Geopolitics and the Event
Rethinking Britain's Iraq War Through Art
1st Edition
Published on 16. July 2019
240 pages
978-1-119-42603-5 (ISBN)
Description
An original exploration of the 2003 Iraq war and geopolitics more broadly through the prism of art.
* Offers a reappraisal of one of the most contentious and consequential events of the early twenty-first century
* Advances an original perspective on Britain's role in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq
* Maps out new ways of thinking about geopolitical events through art
* Examines the work of artists, curators and activists in light of Britain's role as a colonial power in Iraq and the importance of oil
* Reflects on the significance, limits and dilemmas of art as a form of critical intervention
* Questions the implications of art in colonialism and modernity
* Offers a reappraisal of one of the most contentious and consequential events of the early twenty-first century
* Advances an original perspective on Britain's role in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq
* Maps out new ways of thinking about geopolitical events through art
* Examines the work of artists, curators and activists in light of Britain's role as a colonial power in Iraq and the importance of oil
* Reflects on the significance, limits and dilemmas of art as a form of critical intervention
* Questions the implications of art in colonialism and modernity
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter One Introduction
- Notes
- Chapter Two Thinking Geopolitics Through the Event
- Events Are Contingent
- Events Are Shocking
- Events Are Entangled
- Events Are Immanent
- Events Are Elusive
- Events Are Indeterminate
- Events Are Multiple
- Events Are Appropriated Via Techniques
- Events May Be Counter-actualised
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter Three Artworks as Evental Assemblages
- Art and the Human
- Communities of Sense, Structures of Feeling
- The Dispositif of Art in Modernity/Coloniality
- Counter-actualising the Event
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter Four Geopolitics at the Museum
- Museums as Geopolitical Institutions
- The Appearance of Iraq
- Structures of Feeling, Distributions of Sensibility
- Truth or Consequences, 2006
- Memorial to the Iraq War, 2007
- State Britain, 2007
- Queen and Country, 2007-
- The Baghdad Car, 2010
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter Five Iraq Beyond Iraq
- Iraqi Art History and Geopolitical Events
- Small Medium Large | Man Woman Child
- My Country Map
- My Burning City
- Black Rain
- Buhriz
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter Six Geopolitical Aesthetics of Oil
- Souvenir from the Ministry of Justice
- Oil, Modernity/Coloniality and the Formation of Iraq
- 20:50 in Britain and Iraq
- Black Smoke Rising
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter Seven Photomontage as Geopolitical Form
- Towards a Genealogy of Photomontage
- Photomontage and Geopolitical Events
- Kennardphillipps and Britain's Iraq War
- Know Your Enemy
- Photo Op
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter Eight Geopolitical Bodies
- Injured Bodies
- Military Bodies
- More-Than-Human Bodies
- Re-Piano, Geo-Piano
- The Iraq National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter Nine Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
- EULA
