| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
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8. Witnessing Language: Charles Bernstein and 9/119. 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. |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts -- Political aspects.
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Arts -- Political aspects. |
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Politics in art.
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Politics in art. |
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Art and society.
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Art and society. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lindroos, Kia, editor.
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Möller, Frank, 1963- editor.
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| Other Form: |
9783847409731 |
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(GyWOH)har165020226 |
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Print version: Art as a political witness. Opladen : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2017 9783847405801 3847405802 (OCoLC)973875208 |
| ISBN |
9783847409731 electronic book |
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3847409735 electronic book |
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3847405802 |
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9783847405801 |
| Standard No. |
9783847405801 |
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