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Civic Aesthetics - Militarism, Israeli Art and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
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Civic Aesthetics - Militarism, Israeli Art and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art
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Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli
Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of
Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both
the omnipresence of militarism in Israeli culture and society and
the way in which this omnipresence is articulated, enhanced, and
contested within local contemporary visual art. Looking at a range
of contemporary artworks through the lens of "civilian militarism",
Roei employs the theory of various fields, including memory
studies, gender studies, landscape theory, and aesthetics, to
explore the potential of visual art to communicate military
excesses to its viewers. This study builds on the specific
sociological concerns of the chosen cases to discuss the
complexities of visuality, the visible and non-visible, arguing for
art's capacity to expose the scopic regimes that construct their
visibility. Images and artworks are often read either out of
context, on purely aesthetic or art-historical ground, or as
cultural artefacts whose aesthetics play a minor role in their
significance. This book breaks with both traditions as it
approaches all art, both high and popular art, as part of the
surrounding visual culture in which it is created and presented.
This approach allows a new theory of the image to come forth, where
the relation between the political and the aesthetic is one of
exchange, rather than exclusion.
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