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Civic aesthetics : militarism, Israeli art and visual culture /

"This book explores the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture. It unpacks the way in which art and visual culture contend, not with the military itself, but with its foundational impact on Israeli identity, culture, and society: its influence on bodily image...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roei, Noa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
Colección:Radical aesthetics, radical art.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: In search of a civic aesthetics
  • Between critique and complicity
  • Showing seeing: the critical image
  • 1. Can(n)ons of Israeli society
  • Frames and set-ups
  • Soldier figures, civilian militarism and Israeli art
  • Taking sides: exhibitions as framing agents
  • Visual performatives
  • Critical frictions
  • 2. Bodies of the nation: eroticized soldiers
  • Serial quotations
  • National bodies
  • Rewriting the Jewish body, again
  • Women soldiers
  • Queer dreams of the nation
  • 3. Looking through landscape
  • landscape way of seeing
  • Tracing erasure: tso ob'a and Zionist scopic regimes
  • s̀tifling of the gaze'
  • Israeli mindscapes
  • 4. Kebab in theory: mapping vision
  • Zooming in on the thinking image
  • Contesting mis/interpretations
  • archaeology of the still life: bringing back the anti-image
  • Distortion and desire: the mapping impulse
  • Seeing green: shaping emplacement
  • 5. Greetings to the soldier-citizen: consuming nostalgia
  • Peace, security and sparkles
  • From guns to cream cheese
  • politics of nostalgia
  • Preposterous postcards
  • limits of critical discourse
  • 6. Fence art: re/framing politics
  • Bil'in and beyond: aesthetics of disagreement
  • Redistributing visibility
  • Changing contexts, shifting frames.