The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution traces four sites of spectatorship that exemplified the visual culture of violence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, offering a new account of the significance of violent spectacle to the birth of modernity. Considerations of the execution scaffold, salon painting, print culture and the fait divers, and waxworks displays establish the centrality of spectatorial violence to experiences of selfhood in the wake of the F...
Art in Battle
The exhibition 'ART IN BATTLE' deals with battles over art initiated by Nazi policies and European conquests on several arenas. Expounding the problems of the overfamiliar dichotomy of Degenerate versus Great German art, it examines propaganda exhibitions in occupied Norway as well as hitherto unseen art by soldiers stationed in Norway. This exceptional catalogue both documents this ground-breaking show and assembles leading experts on the history and ideology of Nazi cultural campaigns in both...
This is a thought-provoking exploration of how artists from around the world view the causes and consequences of war, and how they incorporate it into their work. The rubble that war leaves behind shapes the world of today and tomorrow - physically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually - and artistically. "Out of Rubble" presents over 30 international artists who consider the causes and consequences of war, its finality and future, moving from decimation and disintegration to the possibiliti...
Journalism and Eyewitness Images (Routledge Research in Journalism)
by Mette Mortensen
Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of news. Little scholarly attention has been paid, however, to non-professional, eyewitness visuals, even though this genre holds a still greater bearing on the way conflicts are fought, communicated, and covered by the news media. This volume examines the power of new technologies for creating and disseminating images in relation to conflicts. Mortense...
In the last 30 years of the Soviet Communism project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. This exquisite new volume offers the first glimpse into the full body of Viktor Koretsky's poster artwork, with extensive reproductions from a private collection that is being made available here for the first time. Koretsky's propaganda posters were among the most innovativ...
Temple of the Unknown Craftswoman (Disturbed Library)
by Alexandra Müller
Kunst, Konflikt, Kollaboration (Schriften der Forschungsstelle "Entartete Kunst")
Hildebrand Gurlitt zählte zu jenen Kunsthändlern, die sich an dem Verkauf der 1937 in deutschen Museen als „entartet" beschlagnahmten Kunstwerke beteiligten. Rund 400 Kunstwerke aus dem Kontext der Einziehung verblieben in seinem Besitz. Sie befinden sich heute als Legat Cornelius Gurlitt im Kunstmuseum Bern. Der Band basiert auf umfangreichen Forschungen zur Entstehung des Kunstbesitzes Hildebrand Gurlitts. Die Beiträge thematisieren die Positionierung des Museumsleiters und Kurators Gurlitt z...
Can art provide a critique of political economy? This question, originally formulated by the romantic philosophers John Ruskin and William Morris, continues to be at the core of contemporary anti-capitalist and post-colonial struggles. As art and culture feed an urban rentierism based on gentrification, mass-tourism and hyper-consumption, art commons are radicalizing urban politics across the globe through new political and artistic practices. Art/Commons is the first book to theorise the comm...
Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty's dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. Fast-paced and compelling, "Chasing Aphrodite" exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished facade of the museum business.
This original and insightful study explores the points at which theater and propaganda meet. Defining propaganda as a form of "activated ideology," George H. Szanto discusses the distortion of information that occurs in dramatic literature in its stage, film, and television forms. Szanto analyzes the nature of "integration propaganda," which is designed to render the audience passive and to encourage the acceptance of the status quo, as opposed to "agitation propaganda," which aims to inspire th...