Contemporary Art And Unforgetting In Colonial Landscapes

Author : Kate McMillan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030172909

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Contemporary Art and Unforgetting in Colonial Landscapes by Kate McMillan Pdf

This book explores the work of artists based in the global south whose practices and methods interrogate and explore the residue of Empire. In doing so, it highlights the way that contemporary art can assist in the un-forgetting of colonial violence and oppression that has been systemically minimized. The research draws from various fields including memory studies; postcolonial and decolonial strategies of resistance; activism; theories of the global south; the intersection between colonialism and the Anthropocene, as well as practice-led research methodologies in the visual arts. Told through the author’s own perspective as an artist and examining the work of Julie Gough, Yuki Kihara, Megan Cope, Yhonnie Scarce, Lisa Reihana and Karla Dickens, the book develops a number of unique theories for configuring the relationship between art and a troubled past.

Author : Kit Messham-Muir,Uroš Cvoro,Monika Lukowska-Appel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350385986

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The Politics of Artists in War Zones by Kit Messham-Muir,Uroš Cvoro,Monika Lukowska-Appel Pdf

What exactly is contemporary war art in the West today? This book considers the place of contemporary war art in the 2020s, a whole generation after 9/11 and long past the 'War on Terror'. Exploring the role contemporary art plays within conversations around war and imperialism, the book brings together chapters from international contemporary artists, theorists and curators, alongside the voices of contemporary war artists through original edited interviews. It addresses newly emerged contexts in which war is found: not only sites of contemporary conflicts such as Ukraine, Yemen and Syria, but everywhere in western culture, from social media to 'culture' wars. With interviews from official war artists working in the UK, the US, and Australia, such as eX de Medici (Australia) and David Cotterrell (UK), as well as those working in post-colonial contexts, such as Baptist Coelho (India), the editors reflect on contemporary processes of memorialisation and the impact of British colonisation in Australia, India and its relation to historical conflicts. It focuses on three overlapping themes: firstly, the role of memory and amnesia in colonial contexts; secondly, the complex role of 'official' war art; and thirdly, questions of testimony and knowing in relation to alleged war crimes, torture and genocide. Richly illustrated, and featuring three substantial interview chapters, The Politics of Artists in War Zones is a hands-on exploration of the complexities and challenges faced by war artists that contextualises the tensions between the contemporary art world and the portrayal of war. It is essential reading for researchers of fine art, curatorial studies, museum studies, conflict studies and photojournalism.

Author : Thalia Anthony,Juanita Sherwood,Harry Blagg,Kieran Tranter
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800710825

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Unsettling Colonial Automobilities by Thalia Anthony,Juanita Sherwood,Harry Blagg,Kieran Tranter Pdf

Exploring the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people, this book proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricity.

Author : Emily Merson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785523229

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Creative Presence by Emily Merson Pdf

Historically, artwork has played a powerful role in shaping settler colonial subjectivity and the political imagination of Westphalian sovereignty through the canonization of particular visual artworks, aesthetic theories, and art institutions’ methods of display. Creative Presence contributes a transnational feminist intersectional analysis of visual and performance artwork by Indigenous contemporary artists who directly engage with colonialism and decolonization. This book makes the case that decolonial aesthetics is a form of labour and knowledge production that calls attention to the foundational violence of settler colonialism in the formation of the world order of sovereign states. Creative Presence analyzes how artists’ purposeful selection of materials, media forms, and place-making in the exhibitions and performances of their work reveals the limits of conventional International Relations theories, methods, and debates on sovereignty and participates in Indigenous reclamations of lands and waterways in world politics. Brian Jungen’s sculpture series Prototypes for New Understanding and Rebecca Belmore’s filmed performances Vigil and Fountain exhibit how colonial power has been imagined, visualized and institutionalized historically and in contemporary settler visual culture. These contemporary visual and performance artworks by Indigenous artists that name the political violence of settler colonial claims to exclusive territorial sovereignty introduce possibilities for decolonizing audiences’ sensibilities and political imagination of lands and waterways.

Author : Alice Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009350099

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Natural Perception by Alice Palmer Pdf

Images of nature abound in the practice of international environmental law but their significance in law is unclear. Drawing on visual jurisprudence, and interpretative methods for visual art, this book analyses photographs for their representations of nature's aesthetic value in treaty processes that concern world heritage, whales and biodiversity. It argues that visual images should be embraced in the prosaic practice of international law, particularly for treaties that demand judgements of nature's aesthetic value. This environmental value is in practice conflated with natural beauty, ethical and cultural values, and displaced by economic and scientific values. Interpretations of visual images can serve instead to critique and conceive sensory, imaginative and emotional appreciations of nature from different cultural perspectives as proposed by philosophers of environmental aesthetics. Addressing questions of value and the visual, this landmark book shows how images can be engaged by nations to better protect the environment under international law.

Author : Sophie Fuggle,Charles Forsdick,Katharina Massing
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031193965

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Framing the Penal Colony by Sophie Fuggle,Charles Forsdick,Katharina Massing Pdf

This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range of geographies and historical instances of the penal colony, it seeks to identify how the ‘penal colony’ as a widespread phenomenon is as much ‘imagined’ and creatively instrumentalized as it pertains to real sites and populations. It concentrates on the range of ‘media’ produced in and around penal colonies both during their operation and following their closures. This approach emphasizes the role of cross-disciplinary methods and approaches to examining the history and legacy of convict transportation, prison islands and other sites of exile. It develops a range of methodological tools for engaging with cultures and representations of incarceration, detention and transportation. The chapters draw on media discourse analysis, critical cartography, museum and heritage studies, ethnography, architectural history, visual culture including film and comics studies and gaming studies. It aims to disrupt the idea of adopting linear histories or isolated geographies in order to understand the impact and legacy of penal colonies. The overall claim made by the collection is that understanding the cultural production associated with this global phenomenon is a necessary part of a wider examination of carceral imaginaries or ‘penal spectatorship’ (Brown, 2009) past, present and future. It brings together historiography, criminology, media and cultural studies.

