There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of Afterimage one of the most influential journals in the media and visual arts fields for more than twenty-five years Grant H. Kester demonstrates that activist art, far from being antithetical to the true meaning of the aest