Bread and Roses
Artists and the Class Divide



Publication accompanying "Bread and Roses. Artists and the Class Divide" exhibition. The exhibition formulates a question about the way artists define their status and position in the realm of an ever-widening economic gap: the possibility to reconcile dreams of social justice with the need of artistic freedom and autonomy. At the same time, the show highlights the tension between an artists’ rather ambivalent affiliation with the intellectual or financial elite and their responsibility for the rest of the society. For artists occupy a paradoxical position among social classes. Quoting Pierre Bourdieu, they form “the dominated part of the dominant class”; they can “flirt” both with the dominant elite and with the emancipation-oriented groups who feel oppressed.

Exhibition and other archival events connected:

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16:00 Guided tour Guided tour with curators of „Bread and Roses” exhibition Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
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ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
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ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
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ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
16:00 Guided tour Guided tourof „Bread and Roses” exhibition Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
19:30 Film screening Cineclub #3 Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
16:00 Guided tour Guided tourof „Bread and Roses” exhibition Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
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ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
14:00 Guided tour Guided Tour in EnglishOf the „Bread and Roses” Exhibition Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw