Global Art

Jessica Lack is a writer with a focus on modern and contemporary art. She was a correspondent for the Guardian and is the author of several books, including Why Are We ‘Artists’?: 100 World Art Manifestos.

• Introduction • Imperialism & Revolution: The Bengal School • Stridentism (Movimiento Estridentista) • Zenitism • Afrocubanismo • Art of the New Culture Movement • The Modern Woodcut Movement • Anthropophagia • Négritude Movement • Egyptian Surrealism • Calcutta Group • Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención and Arte Madi • PostWar & Independence: The European School • The Progressive Artists’ Group • Huroufiyah • The Khartoum School • Reportage Painting • Experimental Workshop (Jikken Kobo) • Saqqakhaneh Artists • The Zaria Rebels • Dakar School • Dissident Identities & Resistance: El Techo De La Ballena • New Tendencies Movement • Dvizenije Group • Spiral Aktual Art • Oho Movement • Mass Mediatic Art • Caribbean Artist Movement • Pan-Africanism • Mono-Ha • The Mural Movement • Identity & Transnationalism: The Aouchem Movement • Bikyoto • Africobra • The New Vision Group • Feminist Video • Moscow Conceptualists • Dansaekhwa • Laboratoire Agit’art • Fight Censorship Group • The Indonesian New Art Movement • The Pattern And Decoration Movement • The Politics of Art: Grupo Antillano • Colectivo De Acciones De Arte • Minjung Art Movement • British Black Arts Movement • 85 Art Movement • The Kerala Radicals • Useful Art Movement • Black Lives Matter

'A wonderfully illustrated and vividly written corrective to the assumption that radical art is the preserve of the west' - Jennifer Higgie, Frieze