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Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
Liliana Gómez (ed.)
Performing Human Rights
This book aims to show how arts perform human rights and how aesthetic engagements with human rights violations testify to art’s capacity to create alternate worlds, which with their creative modes do provide alternate semantics to the legal failures and the state’s official silence. This book shares the conviction that, after all, artistic articulations allow ethico-aesthetic considerations of “questions that are broader than the law and the institutions of the political, precisely because they are prior to law … and...
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Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen
Elisabeth Bronfen (ed.), Christiane Frey (ed.), David Martyn (ed.)
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Anthology
Zur Kritik der Wirksamkeit in den Künsten
Kathrin Busch (ed.), Burkhard Meltzer (ed.), Tido von Oppeln (ed.)
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Photographs tend to suggest infinity
Siegfried Kracauer
The Photographic Approach (1951)
The photographic approach – that is, the effort to utilize the inherent abilities of the camera – is responsible for the particular nature of photographs. In the days of Zola and the Impressionists, the properties of photographs were commonly held to be the hallmarks of art in general; but no sooner did painting and literature break away from realism than these properties assumed an exclusive character. Since they depend upon techniques peculiar to the medium, they have remained stable throughout its evolution....
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