Terrorism and the Arts - Practices and Critiques in Contemporary Cultural Production

List of contents

Introduction: ‘Figure / trauma / terror’
Jonathan Harris
1 ‘The migrant image: fear of ‘replacement’ and the resurgence of white nationalism’
Dora Apel
2 ‘Facing Franco’s terror: visual arts and the fate of memory’
Paula Barreiro López
3 ‘A transgenerational reparation for the damage of torture through drawing dreams and performance’
Marisa Cornejo
4 ‘After Mosul: the cultural and political economy of destruction and reconstruction’
Anthony Downey
5 ‘"They make a desert and they call it peace": states of terror and contemporary artistic response in the Middle East’
Jonathan Harris
6 ‘Re-inscriptions of terror and terrorism since Mallarmé: Wassily Kandinsky and Gerhard Richter’
Lewis Johnson
7 ‘Harold Pinter and state terrorism’
Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerović
8 ‘"Terrorism", "rebellion", "resistance": excavating the role of art in activist social transformation’
Jonathan Day
9 ‘Shakespeare and terrorism’
David Roberts
10 ‘All that is certain vanishes into air: tracing the anabasis of the Japanese Red Army’
Naeem Mohaiemen
11 ‘Media hijack: Chris Burden and the logic of terrorism’
Matthew Teti

About the author

Jonathan Harris is Emeritus Professor in Global Art and Design Studies at Birmingham City University.

Summary

This book assesses the key definitions, forms, contexts and impacts of terrorist activity on the arts in the modern era, using historical and contemporary perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan (Birmingham City University) Harris
• Assisted by: Jonathan Harris (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781138359222
• ISBN: 978-1-138-35922-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Research in Art and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Islam, Graphic Design, Media Studies, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Military / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, DESIGN / General, ART / History / General, military history, ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Middle Eastern, Warfare & defence, History of Art, Terrorism, armed struggle, Literature: history & criticism, Political campaigning & advertising, Warfare and defence, Political campaigning and advertising, Literature: history and criticism, Art styles not defined by date