Author : Iain Ferris
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803277820

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A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World by Iain Ferris Pdf

This study considers the relationship between geography and power in the Roman world, most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products: geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs.

Author : Weber, Leanne,Tazreiter, Claudia
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789905663

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Handbook of Migration and Global Justice by Weber, Leanne,Tazreiter, Claudia Pdf

This timely Handbook brings together leading international scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geopolitical perspectives to interrogate the intersections between migration and global justice. It explores how cross-border mobility and migration have been affected by rapid economic, cultural and technological globalisation, addressing the pressing questions of global justice that arise as governments respond to unprecedented levels of global migration.

Author : T. J. Demos
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783943365429

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Return to the Postcolony by T. J. Demos Pdf

In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of “reverse migration”—a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly.

Author : Elaine Stratford,Godfrey Baldacchino,Elizabeth McMahon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538165201

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Rethinking Island Methodologies by Elaine Stratford,Godfrey Baldacchino,Elizabeth McMahon Pdf

Rounding off the “Rethinking the Island” series, this book shares critical and creative insights on the methodologies and associated practices, protocols, and techniques used by those in island studies and allied fields. It explores why and how islands serve powerful analytical ends. Authored by three scholars who work in and across geography, sociology, and literary studies and incorporating conversations with colleagues from around the world, the work considers significant, interdisciplinary questions shaping the field, including on belonging, boundedness, decolonization, governance, indigeneity, migration, sustainability, and the consequences of climate change. In the process, the authors model what it means to think about and rethink island and archipelagic methodologies and point to emergent innovations in the field.

Author : Amar Wahab
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443819992

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Colonial Inventions by Amar Wahab Pdf

This book situates its contemplation of the nineteenth-century Trinidadian landscape in the context of an emerging sub-field of Caribbean postcolonial studies, by connecting the visual representation and indexing of colonial landscapes and peoples with the making of colonial power. Emphasis is placed on three pivotal image catalogues which span the pre and post emancipation periods and which connect the projects of British slavery and indentureship. The book unearths sketches, paintings, lithographs and engravings and analyzes them as central to the iconic framing and disciplining of colonized subjects, tropical nature and the plantation landscape. Focusing on the image works of British travellers Richard Bridgens and Charles Kingsley and Creole artist, Michel Jean Cazabon, the chapters consider how an aesthetic logic was not only illustrative but constitutive of racialized and gendered scripts of colonial landscapes, nature and identity. While these various strands of aesthetic reasoning reveal a seemingly coherent operation of colonial power, they also register the very ambiguity of these disciplinary projects in moments of uncertainty regarding the amelioration of African slavery, the emancipation of slavery, and the highly contested project of Indian indentureship in the Caribbean. The book reflects the dynamic instability of colonial inventive projects manifest in a period of experimental and troubled British rule that potentially frustrates any attempt to recover the truth of Caribbean colonial reality.

Author : DanielJ. Rycroft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351536325

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World Art and the Legacies of Colonial Violence by DanielJ. Rycroft Pdf

How have imperialism and its after-effects impacted patterns of cultural exchange, artistic creativity and historical/curatorial interpretation? World Art and the Legacies of Colonial Violence - comprised of ten essays by an international roster of art historians, curators, and anthropologists - forges innovative approaches to post-colonial studies, Indigenous studies, critical heritage studies, and the new museology. This volume probes the degree to which global histories of conflict, coercion and occupation have shaped art historical approaches to intercultural knowledge and representation. These debates are relevant to contemporary artists and scholars of visual, material and museological culture in their attempts to negotiate imperial and colonial legacies. Confronting the aesthetics of Abolition, Fascism and Filipino independence, and re-thinking relationships between colonised and coloniser in Cameroon, North America and East Timor, the collection brings together new readings of Primitivism and Aboriginal art as well. It features discussions of touring exhibitions, popular media, modernist paintings and sculptures, historic photographs, human remains and art installations. In addition to the critical application of phenomenology in a fresh and contemporary manner, the volume?s ?world art? perspective nurtures the possibility that intercultural ethics are relevant to the study of art, power and modernity.

Author : Douglas Hamilton,John McAleer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198847229

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Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail by Douglas Hamilton,John McAleer Pdf

This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail.

Author : Bruce Grenville,Edmonton Art Gallery,Mendel Art Gallery
Publisher : Saskatoon : Mendel Art Gallery
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0889501157

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The Post-Colonial Landscape by Bruce Grenville,Edmonton Art Gallery,Mendel Art Gallery Pdf

Author : Gabriella Nugent
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789462702998

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Colonial Legacies by Gabriella Nugent Pdf

In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography and video art, these artists rework existent images and redress archival absences, making visible people and events occluded from dominant narratives. Their artworks are shown to offer a re-reading of the colonial and immediate post-independence past, blurring the lines of historical and speculative knowledge, documentary and fiction. Nugent demonstrates how their practices create a new type of visual record for the future, one that attests to the ramifications of colonialism across time.