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Counter-memorial aesthetics : refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art /
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 Ju...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2016.
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| Colección: | Radical aesthetics, radical art.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.