Format:
xii, 259 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
0228018951
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9780228018957
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022801896X
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9780228018964
Series Statement:
Outspoken
Content:
"Disappearance is marked by a devastating absence. It constitutes a form of violence that rips open a wound in time, offering no viable recovery and no meaningful justice. It provides alibis to perpetrators while denying victims their humanity. For those who are left to live with its presence, the terror is infinite. State of Disappearance brings together the power of artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. A full-published gallery of dedicated artworks by Mexican abstract painter Chantal Meza inspires each chapter, bringing the aesthetic into critical conversation and leading to a multidisciplinary collection that charts a new path for recovering humanity in the face of its annihilation. Featuring contributions from theorists of violence who are concerned with the issue of forcibly removing humans from the surface of the earth, while also appreciative of the complex layers of appearance and disappearance in the contemporary world, the book attends to the many ways disappearance occurs and the ethical questions this raises. State of Disappearance traverses the difficult terrain of human denial to rethink some of the most devastating chapters in human history and their enduring relevance to our lives."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The writing of disappearance : artist statement /
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the aesthetics of disappearance /
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Postfigurative im/memorial art : for the sake of carrying disappeared worlds /
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A murder or possibilities : the altricidal state as a Robinsonade /
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The violence of organized forgetting /
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Slavery, death, and disappearance /
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Disappearances /
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Art and the disappeared : beyond the face /
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theatre of the disappeared /
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Vanishing points /
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Witness /
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State, disappearing /
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The disappearance of emergencies /
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Technologies of disappearance /
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D--nce /
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the disappearance of the aesthetic /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228019527
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Evans, Brad State of Disappearance Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780228019527
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kunst
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Gewalt
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Verschwinden
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Meza, Chantal 1989-
Author information:
Evans, Brad 1974-