The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witne
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English Pages [240] Year 2017
Table of contents :
Cover
Art as a Political Witness
List of Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
Contributors
Preface
Plate section
1. Witnessing in Contemporary Art and Politics
2. Image Control in the Age of Terror
3. The Body Remembers: Dance, Discourses of Citizenship, Phenomenology and Memory
4. Chris Marker as Cinematic Witness
5. Embodied Witnessing: Indigenous Performance Art as Political Dissent
6. Art as Remembrance and Trace in Post-Conflict Latin America
7. Achrafiyeh Invaded – The Politics of Fear in a Visual Representation of Lebanese Factionalism
8. Witnessing Language: Charles Bernstein and 9/11
9. Bearing Witness and Playing in Ruins: On the Onto-Poetics of Abandoned Places
10. Children Witnessing War: Emotions Embodied in the Theatre Play Wij/Zij
11. The Violence of Witnessing
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