don't Get Fooled Again - Who
Capitalism - Billy Bragg

And this very poetic line:

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year old carbon.

[End Of The Road]

26. We're on the same track.

Neil Young was the first person who came to my mind.

[alterfurz]

23. "Art is not a mirror held up to reality...

...but a hammer with which to shape it." -- Bertolt Brecht

related fave:

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste. -- Bertolt Brecht

[unhappycamper]

24. A wounded soldier gets ready for his wedding:

[truckin]

27. Oliver Stone's JFK ....nt

[rusty fender]

28. Shepard Fairey's Obama

His poster was everywhere during the election.