Cultures of Violence: Visual Arts and Political Violence

ISBN-13: 9781138624917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 120 str.

Ruth Kinna; Gillian Whiteley

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?