Beschreibung

Open Access: The book Art as a Political Witness is an Open Access title (DOI: 10.3224/84740580) , which is free to download or can be bought as paperback. The book holds a Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ / Der Titel Art as a Political Witness (DOI: 10.3224/84740580) ist kostenlos im Open Access (PDF) herunterladbar oder kostenpflichtig als Print-Ausgabe erhältlich. Der Titel steht unter der Creative Commons Lizenz Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.

The book engages with the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of its general theme – art as political witness – and presents a wide variety of theoretically reflected case studies. Therefore, the understanding of art is not limited to fine art but open to various forms of artistic expression including popular culture. In the social sciences, the concept of witnessing has widely been used in connection with memories of tragic and traumatic events such as the Holocaust. The book acknowledges a certain expansion of the concept in recent scholarly work, decoupled from tragic events and increasingly applied to the everyday. A witness is a spectator, observing a scene, but a witness is also someone who observes a scene indirectly, mediated through representation including artistic representation. Art witnesses, and makes others witness, politics. The individual chapters, while exploring dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre as political witness, acknowledge, engage with and build upon the existing literature thus enhancing our understanding of the interrelationship between art and politics.

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The editors:

Dr. Kia Lindroos, Professor,
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Dr. Frank Möller, Senior Research Fellow,
Tampere Peace Research Institute, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland

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Target groups: Scholars and students in the social sciences and humanities interested in the interrelationship among arts/aesthetics, politics, culture, memory and identity

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Autor*innen

Frank Möller

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Kia Lindroos

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Keywords

Art, politics, Witnessing