1st Edition

Contemporary Art, Photography, and the Politics of Citizenship

By Vered Maimon Copyright 2021
184 Pages 29 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 29 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 29 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyzes recent artistic and activist projects in order to conceptualize the new roles and goals of a critical theory and practice of art and photography. Vered Maimon argues that current artistic and activist practices are no longer concerned with the “politics of representation” and the critique of the spectacle, but with a “politics of rights” and the performative formation of shared... Read more
Introduction 1. The Third Citizen: Critique, Belief, and the Problem of Appearance 2. Medium, (Re)Mediation, and the Circulation of Affect 3. The Pulse of the Archive: On the Lives of Images

Biography

Vered Maimon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History at Tel Aviv University.