Civic Aesthetics
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Civic Aesthetics

Militarism, Israeli Art and Visual Culture

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Civic Aesthetics

Militarism, Israeli Art and Visual Culture

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Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both the omnipresence of militarism in Israeli culture and society and the way in which this omnipresence is articulated, enhanced, and contested within local contemporary visual art. Looking at a range of contemporary artworks through the lens of "civilian militarism", Roei employs the theory of various fields, including memory studies, gender studies, landscape theory, and aesthetics, to explore the potential of visual art to communicate military excesses to its viewers. This study builds on the specific sociological concerns of the chosen cases to discuss the complexities of visuality, the visible and non-visible, arguing for art's capacity to expose the scopic regimes that construct their visibility. Images and artworks are often read either out of context, on purely aesthetic or art-historical ground, or as cultural artefacts whose aesthetics play a minor role in their significance. This book breaks with both traditions as it approaches all art, both high and popular art, as part of the surrounding visual culture in which it is created and presented. This approach allows a new theory of the image to come forth, where the relation between the political and the aesthetic is one of exchange, rather than exclusion.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
9781474253178
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Histoire de l'art contemporain

Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Halftitle page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. CONTENTS
  8. ILLUSTRATIONS
  9. PREFACE
  10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  11. Introduction
  12. CHAPTER ONE Can(n)ons of Israeli society
  13. CHAPTER TWO Bodies of the nation
  14. CHAPTER THREE Looking through landscape
  15. CHAPTER FOUR Kebab in theory
  16. CHAPTER FIVE Greetings to the soldier-citizen
  17. CHAPTER SIX Fence art
  18. Conclusion The work, the world and the critical image
  19. NOTES
  20. REFERENCES
  21. INDEX