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Cultures of Violence: Visual Arts and Political Violence book cover

1st Edition

Cultures of Violence Visual Arts and Political Violence

Edited By Ruth Kinna, Gillian Whiteley Copyright 2020
130 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Art, culture and violence

Ruth Kinna and Gillian Whiteley

Chapter 1: From Watts to Wall Street: A situationist analysis of political violence

Martin Lang

Chapter 2: Protest art and public space: Oleg Kulik and the strategies of Moscow Actionism

Marina Maximova

Chapter 3: Project sigma: The temporality of activism

Vlad Morariu and Jaakko Karhunen

Chapter 4: Challenging state-led political violence with art-activism: Focus on borders

Amy Corcoran

Chapter 5: Power v. violence: how can contemporary art create a ‘space of appearance’ and generate social change?

Jessica Holtaway

Biography

Ruth Kinna works at Loughborough University in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities as a political theorist and historian of ideas.

Gillian Whiteley is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University and co-organiser of RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt.

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