{"id":304608,"date":"2017-04-22T06:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T05:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/wsws-arts-editor-david-walsh-speaks-at-san-diego-state-university-on-art-and-identity-politics\/"},"modified":"2017-04-22T06:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T05:44:26","slug":"wsws-arts-editor-david-walsh-speaks-at-san-diego-state-university-on-art-and-identity-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/wsws-arts-editor-david-walsh-speaks-at-san-diego-state-university-on-art-and-identity-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at San Diego State University on art and identity politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at San Diego State University on art and identity politics<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>22 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The International Youth and Students for Social Equality at San Diego State University held a successful meeting April 20 entitled, \u201cShould art be judged on the basis of race and gender?\u201d The guest lecturer was David Walsh, arts editor for the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em>. He spoke to an audience of some 70 students and workers and presented a Marxist analysis of recent controversies in arts and culture. The lecture was followed by a lively question-and-answer period.<\/p>\n<p>The WSWS will post a version of the talk in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation centered on the role of identity politics and the social layers obsessed with race and gender in contemporary American life, and the cultural implications of those issues. The speaker referred to the new constituency for imperialist war, often in the name of \u201chuman rights\u201d or \u201cwomen\u2019s rights.\u201d He discussed several recent episodes\u2014the attack on <em>Free State of Jones<\/em> and the protests against Dana Schutz\u2019 painting of Emmett Till, <em>Open Casket<\/em> \u2014that indicated the degree to which certain upper middle class layers are saturated with a pernicious racialist outlook. The opponents of Schutz\u2019s work demanded that it be removed from the Whitney Museum in New York and destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh argued that there was a material basis for the pursuit of racial and gender politics. He took note of various statistics revealing the sharp polarization within the African American population, and among women. \u201cThese newly affluent elements want more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The WSWS arts editor then posed several questions, \u201cIs it possible \u2026 for one gender or ethnicity or nationality to successfully create artistic works&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/22\/sdsu-a22.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at San Diego State University on art and identity politics By our reporters 22 July 2017 The International Youth and Students for Social Equality at San Diego State University held a successful meeting April 20 entitled, \u201cShould art be judged on the basis of race and gender?\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}