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Art as a Political Witness
Abstract: 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, bu
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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9783847409731
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Online-Ressource, 239 S.
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2017
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Veröffentlichung
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Opladen
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Barbara Budrich Publishers
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2017
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10.3224/84740580
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-78380-1
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:56 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Aufsatzsammlung
Beteiligte
- Lindroos, Kia
- Möller, Frank
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
- Barbara Budrich Publishers
Entstanden
- 2017
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