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Cultures of Violence - Visual Arts and Political Violence (Hardcover)
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Cultures of Violence - Visual Arts and Political Violence (Hardcover)
Series: Interventions
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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. It
examines how intellectual and material contexts have affected art
interventions and how visual arts can open up critical spaces to
explore violence without reinforcement or recuperation. Its
premises are that art is not only able to contest prevailing norms
about violence but that contemporary artists are consciously
engaging with publics through their practice in order to do so.
Contributors respond to three questions: how can political violence
be understood or interpreted through art? How are publics
understood or identified? How are art interventions designed to
shift, challenge or respond to public perceptions of political
violence and how are they constrained by them? They discuss
violence in the everyday and at state level: the Watts' Rebellion
and Occupy, repression in Russia, domination in Hong Kong, the
violence of migration and the unfolding art activist logic of the
sigma portfolio. Asking how public debates can be shaped through
the visual and performing arts and setting taboos about violence to
one side, the volume provides an innovative approach to a perennial
issue of interest to scholars of international politics, art and
cultural studies.
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