Art in the Age of Terrorism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art in the Age of Terrorism write by Graham Coulter-Smith. This book was released on 2005. Art in the Age of Terrorism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Art in the Age of Terrorism tackles one of the most difficult topics imaginable - a war that is quintessentially postmodern in its decentred identity, globalized character and confused conflict of cultures. In this publication both artists and critics explore in a series of essays the various ways in which art can help articulate the zone of grey that lies behind the black and white term 'terrorism'. A significant number of the texts deal with the theme of 'the unspeakable', from a number of perspectives. An international plurality of voices is offered in this book, addressing key works by artists from New York, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Lebanon and Israel, many of them profoundly moving and poignant. A number of contributors address the problems facing refugees from terror in the post-9/11 era, exploring the cruel logic by which the contemporary refugee from terror is often perceived as a terrorist and treated accordingly.
How to Make Art in the Age of Consumerism Or Poetic Terrorism in the Light of Day
How to Make Art in the Age of Consumerism Or Poetic Terrorism in the Light of Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Make Art in the Age of Consumerism Or Poetic Terrorism in the Light of Day write by Consuelo Echeverria. This book was released on 1996. How to Make Art in the Age of Consumerism Or Poetic Terrorism in the Light of Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Still Life with Bombers
Still Life with Bombers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Still Life with Bombers write by David Horovitz. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Still Life with Bombers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders collapsed at Camp David in 2000, a conflict as bloody as any that had ever occurred between the two peoples began. Now David Horovitz—editor of The Jerusalem Report—explores the quotidian and profound effects this conflict and its attendant terrorism have had on the lives of ordinary men, women and children. Horovitz describes the “grim lottery” of life in Israel since 2000. He makes clear that far from becoming blasé or desensitized, its citizens respond with deepening horror every time the front pages are disfigured by the rows of passport portraits presenting the faces of the newly dead. He takes us to the funeral of a murdered Israeli, where the presence of security personnel underlines that nowhere is safe. He describes how his wife must tell their children to close their eyes when they pass a just-exploded bus on the way to school, so that the images of carnage won’t haunt them. He talks with government officials on both sides of the conflict, with relatives of murdered victims, with Palestinian refugees, and with his own friends and family, letting us sense what it feels like to live with the constant threat and the horrific frequency of shootings and suicide bombings. Examining the motives behind the violence, he blames mistaken policies and actions on the Israeli as well as the Palestinian side, and details the suffering of Palestinians deprived of basic freedoms under strict Israeli controls. But at the root of this conflict, he argues, is terrorism and Yasser Arafat’s deliberate use of it after spurning a genuine opportunity for peace at Camp David, and then misleading his people, and much of the world, about what was on offer there. He describes how the world’s press has too often allowed prejudgment to replace fair-minded reporting. And finally, Horovitz makes us see the vast depth and extent of the mistrust between Israelis and Palestinians and the enormous challenges that underlie new attempts at peacemaking. Human and harrowing—and yet projecting an unexpected optimism—Still Life with Bombers affords us a remarkably balanced and insightful understanding of a seemingly intractable conflict.
Cubes
Cubes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cubes write by Gregor Schneider. This book was released on 2006. Cubes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication presents his video proposal for an unrealized work called Cube Venice 2005, which would have been a giant black cube plonked in the middle of St. Mark's Place, Venice. Along the visuals, Schneider explains that the Kaaba in Mecca inspired his cube, which would have been as tall as the buildings that describe the square of St. Mark's.
Duty Free Art
Duty Free Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Duty Free Art write by Hito Steyerl. This book was released on 2017-11-21. Duty Free Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization? How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience is pumped for tweets to a future of “neurocurating,” in which paintings surveil their audience via facial recognition and eye tracking to assess their popularity and to scan for suspicious activity. In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.
