Cultures of Violence - Visual Arts and Political Violence

Investigating art practitioners' responses to violence, this book considers how artists have used art practices to rethink concepts of violence and non-violence. It explores the strategies that artists have deployed to expose physical and symbolic violence through representational, performative and interventional means.

List of contents

Introduction: Art, culture and violence Chapter 1: From Watts to Wall Street: A situationist analysis of political violence Chapter 2: Protest art and public space: Oleg Kulik and the strategies of Moscow Actionism Chapter 3: Project sigma: The temporality of activism Chapter 4: Challenging state-led political violence with art-activism: Focus on borders Chapter 5: Power v. violence: how can contemporary art create a 'space of appearance' and generate social change?

About the author

Ruth Kinna works at Loughborough University in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities as a political theorist and historian of ideas.
Gillian Whiteley is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University and co-organiser of RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt.

Summary

Investigating art practitioners’ responses to violence, this book considers how artists have used art practices to rethink concepts of violence and non-violence. It explores the strategies that artists have deployed to expose physical and symbolic violence through representational, performative and interventional means.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth (Loughborough University Kinna, Ruth Whiteley Kinna
• Assisted by: Ruth Kinna (Editor), Ruth (Loughborough University Kinna (Editor), Kinna Ruth (Editor), Gillian Whiteley (Editor), Gillian (Loughborough University Whiteley (Editor), Whiteley Gillian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781138624917
• ISBN: 978-1-138-62491-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Interventions
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, The arts: general topics