Demos The Migrant Image

The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9575-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

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The Migrant Image offers a sophisticated analysis of how refugee and exiled artists imagine a globalized world where borders are shifting, populations are forcibly removed from their homelands, and the gap separating the rich from the poor is growing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demos, T. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations vii

Check-In: A Prelude xiii

Charting a Course: Exile, Diaspora, Nomads, Refugees: A Genealogy of Art and Migration 1

Departure A. Moving Images of Globalization 21

1. Indeterminacy and Bare Life in Steve McQueen's Western Deep 33

2. "Sabotaging the Future": The Essay-Films of the Otolith Group 54

3. Hito Steyerl's Traveling Images 74

Transit: Politicizing Aesthetics 90

Departure B. Life Full of Holes 95

4. The Art of Emily Jacir: Dislocation and Politicization 103

5. Recognizing the Unrecognized: The Photographs of Ahlam Shibli 124

6. The Right of Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum 144

Transit: Going Offshore 160

Departure C. Zones of Conflict 169

7. Out of Beirut: Mobile Histories and the Politics of Fiction 177

8. Video's Migrant Geography: Ursula Biemann's Sahara Chronicle 201

9. Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign 221

Destination: The Politics of Aesthetics during Global Crisis 245

Acknowledgments 251

Notes 255

Bibliography 305

Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

T. J. Demos is Reader in Art History at University College London. He is the author of Dara Birnbaum—Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman and The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp.