Cultures of Violence: Visual Arts and Political Violence

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Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University, UK) Gillian Whiteley (Loughborough University, UK)

Cultures of Violence

Visual Arts and Political Violence

Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University, UK), Gillian Whiteley (Loughborough University, UK)

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Routledge
01 August 2022

The Arts: General & Reference; Political campaigning & advertising

Series: Interventions

Investigating art practitioners’ responses to violence, this book considers how artists have used art practices to rethink concepts of violence and non-violence. It explores the strategies that artists have deployed to expose physical and symbolic violence through representational, performative and interventional means.

It examines how intellectual and material contexts have affected art interventions and how visual arts can open up critical spaces to explore violence without reinforcement or recuperation. Its premises are that art is not only able to contest prevailing norms about violence but that contemporary artists are consciously engaging with publics through their practice in order to do so. Contributors respond to three questions: how can political violence be understood or interpreted through art? How are publics understood or identified? How are art interventions designed to shift, challenge or respond to public perceptions of political violence and how are they constrained by them? They discuss violence in the everyday and at state level: the Watts’ Rebellion and Occupy, repression in Russia, domination in Hong Kong, the violence of migration and the unfolding art activist logic of the sigma portfolio.

Asking how public debates can be shaped through the visual and performing arts and setting taboos about violence to one side, the volume provides an innovative approach to a perennial issue of interest to scholars of international politics, art and cultural studies.

Edited by: Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University UK), Gillian Whiteley (Loughborough University, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780367497538
ISBN 10: 0367497530
Series: Interventions
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 01 August 2022
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Art, culture and violence Chapter 1: From Watts to Wall Street: A situationist analysis of political violence Chapter 2: Protest art and public space: Oleg Kulik and the strategies of Moscow Actionism Chapter 3: Project sigma: The temporality of activism Chapter 4: Challenging state-led political violence with art-activism: Focus on borders Chapter 5: Power v. violence: how can contemporary art create a ‘space of appearance’ and generate social change?

Ruth Kinna works at Loughborough University in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities as a political theorist and historian of ideas. Gillian Whiteley is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University and co-organiser of RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt.