Cultures of Violence

Visual Arts and Political Violence
Herausgeber: Kinna, Ruth; Whiteley, Gillian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9781138624917
• ISBN-10: 1138624918
• Artikelnr.: 59493503

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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?