Art as a Political Witness
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Art as a Political Witness

  1. 239 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 15 Jan |Learn more

Art as a Political Witness

About this book

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.

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Yes, you can access Art as a Political Witness by Kia Lindroos, Frank Möller, Kia Lindroos,Frank Möller in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Political Process. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Art as a Political Witness
  3. List of Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Plates
  6. Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Plate section
  9. 1. Witnessing in Contemporary Art and Politics
  10. 2. Image Control in the Age of Terror
  11. 3. The Body Remembers: Dance, Discourses of Citizenship, Phenomenology and Memory
  12. 4. Chris Marker as Cinematic Witness
  13. 5. Embodied Witnessing: Indigenous Performance Art as Political Dissent
  14. 6. Art as Remembrance and Trace in Post-Conflict Latin America
  15. 7. Achrafiyeh Invaded – The Politics of Fear in a Visual Representation of Lebanese Factionalism
  16. 8. Witnessing Language: Charles Bernstein and 9/11
  17. 9. Bearing Witness and Playing in Ruins: On the Onto-Poetics of Abandoned Places
  18. 10. Children Witnessing War: Emotions Embodied in the Theatre Play Wij/Zij
  19. 11. The Violence of Witnessing