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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| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016.
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| Series: | Radical aesthetics, radical art.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; In search of a civic aesthetics; Between critique and complicity; Showing seeing: the critical image; CHAPTER ONE 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; CHAPTER TWO Bodies of the nation; Serial quotations; National bodies; Rewriting the Jewish body, again; Women soldiers; Queer dreams of the nation.
- CHAPTER THREE Looking through landscapeThe landscape way of seeing; Tracing erasure: tso˘obá̈ and Zionist scopic regimes; The 'stifling of the gaze'; Israeli mindscapes; CHAPTER FOUR Kebab in theory; Zooming in on the thinking image; Contesting mis/interpretations; The archaeology of the still life: bringing back the anti- image; Distortion and desire: the mapping impulse; Seeing green: shaping emplacement; CHAPTER FIVE Greetings to the soldier-citizen; Peace, security and sparkles; From guns to cream cheese; The politics of nostalgia; Preposterous postcards; The limits of critical discourse.
- CHAPTER SIX Fence artBil'in and beyond: aesthetics of disagreement; Redistributing visibility; Changing contexts, shifting frames; Conclusion The work, the world and the critical image; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.