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Author Tello, Verónica, author.

Title Counter-memorial aesthetics : refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art / Verónica Tello.

Publication Info. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 252 pages).
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Series Radical aesthetics, radical art
Radical aesthetics, radical art.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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?
Ten Thousand WavesHoarder montage; Ambivalence; Living with excess; Afterword Living with Aftermath; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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Subject Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Aesthetics, Modern -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Memory -- Miscellanea.
Memory.
Miscellanea.
Refugees -- Miscellanea.
Refugees.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Tello, Verónica. Counter-memorial aesthetics. New York : Bloomsbury, 2016 9781474252744 (DLC) 2016016214
ISBN 9781474252751 (electronic book)
1474252753 (electronic book)
9781474252768
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