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.

Table des matières

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?

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ruth (Loughborough University Kinna, Ruth Whiteley Kinna
• Collaboration: Ruth Kinna (Editeur), Ruth (Loughborough University Kinna (Editeur), Kinna Ruth (Editeur), Gillian Whiteley (Editeur), Gillian (Loughborough University Whiteley (Editeur), Whiteley Gillian (Editeur)
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781138624917
• ISBN: 978-1-138-62491-7
• Pages: 120
• Thème: Interventions
• Catégories: Livres pour enfants et adolescents > Littérature spécialisée (texte ou images) > Histoire, politique; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Droit pénal, droit de procédure pénale, criminologie; 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