Civic Aesthetics
Militarism, Israeli Art and Visual Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19907650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Roei (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Civic Aesthetics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781474253192 |
| OpenAlex | W2586920304 |
| ISBN | 9781474253192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
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 images and national affiliations; its impression on landscape; its authority as a coercive glue that encompasses collective memories; and, most importantly, the acceptance of those numerous militarized aspects as unproblematic parts of civilian life. Analyzing a range of artworks and art-related objects with the help of cutting-edge theory, it touches on various fields, including memory studies, gender studies, political geography and landscape theory, in search of a civic aesthetics that is able to submit a taken-for-granted military excess to the renewed scrutiny of its viewers. What the images do and how they work is of interest in this book, not what they show
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Identity (music) · Militarism · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual culture · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Public Spaces through Art
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |