| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 252 pages) |
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Radical aesthetics, radical art |
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Radical aesthetics, radical art.
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| Contents |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE -- REFUGEE FLOWS AND NETWORKED EVENTS; Introduction; Scope; Overview; CHAPTER ONE Counter-Memorial Aesthetics; States of emergency; Counter-memory, excess and heterogeneity; The politics of montage, the politics of aesthetics; The aesthetics of exile, migration and diaspora; Counter-memorial aesthetics . . .; CHAPTER TWO Arte de Conducta and The Manipulation of Memory Tania Bruguera's Biopolitical Ambitions in Postwar Cuba; 1989: Postwar |
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Los '80s and arte de conducta1959: Mendieta; 1993: Exile media; 1994: The Cuban balseros crisis and bare life in America; CHAPTER THREE Aftermath Photography, Temporal Loops and the Sublime of Biopolitics; Anachronism; Perpetual aftermath: history at a standstill; Aftermath photography; Aftereff ectiveness: the contemporary sublime; Abstraction and the returns of the contemporary sublime; Perpetual aftermath: Australia as a camp; Repetition and difference: radical anachronism; After Heysen: the commodity fetish; Temporal loops; CHAPTER FOUR The Nexus of Self and History |
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The nexus of self and historyEntropic-photopainting; The epistemology of search; CHAPTER FIVE History Painting, Fiction and Paranoia; History painting and heterogeneity; The publicness of history painting; The aesthetics of resistance: or fictionalization; Paranoia; After Géricault; CHAPTER SIX Counter-Memorial Aesthetics in an Era of Contemporaneity; Counter-memorial aesthetics and contemporaneity; What is contemporaneity?; How to be present with the many times of contemporaneity?; How does counter-memorial aesthetics allow one to be critically present with the many times of contemporaneity? |
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Ten Thousand WavesHoarder montage; Ambivalence; Living with excess; Afterword Living with Aftermath; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Verónica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Rosemary Laing, Dinh Q. Lé, Dierk Schmidt, Hito Steyerl, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green-negotiate their diverse subject positions while addressing and taking part in the production of images associated with refugee experiences and histories. Tello argues that their practices, which manifest across a range of contexts including Cuba, the United States, Australia and Europe, represent an emergent, global paradigm of contemporary art, 'counter-memorial aesthetics'. Building on the writings of such thinkers as Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, this book offers a useful concept of 'counter-memory' for the twenty-first century. It shows how counter-memorial aesthetics is not only central to the nexus of contemporary art and refugee histories but also how it can offer a way of being critically present with many other, often interrelated, global crises in the contemporary era.--From book description, Amazon.com |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 30, 2016) |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Aesthetics, Modern -- 21st century.
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Memory -- Miscellanea
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Refugees -- Miscellanea
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Social & political philosophy.
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Philosophy: aesthetics.
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ART -- General.
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Aesthetics, Modern
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016030801 |
| ISBN |
9781474252751 |
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1474252753 |
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