Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between

Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between

Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between

Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between

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Overview

How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions these dynamics, asking how the dissemination of visual culture on a global scale affects art and its institutions. Taking Shanghai-based artist Yang Fudong's practice as a point of departure, this volume focuses on how politically charged images produced in contemporary art, cinema, literature, news media and fashion become widely consumed or marginalised. Through case studies of artists including Titus Kaphar, Sara Maple, Shirin Neshat, J.M. Coetzee, Barbara Walker and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the book illuminates the relationship between visibility, politics and identity in contemporary visual culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780769066
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/30/2017
Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Zeena Feldman is Lecturer in Digital Culture in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. She publishes on the relationship between social media and everyday life.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction: Why Visibility Matters Zeena Feldman 1

Recognition and Misunderstanding 1

Reading Visual Culture Through the Politics of Visibility 4

1 Chinese Artist Films in the Transnational Art World: Yang Fudong and the Politics of Precarity Chris Berry 21

Introduction 21

The Precarious Gesture in Yang Fudong's Work 25

The Precarious Space of the Artscape 33

The Politics of the Precarious Gesture 42

2 The Blind Spots of Representation: The Difficulty of Reading Juliet Steyn 53

3 Defiant Embodiments and the Gender Geopolitics of Seeing M. I. Franklin 73

Introduction 73

Rationale and Argument 77

Intellectual Background 79

Veiled Bodies Misbehaving: 'Islam is the New Black' 81

Naked Bodies in/as Protest 91

Analysis: Modalities of Refusal 98

Conclusion: The Geopolitics of Seeing 103

4 (In)Visibility as Resistance: Performing the Right to Disappear in J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K Patrick Hanafin 115

Introduction 115

Narrative Voice and Writing as Effacement 118

Tactical Invisibility or a Poetics of Disappearance 122

Conclusion 129

5 Valences of Subjectivity: The Politics of Personal Narrative in Video Art Rachel Garfield 137

Contemporary Contexts: From Race to Faith and the Persistence of Visual Codes 137

Some Historical Junctures in Art 148

The Personal Narrative 152

6 Hauntology and Hospitality in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Janet Harbord 167

The Beginning 167

The Beginning II 169

Haunted Film 174

Spectral Knowledge 178

Hospitality: A Seat at the Table 181

7 Ethics and Visual Culture Zeena Feldman 189

Bibliography 211

Index 225

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